A Compassionate Conservative Event

Arthur C. Brooks, author of Who Really Cares, America's Charity Divide: Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why it Matters is speaking in Glenview on Friday, March 16th.

11 am presentation and book signing, 12:30 pm luncheon at the Glen Club, 2901 W. Lake Ave., Glenview.

Sponsored by the Independent Republican Women of Northern Illinois. Details here. (scroll down)

Previous posts: Sunny Conservatives, Who Really Cares

UPDATE: Donations at the event will be made to Spirit of America. Daniel Henninger, WSJ writes about their work to help our troops in Iraq in his Wonderland column today. And blogger Bill Roggio, The Fourth Rail, volunteered to hand-carry their hi-tech donations to Iraq as an embed:

On the night of Jan. 20, Maj. West, his Marine squad and the "jundi" (Iraq army soldiers) took the MV 100 and laptop on patrol. Their term of endearment for the insurgents is "snakes." So of course the MV 100 became the Snake Eater. The next day Maj. West emailed the U.S. team digital photos of Iraqi soldiers fingerprinting suspects with the Snake Eater. "It's one night old and the town is abuzz," he said. "I think we have a chance to tip this city over now." A rumor quickly spread that the Iraqi army was implanting GPS chips in insurgents' thumbs.

The Spirit of America in action.