Socialist Venezuela in the News
Here are headlines on what has been going on in socialist Venezuela — and I will keep added to this list so ignore the date of this posting: Socialist Venezuela now an exploding…
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A Progressive Income Tax Proposal Will Not Satisfy the Taxeaters
Back in the 1990s, Illinois conservatives watched as Republican governors cooperated with General Assembly Democrats to lay a foundation for our state’s current fiscal disaster. Today, as 25 percent of the state’s budget goes…
Read MoreSPLC Admits Defamation, Conservative Organizations Threaten Lawsuits
So many headlines these days are difficult to distinguish from those found on satire websites like The Onion and the Babylon Bee. A few days ago, many woke up to this one: Southern Poverty…
Read MoreThe NY Times is Wrong About Trade—So is Everybody Else
By Spencer P. Morrison: America’s free traders claim to champion competition while simultaneously crusading to end competition. Meanwhile, they cannot see that China is currently outcompeting them by completely ignoring all their talk of…
Read MoreRepublicans Were Warned About Bruce Rauner. But in 2014, They Just Wanted to Win.
In 2014, Business Insider wrote about the fact that Bruce Rauner had an extramarital affair while his wife was pregnant with their third child. It was a messy situation to say the least —…
Read MoreThe Zettler Files: The Illinois Pension Scam
* THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION * Bill Zettler is the owner of a computer consulting company and an expert in public employee compensation. A dozen years ago Bill began an indepth investigation into…
Read MoreEvery Twelve Years: A Review of the Book Saving K-12 (Part Two)
Last time I presented some of the background about why I enjoyed Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book Saving K-12: A Citizens Guide to Improving Public Education.
Read MoreEvery Twelve Years: A Review of the Book Saving K-12 (Part One)
Every twelve years another set of children progress through America’s government-run school system. Those that graduated this past spring started twelve years before that as first-graders in 2005.
Read MoreAdvice for ‘Extending Your Views Beyond Yourself’
A few articles to consider…(I’ll add to this list as I come across new ones) — newest are up top: C.S. Lewis and the Art of Disagreement The fact that Lewis could approve of…
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Paraphilias of the Day: Frotteurism and Toucherism
Before we briefly cover our next group of people who will soon be demanding acceptance, it is worth taking a minute to focus on Laurie Higgins’ excellent post on the Illinois Family Institute website….
Read MoreWhy the Left Has Been So Wrong About the Trump Boom
By Stephen Moore: The U.S. economic revival of 3 percent growth has already defied the predictions of almost every Donald Trump critic.
Read MoreHas American Policy Created a Monster in Iraq?
By Seth J. Frantzman: We can’t ignore Iran’s provocations and Baghdad’s attacks on our Kurdish allies forever.
Read MoreThe Steele Dossier Is Still Absurd
By Conrad Black: The central allegations of the Never Trumpers about Russia remain ridiculous.
Read MoreEurope: The Great White Death?
By Drieu Godefridi: There is a sub-group of the European population which is in the process of very efficiently wiping itself out of existence.
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The SPLC and Charlottesville are Great Examples of Willful Ignorance in the Information Age
The Wall Street Journal is reporting about JPMorgan Chase: ‘The largest U.S. bank by assets will donate $1 million split between the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League.’
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