USAID, DOGE and the state of Illinois 2025
After a two year hiatus, it is time to get back in the saddle (as they say). The sad state of affairs here in my home state has not changed much since my last…
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Welcoming Back The Traditional, One-Income Family
Here is Steve Cortes: Good news on the cultural front is rare in 2020s America, so we should gleefully celebrate recent updates from the Census Bureau about the resurgence of two-parent families raising children….
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They Say Scandinavia But They Mean Venezuela
From Prager University: What do Democratic Socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want America to look like? They say they want America to emulate Scandinavian countries like Denmark and Sweden. But do their…
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Midwest Groundcovers’ founder Peter Orum: “Illinois used to be a good place for business”
From noprogressivetax.com: The company Peter Orum and his wife Irma started in 1969 now employs 300 people during Chicagoland’s growing season. The Orums planted Midwest Groundcovers’ roots into five acres in St. Charles, Illinois….
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Pritzker Is Keeping Illinois Locked Down Not For Health But For A Federal Bailout
He’s not going to get a federal bailout…here is J. D. Carl writing at The Federalist: Most governors are lifting restrictions and encouraging commerce. We’re returning to work, opening stores, and sending kids to…
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It’s Time to Get Serious about the People’s Republic of China
Here are Congressmen Kevin McCarthy and Michael McCaul: As the Chinese Communist Party commemorates its 71st anniversary of seizing power, Americans increasingly recognize a simple fact: The fundamental character of the Communist regime has…
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Does College = Success?
A new video from Prager University: Jeremy Boreing, co-founder of The Daily Wire, doesn’t have a college degree. Neither do Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, or a host of other innovators who have shaped our…
Read MoreBlame Illinois exodus on jobs, housing, tax policy
By Orphe Divounguy: Census data shows who is fleeing Illinoisans and why. Here’s why you should care. Illinois lost more than 850,000 residents to other states during the past decade, causing the state’s population…
Read MoreThe Deep State Destruction of Rural America
By Edward Ring: When will a critical mass of Americans realize that while reasonable environmental precautions are in everyone’s interest, excessive restrictions only serve the agenda of multinational corporations that make more profit when…
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Illinois Can Be Saved with the Right Leadership
The necessary policy changes are apparent based upon Illinois’ messed up fiscal condition. Unfortunately, too few Illinois Republican and conservative donors fund the work that is required to make those changes politically possible. During…
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The True Plight of Black Americans
By Walter E. Williams: While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the…
Read MoreRe-evaluating China is long overdue
By Uldis Sprogis: It started with Nixon in 1972, opening up harmonious diplomatic relations with China, including a reduction of trade restrictions. Then, since President Reagan, the strategy was to integrate China into the…
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Unbearable Truths About Our Current Political Moment
Victor Davis Hanson again takes off the gloves — note this paragraph: China’s behavior follows years of patent and copyright theft, forced technological appropriation, dumping, currency manipulation, crackdowns on Hong Kong democracy, and sophisticated…
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Truth, Not Politics, Is at the Root of the Left-Right Divide
Dennis Prager is the best at explaining the root of the left-right divide — see more examples here. Three years ago, I wrote a column explaining left-right differences on 35 different subjects. Any one or…
Read MoreThe Era of Offshoring U.S. Jobs Is Over
By Robert E. Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative: The pandemic, and Trump’s trade policy, are accelerating a trend to bring manufacturing back to America. Some say crises don’t so much alter the course of…
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