Illinois lost $1.1 million per hour since 2001. Think about that.
By Mark Glennon: With Governor JB Pritzker’s annual budget address coming up next week, it’s a good time to step back and look at big picture basics.
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Trump Demands Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities
By Matthew Vadum: It’s time for leftist jailers who free dangerous illegal aliens to pay the price.
Read MoreVindman Is Not Enough
By Sebastian Gorka: God willing, should Donald Trump win reelection to a second term as our 45th president, his whole legacy will stand or fall on one question: Will he begin to drain the…
Read MoreDevin Nunes hints that Robert Mueller’s team will be exposed soon
By Andrea Widburg: In a recent interview with Lou Dobbs, Nunes suggested that the same attorneys who apparently railroaded the Roger Stone trial and then pressed for a seven- to nine-year sentence for Stone’s…
Read More‘Voter Suppression’ Is a Myth, but It’s an Article of Faith to Liberals
By Hans von Spakovsky: I received a strong dose of the misinformation warping the minds of young people this past weekend when I spoke on a panel on the subject of election integrity.
Read MoreIllinois politicians want to pile a municipal gas tax on top of the nation’s third-highest gas taxes
By John Klingner and Isabella Raynal: State Sen. Bill Cunningham (D-Chicago) has proposed a bill that would allow local governments to impose a local gas tax.
Read MoreIf the wealthy flee, ordinary Illinoisans will be left holding the progressive tax bag
By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner: At the rate Illinois is losing people, it wouldn’t take long at all for Pritzker’s progressive tax hike to bleed away Illinois’ million-plus earners.
Read MoreConservatism Is the Real Resistance
By Mark Bauerlein: The anti-Trump “resistance” deserves another name: #TheReactionaries. They believe they are always moving, ever pursuing social change, pushing for more reform, more correction, but having conquered so much of American society,…
Read MoreDefusing the Debt Bomb
By Stephen Moore: President Donald Trump’s new budget confirms that without corrective action, trillion-dollar deficits will be with us for years and perhaps decades to come. Trump’s budget plan has many smart and urgent…
Read MoreThe Credibility Crisis of America’s Institutions
By Daniel Greenfield: And there’s only one way out.
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While Ohio cuts health benefits to save pensions, Illinois’ crisis deepens
Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner explain reality: Illinoisans will want to pay attention to how Ohio recently responded to its state retirement debt crisis. There, the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System board (OPERS)…
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In The Bubble: Trump’s Presidency Reveals 7 Undeniable Facts About The Swamp
Here’s Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com: Barely into the New Year, 2020 vision has brought many revelations into better focus, making several ongoing observations perfectly clear. Although there are those who’ve been watching the dots of The…
Read MoreYes, the rich are fleeing Illinois and they’re taking billions with them
By Mark Glennon and John Klingner: We’re often told that Illinois is not losing its highly taxed residents. For example, a Chicago Magazine article last week had a headline saying exactly that. Don’t worry…
Read MoreHow History Will Judge the Trump Impeachment
By Hans von Spakovsky: Historians in the future may judge them far more harshly for abusing the impeachment power in the Constitution.
Read MoreHouse Conservatives Outline Playbook for Government Reform
By Rachel del Guidice: “This issue is so important, and this is some of the most fun to talk about, because everybody knows the government is too big.”
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