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By Chuck Ross: The White House said in a blistering letter sent Tuesday to top House Democrats that officials in the executive branch will not cooperate with House Democrats’ “constitutionally illegitimate” impeachment inquiry of…
Read MoreBy Adam Mill: Corruption in modern D.C. is shaped like a triangle. A person or entity seeking a favor doesn’t hand the money directly to the politician or public official. Instead, the money goes…
Read MoreBy Newt Gingrich: The current fake impeachment effort is simply part of an ongoing effort to drive President Trump from office.
Read MoreBy Adam Schuster: Illinois’ overabundance of local government layers provides ample room to consolidate and save property taxes.
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Victor Davis Hanson calls it the Anti-Trump Psychodrama 10.0: ‘Groundbreaking’ disclosures fall apart, hoaxes are exposed, the media are discredited, over and over and over again. What do the Kavanaugh hearings, Jussie Smollett, the…
Read MoreBy Cole Lauterbach: Six in ten Illinoisans have thought about becoming ex-Illinoisans in the last year, according to a September poll conducted for the University of Illinois at Springfield. “In 2018, a bit over…
Read MoreBy Byron York: There have so far been two hearings in the House Democrats’ effort to impeach President Donald Trump over the Ukraine matter. Both have been held in secret. One was last Thursday,…
Read MoreAnother great report from OpenTheBooks — this time covering the congressional favor favor factory: “A study of Federal Grants, Campaign Cash, Investments, Employment, Power & Influence.”
Read MoreBy Joseph Klein: Mere coincidence or an orchestrated attempt by Trump-haters to build up public pressure to impeach him by inflicting a thousand cuts with drip by drip leaks? Almost certainly the latter…
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Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner continue their series on Illinois’ shrinking tax base: Continued from Part 3: $310 billion in accumulated losses from out-migration. Out-migration data from the Internal Revenue Service shows Illinois’ wealthy are leaving…
Read MoreBy Mish: Illinois is second to Alaska in net outbound migration. Many move out, but few move in.
Read MoreBy Victor Davis Hanson: The only Trump “crime” was in his winning an election he was not supposed to win. So after the election, prior illegal acts were redefined as legal, and legal ones as…
Read MoreBy Jim Moran: Illinois is the “least tax-friendly” state in the nation, according to a new report from business and economic forecasting publisher Kiplinger.
Read MoreBy Andrew C. McCarthy: It is not for the Speaker and her adjutants to decree that there is an inquiry.
Read MoreBy George Parry: No wonder the Dems are nervous: The alleged Russian hacking of the DNC’s computers is proving to be a Hillary campaign and DNC scam that went unchallenged by Messrs. Comey and…
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