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Editor’s note re Illinois’ shrinking tax base: Wirepoints continues to be one of the most important websites in Illinois — their latest report by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner is a good example of…
Read MoreBy Mark Glennon: Why exactly doesn’t Illinois’ political establishment recognize that only drastic policy changes will reverse the population outflow crippling the state?
Read MoreBy Orphe Divounguy: The nation is more than a decade past the Great Recession, and most places are seeing a strong economic recovery. Not in Chicago, and not in Illinois.
Read MoreBy Andrew C. McCarthy: “Equal justice under the law” is not supposed to be an aspiration or a quaint slogan. It is supposed to be a guarantee.
Read MoreBy David R. Burton: It is arithmetically impossible to pay for progressive promises by “taxing the rich.” Progressive promises are too expensive—and the amount of income earned by the rich is too small.
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden: As the Russiagate circus attempts to quietly disappear over the horizon, with Democrats preferring to shift the anti-Trump narrative back to “racist”, “white supremacist”, “xenophobe”, and the mainstream media ready to…
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Matthew Vadum addresses the question that needs to be asked a lot these days — where did the billions in missing federal money go? Why Trump was right to ask. President Trump went after…
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Joy Pullmann is one of the best writers on education — here she looks at Scholastic’s new school catalog: The world’s largest publisher and distributor of books to kids, which hosts the No. 1-visited…
Read MoreBy Elizabeth Bauer: Illinois Tier 2 teachers, with their 9% contributions, and using the plan’s valuation assumptions, are actually subsidizing everyone else.
Read MoreBy Virginia Kruta: Tucker Carlson hosts his show on Fox News, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Read MoreBy Taylor Day: Do Democrats really believe in the climate crisis they have dubbed an “emergency,” or is it really just a way to make a quick buck?
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By Doug Ibendahl reports on what’s becoming more common on the left — the promotion of violence via mock assassination: Illinois State Senator Martin Sandoval hosted a golf outing on Friday where at least…
Read MoreBy Andrew C. McCarthy: A minor functionary’s farcical encounter with a self-promoting schemer provided the excuse for an investigation.
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In this third excerpt from Andrew C. McCarthy’s new book Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency, he explains that the election is legitimate only if the Democrats…
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This brief history of election meddling is brought to you by National Review, which is posting this second in a series of excerpts from Andrew C. McCarthy’s new book Ball of Collusion: The Plot…
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