Mark Glennon, Wirepoints News
What's price gouging? That doesn't matter in a bill to outlaw it introduced by Duckworth, Schakowsky and Warren
Senator Tammy Duckworth and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, both from Illinois, joined with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren on Thursday to introduce the Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2022.
Illinois A.G. Raoul's reckless call to cancel $1.7 trillion of student debt and the sad story of how we got here
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week urged President Biden to fully cancel federal student loan debt owed by every federal student loan borrower in the country.
Students smack down Chicago 'Disinformation' Conference panelists, exposing far more than apparent about media
Traditional media beclowned itself last week at a Chicago conference on “disinformation.” That’s a story in itself, but the bigger story is how they covered up even that story, peddling disinformation about a conference on disinformation. The guilty include Illinois media, which is further guilty of still suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story that is part of what sparked the fireworks at the conference.
Election year + Covid $ = Vote buying
Will the shiny objects in Illinois’ new budget bedazzle voters as intended? Here are some initial thoughts.
New study ranks states' COVID policy results. Illinois gets an 'F'
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) last week published a working paper that is the most thorough review we’ve seen so far relating state government COVID policy to actual results. In addition to mortality, it considered effects on the economy and education in its rankings.
The latest, brazen whoppers from Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his party
Election years are “silly season,” it’s often said in Illinois, but this year is one for the record books.
This bad idea won't go away: Illinois bill would make general contractors liable for wage claims against subcontractors
Leave it to the Illinois General Assembly to find ways to make life more expensive and difficult for employers.
Move by labor department may mean Illinois and other states never know full scale of pandemic unemployment fraud
Nearly a year after Illinois lawmakers requested an audit by the Illinois Department of Employment Security of fraudulent unemployment claims and a tabulation of losses during the pandemic, nothing has come forth.
Gov. Pritzker falsely claims victory after Supreme Court ruling then surrenders on statewide school mask mandate
The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Pritzker Administration’s request to appeal a lower appellate ruling, thereby effectively ending the statewide school mask mandate. Individual school districts became free across Illinois to decide for themselves on school masks. After the ruling, Pritzker said his mandate will end on Monday, a mandate he has claimed is legal and still effective despite lower court rulings to the contrary.
Politics getting bad for those using children as human COVID shields
It’s time for public officials like Gov. JB Pritzker to check the political winds on their COVID policies. They may cling to their version of science, but the politics have shifted against them, even within their own party. They are rapidly being left behind, putting Illinois and a few other states in outlier status on COVID policy, particularly for children.
Destroying democracy to save democracy, JB Pritzker style
Law professor Jonathan Turley wrote on Thursday condemning how Democratic groups and commentators are seeking to remove as many as 120 Republicans from ballots in the name of democracy. Turley is nationally recognized for his objectivity and impartiality, earning his newsletter, Res Ipsa Loquitur, an astounding 55 million subscribers.
Some 'plan.' Illinois wants more federal bailout money for unemployment trust fund
Less than two weeks ago, JB Pritzker’s administration told us we would soon see a “plan” for addressing the gaping hole in Illinois unemployment trust fund. It’s the source of money for unemployment claims but it is underwater by something well over $5 billion. Most of that hole is in the form of the repayment obligation of about $4.5 billion for money borrowed by the trust fund from the federal government during the pandemic.
Why 'Pritzker for President' makes perfect sense
Many of us in Illinois are snickering, but it’s entirely sensible that “talk is abundant – at least in private,” about Gov. JB Pritzker as a candidate for President of the United States in 2024. That’s what the New York Times reported on Sunday. Check off the boxes on who could win the Democratic primaries for president and you have to put Pritzker at or near the top of the list.
In-kind retaliation, as expected: Fifteen states demand banks ignore Illinois-style threats favoring 'woke capitalism'
It was only a matter of time.
Left-leaning states, particularly Illinois, have long been trying to strong-arm the financial sector into enforcing their social justice agenda. Now, more conservative states are responding by using the same tool. Nobody will end up winning. Blame those who started it.
Revolution now. Illinois must offer what all America wants: School choice
Rarely is anything so popular yet so neglected by politicians as school choice for K-12 education. The public has it right on what is a truly righteous cause. For society to honor its fundamental obligation to educate its youth, parents must be offered an alternative to catastrophically failing schools. Society’s future demands it. Simple justice demands it. The state as a place to raise a family demands it. And it is indeed what it has often been called – a civil rights issue.
The astonishing statements from Pritzker and Lightfoot on Rittenhouse verdict
“Shooting unarmed citizens is fundamentally wrong,” wrote Gov. JB Pritzker in his statement on the Rittenhouse verdict, which is pasted below. That’s a lie. Pritzker should retract the statement and apologize. One had a pistol pointed at Rittenhouse at the moment Rittenhouse fired, captured in video.
A blood-boiling performance by Illinois lawmakers to ensure punishment of vax mandate resisters
Unless you want your blood to boil, do not watch the video from last week of supporters of a bill to amend Illinois’ Health Care Right of Conscience Act (HCRCA). Dishonesty, despotism and undisguised ignorance were on full display in a move to assure compliance with vaccine and other COVID mandates.
Employers are desperate for workers, but Chicago to launch money-for-nothing 'guarantied basic income' program
A more bizarre and destructive mismatch of economic circumstances and policy direction would be hard to imagine.
The 'never ending saga' of Illinois' botched marijuana licensing process
“It doesn’t make sense how they can delay a year and a half and come back more incompetent than when we started.” That’s what one of the applicants suing Illinois told the Chicago Sun-Times about the state’s process for licensing marijuana retailers.
CDC squelched its own study showing masks ineffective for kids in schools; Answers needed
Friday’s column in New York Magazine is a must-read for those following the controversy over masks in K-12 schools.