Illinois Credit Rating Now Worse Than Former Communist Countries


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Chicago teachers have the highest average salary of any city at $76,000 a year before benefits. The average family in the city only earns $47,000 a year.

Illinois to Approve Illegal Alien Driver’s Licenses


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But who is leading the charge to pass the bill?

The Obama of 1995


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He matters.

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Another Phony “Veteran”


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Illinois’ Phil Hare is the latest Democratic candidate to embellish his military service record.

Obama’s Summer of Corruption


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What new dirty secrets will be exposed in the coming months?

Obama’s Crony Capitalism


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Chicago’s ShoreBank is too politically connected to fail.

Christopher Hayes Becomes a Cheerleader for SEIU Thuggery


Christopher Hayes, Washington editor for the far-left Nation magazine, offers a ringing endorsement of the thug tactics used by the Service Employees International Union and National People’s Action against Bank of America executive Gregory Baer.
You’ll recall that on his TV show Glenn Beck did a segment on the hundreds of angry, loud, purple-shirted SEIU members and [...]

The Return of Cap and Trade


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The Kerry-Lieberman act is an extreme overreaction to a non-problem.

The Chicago Climate Exchange: The Corrupt Roots of “Cap & Trade”


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When it was launched in 2003, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) became the world’s first carbon-emissions trading company, equipped to regulate all transactions made under cap-and-trade energy plans such as the one currently favored by President Barack Obama. To obtain the money he would need in order to get CCX of the ground, the company’s founder, Richard Sandor, turned to the Chicago-based Joyce [...]