The Obama seat and the rights of the voters
There's good news for Illinois: we might be able to retire Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., two months earlier than expected. That doesn't sound like much, but more important than removing...
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The Obama seat and the rights of the voters
There's good news for Illinois: we might be able to retire Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., two months earlier than expected. That doesn't sound like much, but more important than removing...
BP bashing is getting a little out of control
The opportunistic Rev. Jesse Jackson was at it again, calling on the populace to rain punishment down on BP for the Gulf oil spill and its failure to make millions...
Have an honest debate on global warming
I cringe every time I hear someone invoke "settled science." And when a scientist does it, I smell a rat. Gravity is settled science. But how gravity works is not....
Yet another Illinois botched program
Who in his right mind would be against health insurance for every child in Illinois? Certainly none of the politicians, health care providers, labor unions and special interests that in...
Where does Illinois go from here?
From Dennis to Eric: We have seen Greece, and it is us. When Greek mobs were rioting over government austerity measures needed to secure sufficient international loans to keep the...
Why poor students are stuck in bad schools
Some Illinois House Republicans had an opportunity to give 30,000 poor, black children stuck in some of the worst, most overcrowded Chicago public schools a chance for a better education....
The legislators-are-chicken premise
The headline read "Thousands rally at Illinois Capitol — for a tax increase." A subhead could have read, "Millions more stay at home, fuming at the very idea." Last week's...
Democratic-endorsed value added tax bad idea
Where will they strike next? Now that we've been flattened with the crushing weight of what Democrats imagine is health care reform, what additional burdens will follow? Some say it'll...
Chop the salaries of ‘public servants’
It's bad enough to suggest that "public servants" forgo raises, even when pay increases in the private sector are as rare as, well, pay increases in the private sector. But...