Liberty
Gangs Used COVID Money for Guns, Drugs
Frank Main reports for the Chicago Sun-Times on the latest evidence of COVID relief fraud. When COVID-19 struck in 2020, the government quickly put together massive aid programs to help…
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Liberty
Large Groups of Vaccinated People Are Now Deemed Too Risky
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online explores the latest bit of head-scratching COVID-19 complaints. I just listened to a segment on Bloomberg Radio, and the announcer ominously warned that the…
Law & Public Safety
Chicago Democrat’s solution to carjacking: ban video games
One of my favorite constitutional experts is Jonathan Turley of George Washington University. A self-professed liberal, he calls them as he sees them. It’s a rare quality in analysts these…
Law & Public Safety
Anti-police activism prompts predictable response
Frank Main and Fran Spielman write in the Chicago Sun-Times about one consequence of the recent nationwide attack on police. The number of police officers retiring in Chicago and other…
Education
Martin Center column argues UNC failed students during reopening
Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about the University of North Carolina’s missteps during the reopening of campuses for the fall semester. Though college leaders had the summer to…
Law & Public Safety
Supreme Court faces another appeal from church facing COVID-19 restrictions
Nicholas Rowan of the Washington Examiner highlights a First Amendment appeal to the nation’s highest court. A Chicago church on Tuesday announced its intentions to appeal to the Supreme Court,…
Elections & Public Integrity
A top Obama adviser and Chicago’s public pension crisis
As Valerie Jarrett pulls down a six-figure salary serving in the Obama administration, she’s also helping to drive Chicago’s pension fund beyond the bounds of sustainability. Thomas Lifson reports for…
Liberty
High risk pools cost more than advertised
The Washington Post says people are surprised by the high costs of federal high risk pools “and it is an open question whether the $5 billion allotted by Congress to…
Liberty
More missing ‘Ds’ in corruption news stories
The Associated Press continues its long tradition of hiding the Democrat label when they have to write about corrupt Democratic pols. In a story about an ethics investigation of Democrat…
Liberty
And you thought Starbucks was expensive
The Chicago Public Schools bought $67,000 worth of cappuccino/espresso machines and then failed to use most of them, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. In the case of the cappuccino machines, central…
Liberty
I laughed, I cried…
I highly recommend Jonah Goldberg’s hilarious piece on the Blagojevich scandal. For the more historically minded, it’s a time for nostalgia. The past comes alive as Chicago’s grand tradition of…
Liberty
BofA Stuck in the Middle of Chicago Factory Spat
Meanwhile, in other idiocy. Check out this sweet slice of karma as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times: Gov. Rod Blagojevich has ordered all [Illinois] state agencies to stop doing business…