Budgets/Taxes · Featured · FIRE · Podcast
Ever hear of California’s infamously bankrupt Stockman County? Listen to the podcast and discover how Chicago has 13 municipalities that can top it.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Education · Featured · Liberty · Politics · Taxes
“In America, we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.”
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Politics
Because Congress in many areas hasn’t yet addressed the gaping hole of protecting our data from Big Government, we are left exposed and subject to huge, illegal power grabs.
From the growing annals of school-led privacy invasions of minors comes this story from a Chicago suburb.
Washington state is conservative, except for Seattle, which delivers the entire state’s electoral votes for the most left-wing plausible candidate every four years. The same is true of Oregon, except[...]
Brent Hamachek and Tom Kuchan of Segueway Solutions invited President and CEO of The Heartland Institute, Joe Bast, to speak on their radio show, “Segueway to Success.” They talk about Heartland’s mission, how Heartland[...]
Featured · Health Care · Legal Affairs
Doctors need to know that anything in the medical record can be used against them—as can errors by their own million-dollar attorney.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
In the race to the financial bottom the State of Illinois vies nicely with several other states, including (depending on the precise year involved) California, New York, and Ohio, with[...]
Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
If the states are laboratories of democracy, then what does that make our cities? Showcases of the experiments’ results? If so, then we are in for a terrible time. One[...]
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty
In the wake of the celebrated shootings in Newtown, Connecticut; Aurora, Colorado; and the streets of Chicago, both parties have fallen over themselves to act “serious” about the problem of[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Regulation
Steve Stanek is featured in an excellent piece from Monday night on Chicago’s NBC affiliate WMAQ. It a story about the “essential air service” program, a legacy boondoggle from the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom
“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” In those three pithy phrases, Ronald Reagan summarized the essence of government.
Legal Affairs · Media · Politics
From what I heard, the biggest applause line in President Obama’s State of the Union speech was when he said new gun regulations “deserve a vote” because of communities “ripped[...]
[Editor's note: In celebration of National School Choice Week, this is cross-posted from "The Pullmanns" blog at Ricochet.] If anyone is interested in policy issues that can appeal across party[...]
Rarely do I feel better after speaking with a gun control advocate than I do today. (See the clip below.) I have just returned from taping a segment of Fox[...]
It is a natural tendency on the part of most human beings, when confronted with great evil, to want to do something about it. We want to stop the horror[...]
Critics of the Parent Trigger for school reform charge it’s a new idea with a short track record. But the concept seems to be Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s battle plan[...]
After Tuesday’s election, we could use some talk about a needed Free Market Revolution. Yaron Brook, president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, will be in Chicago with[...]
Over-regulation is rearing its ugly head in Chicago once again. New regulations that would push a popular new limousine and taxi service out of the Chicago market have been proposed[...]
One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of Liberal Fascism than the move by liberal politicians to ban Chick-fil-A from their jurisdictions because of the owner’s opinion on gay[...]
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