Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
“I mean, I don’t know what it’s going to take. I don’t know what kind of help we can get but it is a call on parents. It’s a call on aunts, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, friends,” Ald. Monique Scott said.
It’s a call on Chicago and Cook County to arrest and prosecute violent criminals with punishment befitting the crimes.
If it didn’t happen in a Catholic church it wasn’t a mass shooting.
The Tribune’s reporter’s closing sentence:
“The Ogden District has long been one of the most violent in the city, a byproduct of racist policies such as redlining and contract home sales that further solidified racial segregation among the city’s neighborhoods during and after the Great Migration.”
The fact that such a fatuous opinion got past whatever passes for editors at the Tribune, and into print, tells me just how wrong-headed that newspaper is.
So much for BJ’s crime strategy — 50 shot last weekend
https://heyjackass.com/enlightening-commentary/dont-demonize-weekend-9/