Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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"It is my distinct honor to teach this class," Lightfoot said. "I view it as a tremendous opportunity to prepare students to become abject failures in whatever path they take in life before returning to make an enormous salary teaching at Harvard." SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Let’s see, over the weekend WP published a ranking of colleges and free speech. Yup, Harvard was dead last. LL should fit in nicely with the other authoritarians.
LL first lecture started with this. “If you’re black and fail at a job you are not qualified to do scream racism, play the Race Card whenever you can, don’t leave home without it”.
Big Dick Lori is a perfect example of why affirmative action is the worst idea ever
Could Harvard look any sillier? Is this really a person who should be teaching anything at a top university in the nation? Anyone who lives in Chicago, who knows anything about Chicago, or who cares about higher education should be stunned at how foolish and intellectually bankrupt Harvard looks with this unbelievable hire.
From Babylon Bee on Lightfoot
https://babylonbee.com/news/lori-lightfoot-teaches-harvard-course-on-how-to-catch-raw-wriggly-delicious-fishes-so-tasty-sweet-yes-good-precious
Harvard is circling the drain with hires like Beetlejuice. Next semester she’ll teach another class. It’s titled I’m Angry and Stupid and Nobody Likes Me.
The only thing good to say to her is “Goodbye”.
She’ll fit right in by Harvard’s own standards.