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“I’d like to think my husband and I have become partners in knowing everybody counts, especially fighting for the voiceless and the powerless,” says the first lady, who chuckles about “their vastly different backgrounds growing up." She has spent the past four years curating a collection of Illinois art and historic furniture for the newly rebuilt governor’s mansion, reviving the state’s poet laureate and arts program and, without fanfare, visiting prisons to interview incarcerated women throughout Illinois.
Summary and audio linked here.
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Summary and audio linked here.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
Podcast link is here.
Do not go on a cruise ship and let both of them stand on the same side of the vessel
You know who does not count in IL? Suburban non-public union taxpayers who have for decades experienced injustice and broken promises from IL politicians, who put themselves and public unions ahead of the vast majority of IL taxpayers.
IL-#1-2 in overall tax burden; #1-2 in public corruption; and #51, despite all its assets, in fiscal condition (behind Puerto Rico). Plus kids can’t perform at grade level and rampant crime. Why?
MK and JB look like siblings.