National Public Radio’s Debacle and the ‘Vibe Shift’ – Wirepoints
April 18, 2024
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Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
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Growing property tax burdens make this state unlivable for too many Illinoisans – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
April 18, 2024
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Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Illinois education officials keep trying to hide their failures behind excuse of “higher test standards” – Wirepoints
April 17, 2024
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Illinois’ dismal education numbers – especially for minority students – are embarrassing to politicians and officials. But rather than admit there’s a problem with Illinois’ education system, they attack the state’s own standards for being “too high,” instead.
Wilmette protects government speech…but not free speech. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 17, 2024
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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
April 17, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/14/2024.
You would think that this is common sense – residents can’t come here to mooch the system. But Democrats hate Trump so much, so much, they throw all rational thought out the window, and focus only on the aspect that a future citizen on food stamps today has a 99.9% chance of voting democrat in the future. So they screw the rest of us paying to pay for these mooches, for the sake of a handful of (D) votes, in the future. This is just so frustrating to even be involved in battles like these. Why are we even wasting… Read more »
And if you disagree, you’re labeled a white supremacist. I cannot think of another time in my life when objectivity and civility had been as low as it is today.
It’s mostly Democrats. Trump did no favors with the civil discourse but the Democrats took it to the currently virulent level. It’s because Democrats lost 1,000 elected seats during the Obama years, they lost the house in the tea party in 2010, then the senate in 2014, and all three branches in 2016 (when trump started confirming R judges like crazy). So they’ve really been out of any real power for nine years now, since the tea party, and they are ticked off, angry and going crazy. But give them power, in a state like IL, and they legalize infanticide,… Read more »