Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon guest on AM560 with Chris Krok discussing CTU lawsuit agains Illinois Policy and more
August 19, 2026
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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.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
So New York City is #1 in per capita debt and has a pension protection clause in its constitution that is exactly the same as in Illinois, but its population has grown over the last 10 years. Like Chicago, New York loses a lot of people to other states, but in New York this is offset by immigrants from other countries and a natural increase (more births than deaths). Maybe there is a lesson here for Chicago, i.e. do more to attract immigrants to come to your city.
How many immigrants are enough for you people? Nearly 15% of America’s residents are foreign born which is the highest its been in a century, which is also the highest its been since the US began keeping this statistical record in 1860. America was less than 5% foreign born in 1970 and it just keeps going up, and up, and up. America in my youth is unrecognizable as America today. The working class neighborhood (and town) I grew up in turned from native to immigrant about 25 years ago, and today has the same average household income as it did… Read more »
With all due respect, is the term “sanctuary city” completely lost on you?