Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
The best solar fields are built in the deserts , where annual sunshine is abundant; not on farm land in the north . China has built huge solar farms in the Gobi desert
There was almost 26 million acres of farmland in the crop Reduction Program in 2025. That is farmland that the taxpayer pays the landowner to not produce. 800,000 of those acres are in Illinois. Currently there are about 220,000 acres of proposed solar acres in Illinois.
Oops.
The last hail storm proved how idiotic solar fields are.
Quit destroying farm land! There are plenty of commercial buildings to put solar panels on roof tops.
Deb, do you support property rights? I support your right to buy farm land and farm it instead of renting it to solar companies.
“studies show that livestock like sheep, native plants, and crops can thrive when paired with larger solar projects.” but the linked article on yahoo news doesn’t cite or link to any such studies. The source article at shawlocal.com doesn’t include that sentence.
Here’s a link for ya. It also mentions that farmers can make far more on long term leases of their land to solar companies than farming the land themselves.
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