Articles filed under Politics
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We should encourage, not restrict, international studentsJul 09, 2020 1:00 am - In the past week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has told foreign students that their visas for study in the U.S. will not be valid if their universities cond...
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Pentagon: U.S. will respond if Russia bounty reports are trueJul 09, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Top Pentagon leaders told Congress on Thursday that reports of Russia offering Taliban militants bounties for killing Americans were not corroborated by def...
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Group says local governments' hands tied in COVID-19 economic crisisJul 09, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Local government officials in Illinois have their hands "tied behind their back" when responding to COVID-19-related economic struggles, three community an...
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After railing against federal spending, GOP lawmakers, conservative groups benefitJul 08, 2020 11:00 pm - Conservative members of Congress and advocacy groups that ardently criticize excessive government spending were among those accepting small business pandemic relief fund...
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Supreme Court sides with Trump in birth control opt-out caseJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - More employers who cite religious or moral grounds can decline to offer cost-free birth control coverage to their workers, the Supreme Court ruled Wedn...
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Charter schools and minoritiesJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published "Charter Schools and Their Enemies." He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on...
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Attorney general asks Clay County judge to rule on last issue in legislator's coronavirus lawsuitJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois attorney general's office on Tuesday night asked a downstate judge to address the one outstanding issue in Rep. Darren Bailey's lawsuit challe...
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Next election could decide if Washington, D.C., becomes 51st stateJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - The drive to make Washington, D.C., a state has been a favorite of some Democrats for years. Why wouldn't it be? If enacted, a new state, formed from deepest-blue D.C., ...
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Opposing groups readying for fight over graduated taxJul 07, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Days after the governor donated $51.5 million of his personal fortune to a committee supporting a graduated income tax constitutional amendment, a new coal...
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As Bastiat would say, peer past the obvious with pandemic policiesJul 07, 2020 1:00 am - Last week marked the 219th birthday of the great 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat. It's the perfect time to talk about his famous essay, "That Which is See...