Articles filed under Politics
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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...
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Generations Defining - and Redefining - American HistoryJul 07, 2020 1:00 am - Americans naturally tend to think of their presidents in terms of generations, like they do with their families. This may have started with the news that former Presiden...
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Deputy majority leader in state House retiresJul 06, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - State Rep. Arthur Turner, a Chicago Democrat, has retired from the Illinois House. Turner, a deputy majority leader in the House, had served in the 9th Dis...
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It's not a debate: wear a maskJul 05, 2020 1:00 am - If you're still opposed to wearing a face mask in public, this column is for Very Special You. I don't mean that sarcastically. One of us believes we're magically immune...
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U.S. must stand up for Hong Kong, democracyJul 05, 2020 1:00 am - Last November, my son surprised me and announced that he was flying to Hong Kong to stand with the pro-democracy protesters. I should not have been surprised. He has vol...