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COMMENTARY: A New Illinois won’t fix anything, Alan Webber

So, I'm spending a half-day on my 34th birthday working on the website when I get bombarded with a bunch of Google Alerts. One of these alerts relates to anything relating to the state of Illinois. Among one of these alert blasts, this ridiculous op-ed today from the Kankakee Daily Journal was among them. Not even two paragraphs in did op-ed columnist Alan Webber make some factual inaccuracies: Webber states, "However, if you review election returns, Biden didn’t win the […]

todayNovember 21, 2020

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KNAPP: Section 230 doesn’t need “reform”

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 is under attack — disguised as a cry for “reform” — from politicians on both sides of the “major party” aisle. To what purpose? Well, let’s look at Section 230’s key provision: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” US Naval Academy law professor Jeff Kosseff calls those words “The Twenty-Six Words […]

todayNovember 19, 2020

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MORRIS: Won’t lose any sleep voting for Libertarian Donald Rainwater in Indiana

I’m thinking of doing something different in the gubernatorial election. Some will say I would be wasting my vote. The same temptation teased me in the 2016 presidential election. Disgusted that our political process delivered the two worst candidates imaginable in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I flirted with the idea of going third party or simply staying home and not voting at all. In the end, I resisted the urge. Giving serious thought to voting for Rainwater It was […]

todaySeptember 30, 2020

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EDITORIAL: Wake Forest online editorial sure sounds like it’s bashing third-party voters

An editorial published Thursday morning in Wake Forest University's Old Gold & Black newspaper 'Third party voting minimizes electoral impact' surely appears to be attacking voters of third-party candidates. Let's go through this editorial hit piece by Alexandra Karlinchak paragraph by paragraph, shall we? Trump and Biden are part of the problem, not the solution With only 54 days until the 2020 election, tensions around the country are running at an all-time high. There is a lot at stake for a […]

todaySeptember 10, 2020

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Nick Sandmann: GOP’s poster child for fake victimhood

A common complaint among Republicans is that their opponents are mainly in the business of manufacturing victims and turning those victims into Democratic voters. That complaint is true as far as it goes. Yes, Democratic politicians work overtime to get out the vote for their party by portraying society at large as having wronged members of particular racial, religious, ethnic, or gender/sexual groups, and by promising reforms that end the discrimination and compensate those discriminated against. But grievance-based politics is […]

todayAugust 28, 2020

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Illinois Republicans prefer white supremacist over Libertarians in petition challenges

In 2018, Arthur Jones ran as a Republican for Congress from the 3rd Congressional District in Illinois. According to The Atlantic, Jones was a member of the National Socialist White People’s Party for eight years, is a Holocaust denier, proudly calls himself a white nationalist, and is a former leader of the American Nazi Party. An actual Nazi was on the ballot in Illinois running for Congress just two years ago. Interviews with him are available online if you can stomach watching […]

todayAugust 6, 2020

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KNAPP: Biden vs. Trump is an echo chamber, not a choice

“Democracy,” H.L. Mencken wrote, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Mencken’s assessment is philosophically dismissive of democracy as a theory of government. It’s snobbishly contemptuous of Joe Six-Pack’s qualifications for self-government of the democratic type. And it’s as accurate a summary as I’ve come across of how the political establishment — especially “major party” presidential candidates and their campaign minders — view the American electorate. It’s fair to […]

todayAugust 6, 2020

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COMMENTARY: The irony of voting for Joe Biden

Honestly, I don't get how anyone in the right minds would vote for presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Are you out of your gourds? What am I talking about exactly? The entire idea of supporting Biden because of the Democratic label is nothing short of irony. Allow me to explain. MYTH: Biden cares about women's rights and children THE TRUTH: Biden reveals his true colors in 1974 when he openly opposes the Roe v. Wade decision. You didn't need Snopes […]

todayAugust 3, 2020 1

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COMMENTARY: Republican legislators implicated as part of Madigan special interest donations

As if the whole corruption saga surrounding Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan wasn't already interesting. However, it just got that much more interesting, based on recent developments that now implicate members of the Republican Party. Madigan, presumably "Public Official A" in recent ComEd legal filings, and some of his special interests may have something to do with contributions to some Republicans as well. Davidsmeyer willingly admits to receiving ComEd money State Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer (R-Jacksonville) recently stated on local station […]

todayJuly 29, 2020

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