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Illinois Kicks Insurrectionist Trump Off The Ballot
A judge has ordered that Donald Trump be removed from the ballot in Illinois and that none of the votes he gathers be counted due to his participation in the 1/6 insurrection.
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Illinois Governor Criticizes Texas Abortion Law, Vows to Protect Abortion Rights in His State
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, criticized a Texas abortion law that went into effect Wednesday that prohibits virtually all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically after six weeks of pregnancy. He said that women around the United States are welcome to come to Illinois if they need reproductive health care. “Shame…
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Illinois Governor: White House Made States Fight “Sick Hunger Games” to Get PPE
The Governor of Illinois has described the White House’s handling of Coronavirus supplies as a “sick Hunger Games.” He blasted the lack of coordination. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, told CBS Chicago that there was no leadership from the White House on vital supplies for the pandemic. “The federal government wasn’t leading. We were,” Pritzker said….
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Illinois Governor Says White House Sent Wrong Kind of Medical Masks In Latest PPE Shipment
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) says the White House sent the wrong kind of medical masks in its latest PPE shipment after personally telling him President Donald Trump’s administration would send 300,000 masks to his state. “While we do not have a final count on this yet, I can say with certainty that what they…
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Illinois Will Take Charge of Coronavirus Testing After Trump Admin’s “Profound Failing”
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) announced his state will take charge of coronavirus testing, citing President Donald Trump’s administration’s “profound failing” to roll tests out successfully. “The White House has promised millions of tests for weeks now, and they’re just not here,†Pritzker said at yesterday’s daily press briefing. “I’m not going to wait on…
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Opinion: Does America Really Value Equality? What Women and Transgender People Might Say
The Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations merited certain rights of personhood. The decision in this case became crystallized in the notorious phrase, “Corporations are people.†This year’s events insistently raise the question of which Americans enjoy the basic rights of personhood in America. How are we doing when it comes…
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Illinois City Bans Assault Rifles — Imposes Fines of $1,000 Per Day
When 17 people were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s day, a renewed national debate on gun control laws erupted.  Many gun control advocates began pushing anew for a complete ban on assault-style rifles and also large capacity magazines, since these are…
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Rauner Tells Illinois Democrats if They Won’t Punish the Taxpayers, He Will: Part II of a Series Covering Illinois Politics
Rauner has chosen to plunder the state for his own private interest and those of his cronies.
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Republican Redux: Governor Bruce Rauner Brings Ruin to Illinois: Part I of a Series Covering Illinois Politics
Rauner is falling in with the strategy we have seen from Sam Brownback in Kansas, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and Rick Snyder in Michigan
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Supreme Court Could Hear, Overturn Assault Weapons Ban
The Supreme Court could decide as early as Tuesday whether to hear a challenge to Highland Park, Illinois’ municipal assault weapons ban.
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Nervous Republicans Worry That Trump Will Give Democrats The White House And Senate
Strategists fear Trump could badly lose a general election campaign, dragging a lot of Republican Senate candidates down with him.
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IL Newspaper Crushes Sen. Kirk’s Moderate Reputation By Calling Him A Loud-Mouthed Radical
A local newspaper lashed out at Kirk’s extreme rhetoric on the Iran deal, calling him the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz.
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Illinois Gov. Rauner Projects His Hypocritical Conflict of Interest on Democrats and Unions
Over the weekend, Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner assailed state legislators who accept campaign contributions from public employee unions for being guilty of a “conflict of interest.” As is usually the case with any Republican, Rauner is guilty of psychological projection as well as gross hypocrisy.
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Two Months Into Office, Illinois GOP Governor Rauner’s Approval Rating Under 37 Percent
Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner’s approval rating is just 36.5 percent, according to a Paul Simon Public Policy Institute poll.
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Obama Recovery In Full Swing As Unemployment Fell In Every One Of The 50 States Last Year
Every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, saw their unemployment rate drop from 2013 to 2014.
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GOP Governors Slash Education To Grow Their Ignorant Base
Because Republicans depend on “the widespread ignorance of objective reality,” their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to the abundance of ignorance and gross stupidity of America’s uneducated citizenry. Subsequently, Republicans are building on their success and slashing education funding at a record pace to produce an entire population of stupid conservative voters.
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Chris Christie’s Fear Mongering Ebola Quarantine Of Nurse Blows Up In His Face
On Monday, a day after he told Fox News he had “no second thoughts” about his decision to forcibly quarantine a nurse who had just returned from West Africa, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reversed course and announced that he was allowing Kaci Hickox to return to her home in Maine.
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Illinois Republicans Stand Behind Candidate Who Confessed to Committing Voter Fraud in 2008 and 2012
Illinois Republicans are stooping particularly low with their support for a candidate who admitted she was registered to vote in two states and voted in both states during the 2008 and 2012 election cycles.
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Chris Christie Condemns Democratic Process As Shocking And Underhanded
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was absolutely outraged that a bipartisan election commission in Illinois simplified the voting process that he claimed is “shocking,” and a “major obstacle for the GOP’s gubernatorial candidates.”
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God Does Not Want you to Drink Starbucks, Says David Barton
God really does NOT want you drinking Starbucks! It’s that “holiness” or “sanctification” thingie. Just don’t ask Barton which verse it is
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ENDA is Great but Do Not Count the Religious Loons Out
They claim to defend religious liberty but they need to read the Pledge of Allegiance with its vow of “liberty and justice for ALL”
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Obama Attacks Get Absurd as the President Is Called a Wussy Gay Drag Queen
Internet TV show host Stan Solomon indulges in fantasies of a cross-dressing, feminist-dominated Barack Obama
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We’re Not Taking Any More of Romney’s Lies: Chicago Teachers’ Strike Edition
Today’s edition of ‘We’re not gonna take it anymore’ features a desperate attempt by Romney’s to conflate a 2011 Joe Biden statement as the President’s position on today’s Chicago teachers’ strike.
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Tea Party Deadbeat Joe Walsh Tells Sandra Fluke to get a Job
Tea Party hero Joe Walsh told a diner full of old white folks that Sandra Fluke needs to get a job, equating healthcare with’entitlement
Apathy In Illinois: Romney and Santorum Fight For Right to Lose to Obama
Illinois GOP voters go to the polls today to choose from ideologically amorphous bore Mitt Romney, stubborn fungus Newt Gingrich and political punchline Rick Santorum.