12 May 2020

Try This PPP: Pertinent Pandemic Podcasts

By Todd McGreevy

On October 18, 2019, the planners of the 2020 worldwide panic called a Covid-19 pandemic emergency fully mapped out and role-played how all of this fear and economic chaos would arise and what steps global leaders will take. Visit Plannedemic.org to see the World Economic Forum and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded Coronavirus pandemic simulation's own Web site of materials and video recordings. Participants include non-government organizations (NGOs) such as the World Health Organization, the United Nations, global corporations and media, Johns Hopkins University, the World Bank, and both U.S. and China Centers for Disease Control agencies.

11 May 2020

Are Municipalities Willing to Forfeit Their Insurance Coverage Should Their Premature Reopening Prove Precipitous?

By Rich Miller

Governor JB Pritzker has repeatedly said he's delegating enforcement of his stay-at-home order to local governments.

That stance has frustrated some folks who want him to get tougher with violators (although he'd undoubtedly risk making martyrs out of them if he did crack down hard). And the governor's position seems to have emboldened some local officials to defy the governor's order and open up their economies on their own.

04 May 2020

Pritzker’s Handling of COVID-19 Is a Political Rail Only Down-State Die-Hards Seem Eager to Grab

By Rich Miller

A recent poll shows Illinoisans strongly approve of Governor JB Pritzker's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in Illinois, and an even higher number supports his stay-at-home order.

27 Apr 2020

As Sartre and Camus Could Have Told You, Hell Is Other Reporters – Particularly During Pandemics

By Rich Miller
Governor JB Pritzker

The First Amendment to the US Constitution prevents government intrusion on journalists' rights to tell their stories and your rights to read or watch or listen to them.

But that means things can get messy. Some reporters can make everyone else look bad.

18 Apr 2020

Federal Intelligence Gaps and Glitch-Laden Gubernatorial Responses Hinder Illinois Efforts to Flatten the COVID-19 Curve

By Rich Miller

While short on details, the state and regional guidance finally issued by the White House last week gives us a set of pretty reasonable if difficult-to-achieve goals.

We all know why we need to contain and reduce our risk to the COVID-19 virus: Save lives, preserve health, and get people back to work.

13 Apr 2020

One Impolitic Post Is All It Takes to Kill Nascent Goodwill Between State Democrats and the Illinois Policy Institute

By Rich Miller

The libertarian-leaning Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) has tried reaching out more to Democratic legislators since Governor Bruce Rauner lost his reelection bid. Rauner at one point was so close to the group that he fired several of his longtime staffers and replaced some of them with IPI staff, which did not work out well, to say the least.

09 Apr 2020

Questioning the Potential New Normal Is Healthy

By Kathleen McCarthy

Whenever single-topic messaging, such as COVID-19, is endlessly reported by corporate media to the exclusion of all other news, my reaction is to research legitimate controversies to media's 24/7 highly scripted narratives. After 27 years of providing such alternative analysis, why stop now?

06 Apr 2020

Health Care Providers Granted Immunity from Civil Liability

By Rich Miller

Without fanfare last week, Governor JB Pritzker issued a sweeping executive order (2020-19) granting many health-care providers immunity from civil liability during the COVID-19 crisis.

03 Apr 2020

New DOJ IG Report: 100% Random FISA Warrant Samples Lacked Evidence

By Robert Ramano
FISA Court Rubber Stamps FBI Warrant Applications to Spy on Americans

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has followed up on his Dec. 2019 Justice Department report on abuses under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that occurred in 2016, where the Justice Department and intelligence agencies ordered spying on the Trump campaign and Republicans, the opposition party, in an election year on false allegations they were Russian agents.

30 Mar 2020

A Tale of Two Legislators

By Rich Miller

This is a story about two very different state legislators, representing very different districts with the same strong belief in hope during a time of anguish.

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