31 Aug 2016

Behavior Modification is Covertly Influencing Your Vote

By Kathleen McCarthy

You might want to try an enlightening experiment as we get closer to election day. Put your normal preconceived notions about politics aside for a few days and open your mind to the possibility that nearly everything you’re being told via broadcast and radio news is entirely scripted, and specifically designed via behavior-modification techniques to “nudge” your choices in a predetermined direction.

28 Aug 2016

Governor Can Play Both Sides of Criminal-Justice Reform

By Rich Miller

Governor Bruce Rauner said last week that he has never spoken with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel or any legislators about a much-anticipated proposal to toughen penalties for gun crimes.

21 Aug 2016

Justice Reform Meets Willie Horton

By Rich Miller

You might think that months of bipartisan cooperation on numerous criminal-justice-reform bills would make that particular topic off-limits for campaigns this year.

You’d be wrong.

17 Aug 2016

The Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms: A Government of Scoundrels, Spies, Thieves, Ruffians, Rapists, and Killers

By John W. Whitehead

The U.S. government remains the greatest threat to our freedoms.

The systemic violence being perpetrated by agents of the government has done more collective harm to the American people and our liberties than any single act of terror.

14 Aug 2016

Rauner Working the Long Game with Term-Limits Advertising

By Rich Miller

An organization controlled by Governor Bruce Rauner has spent a million dollars in a little over a week on a new television ad promoting legislative term limits. And that’s just for starters.

07 Aug 2016

Same-Day Registration the Latest Target to Twist Elections

By Rich Miller

Is Illinois the next state to deal with “voter suppression”? Maybe, depending how you look at it.

04 Aug 2016

Unicorns, Mermaids, Politicians, and “Free”

By Thomas L. Knapp
Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler

Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler wants telephone companies to make robocall-blocking technology available to their customers. And he wants them to do so “at no charge.”

31 Jul 2016

Republicans Making Multi-Million-Dollar Bet on Madigan Strategy

By Rich Miller

“Do you think he knows what he’s doing?” asked a top Republican last week about House Speaker Michael Madigan’s high-profile role at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

24 Jul 2016

Illinois Governor Has Turned the Tables This Election Season

By Rich Miller

To understand the effect that Governor Bruce Rauner has had on the Illinois Republican Party, you need to go back a few years.

17 Jul 2016

Fairy Tales Will Obscure Grim Reality of Stopgap Budget

By Rich Miller

Right off the bat, I should say that I think the so-called “stopgap budget” signed into law on June 30 was a good idea. People and organizations that rely on state government desperately needed a break from the all-out legislative war between the two ideologically entrenched parties.

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