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January 13, 2018

Data Point – Individual Income Taxes record

The Treasury collected a record $390,847,000,000 in individual income taxes in October through December, according to the Treasury statement. That was $30,568,380,000 more than the $360,278,620,000 that the Treasury collected (in constant December 2017 dollars) in individual income taxes in the first quarter of fiscal 2017 (which ran from October through December of 2016). And …

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School choice poses no threat to great or good public schools

To The Daily Sun, Reviewing his 1/9/18 column, one has to wonder if E. Scott Cracraft intentionally tries to mislead readers, if he just doesn’t care about children getting a decent start in life, if he’s blind to public education’s failures, or if he is afraid that children, educated outside of public schools, might learn …

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You say sh*t show, I say sh*t hole

This week, President Trump was accused of referring to Haiti and some African countries as “shi*t holes”.  According to the Oxford dictionary, this is defined as “an extremely dirty, shabby, or otherwise unpleasant place.” This definition includes nothing about race, although every mouth-breathing, window-licking Liberal wants to exploit the rumored comments and make it so. …

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AG Candidate Robbed at Gunpoint in Chicago:

AG Candidate Robbed at Gunpoint in Chicago: Aaron Goldstein, a candidate for Illinois attorney general, and four members of his campaign were robbed at gunpoint Thursday while taking promotional photos. Because, Chicago!