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News, Views and Events is a twice-weekly column containing an assortment of interesting state, national and international political and financial information, opinions, candidate reviews, scheduled...
View ArticleIllinois Debt Service Eating Up Earmarked Capital Fund
Increased debt service from Illinois’ recent round of borrowing is coming closer to exhausting revenues available in a special capital projects account even as the state has billions more to issue in...
View ArticleState Constitutions Shouldn’t Shield Public Pension Benefits
The constitutions of seven states bar any reductions to public pension benefits. Though obviously attractive to government workers, how do such inflexible guarantees serve the public interest? They...
View ArticleJohn Kerry’s 1971 Anti-War Comments
The following are partial comments made in April 1971 by John Kerry — a former US Navy Lieutenant and spokesperson for Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The testimony was given before the Senate...
View ArticleA Special Invitation Just For You!
The differences between ICE News and so many publications is we aren’t connected to any political party or a Super Pac. Our allegiances are only to the United States of America, our readers and...
View ArticleDemocrat Charlie Rangel Calls for National Draft Ahead of War Vote on Syria
On September 1, Congressman and criminal ethics violator Charlie Rangel (D-NY) renewed his call to reinstate the national draft, just ahead of votes on war with Syria. The New York Democrat argued that...
View ArticleAmerica Is Going Down The Same Road As The Old USSR
A prominent Soviet physicist, Lev Landau, defined the USSR’s system as “a dictatorship of bureaucrats.” It amounted to socialism, he said, “because the means of production do not belong to the people,...
View ArticleObama, Dems Out to Rid Middle East of Christianity
We’ve made it no secret. We believe Barack Obama is a colossal fraud and that his true mission leading up to, and during his reign as president, is far more sinister than most people are willing to...
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