Must Reads for March 30
Chicago Tribune: More success from Urban Prep

Urban Prep reports that 83 percent of the students in that 2010 graduating class enrolled last fall for their second year of college.

Opening more economic opportunities will help the poor, not eradicating inequalities.

If this last desperate effort of the power-mongers of leftism fails, then their whip may become a wet noodle, and the whole corrupt syndicate of leftism may completely unravel.

Must Reads for March 29
Real Clear Politics: Job killers

On top of doing little good, endless rules kill the freedom that made America the land of opportunity. We preach entrepreneurship, and try to teach children the value, satisfaction and excitement of starting their own businesses.

Never before in American history have a majority of states sued to have a federal law declared unconstitutional. The people of the United States, speaking through their elected state officials, have made it very clear that they consider this unique law is not an exercise of power which the Constitution granted to Congress, but rather a usurpation of powers which were never granted.

“Posting spending information online will increase citizen trust by demystifying state and local spending and providing easy access numbers”

Bloomberg: Illinois joins states with biggest debts gauged by Fitch

Illinois joins Connecticut and Hawaii among U.S. states with the largest debt burdens relative to residents’ personal income, when pension obligations are added, according to new measurements from Fitch Ratings.

If the fundamental objective is to serve the medically indigent, the federal government's expansion of Medicaid will result in exactly the opposite.

Where's the sense of urgency?

Government mandates that hospitals and physicians treat the uninsured. Hospitals and physicians then, in turn, jack up their prices in order to get compensated for the "free" care which then feeds into higher insurance premiums for people who buy health insurance.

Must Reads for March 27
Chicago Tribune: "The keep-spending-forever bill"

Quinn wants to economize. Parochial pols and labor lobbyists say no. Lawmakers, kill this.

Illinois lost the third largest number of jobs at 291,200, behind Florida, which lost 578,900 jobs and California, which lost 855,200 jobs.

In Year One of the Obamacare era, we got a preview of what is to come. We know that Year Three will be pivotal for the law’s future, between the Supreme Court and the November election. But it was what we learned in the last twelve months that set the stage for this pivotal, upcoming year.

We have a national debt that is more than $15 trillion, and it must be reduced because to go on or get worse will spell ruin for the whole country.

Must Reads for March 26
Featured Letter to the Editor: Illinois' woes

The recent Chicago Tribune interview with the CEO of Caterpillar was excellent. He was very straightforward and said exactly what is wrong with the state of Illinois.

Throughout the life of this nation it has been understood that for a contract to be valid, the parties to it must mutually assent to its terms — without duress.

As the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - a.k.a. ObamaCare - goes before the highest court in the land, here are three reasons to chuck the whole program even before it gets underway.

One of the last states to have a tax rate as high as California is proposing was Delaware in the 1970s. Its rate hit 19.8%. Then-Governor Pete du Pont cut the rate to 10.3% in 1979 and later to 5.95%, and after five years the state's revenues had nearly doubled and its credit rating went from the worst to one of the best.