What about those Illinois ballots?

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Military ballots, anyone?

Has this turned up in Chi newspapers etc.?

Republican gains in state legislatures were . . . impressive. They will control the redistricting process in four of the five states in this region. The exception is Illinois, where Rod Blagojevich’s successor as governor, Pat Quinn, held on by a few thousand votes — helped perhaps by the refusal of some Democratic county clerks not to send out military ballots in the time required by federal law. They did manage to send unrequested ballots to inmates of the Cook County Jail, though.

It’s from Michael Barone in the Washington Examiner.

Look here and see who’s got this. No Chi or Chi-area coverage, except for Sun-Times of Oct. 13 saying most ballots had been sent. Fox has it, locally and nationally. So does Breitbart’s Big Government blog and several downstate outlets. But here it’s a snoozer.

State vs. market: take your choice

Where’s this distinction been all my life?

State capitalism has been tried before. It didn’t work. Market capitalism works better because it doesn’t depend on one set of actors to make all the choices.

The estimable Michael Barone here.  He speaks of “the limits of expert knowledge and of the ability of political actors to make optimal economic choices.” Brain trusts and all that, vs. billions deciding and moving, even shaking, the world.

“Intellectual firepower” vs. The People’s choices.

(From: Instapundit)