Interesting Oak Park and Danny Davis reference here from the March-April 1996 “New Ground,” published by the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), revving up for the coming primry: The Seventh Congressional District runs from the lakefront straight west to the Cook County border. If you’d like to get involved, contact the Davis for Congress [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
She knows life in the Bronx, anyhow
Has Sotomayor any business experience? She knows how the world works, says Obama, but like him knows not the pressures and realities of profit and loss? I’m alluding to his test for a good S.C. justice. I’d prefer a keen legal mind and a propensity to call it by the book. Why does Obama privilege [...]
Episcopal church and its gay bishop
A look at religion Episcopalian-style, from the pews: A year ago, Mary Slusser was dreadfully upset about her church. The Anglican Communion was seething, as issues of sexual morality divided it. Two African churches, Nigeria and Uganda, were leading a charge, with a view to schism or expulsion of liberal churches, primarily the Episcopal Church [...]
It’s the market, stupid
Don Boudreaux of George Mason U. offers a neat capsule pro-market statement, quoting Pietra Rivoli’s 2005 book The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, as in this excerpt: A system that ignores market signals, that provides no incentives, that subsidizes losers cannot be efficient in producing goods and services. Central planners will produce [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States
Here’s a little something off the top of one’s head: America’s 46th president, Seamas McDoherty-O’Rahilly, fresh from his commencement address and honorary doctorate at Notre Dame in May, 2013, set himself to put things right with Catholic voters. He had angered them by banning Polish surnames, leaving Sitko, Czarobski, Lujack and others languishing pseudonymously in [...]
Wisconsin conviction of Donald McGuire
The first McGuire conviction has been upheld. MADISON, Wis. – An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the 2006 conviction of a once-prominent Jesuit priest on charges he abused two students during retreats in Wisconsin in the 1960s. Donald McGuire, once a spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa and her religious order of nuns, is one of the [...]
Alinsky lives
Wall St. Journal has a story about an activist who “terrorizes” bankers who foreclose. He uses pure Alinsky-style tactics (“If the end doesn’t justify the means, what does?”): In the 1990s, Mr. Marks leaked details of a banker’s divorce to the press and organized a protest at the school of another banker’s child. He says [...]
Judge Noonan at Notre Dame: Not looking for trouble
By the time Notre Dame “Laetare Remarks” speaker John Noonan finished naming people or groups that will not solve the abortion impasse, declaring it too serious to be settled by pollsters and pundits; too delicate to be decided by physical force or by banners and slogans, pickets and placards; too basic for settlement to be based [...]
Obama at Notre Dame: Noonan speech?
Holy Post at National Post (of Canada) analyzes the Obama-Notre Dame business as an opportunity. U.S. Judge and former Notre Dame law prof John Noonan holds the key, in the view of Brian Lilley. Fr. Jenkins has been able to withstand pressure to rescind the invitation to the president by saying the dialogue on this [...]
Anti-abortion frenzy reconsidered
A more or less line-by-line discussion (commentary, correction) of Neil Steinberg’s column today, “What’s behind anti-abortion frenzy?”: . . . . The abortion issue seems to be heating up in a way beyond the flap of a prominent Catholic school conferring an honorary degree upon a president who supports a woman’s right to end her [...]
