The new Randolph tot lot, Grove to Oak Park Ave., will be a park with an alley running through it. A “speed table” will slow vehicles down to minimize danger of a tot being run over when he or she runs from one half of the park to the other. Gates across the alley appear in one [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Honduras no, Chavez yes?
Obama admin putting screws to Honduras: The most recent example of the Obama-style Good Neighbor Policy was the announcement last week that visa services for Hondurans are suspended indefinitely, and that some $135 million in bilateral aid might be cut. But these are only the public examples of its hardball tactics. Much nastier stuff is [...]
Doesn’t like their coverage
Harry Reid shook hands with the ad director for the Review-Journal of Las Vegas, Bob Brown, before a Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week as part of “a meet-’n’-greet and a photo.” [A]s Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: “I hope [...]
Was ist eine liberale?
The irreplaceable David Horowitz on why Nixon White House operative Brian Lamb did not succeed in his mission to liberalize PBS, that is, make it live up to the law that created it, to be “fair, objective and balanced”: [L]iberals are closet totalitarians who can’t stand to have a conservative in the room. (Notice “liberal” [...]
Missing Danny Davis in the morning
Danny Davis was a no-show this morning at 2nd Baptist, Maywood. His office in DC had told Organizing for America (OFA), the Obama campaign agency turned policy muscle, he’d be there for a town hall. Not only was that wrong, or turned out wrong, but his office had the address wrong — 36 S. 13th [...]
Clout on the Potomac
The Chicago and (separately) Illinois situations have a D.C. counterpart: Mayor Adrian Fenty on Thursday dodged more questions about the education of his sons, growing visibly angry as reporters pressed on how his twin boys gained entry into one of D.C.’s top-performing public schools. The Obamas didn’t have to stoop that low, choosing to go [...]
Zorn on Roeser after Roeser on The Dick
Eric Zorn takes issue with Tom Roeser, who called U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin “the Dick” (citing as precedent “the Donald” for D. Trump) and complained that Durbin has no townhall meetings about health care/insurance/whatever-the-latest-name and that reporters don’t press him on sensitive issues. Because, you know, how else could one possibly gauge public sentiment or consider [...]
Oh, those Kennedy Catholics
Here’s an item of Kennedy Catholic history I’d forgotten about, when one of the wives refused to be cast aside: Some say the final sunset on the Kennedy name within Catholic halls of power was the Vatican’s decision [revealed] in 2007 to overturn the annulment of the first marriage of former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy, [...]
Wheeling Jesuit protest
Supporters are invited to speak up for the fired Jesuit president on a new website, “Save! Wheeling Jesuit University”: Welcome It is with great sorrow that we come together today with the departure of our president and dear friend, Fr. Julio Giulietti, S.J. We have all come here to seek the truth, and to know and [...]
What doth it profit? That is the question
Trouble is, govt. is not profit-motivated, and what it operates has no independent future. Thus U. of Chi economist Gary Becker: Supporters of a government-run plan claim that it will be financially self-supporting, and will provide a standard for private plans. To see how this would work out in practice, consider the postal system [italics, [...]
