In this paean to everything Chicago, Gene Kennedy is long on word analysis: Noble fits Daley in other ways as well. Its root is gno and means “to know how to” — as in knowing how to run a large city that, when he took office, had been termed “Beirut on the Lake” because of [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
The Zell man speaketh — 2
More from Sam Zell on Obama and the national problem — of what he said 9/17 at U of Penn: Obama’s America: “We have a political situation in the U.S. today that for the first time in my life represents a challenge to the entrepreneur… to the freedom that our society has created. This never [...]
The Zell man speaketh
In the middle of a fascinating exchange with U. of Penn. students in Phila., Sam Zell offers this on Obama (HT Chicago Daily Observer, quotes pulled together by Joseph N. DiStefano): “I’m from Chicago. Barack Obama came to my house for dinner. He’s a brilliant man. But he’s an ideologue. When you’re an ideologue you [...]
This tot lot rocks
Don’t want to let another day go by without celebrating the instant and continued roaring success that is the Randolph Tot Lot, here discussed and cavilled at as hazardous to tots because it had an alley running through it. Forget about that, even if the park district has not posted the yellow caution signs an [...]
Focus, people, focus!
First, Obama’s hard-core supporters offended by his scolding, as at Talking Points Memo, relayed by James Taranto: “It’s just too damn bad he couldn’t have gotten mad at his enemies at any point since becoming President and instead saves his disdain and anger for his allies. It’s kind of the story of his Presidency.” “If [...]
Father Owino plea
Father Owino pleaded: FAIRFAX, Va. – The Rev. Felix Owino entered a guilty plea to aggravated sexual battery Wednesday in Fairfax County, Va., Circuit Court according to court officials. He will be sentenced Dec. 17. He is a former Associate Professor [sic] at Wheeling Jesuit University [where he had taught for two years] and also had a residence [...]
Gummint autos: buy one and get Dem donation free
Did you know General, or Government, Motors has started giving again to politicos? Maybe you missed [it]. I say that because last week I saw only one story on the subject, and it was buried in the Wall Street Journal. The GM PAC has donated more than $90,000 to candidates in the 2010 cycle, and [...]
Yelling “justice” in a crowded public square
It’s wonderful how National Catholic Reporter can make a moral issue out of an economic one, that is, one that depends on economics and lots of data. Amazing, I mean, to be marveled at. Until you see how they do it in this remarkable sentence in its latest editorial, “Radical individualism and the poverty rate”: [...]
Not a chicken-and-egg proposition
Dem Congresswoman Schakowsky: The Right to Abortion Creates Obligation For Tax-Payers to Fund Them Actually, Madam Schakowsky, it’s the other way around. We have obligations and therefore the right to what we need to meet them. Like private property. It’s a right because without it we can’t meet our responsibilities as free children of God. [...]
Rare baseball play
This recent quadruple play pulled off by the White Sox has been underreported. It happened when second baseman Omar Vizquel immediately after a triple play — forceouts at home, third, and second, threw to first to beat the runner whose swinging bunt with the bases loaded had landed in front of Sox catcher Pierzynski. There [...]
