Fighting Irish challenged to do the right thing

Notre Dame coach has to do a better of “managing [his] emotions.”

Oh yes, and trying to keep his players out of the lives (and death) of St. Mary’s girls.

Regs, taxes no problem for small businesses, reports Chi Trib. Oh?

May I count (some of) the ways in which this story is a wreck.

1. The lede: “Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy.” Which politicians? REPUBLICANS. So: Republicans . . . often blame etc. Kevin G. Hall is being either coy about this or feckless or devious.

2. Nine very small companies are named, some of whom cast blame where Kevin Hall says his sample of owners says it should go.

3. Hall lays out the off-cuff, inexpert opinion of some of them in a context that calls for their talking about their own situation. Sloppy.

In sum, he has a thesis based on an anonymously created survey by newsies who know mostly what they read in newspapers (a la Will Rogers) on which their story is based that doesn’t always back up their “surprising” findings.

MOREOVER, Chi Trib gives it an entire page (p. 3) of its big-for-them five-page business section. Read it yourself.

The perfect Hayek

Geraghty gets real:

There’s no point in getting the GOP to nominate my ideal candidate — say, the mind of Friedrich Hayek in the body of Salma Hayek

Obama warned

Dems to Big O: Don’t give us no stinkin’ compromise talk.