There are three types of people involved in the prognostication business these days. The “end of the world” types, the “it’s a slower, post-apocalypse world” types, and the “everything is going to be OK” types.
For a long time now, we have been saying that the “end of the world” types are over-doing it. This is actually a dangerous stance for us to take because the “end of the world” types can be very nasty to people who disagree with them. The “it’s a slower world” types...Read the full story »
Here’s Jan Schakowsky on Don and Roma, writing off 20,000 jobs
Twenty thousand jobs is really not that many jobs and investing in green technologies will produce that and more. But I’ll tell you what, you know it seems to me that the Republicans would rather have an issue than a pipeline.
Never fear, Cong. Schakowsky tells us that the Federal Government will act as Venture Capitalist to bring taxpayers the big returns.
That Government at VC thing has been working out great,
GM...Read the full story »
The sleeping giant has been awakened.
Right now we’re witnessing an unprecedented response to the Obama administration’s decision last Friday to proceed with their new mandate forcing all Americans (including the Catholic Church) to fund birth control, sterilization, and some abortion-inducing drugs.
Since Friday we have been receiving reports from individuals and parishes across the country. Catholics of all stripes, left, right, and center — “political” categories...Read the full story »
End of the World? Not so Fast
There are three types of people involved in the prognostication business these...
Who Needs 20,000 Jobs? We’ve got the Federal Government at Venture Capitalist
Here’s Jan Schakowsky on Don and Roma, writing off 20,000 jobs
Twenty...
Obama and Sebellius Power Grab Unites Catholic Opposition
The sleeping giant has been awakened.
Right now we’re witnessing an unprecedented...
Long and Winding Road is a Good Route Through the Primary
Why the rush to judgment?
If you believe what is reported by hysterical Huffington...
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The sleeping giant has been awakened.
Right now we’re witnessing an unprecedented response to the Obama administration’s decision last Friday to proceed with their new mandate forcing all Americans (including the Catholic Church) to fund birth control, sterilization, and some abortion-inducing drugs.
Since Friday we have been receiving reports from individuals and parishes across the country. Catholics of all stripes, left, right, and center — “political” categories...Read the full story »
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Why the rush to judgment?
If you believe what is reported by hysterical Huffington Post contributors, you would think that the Republican presidential nominating process has been going on longer than the Hundred Years War.
In fact, only three states have passed upon the candidates in the Republican field to date. Fewer than eighty delegates have been awarded to the various candidates. No single candidate has even managed to obtain fifty delegates. No one is poised to wrap up the nomination. Less...Read the full story »
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This morning, Chicago Tribune’s opinion page featured another in the endless shower of Police Torture screeds. This was written by Bendictine Sister Benita Coffey and has all of the value of a Confederate $100 Bill.
Here is a taste:
Last week, the Chicago City Council unanimously passed a resolution against torture, a symbolic act, at best. Torture is inhumane, banned by the United Nations and most civilized nations, and is contrary to the core beliefs of the world’s major religions.
So...Read the full story »
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The two remarkable last-minute victories of Rick Santorum in Iowa and Newt Gingrich in South Carolina are wonderful object lessons for those who place too much faith too early in poll results.
A week before those elections Mitt Romney was comfortably ahead by somewhere around 10 points and looking inevitable. Even two or three days before those elections, though the margins had shrunk, he was still looking good—except to those who were either on the ground sensing serious movement or doing...Read the full story »
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Now, suddenly, we have headlines about the president’s “war on the Catholic Church.” Mostly they stem from a Health and Human Services mandate that forces every employer to provide employees with health coverage that not only covers birth control and sterilization, but makes them free. Predictably, the move has drawn fire from the Catholic bishops.
Less predictable—and far more interesting—has been the heat from the Catholic left, including many who have in the past given the...Read the full story »
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From Lynn Sweet
Gingrich, a historian, demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the work of Alinsky, a legendary community organizer in Chicago’s Woodlawn and Back of the Yard neighborhoods and beyond.
“Alinsky was about organizing ordinary people so they could get a seat at the table rather than getting crumbs or no crumbs at all when public policies were decided,” said Horwitt, the author of Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky: His Life and Legacy.
What he loved about this country...Read the full story »
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