Chicago Daily Observer

Billy Ayers, the Trust Funded, Insulated, Media Pampered Hyde Park Domestic Terrorist, who still, mercy sakes alive, has a job at University of Illinois Chicago Campus is the tack on the chair of Senator Obama’s Senate Seat.

Senator Obama is up and moving about the country weaving rhetorical flourishes to the people who think that Stanley Fish matters and that MSNBC provides information. While Senator Obama has been out of his seat, Illinois laughing-stock and Check Kiting Bob Creamer’s Bonnie Parker, Congressperson Jan Schakwosky is trolling for the chair – which would be Jan’s via appointment from Governor Rod Blagojevich.

The Guv has problems. Jan Schakowsky, like most self-absorbed posers, is unaware of her problems. Her husband, Bob Creamer recently got out of the Federal Pen in Terra Haute, Indiana for check kiting and immediately wrote a boffo book on Progressive Politics and ran Camp Obama for the Obama ... Read More...

Peotone—This column has long been loud in its fanfare for John McCain, but—at least in the sounds coming from Huffington Post —some cacaphony is being orchestrated.

Here, of course, McCain is wildly popular in the ‘clingingly bitter community—garnering 48%percent of the vote in the official Republicans in Will County—and seems to have captured the hearts of the Peotonese as well. I suspect he could be elected King of Will County Fair in a landslide.

But since Pennsylvania, McCain has not been forced to battle four opponents at once—two Clintons and Obama frontally, plus the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Billy Boy Ayers from the rear. It has not thrown McCain’s campaign even somewhat off course and there is no sense that he has been brought down to earth – by that fat-assed Texas Preacher that Allan Colmes insists is just like Rev. Wright. Musically challenged, McCain’s soaring with oldies hits, the ... Read More...

Words Matter and so do the things that we do. In last night’s debate, Senator, you said that Senator Tom Coburn was like a domestic terrorist and punk.

Senator Barack Obama – On the Left -The aging Cub fan, with happening ear jewelry, is domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; the punk in the mug-shot knowing Daddy has the bail, juice and lawyers to get him off is a domestic terrorist bomber Billy Ayers; the Doctor holding the Baby is Senator Tom Coburn.

Barack Obama was not only speaking to ‘small-town’ America, but the small towns that exist in Big Cities as well – we call them neighborhoods: Obama was talking to Dorchester, Queens, Staten Island, Pilsen, Canaryville, Brighton Park, Edison Park, Norwood Park, Evergreen Park, Morgan Park – hell every Park. Well, maybe not Hyde Park.

This was no Political Gotcha. This is Pure undiluted doctrine – Progressive doctrine. Obama lives this doctrine and it is from the heart – Words do matter. Barack Obama was speaking to his core constituency – Progressives. They are Gown elites – like his Hyde Park Neighbors in Chicago. Like Army brats, University Demographics – that’s what smart types call people – tend to be transient – move around alot.

Get this – before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Martin Luther King was a happy guy who had love in his heart for white America. After those civil rights watermark events, Dr. King became an angry Jeremiah – prophet from the Old Testament for the hyper-sensitive. Martin Luther King became an angry prophet:

“Before 1965, King was upbeat and bright, his belief in white America’s ability to change by moral suasion resilient and durable. That is the leader we have come to know during annual King commemorations. After 1965, King was darker and angrier; he grew more skeptical about the willingness of America to change without great social coercion.

King’s skepticism and anger were often muted when he spoke to white America, but they routinely resonated in black sanctuaries and meeting halls across the land. Nothing highlights that split—or white America’s ignorance ... Read More...

Only Hours after bringing Chicago Public School Homicides to its knees with a dramatic and well-publicized March around Thompson Center, shots were fired near Morgan Park High School in my neighborhood.

With his usual aplomb, Daley went Old Testament on the City Tax-payers. Daley and Arne Duncan, both proud products of private education, promised to bust a cap- Property Tax Cap – the one that was raised last Fall, if Gov. Blago does not come up with the trump for Arne’s National Laugh, in the ear of Chicago Tax Payers.

That’s me. I take the weather personally.

Public Schools are tragedy and Chicago Public Schools are Blood Tragedy ( Marlowe, Jonson, Ford)- the shockingly violent sister of the genre. CPS kids die from homicide. People kill those kids. The guns do not go off by themselves. People kill other people because they feel comfortable doing so – we live ... Read More...

Sam Zell really has an object lesson for his next talk to the journalists that he employs at Tribune Company meetings around the country.
While the Sun Times New Group stands at a husky offering of under $.99 per share, The Chicago Tribune seems help bent on following it’s pulpy sibling down into the root cellar:

What brought STNG ot this lowly state? ... Read More...

Barack Obama is a politician: Schooled, Glib, Impressive, and all too Human. His remarks about his white Grandmother being a ‘typical white person’ generally would be considered a safe slide to the base; but, this being a Presidential Campaign, Obama was tagged out.

Reaction to the document of his lecture on Race in America is being generally greeted with high praise. I thought it was thin beer – a political dodge to avoid speaking to his years of friendship and discipleship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright a Black Liberation preacher whose theology is a tangle of Marxism and Gospel.

Instead of explaining the appeal of Black Liberation theology to his heart, Obama lectured America with a moral equivalence dualism: Wright harbors hate; so does Obama’s white Grandmother. That works with radical lawyers making lawsuits for criminals against police and plays very well in the press: Mr. ‘A’ murdered seven people, by ... Read More...

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, say the military fruit-salads in Obama’s camp in the latest Salon.com – redacting the Salon.com piece is Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman.

The Salon.com piece is a re-hash of the ‘McCain’s Rage’ straw-dog. Mean People Suck – is a Deadhead bumper sticker. This piece of second guessing on McCain’s leadership in support of the Iraq surge has all the snappy zest, spice and Howard Dean Yeeeowwweee as a mouthful of Hellman’s Mayo.

The Chicago Archdiocese serves more than 100,000 students from every faith, family background, and financial situation. The Archdiocese also creates jobs for more than 8,000 persons who teach, administer and serve the Catholic School System. Those employees and the parents of Catholic school students pay taxes – which fuel the Public Schools. The public school sacred cow worshippers would have one believe that Catholic and other private schools serve the elite. That is not close to the case, unless, of course, great personal sacrifice is the rubric for elite.

Catholic school parents largely work more than one job. Catholic school parents are largely what one used to call middle class. The middle class in America is vanishing and public schools are doing their part to speed up that process. Catholic Schools and private schools in general need school choice – vouchers. Public school advocates scream ‘Parents have made their choice!’

Cardinal George and the search committee for the Archdiocese of Chicago should get a universal Atta Boy from the people of Chicago. Catholics who send their children to Catholic schools ease the burden of all tax payers.

The Chicago Tribune just announced the appointment of Sister Paul McCaughey
Sister M. Paul McCaughey, president and very long-time school leader of Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights.

As a career Catholic high school teacher, I have known Sister McCaughey since the late 1970’s. She is the real deal and person who knows, respects, and works the traditions of Chicago Catholic education. This is a school leader who operates from a teacher’s knowledge of classroom; and administrator’s support of classroom teaching, but most of all as a child of Chicago Catholic schools herself.

I have witnessed Sister McCaughey measuring the shot put and discuss at track and field events and saw ... Read More...

Way back in the 1970’s Ronald Reagan embraced the principles developed by America’s greatest 20th century conservative thinker, Dr. Russell Kirk of Mecosta, Michigan. . Kirk was long-time fixture at Michigan state university and developed a cogent argument for American Cultural and Political Thought.

I met Dr. Russell Kirk and his wife Annette, when I taught and coached at La Lumiere School, LaPorte, Indiana. – the alma mater of Chief Justice John Roberts. A social studies teacher by the name of Tracey Elliot, now a banking officer in South Bend, was a devoted student of Dr. Kirk and made the introductions – “‘Mr. Hickey is a Daley Democrat and therefore not unfamiliar with the principles of American conservatism. “ ‘Dr. Kirk was a wonderful conversationalist and a generous humorist. Dr. Kirk’s heart and head live in the Russell Kirk Center at his home on Piety Hill.

Kirk’s genius is lost ... Read More...

Can’t argue with a landlord. He owns the lease.

You pay him what he says or move on, whether renting living, storage, or business space.

Adam Smith, the Moses of American Free Enterprise, gets the same nodding obedience as the guy with the tablets containing the Decalogue.

A talented and industrious young woman named Kristi Martens was forced to move on by her landlord and closed the Beverly Bean coffee shop at 111th & Talman Ave. on the south side of Chicago after ... Read More...

Hey Abdon! Who Lied and Made You Boss? !!! A Reporter’s Privilege

Nothing to read at Kean Gas station at 111th & Talman this morning – Gino Ford grabbed the last Daily Southtown and Dawna said that Sunday edition wouldn’t be in until about 11AM. The Kean dark roast was still slowdripping.

Against Dr. Vargas’ orders – I picked up the Sun Times ( HOWLS OF DERISIVE LAUGHTER emitted by your your humble servant) – The Progressive-Independent Conscious of the City that ‘s better than endless Seinfeld loops on two competing channels.

The great mathematician, philosopher, atheist and wit Lord Bertrand Russell explained the paradox of tolerance this way:
‘Any person who claims to be tolerant naturally defines himself in opposition to those who are intolerant. But that makes him intolerant of certain people – which invalidates his claim to be tolerant.’
Disagree that Chicago police officers are torture abusing, out of control thugs and you will see how your view is tolerated. Let’s try. Here goes!
$1,930,000 would be considered a tolerable sum of money. In fact, 1,930,000 of anything is a tolerable sum of anything. The Chicago Sun Times Police Abuse search on Yahoo revealed 1,930,000 hits. My Google search produced a somewhat less tolerable sum of 1, 790,000 hits – ouch. Lastly, the more general Chicago Media + Police Abuse produced even less with 1,740,000 hits. That’s still a lot of hits.
The Chicago police ... Read More...

I bet that Oak Lawn school district 122 beats the ACLU lawsuit boiling on the back range to the scald. Folks shocked by the fact that the Oak Lawn schools will ban Christmas should come as no shock. I, for one, applaud the superintendent for having the foresight to pre-empt an ACLU press conference.

Dear Reader, for the sake of space, please read ACLU as progressive mind-set; they do, after all help etch its doctrinal blueprints.

Essentially, district 122 has a 30% Muslim population of offended parents worried about the celebration of the Christmas holiday – a Crusader holiday secularized with coded messages of peace, sharing and Christian good- fellowship: “Can’t have that. Must afflict the comfortable and get on Bill Maher!”’

Dear reader, for road -rage progressives, please read Muslims as “some’ Muslims.
The ACLU and the progressive agenda must always take the ... Read More...

Last May 2007, Andy Stern. President of the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) with 1.8 million low-skill or unskilled workers paying dues, takes Anna Burger, head of “Change to Win” to China to meet with the leadership there, spending a portion of union dues to help Chinese workers.

Here’s an excerpt from a Newsweek interview with the publicity addicted Stern:

Question: Why should your members pay dues to improve the condition of Chinese workers?
Stern: Workers who work for the same employers, whether they are in our country or around the world, are much stronger when they work together. The largest employer in Africa is a security company who owns Wackenhut in the U.S. We have been unable to get Wackenhut to respect workers’ rights because they are a very small part of a very big company. So now we joined together with other unions to deal ... Read More...

One of the great features of my neighborhood is a Catholic cemetery – Mount Olivet. Consecrated in the 1850’s and established forty years later, Mount Olivet was the first Catholic cemetery on the south side. There is a tall obelisk dedicated to the Fenians – The Irish Republican Brotherhood by the Irish Nationalists of Chicago in the 1890’s. Mount Olivet’s graves identify many Irish Chicagoans, but also Italians, Germans, Bohemians and some Poles. Mount Olivet filled up fast.

One fellow, MC AULIFFE, CHARLES B PVT H Company 1st IL INF CHICAGO died during the Spanish American war in Cuba, or the Philippines or more likely somewhere in Florida due to malaria or dysentery. It appears that more ‘Rough Riders’ were carried to the Eternal by disease than by bullets from Spanish Mausers. Charlie McAuliffe is buried about two hundred feet from the entrance of the ... Read More...

He’s facing the job – too many Americans have turned their backs on what the skilled American Tradesman is doing.

This Labor Day – try and rememember that thousands of people struggled and many died for the right to form Unions. These Unions of skilled trades and industrial workers moved America’s poor in to the great middle class that created the standard of living enjoyed by no other Nation in History.

Let’s not be fooled by the enemies of that standard of living on the political radical Right or the Left. ‘Redistribution of Wealth’ strategies are the latest phoney labor Ponzi scams – stay true to genuine Labor Unions. Real Labor gives people the skills to move to the next economic level and engages in collective bargaining to protect workers rights, health and welfare and above all safety on the job. Labor is not merely a lobbying tool for slick ... Read More...