This morning, Sun-Times Carol Marin was compelled to lecture all lawmakers that opposed initiating another category of marriage into Illinois statutes about the need to separate politics from religion. Her rationale is badly misguided, but that’s another subject for another…

The Chicago Sun-Times is the number one Catholic-basher among U.S. urban newspapers…running on regular basis columnists Carol Marin, Neil Steinberg and Christopher Hitchens all of whom repeatedly slug the Church, the paper not bothering to run any defense of the Church…despite the fact that Catholics comprise 40% of the population of Cook and Lake counties.

Marin, a strident liberal who is a one-person oligopoly in commentary (newspaper columnist, NBC-TV and WTTW-TV public television commentator) on occasion calls herself Catholic but rabidly disagrees with the Church’s basic theological fundamentals—abortion, gay rights (she …

“Enough is not a feast,” quoth some wag, after piling it on at the Olde Endless Buffet.
The long lines of plastic snot guarded vats of hot and cold casserole chow, pink boulders of ham and crags of green-grey beef awaited his chubby arms balancing the platters, plates and bowls that he would array before him. More is always better than not.
Tuck away, Champ!
So it continues with Folks who will put anything through their maws and down their miles of tripes! Rather than engage in the grace of feasting – …

Can Tyree Make the Shift?

Jim Tyree who heads the group that just bought the Sun-Times says he won’t change anything in its editorial content. God, what a shame. The question remains is Tyree stating this for public consumption while quietly making fixes, or is he sticking to an editorial strategy that has failed the Sun-Times in the past.
The problem is that the Sun-Times has a lot of great assets as a newspaper-and lamentably some huge defects. The assets are a great news-staff with a number of super-stars including Fran Spielman …

Just five years ago, what is now known as the Sun-Times Media Group fetched an offer of $900 million. Today Chicago businessman Jim Tyree is in line to buy the STMG for $26 million. Frankly, that’s kind of pathetic. For comparison’s sake:
* Amount Tribune Co. wants to pay top executives bonuses: $66 million.
* Amount the city is giving to United Airlines to move into Willis Tower: $50 million.
* Amount the Cubs signed Milton Bradley to a three-year contract for: $30 million.
* Amount Chicago 2016 raised: $72 million.
* Amount Creative Loafing …

I never met Christopher Kelly, or anyone close to the Blagojevich Administration.  I read the fine and sober account of this young man’s death by Mark Konkol, Natasha Korecki and Art Golab in the Chicago Sun Times only Sunday morning before 8:30 Mass. This was a very respectful and considerate report of the sad death of this once powerful man by three professionals. I offered that morning’s Mass to the Kelly Family.   The theme of Sunday’s gospel from Mark and the reading – especially the Epistle of James was Faith …

1. Spielman & Higgins.

The Sun-Times’ Fran Spielman and cartoonist Jack Higgins are worth the whole paper. I know I’ve criticized the tabloid…justifiably, I feel…for trashiness but its indomitable city hall reporter and the brilliant artist with the acid pen make it all worthwhile. Her story last Tuesday is a good case in point. “Daley’s tale hard to take,” is the headline with the subhead “Mayor says he was uninformed, ignored on the Vanecko deal-that seems unlikely.” Higgins’ drawing of Daley as a giant sow being suckled by piglets labeled …

Overwhelming Liberal Imbalance.
In all of Chicago’s so-called “mainline print media”…which is often called the Old Media (for a good reason)… there are only 3-1/2 conservative voices compared to a total of 22 liberal columnists. Does that strike you as diversity? Especially since the generic preference for Congress is 41% Dem and 36% Republican?
And the fact that polls have shown a rightward tack on abortion, Opinion Dynamics supporting pro-life 47-44, Gallup finding Americans supporting pro-life 51-42 (due principally to the growing use of ultra-sound which show parents that there’s a live …

A more or less line-by-line discussion (commentary, correction) of Neil Steinberg’s column today, “What’s behind anti-abortion frenzy?”:
. . . . The abortion issue seems to be heating up in a way beyond the flap of a prominent Catholic school conferring an honorary degree upon a president who supports a woman’s right to end her pregnancy.
End the life of her unwanted unborn.

According to the latest polls, suddenly more Americans call themselves “pro-life” than “pro-choice” — 51 percent vs. 42 percent — a dramatic shift from just last year, when 50 percent …

A columnist, Neil Steinberg, for the Chicago Sun-Times today called late term abortion “Murder Lite” and asked what’s the real meaning behind the “anti abortion frenzy?”
Frenzy?
Weird word to use to describe pro-lifers when you think that that the killing of 42 million babies since the legalization of Roe V. Wade would most certainly qualify as a frenzy. Those people praying for it to stop and writing letters would not. It’s really not that difficult a concept. He says of late term abortion:
Abortion isn’t murder — well, not until the last …