The Fr. Pavone business has been long coming? And a lost cause for him, even if the bishop was inexact in his announcement?

Especially in light of [presumed] behind-the-scenes negotiations, and the consultations that must have taken place, it is unfortunate that [Amarillo’s] Bishop Zurek sloppily used the word suspend in the public announcement of his decision. Father Pavone was not suspended; he remains a priest in good standing. He was summoned to serve the Church in the diocese where he is incardinated. There is no question that the bishop has the authority to restrict a priests ministry in this way. Although Father Pavone has announced a canonical appeal, it is difficult to imagine how he could prevail.

Yes indeed on the “suspend” matter, which naturally became the lede for the Amarillo newspaper story. Unfortunately.

There’s much more, from Phil Lawler.

Daley daughters’ police servants:

The [bodyguard] detail was used to take one or the other from work/shopping/running errands/and transporting baby-sitters/ and on and on and on, said a Sneed source. At times, they were even used to pick up and transport Noras husband, Sean Conroy.

Look. When you got it, flaunt it.

Careful planning:

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, December 19, 1939

With a video to go with it.

Telling math where to get off.

The more you earn, the higher your tax rate.

An analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center projects that for 2011, households with more than $1 million in income will have an average federal tax rate of 29.1%, compared to a rate of about 12.4% for households with income of $40,000 to $50,000. The center counts all federal taxes, including income, payroll and estate taxes.

Internal Revenue Service data suggest a similar pattern for individual income tax, according to an analysis by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan research group. It found that households with income between $40,000 and $50,000 have an average tax rate of about 6.8%, while households with income over $1 million have an average rate of 24.6%.

Then again, what do they know about it?

A thought-provoker about the nature of the market place. Keynes, patron saint of governmental borrowing and spending, missed it, this fellow says. So did I, but no one invokes me when they want to stimulate the economy, even when meaning allowing the market to have its way.

A clue to what the quoted economist means lies in this, the first of 62 comments, in which it is said, “[P]rices are signals transmitting information, and that government action adds noise to the signal.”

I get that. Prices as signals, made hard to read by gummint static.

I could use space like this where I live.

Say what? Chicago’s Joe Scheidler taking a pass on a pro-life protest?

Earlier this week, Joseph Scheidler, director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League, said his group strongly supports Pavone but would not participate in the Amarillo protests.

We try to discourage that, Scheidler said. The bishops are kind of a fraternity. You attack one bishop, you are attacking the whole episcopal gathering.

It’s huge, as we say these days — not Scheidler’s demurrer but the protest, which is about Fr. Pavone and his bishop.

Center for Bio-Ethical Reform Executive Director Gregg Cunningham and Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said Thursday they are mobilizing activists and billboard trucks from cities nationwide to converge next week in Amarillo for peaceful protests outside Diocese of Amarillo facilities and activities.

Cunningham and Newman said the groups will use graphic images of aborted fetuses in informational pickets designed to spur people to urge Amarillo Bishop Patrick J. Zurek to allow the Rev. Frank Pavone to return to his international pro-life ministry.

We’re talking trucks, planes, graphic images, etc. Enough to make you sympathetic with a bishop.

It’s too much to ask what will be done with the extra 90 minutes in the Chi Public Schools day? Or what’s the argument for it other than, as Rahm told the union president, to keep the kids off the street for that much longer? 90 minutes doing what? That is the question.