Stupid party again, says Wall St. Journal’s Allysia Finley in “The Problem With Illinois Republicans” as regards its passing the bill Quinn was put on earth to see passed:
So Democrats in Springfield have out-maneuvered Republicans again, and yet many like Mr. Brady don’t even seem to realize it. That could explain why Republicans keep losing elections in Illinois that are eminently winnable.
Take Bill Brady, who knows about blowing winnable elections. Please.
Sunday Dec. 8 at John and Mary Howell’s house, 644 S. Grove (NE corner Jackson), 2-5.
Dan Proft, who was born in Oak Park, visits at the Oak Park Republican holiday party. He’s an entrepreneur, writer, former Republican candidate for Governor, and radio talk show host for WLS in Chicago, where he co-hosts with Bruce Wolf on weekday mornings, 5-9.
He also works as a Senior Fellow at the Illinois Policy Institute, a free market think tank in Chicago, and serves on the boards of two non-profits — the Disabled Patriot Fund, that provides assistance to Illinois military families, and Freedom to Learn-Illinois, that “supports all forms of parental choice in education, with a particular emphasis on scholarships and vouchers that aid low-income and working class families.”
On top of all that, and topping it, he says, he’s “an aspiring basketball coach.”
A Northwestern graduate, he has…
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Free-market thinking seems to have got its start not with Adam Smith and his fellow Scots but with Dominicans and Jesuits at the U. of Salamanca in the 15th century.
Just price? The market decides that, etc. Such stuff does the social justice mantra in, or defines it in ways the world doth not dream of in these post-Marxist days . . .
Jesus Huerta de Soto has good material at Mises.com:
We stand for free trade and sound money; against confiscatory taxation and the oppression of collectivists; and for individual autonomy against dictators, bullies and even the tempers of momentary majorities.
“So does this have anything to do with the Jesuit Luis de Molina?” asked Penny Ziemer Ford in reply to my Facebook posting.
Yes indeed. Consider this from the Acton Institute
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Martin Marty, softly, on the pope and income inequality.
Worth a read, as always, but age-old biblical concern for the poor raises the question about what system benefits them more. This can be argued and conclusions can be verified. It’s just too bad the pope came down hard on the free market, as if an apostolic exhortation is where one announces one’s decision in the matter.
He might at least have noted the Salamanca Jesuits (and Dominicans), early champions of the market as leading us to do the right thing. About which I threw in my two cents a few years back
Tom Cross, running hard for treasurer, sends on a link to the Northwest Herald, all about the pension bill just passed, where we read:
If the pension reform bill passed Tuesday by the Illinois General Assembly was a first step in a series of reform measures still to come, wed hail it as a small victory for taxpayers and the state.
Unfortunately, we fear that in the minds of Gov. Pat Quinn, Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, this weeks reform effort is the only step, which it cannot be if Illinois is to right its fiscal ship….
I catch the drift and like it, but haven’t time to register as a signed and sealed reader, which you can do for more of this. Sorry.
Quite a good rundown on Pope and capitalism
On the other hand, how else can a Republican get elected in “our great state”?
The kind of justice that is so frequently mentioned by Catholic prelates and other preachers.
“I am certain that nothing has done so much
to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom
as the striving after this mirage of social justice.”
When is the last time any of us heard a sermon about political freedom? It’s just not high in preachers’ priorities. They are timid about it.
Blithe Spirit 