It’s been done, and it was unwarranted, this “Hitler hype,” writes Ira Stoll.

“Steven Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan, recalls the rhetoric”:

Democratic Rep. William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.”

The Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad drew a panel depicting Reagan plotting a fascist putsch in a darkened Munich beer hall.

Harry Stein (later a conservative convert) wrote in Esquire that the voters who supported Reagan were like the “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany.”…

John Roth, a Holocaust scholar at Claremont College, wrote: “I could not help remembering how 40 years ago economic turmoil had conspired with Nazi nationalism and militarism—all intensified by Germany’s defeat in World War I​—to send the world reeling into catastrophe. . . . It is not entirely mistaken to contemplate our postelection state with fear and trembling.”

You might say it’s a liberal meme.

Source: http://capx.co/calm-down-trump-isnt-hitler/

That’s an Ash Wednesday picture of the head alderman. Remember, alderman, dust thou art and into dust thou shalt return.

Goes for all of us. In the meantime, can the alderman and his fellow council members maybe save us some money by getting a little efficient in allocating workers comp payments?

Can this and the other dust-destined aldermen let us in on what the heck they are doing with our money?

Sun-Times is on their, especially his, case today with a swinging, stinging editorial.

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For more than a century in Chicago, a mere City Council committee — now tightly controlled by a single powerful alderman — has called the shots on all worker compensation claims, in recent years shelling out what experts say is a “staggering” amount of money. Feel free to scream about that the … etc. etc.

Source: Editorial: Pull back curtain on Ald. Burke’s workers comp fiefdom | Chicago Sun-Times

Scene reminds one (me) of how heated has become the national political scene since 9/11 and the first Iraq war, culminating in the current overreaching Obama presidency.

Fort Worth, Tx.—Watching a Donald Trump rally on television doesn’t do it justice. That is not to say it’s not entertaining to watch on T.V.—I have enjoyed every second of the Trump speeches that have aired on cable networks—but hearing his rap while standing in the middle of a packed crowd of Texans who worship him is a whole different animal.

Young U. of Virginia grad, in foreign affairs and politics, gets with the groundlings and listens. Good stuff on the appeal of Trump, which is something held in contempt by — I hesitate to use the term — the elite.

More more more here: What I saw from the crowd at Trump’s Fort Worth rally