Muslims who deserve our support:

Do you want to protect human rights and defeat radical Islamism? AIFD is the most prominent American Muslim organization directly confronting the ideology of political Islam and openly countering the common belief that the Muslim faith is inextricably rooted to the concept of the Islamic State (Islamism).

We stand firmly for universal human rights – including gender equality, freedom of conscience, and freedom of speech and expression.

Our mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of the U.S. Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state.

In today’s political and social climate, it is essential that Muslims opposed to Islamism have a platform. We advance today’s most  urgent conversations through the media – amplifying anti-Islamist Muslim voices and lending anti-Islamist Muslim perspective to issues important to all of us.

For too long, the wrong voices have represented our community in the media. We are taking our rightful place in the conversation, and educating the public about our perspective.

Source: American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Look, this passage is adapted from an early Pope Francis write-up, you can’t fool me.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s world, a never-ending drama in which the star lives in the moment and careens from controversy to controversy with a dizzying flood of tweets and seemingly off-the-cuff remarks to the media.

In the space of just 24 hours this week, the president-elect gave a preview of the drama he seems likely to bring to the White House.

Naah, just kidding.

Kathleen Kennedy hangs up her robe as scheduled on Nov. 30, eight days after deciding that refs make bad calls all the time, and she can’t be the one to call them on giving Plainfield North (hereafter asterisked in IHSA records?) an extra play in an admittedly bad decision.

Nice lesson taught to Friars (and the other guys) about how people screw things up and the court goes along with it. Tsk.

Chicago-based Heartland Institute has a position on the issue.

The Heartland Institute has participated in the global debate over climate policy since 1993, when it published an influential book titled Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism.

Our position has always been that if human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases pose a threat to the natural world and human health, then actions to avoid the threat would be necessary.

But if the best-available research shows there is little danger or that there is nothing we can do to prevent climate change, then we should oppose legislation adopted in the name of “stopping” global warming.

So, the eminent Christian leader, Pope Francis, among other opinion-makers and -leaders, certainly has a challenge. Or one would think.

SEIU to the barricades

. . . Sure.

. . . and why not? She’s invoking black privilege.

Why not? If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

Candidates call each other names, then make up after election. I am shocked.

For this story in WSJ,: “Trump Starts Filling out Senior Team”

And digital: “Donald Trump Begins Filling Cabinet With Offers to Jeff Sessions, Mike Pompeo: Donald Trump taps Sessions as attorney general, Pompeo as CIA director”

President-elect Donald Trump began filling his Cabinet, announcing Friday that he would appoint Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) as Attorney General and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Matter-of-fact.

For Chi Trib story, same news, hard copy: “For 1st picks, Trump stays far right,” with subhead “Nominees’ words, policies worry civil-rights activists.”

And digital: “Donald Trump’s first picks for top jobs show how he plans to govern from the hard right”

President-elect Donald Trump began filling his Cabinet on Friday with stalwarts of the right, signaling with a trio of top national security and law enforcement selections that he will aggressively pursue promises he made during the campaign that have caused deep anxiety among immigrant and Muslim communities

Tendentious?

Michael Madigan the movie.

Madigan: Power. Privilege. Politics. is an unprecedented look at the life and influence of one of Illinois’ most powerful political figures of all time.

More:

Why make a documentary about Madigan now?

llinois is facing unprecedented challenges. Illinois is home to the worst population loss in the Midwest, the worst employment recovery in the Midwest, the worst credit rating in the nation, the worst pension crisis in the nation and the highest property taxes to boot. It’s not pretty. Madigan has been the kingpin of state politics for decades, and it’s time for a peek behind the curtain of how the political machines in Illinois really work.

Source: Madigan