Hey, no fair piling on Trump

Being done by the usual suspects, including YOUR internal revenue service, whose record in re: Republican taxpayers has already got a lot of (but not enough) attention.

Donald Trump ‘s claim that he can’t release his tax records because they’re being audited by the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t hold up, the agency said Friday.

Source: IRS response to Trump: Nothing prevents taxpayers from showing their own return – Chicago Tribune

Young woman Claims Israel Was Behind 9/11, ISIS, Charlie Hebdo Attack. What will happen to her?

This is the lady,   an asst prof at Oberlin College, in Ohio (Lena Dunham went there), where tuition is $49 thousand-and-change and room, board, and fees are twenty-thou more, who came up with this

to dramatize her carefully considered geopolitical theories.

Who she?

Joy Karega is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition. Her teaching and research interests include Black political and protest literacies [sic], translingual [sic] composition, rhetoric and composition historiography, social justice writing, and writing pedagogy.

She is currently working on a book project that draws upon archival research and oral history and historicizes [sic] the political literacy education of the Black Liberation Front International, a Black student organization at Michigan State University from 1968 to 1975.

She got her doctorate at U. of Louisville in 2014, is an un-tenured radical of a generation taught by tenured radicals. By now the 2nd or 3rd such generation, at least.

If she is ever denied tenure, she will not take it like a woman. There will be protests and a university president may have to resign. But there will be a place for her, as sure as God made little apples.

Source: Oberlin Professor Claims Israel Was Behind 9/11, ISIS, Charlie Hebdo Attack | The Tower

Ald. Ed Burke hired vassals to administer someone else’s fiefdom, says complaint to IG

Comparable to when IDOT leaders jiggled job titles, allowing them to move hires from forbidden to permitted, says complainer.

The late alderman’s son [Jay Stone, son of former longtime Ald. Bernard Stone (50th)] likened Burke’s alleged hiring violations to the Illinois Department of Transportation’s decision to “wrongfully classify” hundreds of jobs as “staff assistants.”

That paved the way for the hiring of political appointees under two former governors, Rod Blagojevich and Pat Quinn.

“The Chicago municipal code has allowed Burke to do the same. [It] . . . has turned obvious Shakman non-exempt jobs into Shakman-exempt jobs,” Stone wrote.

The IDOT business included its director’s hiring and promoting her stepdaughter. The matter is be recounted in my soon-to-be-published Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters. For now go here and here.

Source: Ald. Burke accused of hiring ‘political hacks’ to run $100M-a-year workers’ comp program

56 jobs a workday lost in Illinois in 2015

Not a good year, my hearties:

Though neighboring and Great Lakes states added a combined 200 factory jobs per workday on net in 2015, an average of 56 Illinois manufacturing workers, on net, received pink slips each workday during the same time.

Another feather in the cap of the Ruling Party.

Source: Illinois lost 56 manufacturing jobs per workday in 2015 | Illinois Policy | An independent government watchdog

The Trumpkins’ Lament – WSJ

Wall St. Jnl’s Bret Stephens wonders where Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh were months ago, approving Donald Trump but now not so sure.

Mr. Levin has since become more critical of Mr. Trump, though Mr. Limbaugh seems to be hedging his bets. But both men provided Mr. Trump with the margin of respectability he needed in the early months to make his campaign credible with Republican voters.

Stephens in general gives one pause, but this saying Trump needed Levin and Limbaugh respectability is something else, assuming as it does that L&L lifted T out of danger, when Trump’s rise to seeming invulnerability at least seems to be a bigger thing than that.

Source: The Trumpkins’ Lament – WSJ