What else is new?

At least, they think so:

Huff Post cites a 2012 survey by the University of Chicago that found among a group of economists none who support a gold standard. But which group of economists? It turned out to be composed entirely of individuals who oppose the gold standard.

Another way to state it would be that a survey of economists who oppose the gold standard found no support for the gold standard. Rush that out.

I get it.

Hard copy page 13 of Chi Trib with this “radio traffic” account of Laquan McDonald Killing, opposite jump page for page-one’s “Black Christmas protest” story.

But the radio account gives new view of what was happening, such as a call by cop for a Taser to deal with man carrying knife.

A minute later, the dispatcher repeats the call for a Taser. “Anybody close yet?” she asks. “Asking for a Taser for armed offender with a knife.”
Within seconds, an officer radioes [sic]: “Popped our tire on our car, squad.” Police have said McDonald used his knife to slash the front tire of a squad car trying to block his path.

Carrying knife, using it, refusing to stop.

He’d been caught stealing.

The thief got away, cops who had responded followed him, he walking with knife, “nearly a half mile,” 40th-Keeler east to 40th-Pulaski. He slashed a tire when the squad car got close. Resisting..

The guy is walking away. Was getting away. No Taser at hand. A public menace. Two pursuing cops get out.

The two had arrived 10 minutes after the first call. They got out of their car, weapons drawn. One was shooting in six seconds, got off 16 shots in under 10 seconds. He reloaded, his partner “asked him to stop.”

The two could have said “stop” to the guy with the knife. Tension high. Life or death situation. No Taser. Walk up to him? Swing a club?

Overreacted, we say. We are sure?  Who are we to judge? Sixteen shots. First-degree murder. Charge filed hours before the video released.

State’s attorney knew video was coming, who thinks otherwise? Get that indictment in, quick. They did it in Baltimore. Do it here.

Don’t they all have Tasers? Why not?

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Later: Went for a walk, bought Sun-Times at 7-11, left it on dining room table while went to daughter’s for Xmas dinner, returned, read Sun-Times account by Mick Dumke and Chris Fusco, who are major-media professionals and it shows.

More later on the difference, which is that this Dumke-Fusco account is far clearer and more informative than the Trib’s version referred to above. Go Sun-Times.

A point that deserves repeating, and will be repeated in the months ahead, from Trump spokeswoman:

” . . . Hillary Clinton has some nerve to talk about the war on women and the bigotry toward women when she has a serious problem in her husband.”

And would have been driven to the ground but for the liberal mediums.

Fighting Irish? Fighting? Really?

Alumni have often complained to us that, in its prominent football game “What Would You Fight For” videos, Notre Dame always seems to fight for the same good things that others (especially its “preferred peers”) do too, but never for something Catholic that cuts against the grain of secular culture.

They are right. This is another instance of how Notre Dame’s drive to be thought the equal of the nation’s top secular universities threatens its Catholic identity.

They must protect their standing — and not the one achieved by the Four Horsemen  of today.

Amateurish.

Stuff for a gossip column, here as Trib “business” section headliner.

Getting worser worser. State heading for worst of the nation.

When it comes to property taxes, sticker shock is typical in Illinois. From small-business owners in Chicago to suburban dwellers in middle-of-the-pack school districts, long-time Illinoisans are often bewildered as to why they pay the second-highest property taxes in the nation, at an average of more than 2 percent of a home’s value.

And the nonpartisan Tax Foundation said Chicago’s record-setting property-tax hike will likely vault Illinois to the top of the table, making the Land of Lincoln home to the highest property taxes in the U.S.

But an average only tells so much of the story.

House bill 4224 would freeze taxes as part of Gov. Rauner’s “turnaround agenda.” Dems foot-dragging as usual.

. . . by one of the best in the business:

There is no racist like an antiracist: That is because he is obsessed by race, whose actual existence as often as not he denies. He looks at the world through race-tinted spectacles, interprets every event or social phenomenon as a manifestation of racism either implicit or explicit, and in general has the soul of a born inquisitor.

Read on . . . 

Woe is us. Tree-huggers called the shots.

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute has obtained government emails that show the EPA secretly worked with environmental lobbyists to craft its Clean Power Plan regulating greenhouse gases. The emails show this secret alliance designed a standard that would be impossible or economically ruinous for existing coal plants to meet—in order to force their closure.

The New York Times first reported that in 2014 environmentalists Dan Lashof, David Doniger and David Hawkins—all with roots at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)—drafted a “blueprint” that “influenced” the greenhouse gas rules. That wasn’t the half of it.

Some of our green friends are verrrrry sneaky.

A lady with her mind made up:

Very soon the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is going to select a new president, and the leading (perhaps only) candidate appears to be Dr. Marcia McNutt, who is currently editor-in-chief of Science magazine. The problem with Dr. McNutt is that she consistently turns a blind eye to qualified dissenting scientists on a wide variety of subjects, often summarily rejecting their submissions without even the pretense of review.

She’s hot for consensus, she is.