If a mayor can’t protect citizens and their property, what good is she?

Jolly fellows say they were caught on the bridge as it was raised, decided to stay and enjoy the view.

Look, the bridge tender could have shaken then off by lowering and raising it quickly up and down, making it even more exciting for them, maybe sending into the lovely Chicago River. Just a suggestion.

Nice going, Madam Mayor.

John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police union, said he sees a wave of retirements leaving the city short of cops.

“I have no doubt that it’s going to continue, and I can clearly see a smaller spike within the upper ranks [of] lieutenants and above,” Catanzara said. “Who wants to stay in this environment? If you have the ability to leave, there is no incentive to stay anymore.

“The mayor doesn’t back us,” he said. “If you have the financial ability to do so, I don’t blame a single soul for leaving.”

Egad, she’s so dumb or ill-informed about a longtime refuted attack on Trump, that she repeats the ill-informed and ill-intended attack:

During her speech at the virtual Democratic National Convention, former first lady Michelle Obama called out and berated President Trump for the widely used accusation of separating children from their parents at the Southern Border and locking them in “cages.” . . .

[But] as reported by the AP, [she] . . . forgot to mention that they were constructed during Barack Obama’s presidency and used for the . . . same purpose. . . . to hold migrant children until U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with Health and Human Services, could verify the children’s ‘parents.’ Many times, migrant children were discovered to be trafficked into the United States by criminals or persons with nefarious purposes.

If the Dem Committee is so stupid or venal on this obvious point, it will be an even harder slog for them in the weeks ahead than Republicans have hoped for.

“Near to inevitable” that there is crime and violence in the black community, said Moynihan, who was called a racist for saying so. In 1965.

America has witnessed months of civil unrest in cities around America following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Many of the protesters decry income and net worth “inequality.” But the most serious “inequality” is the unequal percentage of fathers in Black households, a phenomenon that has been encouraged by government policies that normalize and reward out-of-wedlock births.

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was assistant secretary of Labor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, published “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” At that time, 25% of Blacks were born outside of wedlock, a number that this former adviser to President John F. Kennedy, future adviser to President Richard Nixon, future U.S. ambassador and future Democratic senator from New York said was catastrophic to the Black community.

Moynihan wrote:

“A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken homes, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations about the future — that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure — that is not only to be expected, it is very near to inevitable.”

Moynihan, according to his daughter, “was crucified by the left,” many of whom considered the book racist. Maura Moynihan said: “To this day members of the New York and DC elite insult and attack me at cocktail parties for being his daughter.” But since the publication of her father’s controversial report, the percent of Black children entering the world without a father in the home has almost tripled.

Read the rest of it. . . .

Finding bodies.

Go to this USA Today (yesterday and tomorrow) “fact-checking” page and find the (at least slightly) inaccurate bad things that have been written about KAMALA.

It’s a DEMOCRAT-ORIENTED service, which I should have known.