Can you imagine?

The New York Times and The Washington Post bury police officers’ race when they are black, but rush to highlight race when the officer happens to be white, an analysis of two similar cases by The Daily Caller News Foundation shows.

You can?

That’s the word about the big debate.

Voters are pretty convinced the moderators at the presidential debates scheduled to begin tonight will be helping Hillary Clinton more than Donald Trump.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that a plurality (46%) of Likely U.S. Voters believes most moderators will try to help Clinton in the upcoming debates. Only six percent (6%) think they will try to help Trump instead. Just 32% say most of the moderators will try to be unbiased, while 15% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Trouble is, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE WATCHING.

Senior citizens, relax. No matter who wins, WE WIN.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton face off Monday at their first presidential debate, a battle emerging as the most hotly anticipated moment in modern US political history.

Source: Debate: Clinton, Trump poised for historic battle – CNNPolitics.com

From 25% Hillary to 5%, says Quinnipiac.

Life is not a cabaret. It’s a vestibule.

Six people have been killed and at least 15 others wounded in shootings since Friday afternoon in Chicago, police said.

ChiTrib runs it down.

Her clout bore a familiar name:

The Sun-Times reported that the Rev. Jesse Jackson had twice intervened with schools officials on behalf of Jewel’s — last year and also in 2010. Jackson said he called CPS CEO Forrest Claypool in 2015 to defend the company because he’s known Lockhart for years, describing her as an “outstanding community servant” who often donated the use of her firm’s buses free of charge.

Free of charge not lately, in view of her $1.1 million earnings 2009 through 2011. Did Rev.Jesse also speak up for her when the park disttict hired her company after CPS fired her?

via Clout bus contractor charged with hiding CPS payments from IRS | Chicago Sun-Times

Sorry, not interested in hearing this from everybody’s pontiff. I want to know what he thinks of the coming world crisis, I mean the aptly named World Series. Will the Cubs do it or won’t they? What does he think?

via Pope says journalism based on fear-mongering, gossip is form of ‘terrorism’

The Galewood meeting — Sen. Don Harmon and Rep. Camille Lilly, in one of a pre-election-year series — was held on September 12, 2013, when 60 or so residents gathered in the small Galewood Community Church, a few blocks north of North Avenue, the Oak Park-Chicago boundary.

In a meeting of just over an hour, assorted cries from the heart filled the air while the two legislators responded — civilly at first, but as the evening wore on, less so, even testily, with Lilly fairly shouting at one point, talking over questioners.

Optimism again:

Harmon took his customary optimistic stance. The state is “turning the corner,” he said. There had been “no borrowing for the last three years.” The pension problem was not as dire as some in the media were saying. The issue was not pensions anyhow, but pension benefits.

Benefits.

A retired teacher asked why her benefits were on the line.

They aren’t, Harmon said: “It’s that they don’t grow at the same rate.”

Her benefits would be reduced, she responded, and by a specific dollar amount which she supplied on the spot.

This was double talk from Harmon: Neither pension nor benefits were the issue, but her benefits would not grow as fast? Talk nonsense, and gullible people nod their heads. But he had non-gullible people before him.

It was a signal of trouble ahead.

More to come, from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters— available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.

Wow.