Two from one school!

Jesuits still attract and provide opportunity for best and brightest. This fellow Asian, I’d say Chinese, by the way, the other East Indian, both by extraction, as we used to say, as in Irish extraction, etc.

He’s pastor of St. Alphonsus, has bald head screwed on straight.

America Mag editorial:

With creative proposals and determined diplomacy, President Assad may still be made to see reason.

Didn’t the Jesuit-educated Voltaire have a character who would have come to this conclusion?

Special election = low turnout. Blood-spattered Dem primary = bloodied candidate. Green black candidate = split Dem/black vote. Whole thing = Republican win?

Among the thousand (million?) stories in the naked city, can this be one that pans out?

It’s the counting, stupid.

Full-page Sun-Times ad a week ago, Nov. 12, on page 29 for the annual Haymarket Center fund-raiser on Nov. 27, had Ald. Ed Burke and his wife, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, named and prominently pictured as guests of honor and winners of the annual Father Mac award, named after the Haymarket founder the late Msgr. Ignatius McDermott. The center does rehab for chemically dependent people.

But today, Nov. 19, same ad runs on page 4 of S-T with Father Mac himself taking Anne Burke’s place in the right-hand picture and Ed Burke alone named as honored guest!

Whatever happened to Anne Burke????

Top of the chart in his SAT. Give that kid the day off.

. . . Another misplaced priority for Obama, maybe comparable to “health reform” while the economy nosedived. Cement the base, first duty is to win. Go unions.

. . . says Gallup. THEY WILL BE DISAPPOINTED!

RW Emerson on “Monday in the mall”:

“We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall. [italics added]
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?”

In other words, what ere the grand presidential, congressional, or agency plan for the betterment of “humankind,” so what, “if freedom fail”?