Try this on for size in the Age of Obama:
“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men.
It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.”
— Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), American writer, journalist, and political commentator
Source: An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society, 1937
It’s what a liberal used to sound like.
Requiem for a Catholic academy, with worry about its neighboring Catholic university:
The Wheeling College campus was carved out of the Mount de Chantal estate back in the 1950s. If Wheeling Jesuit [University] and/or the Diocese [of Wheeling] had the funds, they could purchase this beautiful property, continue its use for educational purposes, and guarantee expansion space for WJU indefinitely into the future.
Alas, it is not to be. Mount de Chantal stands on 36 acres, a proud and picturesque 140-year-old school building now crumbling into brick dust, and a small, peaceful cemetery where generations of devoted Visitation nuns lay at final rest, mission accomplished.
The Mount could not survive into a new century when there are no religious vocations, so few girls from well-to-do Wheeling families seeking an exclusive education, the Linsly school [in Wheeling] poaching the few prospects who remain, and the economy of the Ohio Valley sinking slowly into ruin.
Farewell, Mount de Chantal, and let us pray that your neighbor, Wheeling Jesuit, is not destined for the same fate!
It’s an eloquent anonymous comment at Save! Wheeling Jesuit University, which since last August has been mourning and protesting the ouster of Rev. Julio Giulietti SJ as president, blamed by some as the work ultimately of the bishop of Wheeling, who wanted to buy the Mount de Chantal property but allegedly felt thwarted in that by Giulietti.
The comment was in response to news finally verified that Wheeling (Catholic) Hospital, a diocesan institution, was buying the property and planning to tear down the building which housed the already closed academy.
Fr. Giulietti gone, the diocese (the bishop) gets the property, which to many is not a coincidence.
Boo!
It goes with Pelosi’s saying they had to pass the bill before we’d know what’s in it, offered today by Patriot Post.
These were her famous last words before “ramming [it] through.”
I’d make the hammer and sickle a fasces bundle. As Tom Roeser notes today, citing Ron Paul in a recent “lucid moment,”
Obama isn’t a socialist but a “corporatist.” . . . What we have now is the federal government owning just under 50% of the private economy: and if that isn’t corporatism I don’t know what is. Socialism is the takeover of industry; corporatism is the “investment” of government in industry such as the auto bailouts, the big bank bailouts.
And a little bit of political history:
A pioneer of this kind of thing was FDR’s Rexford Tugwell whom I knew well (he guest lectured for me at the Wharton School). Tugwell went to Italy to interview Benito Mussolini, an ace corporatist, came back and designed the NRA whereby big business would cooperate with each other in a government-tailored design to reach markets without cumbersome and what some liberals say is “wasteful economic competition.”
I’ve been calling O. a fascist at least since my Wednesday Journal column that precipitated severe excretory shots at the fan in October of ‘08. in which I hearken to Alinsky’s “man of action,” as in Rules for Radicals, and expatiated:
The “man of action” business is particularly foreboding. It’s a staple of fascism, of course. . . . [FDR’s] political appeal was based on admiration for the strong man who brooked no opposition.
Mussolini was crafty about it and inspired admiration in “progressive” circles in this country, as he had admired American pragmatism in Woodrow Wilson, the college professor-become-president with a yen for power that puts even today’s tenured radicals to shame. Then came FDR, the roaring pragmatist . . . . Progressives, later called liberals, yet later progressives again — the name changes keep them ahead of the awareness curve — love the man of action.
Now they have one. He’s The One, our smooth-talking Democrat presidential candidate with a yen for deciding how much you should earn before being hit with a tax hike-to “spread the wealth around,” as he unfortunately told that plumber in
Ohio.
I delete some references that show I was only, say, 80% right, the worst of them being my finger-in-the-wind, wistful, wholly mistaken closer, speaking of what he told the plumber, “Could this be the slip that sinks Big O’s ship?” It’s stuff like that keeps me from scaling the heights of pundit-dom.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated April 17 at 10 a.m. in Sacred Heart Chapel at Loyola Marymount University for Jesuit Father Herbert J. Ryan who died April 8 from complications of lung cancer at age 79.
. . . .
A member of the Jesuit order for 61 years, he was born in New York in 1931 and ordained by Cardinal Francis Spellman in 1962. Noted throughout his priestly career for his incredible memory and astonishing gift in languages, Father Ryan held graduate degrees from Loyola University in Chicago, in theology from Woodstock College and a Doctorate from the Gregorian University in Rome.
We were in philosophy together at West Baden (Ind.) College in the mid-50s, he a transplanted New Yorker among us Midwesterners. Quite a bright fellow (even then!), he typified the Manhattanites who tended to give the impression that they knew more than the rest of us.
So what? We Oak Parkers, South Siders, Cincinnatians, etc. rubbed shoulders and minds with people from all over the country and world, in southern Indiana. Just by joining the Jesuits. We educated each other.
How much of this by the ferocious wielder of the language and knife-sharp penetrator of fog and misinformation Ann Coulter do I have to read before I decide to read further?
Despite the growing media consensus that Catholicism causes sodomy, an alternative view — adopted by the Boy Scouts — is that sodomites cause sodomy. (Assume all the usual disclaimers here about most gay men not molesting boys, most Muslims being peaceful, and so on.)
This much should do it, even though I am hell-bent on doing other things right now. Follow her lede here. Hint: it’s about celibacy as promoting sex abuse.
However, and begin with the column’s very bad, i.e. misleading Town-Hall-dot-com title,
Saturday’s session at offices of Democratic Party of Oak Park was given to seeing what Dems can do for the troubled campaign (euphemistically speaking) of U.S. senatorial candidate and incumbent state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.
A video at Illinois Review gives “a brief history” of the troubles Alexi is seeing these days.
Watch it here. (HT the ever reliable NewsAlert)
But you have to wonder what the fuss is about if you read and believe what’s said about him at his web site. For openers:
Alexi Giannoulias was elected State Treasurer of Illinois on November 7, 2006, capping off one of the more improbable victories in Illinois politics. Opposed by the insiders from the very start, he won the support of voters by proposing bold new initiatives and turning his back on politics as usual.
Ending pay-to-play politics was Alexi’s first act as Treasurer. On day one, he issued an executive order that enacted the most sweeping ethics reforms in the history of his office by banning contributions to his campaign from office employees, contractors and banks.
Etc.
Right?
The Catholic archdiocese’s Wheeling Hospital is to acquire the Mount de Chantal property which was mentioned as property Bishop Michael Bransfield wanted but found Wheeling Jesuit University president Rev. Julio Giulietti, SJ, in his way?
Rumor has it that the Mount property is now owned or has been optioned by Wheeling Hospital; the hospital also has announced that it was adding a $50 million wing [wrote Timothy F. Cogan in a letter to the Wheeling Intelligencer/News-Register].
“First and foremost” among reasons alleged by WJU alum and former fund-raiser Steve Haid in his letter of protest over Giulietti’s peremptory firing after two years in office, “Father Julio’s lynching was the handiwork of Bishop Michael Bransfield, who wanted to slap down a Jesuit priest who sought to acquire the Mount de Chantal property for Wheeling Jesuit.”
Cogan wrote to object to a $50–million planned addition [not] to the “beautiful old” Mount de Chantal building which stands next to the WJU campus, for historic-preservation and other reasons. [Rather, to the hospital, per comment below]
The bishop
repeatedly denied involvement in Giulietti’s firing, but did confirm to [National Catholic Reporter] that he wanted the sale of the Mount de Chantal property stopped. The sale never went through.
“I was not in favor of the sale of property to Wheeling Jesuit because the price they offered the sisters was half of the price offered by competing bidders,” Bransfield wrote in a message to NCR.
But the bishop was not involved in the Giulietti firing, said then-acting WJU President Davitt McAteer: “We’re seeing the effects of the anonymous Web and the efforts of a small clique who are unhappy. It’s the guy in the theater yelling fire.”
The search for a Giulietti replacement has stalled. Sister Francis Marie Thrailkill has hired on as interim president for an estimated 18 months.
Putting the microscope to the Chicago archdiocese as a pit of corruption:
So much that you need to know about the Catholic Church’s social policy problems can be summed up in one word: Chicago. On race, abortion, guns, immigration and “community organizing,” Catholic Church officials in the Windy City have forged unholy alliances with radical left-wingers and enablers who undermine the faith—and the faithful.
Beginning with the (latest) Pfleger debacle:
Exhibit A: the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Racial Justice and one of its most notorious priests, the Rev. Michael Pfleger. This week, Chicago Cardinal Francis George—who also happens to be president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops—presided over a gala ceremony honoring Pfleger with a “lifetime achievement award” for his “service in pursuit of dismantling racism, injustice and inequalities on behalf of African Americans and all people of color.
Michelle Malkin doesn’t get it:
How, pray tell, has Pfleger achieved the officially sanctioned Catholic vision of “racial justice”? By aligning himself with the nation’s worst racial demagogues and using his pulpit at the St. Sabina Catholic Church on Chicago’s Southside to promote poisonous identity politics.
Read on about Pfleger and Wright, Farrakhan, screaming about Hillary the white woman, raging against the U.S., threatening a gun-dealer, going behind a critic’s back to neutralize him, etc.
Malkin quoted his words back to him in an e-mail. Pfleger called her “mean-spirited.”
And the amazing Cardinal George goes along with honoring such a great man. And he’s the top bishop in the U.S. He came to Chicago, he saw, he was conquered.
I get the impression from this shot that Obama is not going to take any shit from this guy, our Middle East ally, head of the region’s only democratic country.
But to potentates he bows.
Wear a dress, you get respect.
(Yes, he’s been pictured many times as friendly to N., but it’s the policy, stupid, not to mention the recent dinner-alone fiasco.)
When Joe Friday talks, Obama listens.
Watch it: Joe_Friday_We_Miss_You-1
