These are tweets that shake the world. At the pres.-elect’s fingertips. And trust me, to be at the president’s too.

FDR had fireside chats on the radio, Donald T. has Twitter.

To which I say bravo.

Source: Instapundit » Blog Archive » PROCUREMENT: Boeing Said to Offer Talks on Air Force One After Trump Tweets. The Pentagon already…

Two parents are suing the school.

Cardinal C., where are you in re: this apparent violation of privacy? 

Parents of two students claim their daughters were used as scapegoats for the school to respond to media pressure.

While the Year of Mercy writ had not yet expired, no less.

And I don’t mean Ann Coulter.

Left-wing teams leave me cold .

Source: Newsalert: LeBron James & teammates to boycott Trump-branded team hotel when playing in New York

How about to St. Jude, patron of impossible cases?

An emotional and grateful Susana Mendoza said she would work to prioritize the most vulnerable before any other.

Am bothered by this display, makes me think of religion, not patriotism, as last refuge of  . . . 

Source: Mendoza takes office: ‘Keep me in your prayers’ | Chicago Sun-Times

No-brainer here. She’s up for re-election, by the way.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who last year opened the door to nearly 1 million mostly Muslim migrants, called Tuesday for a widespread ban on “full veil” Islamic coverings.

Speaking to a cheering conference of her center-right Christian Democratic Union, Merkel – who is launching a bid for a fourth term in elections next year – used her strongest language yet to back a proposal by conservative elements in her party.

The plan would make it a regulatory offense for women to cover their faces in courtrooms, administrative buildings and schools, as well as while driving or attending demonstrations.

“Therefore the full veil is not appropriate here, it should be banned wherever it’s legally possible,” Merkel said.

It’s where rubber meets road as far as Muslim integration is concerned.

He screwed them royal, to put it crudely, with his trickle-down economic policies, which led to widespread singing of the blues in the Southland, including his much-beloved and -revered by liberals minimum-wage legislation, here from Myrdal’s American Dilemma:

During the ’thirties the danger of being a marginal worker became increased by social legislation intended to improve conditions on the labor market.

The dilemma, as viewed from the Negro angle is this: on the one hand, Negroes constitute a disproportionately large number of the workers in the nation who work under imperfect safety rules, in unclean and unhealthy shops, for long hours, and for sweatshop wages; on the other hand, it has largely been the availability of such jobs which has given Negroes any employment at all.

As exploitative working conditions are gradually being abolished, this, of course, must benefit Negro workers most, as they have been exploited most—but only if they are allowed to keep their employment.

But it has mainly been their willingness to accept low labor standards which has been their protection. When government steps in to regulate labor conditions and to enforce minimum standards, it takes away nearly all that is left of the old labor monopoly in the “Negro jobs.”

Read the rest of this at: Gunnar Myrdal: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty

A toddlin’ town? Or established businesses coddlin’ town?

After a four-year-long court battle, a Chicago food truck owner has failed in her effort to overturn what she calls “burdensome” and “damaging” rules governing mobile vendors in the city.

Source: Food trucks lose 4-year court battle over ‘burdensome’ regulations – Chicago Tribune

Just acquired this follower, whom I find muy interesting.

In 1048, the Order of St.John was born by Amalfian merchants, and its founder the Blessed Gerard.  First came the construction of a church, convent and hospital in Jerusalem, offering care to pilgr…

Etc. It’s a history of the Crusades.

Francis is happier to meet Kerry than would be most American voters.

The man in blue dropped by, presumably to discuss migration and other issues — with maybe a nod or two towards the evils of capitalism and trickle-down?