"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
. . . which is why a strong police presence is needed in black neighborhoods.
it is precisely in response to the disproportionate criminality among the black population that the police are deployed in much higher numbers in black neighborhoods, where they are trying to save innocent lives. . . .
And more here about black women at risk and Andrew Klavan rapping . . .
Pat Hickey fires a shot of warning about Rauner:
Bruce Rauner wants the skilled trades to open up their books to him. Governor Carhartt wants to see how many minorities and veterans are in skilled trades apprenticeship programs.
The Skilled Trades should tell Bruce Rauner to go pound sand. Governor Rauner wants to measure data, in order to control. Each skilled trade got to where it is today on its own. Yes, they did build their own success.
The minority-representation thing is worrisome, to be sure.
Let us now praise the Pope for making a good point:
There are sins of speech and writing and drawing (and lots of other things one could mention). Not a new point but appropriate in its Charlie Hebdo timing, EXCEPT for its confusing moral with political freedom, two quite different and not in themselves synchronous things.
Freedom of speech as generally if not universally understood refers to POLITICAL not MORAL freedom, which I am sure the Pope realizes. He should make that clear and not confuse matters by promoting a moral (personal) obligation rather than a political (governmental) requirement.
Lots of immoral things are legal, dear Holy Father. Please, make that distinction next time the spirit moves you.
G.K. Chesterton Academy of Chicago
If you were unable to join the thousands who marched with us in downtown Chicago, check out the photos posted on our Facebook Group page. 
Namely that my wordpress blogs whose url I am renting by the year, OakParkNewspapers.com MyJesuitLife.com, are inaccessible to me as owner/administrator. Again, what is WordPress doing to me????
. . . Why so? I cannot imbed a link in anything!!! WordPress wordpress wordpress, what the heck is going on?
Call off your tired old health inspections — of abortion facilities in our great state of Illinois. http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/01/gilligan-abortion-facilities-the-only-places-illinois-lawmakers-refuse-to-inspect.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FbYHz+%28Illinois+Review%29
In one fell swoop, Gov. Bruce Rauner reversed seven 11th-hour executive orders signed by outgoing Gov. Pat Quinn, declaring they were not in the best interest of Illinois residents.
That includes an executive order that called for Rauner to release all of his tax information as well as one that increased the minimum wage for state contracts from $8.25 an hour to $10 an hour. Both of the issues were sticking points in a bruising campaign between the two men in 2014.
It’s (almost) enough to make you feel sorry for the party that made him its standard-bearer. Not quite.
Loyola U.-Chicago lays an egg:
One day before the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Loyola University Chicago will host a journalist who once thanked God for abortion on television.
Woe is us. Thing is, top- or middle-level Romantic Catholic leaders just want abortion to go away, not so much in real life as in public discourse. It’s an embarrassment, interferes with the business they want to conduct. They just aren’t interested.
Big deal here, way to flush out the hacks, such as the Sec Trans whom Sen. Don Harmon paraded before an Oak Park audience in the fall of 2013 so as to give Oak Parkers the skinny on Dept. of Trans. plans for Eisenhower X-way and CTA”s Blue Line.
She was shown the door a few months later when discovered to be hiring relatives. Yay Harmon.
Rauner said his order is rooted in the Illinois Department of Transportation hiring scandal during the Quinn administration. An investigation found that IDOT had become a safe haven for many politically hired state employees seeking to quietly slip into jobs protected from politically motivated firings.
Nothing like transparency, which is often claimed, rarely demonstrated.
