Haymarket guest missing

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????

Joe Berrios has a lesson for us all

Charity begins at home.

Not to mention the troubles the poor Democrats — do not our hearts go out to them? — suffer when their leader flaunts his power by flouting the law.

And neither to mention the perils of one-party rule, as in Cook County.  Nor the danger of taxing and spending in the Democrat way.

Nor the motivation herein provided for mistrusting government far more than the private business operation, except when it thrives because of its own clout with the political powers which are invulnerable to correction or punishment.

This is why there’s a Tea Party movement.  Precisely.  Keep it in mind next time politicos and pundits bemoan Tea Partiers and/or celebrate their presumed but inadequately demonstrated demise.

Yes.

Emerson on what’s politically of supreme importance

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”?

In Ohio, the GOP puzzles over missing white voters | WashingtonExaminer.com

This rundown by Byron York notes, with others, I’m sure, that Romney got burned early by Obama’s negative ads and did not respond in his own defense. Did not set his people on fire, as Obama did almost exclusively.

In the end, while Obama, with all the advantage of incumbency, soared with his base, Romney couldn’t fully connect with voters who might lean Republican. “My general impression is that the base, the activists — the people you need — never emotionally invested in Romney the way they emotionally invested in George W. Bush,” says a senior GOP operative involved in the campaign. Maybe not even as much as they invested in McCain.

For what it’s worth, I remember in the final days, glued to Fox and even CNN throughout the day, my wife and I got to finishing (too long) stories by Romney on the stump before a succession of very big crowds. We knew how they ended. He had the one speech. It got boring. We never hesitated in voting for him, but others? The ones who didn’t vote at all?