Michelle Malkin has this right: 

Allow me to sum up the homeland security strategy of America’s do-nothing brigade, led by the armchair generals at The New York Times and ACLU headquarters:

First, bar law enforcement at all levels from taking race, ethnicity, national origin and religion into account when assessing radical Islamic terror threats. (But continue to allow the use of those factors to ensure “diversity” in public-college admissions, contracting, and police- and fire-department hiring.)  [Pow!]

Second, institute the “Eenie-meenie-miny-moe” random-search program at all subways, railways and bus stations. [Pow!]

Third, open the borders, sabotage all immigration enforcement efforts and scream “Racist” at any law-abiding American who protests. [Pow!]

Continue reading “The Left’s Privacy Hypocrites”

“DePaul deserved to be hit harder, but this story is more of a human interest profile of [Thomas] Klocek,” says Richard Baehr today in The American Thinker about Ron Grossman’s Chi Trib Tempo piece “I’m not the ideal poster boy,” about the DePaul adjunct teacher who was suspended and asked to apologize to Palestinian-supporter students for objecting to their anti-Israel display at a student-activity fair and is suing DePaul. 

Baehr wonders if DePaul and some of its trustees had a hand in neutralizing — or neutering — the story, which is possible.  More to the point, Baehr says the story ignores highly prejudicial comments about Klocek by a dean, who “slandered Tom as a bigot and . . . accepted the students’ side of the dispute before hearing from Tom, and  subsequently cut off his health insurance, and prohibited him from praying in the DePaul chapel.”

In Grossman’s careful “he said/she said fashion” which Baehr implies did not do justice to the student-fair confrontation, Grossman could have used that zesty stuff about the dean (it seems to me), assuming the sources held up under his (cross) examination.  That he-said-she-said business is how it’s done, of course.  But Grossman does seem to have done the human-interest part to the detriment of the conflict part.  So it would seem, anyhow, to those who had already read about the DePaul political climate in American Thinker — “Ward Churchill speaks,” “The Growing Threat to Israel,” and “DePaul’s Jihad Against Academic Freedom” — as it surrounds and pertains directly to Klocek.

It’s hot stuff and quite prejudicial against DePaul, but detailed and coherent and worth quoting, which I will do here but not now, because it’s time for Pajamas Media wannabes to go to bed.

Coldstone Creamery ice cream shop on Marion south of Lake is “not a nut-free environment,” it warns in its window, speaking allergy-wise. Otherwise, however, need this be said, since we expect in the normal course of things to meet at least one nut per environment in OP?

. . . has these annual murder numbers, among others for other U.S. cities:

Chicago:

2003: 565

2004: 448

2005: 400+

and asks why anti-warriors are not worried about “THESE americans . . . killed right here at home”  — “a whole lot more than 2000 deaths” in Iraq.

See Pennsylvanian in exile for more, more, more. 

And here’s an idea for Chi Trib and Sun-Times: every hundred murders run pix and short bios of the deceased.  It’s just a thought, aimed at helping our doughty newspeople to serve and protect us.

Sun-Times to the rescue: Sunday’s paper has “City owes white firefighters $3.7 million, jury says” on p. 10, front section, giving it more, if later, coverage than Chi Trib, as noted here yesterday.  It’s for “emotional distress to six white firefighters denied promotions 20 years ago,” which is a case of wheels of justice grinding slowly, to be sure.  The city threw out test results that showed not enough blacks winning promotions.

The argument in such a case is that if blacks don’t win their supposed fair share, there’s something wrong with the tests, as if there’s something wrong with starting assignments among the Chicago Bears linemen because not enough whites win them.

That’s-no-sow’s-ear-it’s-a-silk-purse dept: Chi Trib announcing demise of its WomanNews [sic] section with “Starting Wednesday, Jan. 4, WomanNews [sic] moves to Tempo, making Chicago’s favorite [sic] daily features section even better” on Tempo p. 1, 12/14/05.  I do believe WomanNews was discontinued as a section and some people were fired, but this makes that move a simple gain for Tempo.  Presto.

“6 white firefighters to get $3.5 million,” whispers headline in Chi Trib Metro page today, 12/17/05.  It’s an award decision about whites who said they’d been treated unfairly by affirmative action policies in Chicago FD.  City is to pay.  Big story, could be screaming head in Sun-Times, p-1 stuff in Trib.  But S-T doesn’t even have it.  We should be thankful for even small favors.

Chi Trib head 12/11/05, “Rosy job news feels thorny in Ohio: . . . national numbers mask local stories of work gone and hard times spreading,” by Tim Jones, national correspondent: For every silver lining, there’s a cloud.

Once more into the breach, my friends, regarding Chi Trib’s Dawn T. Trice’s “From any angle, racial profiling is still wrong” of 12/10/05, this time as to her admitting she “might make snap judgments” about who’s a threat, but the government shouldn’t, because “theoretically, it has to be far more judicious because the stakes are too high.”

Apart from the redundancy – “theoretically, it has to be” – she has her straw man at the ready with “snap judgments,” as if she has shown that most terrorists are not Arab or Muslim. She also seems to concede the value of quick decisions when personally threatened. (I hope she does.) That’s on a lonely dark street, for instance, where we have ourselves and those with us to protect. For the government it’s thousands, even millions, to protect.

The stakes are too high, all right.

Start off each day with a song, Jimmy Durante told us long ago. Begin blithely, blithely, as one of my favorite blogs would have it. Yesterday the blitheness came unexpected. (It’s the best kind.) There on p. 12 of Sun-Times was a short AP piece about Bush’s popularity going up, reaching highest since last summer. Suddenly, last summer? No, suddenly this winter, he is doing better – five points better in a month! Fancy that!

He’s up to 42%, having gotten energetic in pushing his handling of Iraq and the economy, per an AP-Ipsos poll. In November he had 37% approval, this month 42%. Wow. His new aggressiveness is working. Wuxtry, wuxtry, read all about it. On p. 12 of S-T, six inches under a 4×4 pic, BUT NOT AT ALL IN CHI TRIB! Fancy that!

Whence the blitheness? Not from the news itself, of which I’d had glimmers thanks to Fox News (fair & balanced, you decide), but from the renewed realization of the thoroughly laugh-producing conclusion that Bad News papers can’t handle the truth, to use the Jack Nicholson phrase, or at least don’t think their readers can. And some of them can’t!

Revisiting ethnic profiling 12/8/05 – “From any angle, racial profiling is still wrong” – Dawn Turner Trice in Chi Trib says she’s heard from readers on how to stop “them” from hurting “us.” These are her quote marks, and I swear, this is the strangest use of quotes I have seen in a long time.

If she’s giving exact words, she’s doing it for a pair of damn pronouns.

If she’s distancing herself from these pronouns, she really ought to say why, since the them-us distinction is elementary, to say the least.

Or is she showing quote marks as comedienne Joan Cusack and lesser performers indicate by raising two fingers on each hand and giving them a shake, with a zany look?

Who knows? Trice goes oral-speech on us, flouting written-word conventions as if she doesn’t even know about them. You might say she translates the spoken word directly to the printed page without making it “writing,” if you catch my “drift.” (Wink-wink)