At risk FOR? As if it may be abolished? IRS is not itself at risk. It’s at risk OF unfairly auditing, etc.
As to the story: Because of inadequate supervision, it says. Inadequate supervisors, that is? And that’s assuming innocence somewhere, when the question is responsibility.
Who’s to blame, for cryin’ out loud? Nobody, I bet. It’s not so messy that way. Like Hillary and Benghazi and her what-difference-does-it-make?
Granted, Rep. Roskam’s committee’s report is a finding of fact, with judgment yet to come. When it does, the above analysis applies.
Police released this sketch of the suspect who fatally shoved a 68-year-old church deacon down the stairs at the Fullerton L stop. The offender is described as black, between 17 and 25 years old, 5-foot-11 to 6-foot-4 and 170 to 220 pounds. He was wearing jeans, a black hat and black jacket with vertical writing or graphics down the center
What’s noteworthy is the racial identification, which news accounts of fugitives have not always supplied.
If not for Chris Kennedy and the other U. of Ill. at Chicago trustees who did not abstain from yesterday’s vote, unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers would have gotten the emeritus status he petitioned for:
Retired faculty ask for emeritus status, and it’s then signed off on by several levels of university administration before heading to trustees, [UIC spokesman Tom] Hardy said. [Italics added]
Kennedy told the Chicago Sun-Times he and the board have not seen any signs of remorse from Ayers in the nearly 40 years since the dedication.
“There’s no evidence in any of his interviews or conversations that he regrets any of those actions . . .”
Egomaniacal professor. No merit in him. Deserves neither honor nor honorific. Rather, he’s to be shunned. But that won’t happen in the groves of academe.
Rep. Jackson: I did nothing wrong but ‘deeply sorry’ over ‘social acquaintance’
Chicago congressman vows to remain in office in wake of Sun-Times report regarding fund-raise
Sorry about what, if he did nothing wrong? Ah, there’s the rub. Sorry about the bad publicity, hence apology to “some of his supporters,” who share his sorrow about diminishing his political salability.
Which makes this a pro forma lie, typical of public-figure apologizing.
“People ask me if I’m the father of the Tea Party movement,” the CNBC commentator said outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. “I was the spark …that started it. If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what’s written on my tombstone, I’ll be very happy.
Etc.
That’s the (usual apocalypse-size) page one on S-T. “His ‘rant’ started it all, leading to major pages 4&5 story, right after page 3 on Glenn Beck, “We are 40 days from . . . changing America”:
Five thousand conservative true believers cheered Fox News host Glenn Beck and other right-leaning firebrands at Right Nation 2010 in Hoffman Estates on Saturday night in a call-to-arms 45 days before Election Day.
With his trademark chalkboard behind him, Beck invoked God, the Constitution and Thomas Jefferson.
“We are 40 days from fundamentally changing America,’’ Beck said. “. . . What the Tea Party movement wants is an end to out-of-control spending, an end to the insanity, an end to the growth in government that is gobbling everything up.’’
Now that, by professional newsman Abdon Pallasch, is how a news story is supposed to read.
Chi Trib, on the other hand, has — on page 15 of home-delivery hard copy — an account by a free-lancer (“special to the Tribune”) that is loaded with ambivalence.
Fresh off a week of stunning Republican primary victories, several thousand exuberant and newly-empowered tea party followers descended on the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates on Saturday for Right Nation 2010 — a carefully choreographed night of conservative political cheerleading, headlined by radio and TV host Glenn Beck.
What means this “carefully choreographed”? Well organized? He doesn’t say, but gives us a hint-hint of something bad.
Also making an appearance was Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady, who used the tea party’s mantra to stir up an enthusiastic and suddenly crucial electorate.
“We’re going to take this state, and this country back, after this election,” he said. “We’ll take back the government. “
Mantra? Come on. Every political rally has a pitch. Every out party promises big changes. Some also promise hope, do they not?
Last month, Beck led a huge and controversial rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Controversial is so generic as to be meaningless, but like the other items here listed, it’s negative. Stirring maybe? No. But some hot quotes will do. The reporter is supposed to find and display them to encapsulate the flavor and fervor of the event.
But worse than this to many, many Chi Trib readers is its inability to tell you in home delivery THE NOTRE DAME SCORE, which is slapped across the Sun-Times main sports page — 34–31 Mich. State — just flip the paper over, and there it is. WHY CAN’T THE TRIB PRINT THE SCORE OF A NIGHT GAME IN EAST LANSING?
See the pix here? Quinn-Giannoulias in one, Kirk in the other? Same size, right?
Q-G:
K:
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!? What the . . . ??? They’re both of G, with Q thrown in! No Kirk to be found! Home-delivery hard copy Sports Final at least had a (dinky) 2.5-by-1.5 of K. top right, over a 6-by-3.5 of Quinn & G, over a 3-by-2 of G-supporter Tammy Duckworth at the wheel of an airplane — to go with this by Lynn Sweet, which will do for a Giannoulias press release any day.
Giannoulias will call out Kirk on WMDs, resume boost
is the head. The story is not even about what happened, but what the G-supporters are planning to happen, an advance man’s heads-up, compliments of the Chicago Sun-Times, self-described as an independent newspaper, really progressive-liberal, usually mainly in its editorials but not exclusively so, as we see from today’s sports final.
Blithe Spirit 