Chicago Schools Seek State Cash as Crunch Looms Liberalism always comes down to this: The school board warns of deep cuts later this year if Illinois, which faces its own fiscal crisis, doesn’t deliver an additional $480 million in the coming months, representing roughly 8% of annual district spending. So … let’s see… The state…
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“Either you are human, or you don’t do it and then you aren’t human.”
Sometimes a flicker of hope appears in a sea of darkness. Last week, 5 yeshiva students took a wrong turn in Hebron on their way to visit the Cave of the Patriarchs. They were attacked, their car firebombed and were nearly torn apart by an enraged mob in the predominantly Palestinian city. Then, out of…
Walter Ulbricht, Call Your Office
Roughly 5 million people left California in the last decade. See where they went. This is fascinating on a number of levels. First, and foremost, is how many people have fled the People’s Republic, and how much income they took with them. Those of us behind enemy lines know only too well why they left….
On Laws, Men and Conscience
I’m not a lawyer, nor have I played one on television (although I’m a some-time actor and have yet to play one of those on television either). But the lawlessness of our government, most egregiously perpetrated by the president and his administration in countless incidents (quite a few clearly impeachable and probably criminal offenses) over the…
“Left-leaning?” Yeah, I’d say so
Low-Income Workers See Biggest Drop in Paychecks Despite steady gains in hiring, a falling unemployment rate and other signs of an improving economy, take-home pay for many American workers has effectively fallen since the economic recovery began in 2009, according to a new study by an advocacy group that is to be released on Thursday….
I Love Sports, But I am Learning To Hate Athletes
About a dozen years ago a local book store had Mike Lupica in to sell a few copies of his new book and answer some questions. I asked him whether he despaired for the future of professional sports because of the increasingly unpleasant personal behavior of the typical professional athlete. He was upbeat and sanguine,…
The Nomenclature of Craft Beer Styles
Hyper expansion of craft beer, due to an ever increasing consumer demand, has blurred the genres that categorize these quality beers. I’m going to pontificate in this here little beer censure specifically about the new India Pale Ale (IPA) genre now popularly known as ‘Session IPAs’. IPA’s, and American Pale Ales, or APA’s, are actually…
What Hath Liberalism Wrought?
Compare and contrast: An illegal immigrant couple with six children were already living in poverty. Then the quadruplets arrived. They’re still in a daze. Girl, 12, beats Einstein and Stephen Hawking to get top score in IQ test Let’s review the bidding here, shall we? Angela Magdaleno is an illegal alien, living in poverty, with…
The Miracle of Israel In Two Great Films
With anti-Semitism exploding across the globe, on our campuses and incredibly within the Democrat Party itself (once the bastion of pro-Israeli sentiment) at levels not seen perhaps since the 1930’s in Germany – and with the specter of an Iranian nuclear weapon and all that goes with it now virtually assured, a little light amidst the…
The Iron Fist Comes Draped, Not In a Velvet Glove But a Black Robe.
Last June, Justice Anthony Kennedy fired a damaging, if not fatal, salvo into the already enfeebled 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Whatever one thinks about the institution of marriage, homosexuality or religion, the right to express and practice one’s religion as he or she chooses is an inalienable one that no court or government can take…