Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Calvin Frogge (1925-2015) - Illinois Farmer, WWII Naval Aviator and Catholic Gentleman to the Backbone Goes Home to Christ

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Calvin Frogge was a pure Illinois Man of the Soil. He suffered no fools gladly, but took them to his heart with charity little found in o...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Telling Yarns - The Germ of Art and Producer Ciara Nic Chormaic

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  Narrator : Europeans who had flocked to 19th Century Chicago for jobs crouched together for survival. They created ethnic enclaves li...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Neighbors Celebrate Hickey's Delayed Lawn Work With a Blue Angels Flyover!

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This is my Lawn Mower.  It is generated by the will to go out and cut the grass, weeds, dandelions and tree branchlings behind the force of...
Friday, September 25, 2015

A Banana Republic of America Is What Pope Francis Warns Against

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Corporate statism or state corporatism is a political culture and a form of corporatism whose adherents hold that the corporate group wh...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

The Kennelly Family Lives the Gospels

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I raise money for a Catholic High School. We have an Alumni and circle of massively hearted friends who pump dollars to fuel a Catholic e...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Obama's Handler Pooh Poohs Papal Party Punking

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No one is more powerful in this nation than Valerie Jarrett - no one.  Why?  No one with the job of asking questions and getting answe...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Pope Francis Comes to America

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Pope Francis will land in the United States, . . .well, Washington D. C. anyway . .. at about 4PM today. Pope Francis will 'ex...
Friday, September 18, 2015

John Kass on Virtue

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Unlike his conservative predecessor, the late Cardinal Francis George, the new leader of the Chicago Archdiocese has taken a decidedl...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

How Should I Respond to the Portmanteau Exclamation of Millennials " Perfect" ?

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  " Get off the Bench, Gramps"  Old man moves -" Perfect!" mil·len·nial miˈlenēəl/Submit noun plural noun: mille...
Friday, September 11, 2015

The Holocaust and History Trivialized by Another' Public Scholar'

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I was returning my tuxedo rental on Tuesday and caught more Howard Zinn inspired American History from a Yale University academic on Nati...

The Settled Science of Silliness 2008 to Present (ex libris Hickey)

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Minds are settled. The New York Times ran a TV commercial  a few years ago in an attempt to capture more subscribers by way of touting ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Parodies Lost, or Milton in Monee

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Outside of Crete- Monee, Illinois is a massive trucker stop and in it long-distance knights of the road can get a shower and meal. A ...
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Monday, August 31, 2015

We are Officially Returning McKinley Park to It's Native Name and Owners! Mopes

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Mopetown*  was an old Chicago neighborhood wedged between Bridgeport and McKinley Park - north of Archer and caressing Ashland Avenue. ...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

"Hey, Have You Heard About The Pallium?" Who has not?

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That's the pallium! The white thing with crosses around the neck and over the shoulders of Archbishop Blase Cupich, when the pallium w...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Chicago's Club of the UnClubbable

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   Above - Mycroft Holmes - Below Mike Houlihan in manly Pre-Labor Day Panama tan suit gives a stern temperance lecture to an obvio...
Monday, August 24, 2015

The Chicago Tribune's Complete Blackout of Aurora Planned Parenthood Protest is Another Disgrace by Print News

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Last Saturday, August 22, 2015, while I was enjoying myself at the Leo High School Black and Orange Football Kickoff, thousands ( yes, t...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Hackers Reveal Hickey as a Madison Client

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  Computer hackers gained access to the entire database of Ashley Madison, a dating website for people who want to have affairs, and post...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Check, Please ? I Think Not. The Epic Crime of Dine and Dash Should be on Public Television

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We are soooo not paying! Instead of self-absorbed, affluent and very transient Urban Foodies( Like these mimosa sucking cretins ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Leo High School Plans Television Production Studio ( WCHI NEWS)

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Leo High School begins its 90th year of serving Chicago with a new opportunity - a television production studio. A donor has provided...
Friday, August 14, 2015

How Leftists Looted a Charity - Chuck Feeney's Money Went to Build Goverment Policy and Not Help People

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MacArthu r will narrow its focus to address global climate change and reform the U.S. criminal justice system - Julie Stasch,President o...