Sunday, June 19, 2011

Chicago's "King of Canaryville and the Stockyards" -Father Maurice Dorney

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Illinois Progressive History chose to ignore Col. James Mulligan, Senator for three States James Shields, the only Union general to defeat ...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

James "Bro" Farrell and Leo High School 1941 National Basketball Champions

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I got a call from Iggy Richards one of the all-time great Chicago Cathoic League Basketball heroes. He let me know that fellow Leo Hall of...
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Happy Fathers Day Gents!

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Here are two versions of the Catholic hymn Faith of Our Fathers, by Father Frederick William Faber*. The first is the Irish/English version ...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Mark Helprin's Novel "Freddy and Fredericka"-Homunculi/ae,Read This Book

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Last winter I read a wildly comic, touching and savage novel by Mark Helprin - Freddy and Fredericka. This novel takes a Royal Couple, imag...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Abortion Kills - Planned Parenthood Provides Abortions and Illinois Lacks Honest Reports from Planned Parenthood

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I once asked a girl out on a date in the early to mid- 1970's when I lived in Kankakee, Illinois. I was a baby teacher at Bishop McNamar...

Theological Conundrum in a Fabuleaux Fableux

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In Old Chicago, the Everleigh Sisters had a fine relationship with a parish priest - Young Father Pat Molloy of St. Clementine's Mission...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

History? Just a Bunch of Stuff That Already Happened - American Education Fails Fabulously!

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Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The Compleat Anglers - on the Mighty Kankakee River

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Piscator And upon all that are lovers of virtue; and dare trust in his providence; and be quiet; and go a Angling. "Study to be quiet.&...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Tacitus:Economy in Writing - History Without Whiteout

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I am re-reading Tacitus' Annals. This history is a study of the surrender of freedom by a people who pretended to live in freedom, whil...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

St. Cajetan Mass for Veterans and Serving Heroes Today at 2 P.M.

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The religious ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Cajetan Church, 2445 W. 112th St. There will be a brief Mass, or blessing, foll...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Now Crowd Sourcing: WaPo and NYT Request for 'Help' With Trash-Bin Journalism Make Weiner Look Like Harry Truman

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I was laughing at Anthony Weiner months ago. Like Illinois embarrassment Congressman Jan 'Turkish Bath' Schakowsky, this goof kicks...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Kevin Myers - Why One Writes, Yet Sales Stink Out Loud

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I have written two books, articles, reviews, rants, confessions, obfuscations, grants, proposals, love notes and many, many apologies. I am...

A Toast to Tom Roeser from Dan Kelley

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A Toast to Thomas F. Roeser By Daniel J. Kelley I am finding it hard to mourn Thomas F. Roeser. Yes, I am saddened by his recent demise an...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Joel Kotkin on The Green Environmental Mullahs Beheading Common Sense

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" So, I deal with the folks that invented the Zero and Mother Earth will shower blessings on Illinois? Well, Domo Arigato !" Illi...

Footpads to Flash Mobs - Chicago's Diet of BS Made Media Morbidly Obese

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This is how Mary Schmich of the Tribune wants Chicagoans to understand the nature of a beating meted out by a score or less of vigorous bla...