Sweet former-home Chicago
What’s going on here? You’re watching Chicago get eaten by the rich and the poor. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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Dropping Crime in Chicago: Is Concealed Carry Responsible?
News came this morning that Otis MacDonald passed away. Mr. MacDonald is legendary in Chicago, and by rights ought to be as famous as Heller, Brown, and Wade. At the very least, as famous as Heller. Mr. MacDonald was a … Continue reading →
Illinois in the Red, Moving to Red?
There is unusually good news—seemingly—in the hell of Illinois politics. As you may recall, there were three leading Democrats competing for the 2014 gubernatorial election. Pat Quinn is the current governor of Illinois, and polls seem to indicate that Illinois … Continue reading →
Stent-mania 2 – Overutilization Boogaloo or Dr. Rarity Strikes Back
The Czar, Mandy and the Volgi enjoy the life prolonging balance of pork fat, beef fat and chicken fat at Portillo’s. Dr. J. hopes you’ve enjoyed your fill of smoked pork with The Czar, GorT and ‘Puter. You can get … Continue reading →
A Different July in Chicago?
As you likely have heard, Illinois became the 50th state to join reality and legalize concealed carry. To be fair, implementation of this law will take a little while yet, but already people are watching to see what happens in … Continue reading →
An Island Dweller Two-Fer
Two missives from Island Dweller worth sharing: Most exalted one,It seems the IRS agents who sang so freely about methods employed to harass and stymie conservative tax-exempt organizations in their application or renewal process have declined to identify those high-ranking … Continue reading →
Top Cop Not Hot Shot
Chicago has had many fine police superintendents over the years, and when the Occupy twits hoped to stage a monster riot in Chicago a while back, Chicago’s Garry McCarthy showed superb organization and an understanding of how riots spread; he … Continue reading →
Mail from @ScottO: Do Airplanes Scare Cubs Fans?
ScottO, whom you would recognize immediately as the awesome and intrepid @gscottoliver on Twitter if you were one of the 800 few followers of us on Twitter, strolled over to our table at the Leaping Peacock, carefully stepping over the … Continue reading →
Move the Cubs? Why, That’s A Great Idea!
The Czar has always had a less-than-scientific interest in the Chicago Cubs, and has watched their ups and downs over the decades. You know, there was a time when the Cubs were basically the Yankees—you just knew they would make … Continue reading →
Chicago’s Gun Laws Make Chicago Safe. No, Wait.
Not all the news is bad, you know. Just as conservatives bemoan the potential loss of many of their social arguments, they are decisively and quickly winning one of their most popular: legalized firearms. A couple of Supreme Court victories … Continue reading →
Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste
And so Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is living large, now that he has bested the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Right? Well, not quite. Although the backlash against the teachers has been intense, the first major test of his ability to restore … Continue reading →
Counter-Strike
The Czar cannot promise that all aspects of Chicago Public School (CPS) politics will be very interesting, but today’s CPS strike is intensely fascinating if largely inside baseball. Here is our assessment. Never let a crisis go to waste, even … Continue reading →
Just Wait ‘Til Next Year
Cubs fans are a weirdly persistent lot; they would follow their team to the ends of the Earth. So much so that many teams like to play the Cubs at home because their usually empty stadiums are filled with concessions-buying … Continue reading →
Much NATO About Nothing
Good evening; I’m Cobb Webb, and this is April Schauers, with your local Chicago 9:00 news. Our lead story tonight is the NATO protests which brought terror to the streets of Chicago, as throngs of protestors battled Chicago police for … Continue reading →
Criminals, Not Victims
The Czar, as loyal readers know, detests journalists and the media. To be fair, he detests them when they won’t do their job, which for many decades has been pretty much all the time. Local Chicago news has been fulsomely … Continue reading →
G8 Moves But Violence To Remain
In an effort to impress somebody associated with the White House, the City of ChIcago “volunteered” to host the G8 summit as well as the NATO summit in May. In response, protestors booked their flights early and announced a well-organized … Continue reading →
Chicago: The City That Worsk
Want more stupid? Chicago alderman George Cardenas, who by rights should be looking for a real job after the next election, has introduces a resolution to the City of Chicago to impose a fifteen-to-thirty-cents-per-ounce tax on soft drinks and energy … Continue reading →
If You Can’t Say Something Nice
The Chicago Sun-Times announced this week that after seven decades, it will discontinue endorsements of candidates because, well, the whole thing is a bit silly. The editors have some good arguments: in the age of the Internet, we know more … Continue reading →
Obama Does Not Use Chicago-Style Politics
Neither the Czar nor the Mandarin have commented at all about the Rod Blagojevich trial, and that is because contrary to local news in the greater Chicago area, most people in Illinois don’t give a crap about a guy that … Continue reading →
Ranges in Chicago? Maybe. But Probably Not.
Well, we go from not having nearly enough firearm-related posts to having way too many at once. And the Czar will admit he is to blame for the latter. Maybe the former, too. But Confucius* alerted the Czar via Twitter … Continue reading →
But Then, The Czar Knows His History
New Chicago police chief Garry McCarthy does not believe in the Second Amendment. On the subject of lax gun laws, he asked “Let’s see if we can make a connection here. Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow. What, what did … Continue reading →
Don’t Let the Church Door Hit Ya…
Non-Catholic readers of this site must be surprised with the Roman Catholic tilt here the last couple of weeks, but there is news afoot. Chicago Catholics are all-too-familiar with the perpetual shenanigans of Fr. Michael Pfleger, the pastor of Saint … Continue reading →
None Too Weis
And so Chicago police superintendent Jody Weis’s contract came to a natural end this week, and to no one’s surprise, it was not renewed. Evidently, he didn’t even get a phone call about it. One imagines he came into work … Continue reading →
Seemed Even Faster
For the fifteen of you who escaped the blizzard of 2011, here is a taste of what we had around Chicago. Start watching around 30 seconds in to get the full effect. Someone tell Borepatch his old house is under … Continue reading →
Race Card Officially Bankrupt
So the Democrats, fearful that Mark Kirk could win the US Senate seat being rightfully emptied by Roland Burris, are trying to inflate hot air into a non-story. As you know, Democrats are quite obviously doing whatever they can to … Continue reading →
The Czar Regrets the Error
JAB notes that even meat puppets are getting tired of defending Obama: Your Czarness, I offer an unrelated anecdote to support your observation of the President’s eroding levels of support. We here at The Doublewide are fans of a band … Continue reading →
Run, Rahm, Run!
JS wrote the other day with a couple of simple questions regarding Chicago’s upcoming mayoral race. As you know by now, Rahm Emanuel will be leaving his position as White House Chief of Staff to run for mayor. It was … Continue reading →
Weis Could Be Wiser
Chicago police superintendent Jody Weis may be the worst Chicago ever had. Unbelievable. Mayor Daley, fed up with corruption, scandals, and missteps in the Chicago Police Department over the years did what a lot of liberals do: they work off … Continue reading →
News From That Toddlin’ Town
You know, Mandarin lives outside Chicago, too. But keep writing your Czar with your ideas about Chicago’s mayoral situation. Okay, you want the Czar’s thoughts on Mayor Richard M. Daley’s lame-duckacy, eh? Here it is: Chicago, for all its faults … Continue reading →
A polite society
More guns in law-abiding hands mean less crime. The District of Columbia proves the point.Reading most press accounts, one would be forgiven for thinking Armageddon had arrived after the Supreme Court struck down the District’s handgun ban in 2008. Predictions … Continue reading →
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Confucius says: Chicago was never a shoo-in. The Southern Hemisphere has only had one Olympics, and that was in a country full of white people. The IOC really wants to establish its cred as a “global” player, so when Brazil … Continue reading →
What If Chicago Had Won?
The Mandarin and the Czar wonder what would happen if the City of Chicago had won the 2016 Olympics? One week before the opening ceremonies, the CTA would announce a funding crisis and cut all bus and train routes to … Continue reading →
Chicago? Out!
The Obamas can celebrate another humiliating waste of his valuable time. Dropping incredible matters of international importance (like Afghanistan and Iran), the President raced to Copenhagen to push the Olympic site selection committee to pick Chicago as the site of … Continue reading →
Chicago Gun Ban Shot Down?
The United States Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear the case of McDonald vs. Chicago. This case seeks to overturn Chicago’s 27 year-old ban on handgun ownership. Of course gun rights advocates are elated that the SCOTUS is going to … Continue reading →
Gormogons on the Road
Oprah celebrated her 24th season premiere on Michigan Avenue in Chicago today, along with the Black Eyed Peas. The Gormogons were there. Test for faithful readers with sharp eyes: Can you spot the hidden Gormogon? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
RePÔrt BrokÊn &LinK47 4F 52 54 4C 55 56
Here’s a photo of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport this morning, which shows a small portion of the United Airlines fleet grounded until further notice. The cause? A computer system that handles operations is completely rampant, and systems are only now … Continue reading →
Pirates
Now it appears we have emasculated our mighty Navy such that it now negotiates with pirates, in what should be a non-negotiable situation. In response, Somali pirates have seized another vessel. Thoughtfulness and deliberation is perceived by evil mercenary pirates … Continue reading →
Carbon Scoring
Your Czar normally detests the Chicago Tribue as a dessicated synopsis rag masquerading as a once great paper, but a front page article caught his eye on Sunday about Chicago. Specifically, it was a discussion of whether the City of … Continue reading →
Baby, baby, don’t you wanna go…
…to that same old place, sweet home Chicago? Chicago public school bureaucrats skirted competitive bidding rules to buy 30 cappuccino/espresso machines for $67,000, with most of the machines going unused because the schools they were ordered for had not asked … Continue reading →
More Chicagobama Politics?
As mentioned below by the ‘Puter, all the Chicago / Illinois politicians are making visits on the Republic Doors & Windows sit-in. That is, all but Gov. Blagojevich (D). He’s enjoying a little stay behind bars for trying to sell … Continue reading →
Long Winded Update/Explication/Semi-Correction
When ‘Puter’s wrong, he’ll admit it. But ‘Puter’s not convinced he’s entirely wrong on the Tom Dart post below. Anyhoo, in an effort to pull back the curtain and let the world see the exquisitely intricate process of creating a … Continue reading →
My Kind of Town, Chicago Is
In a stunning bit of moronic populism, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, one Tom Dart, has taken it upon himself to cease evicting people from foreclosed properties. Basically, the good sheriff has decided to ignore valid court orders that … Continue reading →