Gutfeld: Every pig gets a pass, when you're a progressive

With liberals bad behavior is excused unless it's too horrible to ignore, "Every pig get as pass, when you're a progressive," Greg Gutfeld remarks here.

Especially when that pig, Harvey Weinstein, was a generous donor to Democratic campaigns.

Trump executive order strikes back at ObamaCare

Forgotten no longer

"The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer."
President Trump's inaugural address.

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
Plutarch.

"They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please."
The Rainmakers, Government Cheese.

Yes, I'm in my 50s, but I'm in great shape with few health problems. And our president is looking out for guys like me, the forgotten ones.

From Reuters:

Trump signed an executive order aimed at letting small businesses band together across state lines to buy cheaper, less regulated health plans for their employees with fewer benefits.

It was Trump’s most concrete step to undo Obamacare since he took office in January promising to dismantle Democratic former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement.

ObamaCare has a predictable wealth-distributing angle to it--so why, for instance, does ObamaCare require maternity coverage for women who don't need it, such as nuns?

For good, and yes, for ill, people should be allowed to make their own choices. It's called free will--and Trump understands.

Ingraham: Media is trying to remove Trump from office

Laura Ingraham tells Fox Business Channel's Lou Dobbs, correctly, that the mainstream media is out to remove President Trump from office.

Dobbs call them "the national left-wing nut media."

Not for the kids: Half of Chicago Public Schools tax hike to go to pensions

Here's a tax hike that's not "for the kids."

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois and of course Chicago Public Schools need to declare bankruptcy or whatever law allows them to call it.

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

The Chicago Public Schools will raise city property taxes this year by $225 million, officials said Wednesday.

CPS's share of property taxes will total $2.929 billion in 2018 — up 8.3 percent from 2017’s $2.704 billion. The difference will cost the average homeowner another $177 a year. More than half the increase to taxpayers — $154 million — will go to teacher pensions.

Chicago is a place where people who don't have pensions fund the retirement plans of those who do.

GoFundMe page for patriot whose car was destroyed by vandals

As Marathon Pundit readers know, my good friend and fellow Illinois blogger, Warner Todd Huston, who writes for Breitbart and several other conservative-leaning sites, had the misfortune of having his automobile torched by vandals.

And there have been other vandalism incidents at his home. Such is the life of some Land of Lincoln patriots.

Huston's son, a US Army veteran, has set up a GoFundMe page for a replacement car. Click here to learn more!

Powerful Chicago alderman defends hiring of troubled son for superintendent job

Carrie Austin--Richard M.
Daley Banner in Roseland

As the Jack Nicholson character in the 1989 Batman movie, "This town needs an enema."

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) on Tuesday defiantly defended her decision to hire her son Kenny as her ward superintendent, arguing there is nothing wrong with nepotism if the person on the other end of the favoritism does a decent job.

More...

The column [a Sun-Times article that brought this news to light] stated that Kenny Austin lacked a valid driver's license, which is one of the requirements to become a ward superintendent and drive around the ward surveying problems.

A spokeswoman for the Illinois Secretary of State's office says the suspension on Kenneth Austin's license was lifted on Friday — the day after the column about him was published at suntimes.com and the same day the story appeared in the newspaper.

His driver's license had been suspended since December 2015 for failing to make child support payments, state records show.Ald. Austin said yesterday that she paid her son't delinquent child support payments.

According to the Sun-Times columnist, Dan Mihalopoulos, Austin quit his job--circumventing a dismissal that may have placed him on Chicago's "Do Not Hire" list--after he was involved in a truck accident while on the job for the city's Streets and Sanitation Department. His license was suspended at the time. Carrie says someone was driving the vehicle.

As they saying goes, in a democracy voters get the government they deserve.

Related post:

Problem child of powerful Chicago alderman back on city payroll

Tucker: Time for Justice Dept to investigate Weinstein

"Sexual abuse is epidemic in Hollywood, the people in charge have covered it up and made excuses for it. In each case protecting the powerful from the powerless and the abused," Tucker Carlson says here about Harvey Weinstein. "It is time for the federal government  involved. The Department of Justice should launch an immediate investigation into Hollywood's culture of systematic abuse."

Carlson goes on to cite several examples of when the federal government got involved in sexual assault investigations, such as in the Jerry Sandusky case.

Early part of video is NOT SAFE for work

It will be interesting to see if Democrats join the call for an investigation against the Hollywood producer as Weinstein, is also, or was, a generous donor to Dems.

Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia

On this day in 1767--yes, 250 years ago, the Mason-Dixon line was completed. Two Englishmen--at the time America and Great Britain were one country--journeyed to the New World to survey the disputed border between the Maryland and Pennsylvania colonies. There were marks the current boundaries between four states: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.

Watch and listen as Mark Knopfler sings the best song--and perhaps the only one--about the Mason-Dixon line, "Sailing to Philadelphia."

CNN’s Gregory and Chalian: Obama & Clinton silence on Weinstein "unconscionable” and hypocritical

CNN's David Gregory and David Chalian say of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's silence on the long history of sexual abuse by disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein as "unconscionable” and hypocritical.

Weinstein over the years contributed $1.5 million in funds for Democratic candidates and the Demococratic Party.

S&P warns that Illinois bond rating could be lowered to junk

Despite a massive income tax hike, Illinois' bonds still could end up in the junk pile.

From Reuters:

Illinois on Monday maintained a BBB-minus rating and stable outlook from S&P Global Ratings for the state’s upcoming $6 billion bond sale aimed at shrinking a huge unpaid bill backlog.

While the credit rating agency affirmed the lowest investment grade rating, it cautioned that the nation’s fifth-largest state still faces fiscal challenges that could push the rating into junk.