Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Chicago Bears appear headed to suburbs as they buy Arlington Park

The exodus from Chicago continues. Macy's and the Gap have bailed on North Michigan Avenue, which was hit hard by two waves or riots last year.

And now the Chicago Bears appear to be on the move too. Late last night news broke that the NFL charter franchise purchased Arlington Park, a horse racing track, in suburban Cook County. The race course closed this month for good.

This is huge. Off of the top of my head--of the cities with teams in all four major sports leagues only Philadelphia and Denver have teams that play their home games in the core city--or have never had one of their teams call one of their suburbs home.

In seemingly unrelated news, CWB Chicago is reporting that on Monday the city's police commissioner, David Brown, in a speech said that car jackings are "down" in Chicago. That is a lie and Brown knows it. Also on that same day Cook County's so-called prosecutor, Kim Foxx, in a Tweet claimed that "the homicide rate remains flat." Wrong. Murders this year are up slightly over 2020 and much higher than in 2019.

Gutfeld: What happened to the adults we were promised in the Biden admininstration?

The Biden administration--and the compliant mainstream media--said that once the mean Tweeter was out of office the "adults" would be in the room at the White House. But now America is enduring debacle after debacle with Joe Biden nominally in charge.

Greg Gutfeld--the King of Late Night--has more.


Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Tucker: This is one of the worst stories of our time

An optimist will say that our military is led by hacks. A realist will say it is led by traitors.


FBI stats show that South Bend, Indiana among America's most violent cities

As Joe Biden's presidency crumbles--and the unpopularity of his vice president, Kamala Harris, exceeds his--there is already talk of who will be the Democratic nominee in 2024. 

One of those possibilities is Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg. Prior to his 2020 president run Buttigieg was mayor of South Bend, Indiana. 

How are things now in South Bend? Yesterday the FBI released crime statistics for 2020 and the Detroit News compiled a list based on those numbers and creating a worst-ten for violent crime in cities. 

Memphis topped the list with Detroit placing second. Rounding out the list is St. Louis, Little Rock, South Bend, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Missouri, Lansing, Michigan, and Springfield, Missouri. 

Yes, Mayor Pete's South Bend is among the ten with the northern Indiana city suffering from 1,765 violent crimes in 2020 that translates to a rate of 1,706.09 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.

Okay, okay, I get it. Buttigieg hasn't been mayor of South Bend since New Year's Day in 2020. But the spike in violent crimes goes back years, beginning in 2012, when Mayor Pete was sworn into office. 

Buttigieg's successor, James Mueller, was a childhood friend of Mayor Pete as well as a onetime chief of staff of his. Buttigieg endorsed Mueller in the 2019 Democratic Primary for South Bend mayor and Mueller easily won in the general election in this heavily Democratic city. 

Monday, September 27, 2021

Eight killed and at least 54 others wounded, including a cop, over weekend in Chicago

The first weekend of autumn brought plenty of shootings to Chicago. Eight people were shot to death aand at least 54 others were wounded.  Among the wounded was a Chicago police officer who was shot in the legs--she has since been released. Also wounded was a Chicago Fire Department paramedic who was grazed by a bullet. 

President Biden visits Chicago in two days. I don't expect him to talk about violence in the city. 

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Saturday, September 25, 2021

The Divine Comedy - A Lady Of A Certain Age

The Divine Comedy is a great band, as I have said before, that you probably never heard of. That's a pity. Although The Divine Comedy, like the Pretenders, is really just one person, in this case it is Neil Hannon. 

Here's Neil crooning "A Lady of a Certain Age."


‘The Five’ slam Biden for 'throwing Americans under the bus'

Joe Biden is an embarrassment.