Won't You Come Home Bill Daley?

John Kass gets off a peach of a column about the "Chicago way" and its grip on our young president.

They seem quite desperate to paint the Billy appointment as something it is not. They want it to be a symbolic move, one of Daley bringing Obama closer to the political center.

It's a neat construction, quite explainable and reasonable, the kind of thing spinners put together and feed feeble-minded reporters on background, so that a favorable consensus may be reached.

And once a consensus is reached, those who adopt it become zealots intent on hunting down the stray heretics.

"Using Chicago's early history as bare-knuckled politics and back-room dealmaking is a favored tactic among those outside the region seeking to tarnish the reputations of local Illinois political leaders who rise to the national stage," admonished the Christian Science Monitor, offering up my column as evidence of such heresy.

Early history? You mean like Thursday, when the federal grand jury indicted the former business partner of the mayor's son over that city sewer contract deal?

The Constitution War

Dahlia Lithwick points out the reading of the U.S. Consitution on the House floor yesterday is no so significant for what GOP leaders wanted to leave in but what they wanted to leave out.

The House's public reading of the Constitution today opened with a brief but meaningful hiccup. When it became clear that the Constitution would be read in its "most modern, amended form" (i.e., without references to portions that had been superseded by later amendments, including the explicit language in Article 1 that classified slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of congressional apportionment and taxation), several House Democrats raised objections to what was—quite literally—a constitutional whitewash.

She's right. There's no good excuse for that. And especially because it shows that the constitution can be changed (amended, which it was) and improved to help us form a more perfect union.

It took a civil war and several constitutional amendments to recognize the God-given rights of all Americans. It was not changed by the legal whims of liberal judges, but by a democratic process set up by the constitution itself.

Still, many liberals remain frustrated by the restraints the constitution puts on progressive government to the point where they simply ignore that such restraints exist. Today's great political argument is over the size and scope of government. The constitution was clearly meant to limit the power of the federal government to impose its will over The People by legislation, regulation and threat of force. That is what makes it the force for the conservative movement that it is today.

In the last two years, under a Democratic president, House and Senate, the federal government was never busier, bigger or more intrusive in the lives of the American people. November's election was a rebuke to all that heavy-handed, process and constitution-be-damned progressivism. It was about time.

Whitewashing Huck Finn

An Auburn English professor along with a southern book publisher thought it would be a good idea to rewrite The Adventures of Huck Finn and take out all those nasty n-word references to slaves and other black people.

A couple of local English teachers think that's a bad idea.

My print column is up.

Restoring the Social Order

Heather MacDonald reviews the failure of liberal social policies from the 1960s to the 1990s and how the conservative social reform movement on issues from welfare to crime saved lives and whole cities.

By the early 1990s, the fruits of this liberal monopoly over urban policy were in clear view. New York City homicides topped 2,000 in 1990. Drug dealers controlled the streets in the city’s poorest neighborhoods; children slept in bathtubs to avoid stray bullets from the dealers’ gun battles. Small businesses fled the city, unable to withstand the assaults on their employees and the constant break-ins. Manhattanites posted pathetic little NO RADIO signs in their cars, hoping for mercy from the circumambient thieves. The national welfare caseload was up fivefold, as was the nation’s illegitimacy rate. In New York City, one in seven residents was on welfare. I remember interviewing an able-bodied New York man who had been mooching off his girlfriend’s welfare check but was applying for his own food stamps. “I’m going for every dime I can get out of them,” he told me, righteously adding one caveat: “If they make you work, I’m not doing it.”

Read the whole thing.

The Birdcage

Becca McCharen and Emily kappes, creators and designers of Chromat have released their spring/summer 2011 collection titled shoji.

These sculpural pieces are fantastic.Few lines that redefine the space. It's like these armors have been outlined over the picture of the model with a marker,a "rough" idea that don't need to be cleaned up.

Questi vestiti scultura sono fantastici.Poche linee che ridisegnano lo spazio.E' come se questi modelli fossero disegnati sulla foto della modella con un pennarello, un'idea grezza che non ha bisogno di essere raffinata.

What was she wearing answer

Zac Posen Spring 2011 Collection

Here's the answer,Christina Ricci was wearing Zac Posen.
Apeshite guessed right, thanks for playing with me dear! :D

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