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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Now Zorn deflects by saying conservatives do just as much cancelling, and mentions books, etc. Not true, conservatives may complain about what books their kids are handed in school. but cancel culture is 99% a phenomenon of Zorns crowd, the far nutcase left. Zorn got called a racist, now he has to wear that because there is no wiggle room on the left. Writing an article that had the slightest hint of allowing the police side be examined is more than enough to make Zorn a racist in the left wingnut crowd. He is therefore now branded a racist by… Read more »
“We’re moving on” has got to be the most dismissive and insulting end to this situation for Zorn. College journalism wannabes drop a bomb on his career (or what’s left of it) and just shrug it off without retracting their slanderous comments. These kids are intent on leaving a trail of bodies and they don’t give two damns.
The trail of bodies hasn’t even begun. The French Revolution saw its conclusion only after a couple young guys – Robespierre in his 30’s and his sidekick Saint Just in his 20’s – went on a sociopathic killing spree ordering the beheading of an estimated 40,000 people wiping out at least two previous earlier generations of revolutionaries for the crime of … being insufficiently revolutionary. And that was in 1794. We ain’t seen nothing yet. Like Kwame Raoul’s campaign slogan say, “This is their lives’ work and they’re just getting started”. If and when these kids get real power, enforced… Read more »
This is the (UNSURPRISING) outgrowth of the left’s approach… Zorn, while clever enough to sell his liberal nonsense to the old owners of the Trib, is simply not that bright. As a middling intellect, he chose to apply a modicum of common sense to a police shooting… Of course the feelings over facts crowd will have none of this… Eric, you done been cancelled. What an absolute joke our society has become. P.S. Sad I have an advanced degree from DePaul. Embarrassed that the Vincentians allowed the barbarian hordes to overrun a place that held scrosanct the legitimate pursuit of… Read more »
DePaul University, where cancel culture is tolerated.
Exhibit A: Jason D. Hill.
Exhibit B: Eric Zorn.
How about a Wirepoints article listing the cancellations that have occurred in Illinois.
Freedom of Speech, left only.
I won’t give Zorn the pleasure of another click to his substack page. Also, I’d be too tempted to leave a comment demanding he put a plastic baggie on his hand because my doggie left a warm surprise for him. That’s really the only job that guy is qualified to do.
Zorn mischaracterizes the way in which I argued that Marin, Mosely and DePaul “allowed” Zorn to withdraw from the event. As I wrote, they should have provided adequate assurance that disruptions would not be tolerated and that offending students would be punished. And DePaul, in general, has allowed the cancel culture to pervade. Those are the ways in which they have allowed Zorn to come to the conclusion that he should widraw. If those conditions were not allowed, Zorn would have had no reason to withdraw. And I certainly did not say that Zorn should have appeared to “verbally joust… Read more »