Dan Proft

Speaking with @DanProft at 8:35 AM today on @MorningAnswer Celebrating the collapse of the Blue States c/o @NYCMayor and @GovKathyHochul 🌞⛱️🌇

No word yet on whether doctors were able to locate a penis.

His majority opinions in Dobbs and, most recently, in Callais make Sam Alito one of the most consequential originalist jurists in SCOTUS history. Thus, @MZHemingway's new book "Alito" is particularly timely. Our @MorningAnswer conversation. morninganswerchicago.com/mollie-hemingw…

Didn't much care for him on The Hills but he's bringing just the right attitude and tone to bring the common sense counter-revolution to big blue city America. I've been saying for many moons somewhere someday soon someone unexpected is going to win a race in one of these disintegrating major metros. Maybe it's Pratt in LA.

@johnsusanhood Thank you, Susan.

@DanProft Happy Birthday, Dan. Hope you are having a great day. 🎈🎂🎉

It's much worse than Walsh characterizes it.  It's not just importing Third World useful idiots like Omar. We can turn that spigot off as Trump has proven.  We have an educated Neo-Marxist revolutionary class that believes violence is a legit means to political ends like the Jacobins in France on 1790 (Robespierre was educated on the law) or the Islamists in Iran in 1979. Be much more afraid of Hasan Piker and apologists for him like Ezra Klein than of dim-witted broads in Congress or wealthy dilettantes in, say, suburban Chicago. The latter will suffer the same fate as Louis Philippe II if (as will we) if we don't stop the former.

It would be nice if Judge Lyke could at least be man enough to admit he was catastrophically wrong, to apologize and to convey some learning has occurred that will result in improved performance. But being a politician in Illinois--and that's what these judges are--means never having to admit you were wrong. The only time contrition is offered--and it is the contrived version--is when a pol is offering an allocution before a federal judge prior to sentencing.

@JFitzJourney @MorningAnswer Thank you, Jim. Always great to get your insights. Always appreciate your candor, as I know my audience does.

Enjoyed talking to @DanProft from @MorningAnswer to discuss the #WHCA shooting. jamesrfitzgerald.com/chicagos-morni…

@gorski_robert @MorningAnswer @JFitzJourney I said, Friday, May 1. That still stands.

@MorningAnswer @DanProft @JFitzJourney Where is Mike Scott? Dan told us last Friday he would be returning yesterday!!! Can't stand these out of towners mispronouncing street names.

.@DanProft spoke with retired FBI special agent and criminal profiler @JFitzJourney, known for his work on the Unabomber case, about the assassination attempt by Cole Allen at the White House Correspondents Association dinner.

The Cook County judge who released a repeat violent felon with four pending felony cases on electronic monitoring last December, the same felon prosecutors now say escaped that monitoring and shot two Chicago police officers, killing one over the weekend... “This court has had an opportunity to watch him. I have seen attitude adjustments,” Lyke said. “He came in this court in 2023 extremely angry. Mad at the world, for the most part.” “The mere fact that he has four pending cases is egregious in and of itself and it may in certain instances shock the conscience.” Still, the judge said Talley’s prior crimes occurred when, “from a physiological standpoint, his brain wasn’t fully developed.” He added that Talley had used his eight months in custody constructively and that fatherhood could be life-changing. “It appears his mind is finally developing and he may be on the path to making better decisions,” Lyke said.

This week's @MorningAnswer installment of "In Depth History" with Frank the History Teacher from Arlington Heights, because there's nothing new in this world just the history you don't know and Frank does. +++ Apocalypto Good Morning!  The Roman Emperor Vespasian started building the Coliseum in Rome in 70 AD but it was up to his son Titus to open it.  And he certainly did, with ceremonies that included the slaughtering of helpless animals, gladiatorial murders, and for the finale, flooding the stadium floor so as to do a re-enactment of a historical naval battle. Meanwhile, several thousand miles away, the Classical Mayan civilization dominated central America and during its peak from 200-900 AD, its independent city states built upwards of 1500 ball courts - each shaped like our own state’s alleged flagship university’s capital I.  These were large enough so thousands of spectators could watch different games played with a rubber ball. We don’t definitively know the rules, but think Dan’s favorite sport – Soccer – yet only the knees, thighs, abdomen, and arms could be used to propel the ball…..thru a sideways hoop.  From videos I’ve seen on it, scoring a “goal” looks only slightly harder than converting a drop kick in the NFL. Speaking of the gridiron, the latest game theory on the Bears’ stadium melodrama now starring Govs Mike Braun and JB Pritzker, indicates that vigils should begin now for Arlington Hts’ viability as a pleasant suburb.  Our village Mayor, in a statement, seemed thrilled about the “immense potential” and is “encouraged” about the momentum for this mega-project. What he hasn’t figured out yet is that the momentum he senses is the far-Left majority of the Village Board he pretends to lead getting excited about all the new sales tax loot that they can spend on whatever they want. And let’s face it, being able to host a Superbowl, for some reason the gala sports event of the year appeals to many. All that glitz, glamour and attention…. How important they will look! But we the people will get nothing but higher taxes, traffic, noise, and maybe crime while having to endure what has become an annual celebration of Western decadence, gluttony and decline. I think author Emile Zola had it right in regards to all of this angst over the Bears and their persistence in building a new sports palace when he said……..“We have stopped believing in God, but not in our own immortality.”

Gene Roy, fmr CPD Chief of Detectives, had a good idea: treat judges the way cops are treated after an officer-involved shooting. They ride a desk until a full investigation is completed. Cook Co. Judge John Lyke is a good place to start. @MorningAnswer youtu.be/32qOBylmZHY?si…

Now comes the false moral equivalences of so many on the Left. Violence is no way to resolve our political differences whether from the left, right or center, they say, as if the incidence levels are the same. Many of the Leftists parroting this alibi masquerading as moralism are the same people who previously (and, in many cases, currently) that silence is violence, words are violence, and the enforcement of laws is violence. They purposely redefine nonviolent disagreement or conduct in furtherance of civilization as "violence" to justify actual violence committed by Neo-Marxist revolutionaries who believe the ends justify the means. After the shooting at the WHCA dinner, CNN's Van Jones openly worried about a culture of "cheerleading violence" that would rear its head again in this case the way it did with the lionization by some on the Left of the man who assassinated the UnitedHealthcare CEO. Would? It did immediately even as bilge-spewing pols like Jamie Raskin feed their comms shop flacks on the CNN desk with the lie that there is no personal animus in his heart nor his rhetoric just policy differences. As such, you'll forgive me if I cannot go along with the fairy tale that this incident will be a catalyst for a more genteel political climate.

@JulesyMarie John Bartholomew and Nelson Crespo.

@DanProft Please say their names. People need to take elections more seriously. Theyv DO have consequences.

The guy who killed one Chicago police officer and criticality injured another has been arrested 21 times for violent crimes. One prison sentence. Let's talk about the judges too.

Latest on the Chicago cop who was shot and is in critical condition. I'm so angry. I don't know if it's because I left and feel like I left Officer Crespo (and Bartholomew) behind or because they didn't leave or what. The Chicago and IL electorates are a shameful bunch. That I know. I didn't do enough well enough while I was there and so I share in that shame. I apologize to their families. +++ "Officer Crespo was moved upstairs. He is very, very touch-and-go. He got shot in the mouth and it went into his brain and spine. He lost a significant amount of brain fluid, blood and parts of his spine. He is heavily sedated. His condition is extremely critical but stabilized."