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Bankruptcy Options for Student-Loans??

March 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Obama, Socialism, The Left, US Debt

Another MAJOR ‘wealth transfer’ from taxpayers, to non-payers. An absolute crock… ======= By Josh Mitchell And Katy Stech March 10, 2015 12:17 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—The White House said Tuesday it is weighing whether to make it easier for Americans to discharge student loans through bankruptcy, a major change that would effectively open the door for student debt being treated on par with credit-card debt... Read more

Strassel: Hillary’s Email Escapade

March 7 | Posted by mrossol | Clinton, Hillary Clinton, The Left

Congress’s entire Benghazi investigation, we now know, was based on an incomplete record. ============ Hillary Clinton has made some disingenuous statements over her political career, but none remotely compare to the tweet she issued Wednesday night: “I want the public to see my email,” she said. This requires—how to say it—a willing suspension of disbelief. Mrs. Clinton was referring to the gracious permission... Read more

Fighting to Keep Catholic Schools Catholic

March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Religious Persecution, Western Civilization

Worth the read. And worth taking a stand for private institutions. ========== By Ryan T. Anderson And Leslie Ford March 5, 2015 7:09 p.m. ET San Franciscans are currently debating a simple question: Should the government respect the right of Catholic schools to be authentically Catholic? San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone thinks so. But eight California senators and assemblymen sent the archbishop a letter last... Read more

Book Review: ‘A Conflict of Principles’ by Carl Cohen

March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Social Engineering, US Constitution

A phlosophy professor’s belief in colorblind law led him to oppose the university’s use of affirmative action in admissions decisions. Why bother with facts? ============ By Terry Eastland March 5, 2015 7:10 p.m. ET In his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation, Justice John Marshall Harlan declared: “Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates... Read more

Closure in Ferguson

March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Racism, The Left

Well, well, well. ======== March 5, 2015 6:47 p.m. ET So maybe Ferguson was the wrong vignette after all, at least if the political goal was to indict modern America as irredeemably bigoted. After the protests about race and policing, and public disorder including riots in the St. Louis suburb, the Justice Department has now discredited the proximate cause. On Wednesday Justice’s civil-rights shop... Read more

Federalism and ObamaCare

March 7 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, Social Engineering, The Left, US Constitution

Politically convenient… =========== March 4, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET A closely divided Supreme Court heard arguments in the challenge to ObamaCare’s illegal subsidies on Wednesday, and the session spun off in an unexpected and provocative direction: To wit, several Justices suggested that the Affordable Care Act as drafted would unconstitutionally coerce the states. King v. Burwell turns on the statute’s plain text limiting health... Read more

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