If this was justified, please respond. ===== As government expands, so does its potential for abuse. Yet in the Obama era the media have largely abandoned their role as watchdogs, and even gross abuses of power go unpunished. Consider the sordid persecution of for-profit Decker College, which has belatedly received vindication after being driven into bankruptcy a decade ago by a malicious... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Why Americans Hate Government
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Obama, The LeftThe Court Needs Balance
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Obama, US CourtsVery well said. ===== WSJ 2/21/2016 The president has every right to nominate a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia. He shouldn’t, but he has the right by law and precedent. The reasons he shouldn’t spring from facts particular to the moment and having to do with what Justice Scalia symbolized. In a 50/50 country, one that suffers deep ideological divisions and is constantly... Read more
Great Democrat Judicial Hits
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, US CourtsAh, how soon we forget. === WSJ 2/21/2015 Senate Democrats haven’t made much progress shaming Republicans into yielding on President Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee, and no wonder. As much as they’re trying, they can’t erase their own abusive history of double and sometimes triple standards in confirmation politics. Earlier this week we chronicled New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s faked alibi... Read more
The War on Cash
February 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big GovtIf they don’t like cash, let them bring back gold. ========= These are strange monetary times, with negative interest rates and central bankers deemed to be masters of the universe. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that politicians and central bankers are now waging a war on cash. That’s right, policy makers in Europe and the U.S. want to make it harder... Read more
Democracy’s Legal Champion
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionWill we see another like him? Roberts certainly is not cut from the same cloth. ===== WSJ 2/16/2016 By Michael W. McConnell Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at age 79, was the most influential Supreme Court justice of the past 30 years. Not because he had the votes. He was influential because he had a clear, consistent, persuasive idea of how to... Read more
Justice Scalia
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionI respect him greatly. ========= WSJ 2/16/2016 From a Sept. 7, 1999, Journal op-ed by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13 at age 79, on the most significant development in the law over the past millennium: My selection of democratic self-government as development of the millennium assumes— perhaps optimistically— a continuing appreciation of the need for these structural checks. It... Read more
