Second GOP Senator Opposes Medicare Plan – WSJ.com. I have yet to see Republicans demonstrate qualitative differences on who, how, what they are vs Democrates. Guess I should start looking at Independents … ==== A GOP plan to overhaul Medicare faces its first vote in the Senate this week, presenting a test of just how risky Republicans view one of the party’s signature... Read more
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Second GOP Senator Opposes Medicare Plan
May 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsRelease the Prisoners! – US Supreme Court
May 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, US Courts
“Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe mental illness, and many will
undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym.”
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA, in a dissent on inmates who might be released under a Supreme Court ruling that ordered California to reduce its prison population.
Ah, what does Scalia know…
Saving President Assad
May 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Radical IslamReview & Outlook: Saving President Assad – WSJ.com. Hearty salutations and reassurances from Damascus. After killing more than 600 (and counting) and arresting and injuring thousands more in a seven week crackdown, the Syrian regime wants you to know that it thinks it has the upper hand over protestors. And Bashar Assad appreciates the support and understanding... Read more
How Jane Austen Taught Me to Be a Man
May 19 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtWilliam Deresiewicz: How Jane Austen Taught Me to Be a Man – WSJ.com. A great perspective. And the books/movies aren’t bad either. By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ I was 26 when I read my first Jane Austen novel, “Emma,” the story of a spoiled young lady in Regency England who fancies herself a matchmaker. A graduate student at the time, I was as... Read more
The Constitution and the Debt Ceiling
May 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US DebtRivkin and Casey: The Constitution and the Debt Ceiling – WSJ.com. I keep learning something. By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE CASEY Congressional Republicans debating how to use the government’s debt ceiling to control runaway federal spending should examine one of the Constitution’s relatively obscure clauses: Section Four of the 14th Amendment. This provision, which forbids any default on ... Read more
Remembering the First Blow Against al Qaeda
May 19 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtKarl Rove: Remembering the First Blow Against al Qaeda – WSJ.com. It was a fitting end: The brutal terrorist who aspired to create an Islamic caliphate that stretched from the Straits of Malacca to Gibraltar was found hiding in a walled compound, isolated and reduced to communicating in fitful spurts by courier. It was the identity of a... Read more
