Obama keeps claiming things and then behaves the opposite. ===== WSJ 4/18/2016 One reason American politics is so polarized is that President Obama has been so cavalier about his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws he dislikes. On Monday the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to one of his worst abuses, his 2014 order that rewrites U.S. immigration law. In United States... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Obama’s Ahistorical Scolding About the Supreme Court.
April 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US ConstitutionIn case you want some historical context… ============ WSJ 4/11/2016 By Betsy McCaughey And Michael B. Mukasey President Obama is hitting the road and the airwaves trying to convince the nation that the Senate has a constitutional duty to consider his nominee, Merrick Garland, for the Supreme Court. On Thursday the president said at the University of Chicago that Republicans’ refusal to consider Mr.... Read more
Why are Companies Siding Against Religious Liberty?
April 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftI think my PayPal account is going to be closed. ======== WSJ 2/11/2016 By William Ligon The American Founders believed religious liberty to be so essential that they enshrined it in the First Amendment. Today, however, it is treated as only another flashpoint in the culture wars. Simply look at the reaction to Georgia’s H.B. 757, a religious-freedom bill that my colleagues in the... Read more
Is Anyone Awake?
April 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, ISIS, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationWhat am I missing? ============ WSJ 4/11/2016 By James P. Cain Two Saturdays ago, just outside Maastricht, the Netherlands, I visited the 65 acre American Cemetery in Margraten. A sea of marble white crosses and Stars of David is arrayed in a gentle arc marking the final resting place of 8,301 American soldiers who fell nearby while ensuring the liberty and security of a... Read more
Why Checks & Balances?
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Losing Freedom, Obama, The Left, US CourtsNice example of the Executive Branch not doing their homework and blaming the Judicial for ‘not playing nice’. Also nice example of how the Obama wing of the Democrat party like to operate. They want to write, interpret, enforce and adjudicate everything. ========== WSJ 4/9/2016 Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and his media bodyguards are still pouting over his courtroom defeat in the MetLife... Read more
The Case for a Really Open GOP Convention
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The RightA very good, thought provoking article for me. ======== WSJ 4/9/2016 As the odds rise of a contested Republican presidential convention, Donald Trump’s and Ted Cruz’s camps are insisting that one of them must be the nominee. The Trump argument is that even if he falls short of the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination, denying it to him at the... Read more
