Obama isn’t ‘fuming’ about this one… ==== April 15, 2015 6:55 p.m. ET If Americans know anything about the IRS it’s that it accepts no excuses, and so they trudged wearily on Wednesday to pay their taxes. That’s in notable contrast to the free passes that keep flowing to the tax agency’s most famous former employee, Lois Lerner. Opinion Journal Video American Action Forum Director... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Ambushing Employers’ Speech Rights
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Labor, Law, The LeftThe Left at it . . . ====== By Thomas M. Johnson Jr. April 16, 2015 7:07 p.m. ET A popular narrative since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 posits that corporations have displaced political and religious minorities as the principal beneficiaries of First Amendment rights. There supposedly has been a “corporate takeover” of the First Amendment, as Harvard Law School’s... Read more
Whatever the Ayatollah Wants
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, Obama, Radical IslamObama keeps giving “us” away. ======= April 19, 2015 5:36 p.m. ET Give Ayatollah Ali Khamenei credit for knowing his opposition. Two weeks ago the Supreme Leader declared that Western sanctions had to be lifted immediately as a condition of a nuclear deal. And sure enough, on Friday President Obama said Iran would get significant sanctions relief immediately upon signing a deal. The Ayatollah... Read more
Cops are doing their Job.
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, PolicingProbably not “news worthy enough”. =========== Day in and day out, the great majority of cops do their job the right way. April 19, 2015 5:17 p.m. From host Bob Schieffer’s weekly commentary for CBS ’s “Face the Nation,” April 19: The best training to be a reporter or anything else is to work the police beat, because every story you cover is the worst... Read more
Notable & Quotable: George Will
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Losing Freedom, US Constitutiono o o ==== April 20, 2015 8:08 p.m. From columnist George F. Will’s keynote address at the inaugural Disinvitation Dinner, hosted in New York City on April 15 by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to honor those whose invitations to speak at U.S. universities were retracted because of their views: Free speech has never been, in the history of our... Read more
You Want Us to do Your Wedding?
April 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Religious PersecutionThis is good! = = = = Radical activists in the gay community have put pedal to the metal to force gay acceptance from Christians — making not only their position but also their tactics anti-Christian. They are deliberately targeting the Christian wedding industry — the cakemakers, the caterers, the quaint bed-and-breakfast owners, and the like. They are headhunting Christians who refuse... Read more
