Imagine, if you can, that the subject was “left leaning”? ======== By Richard M. Esenberg Sept. 19, 2014 6:53 p.m. ET Last year Wisconsin prosecutors—at the behest of Milwaukee’s Democratic District Attorney John Chisholm —launched a secret criminal investigation involving almost every conservative advocacy group in the state. Armed law-enforcement personnel executed pre-dawn searches of the homes of consultants for the Wisconsin Club for... Read more
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How Wisconsin Prosecutors Became Campaign Partisans
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionThe Unfree Speech Movement
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, The LeftWell? What says my friends on the left?? ======= By Sol Stern, Sept. 23, 2014 7:31 p.m. ET 17 COMMENTS This fall the University of California at Berkeley is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, a student-led protest against campus restrictions on political activities that made headlines and inspired imitators around the country. I played a small part in... Read more
A Campus Crusade Against the Constitution
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Religious Persecution, US ConstitutionWhere are the “liberal” free speech advocates? ====== By Harvey A. Silverglate Sept. 18, 2014 7:01 p.m. ET In my lifetime I have been fortunate to see private associations within civil society promote astonishing social and political advancements in civil rights for African-Americans, women and gays. The voices of a like-minded minority, when allowed to associate and present a unified message, can be powerful.... Read more
A Lesson for America in Poland’s Rise and Ukraine’s Fall
August 31 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, UkraineA pity that many Americans do not seem to have the ability to connect these dots. ========= By Phil Gramm and Michael Solon “As President Obama is learning, no political victory is permanent without economic success. Consider the fates of two former Soviet vassals.” In forging Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk warned his countrymen in 1923 that... Read more
Noonan: A New Kind of Terrorist Threat
August 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iraq, Middle East, Noonan, Radical Islam, TerrorismDid you notice there were NO “declarations of dismay” when Obama authorized air strikes against ISIS? Have we got “The Left’s Attention, finally???” Let’s be done with all this talk of “let’s just co-exist in a happy world”. How many “religion haters” “Jewish haters”, “Christian haters” are lining up to join ISIS and their view of “co-exist”?? =============== The question... Read more
