I trust the NSA before most “protectors of privacy rights”, too. ==== Every week, Typhoon Obama changes course to upend some new corner of the private or public sector. The ObamaCare botch is well along to costing Democrats control of Congress. This week Mr. Obama offhandedly told the New Yorker that smoking marijuana is hardly different than having a Miller Lite, a random... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Selfish ‘Public Servants’
January 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, PhilosophyI see this not only in public service, but in all areas of life. Natural outcome when nothing restrains the individual. ==== Sometimes the most obvious thing is the most unnoticed. I find myself thinking this week about the destructive force of selfishness in our political life. This common failing is the source of such woe! Politicians call themselves public servants, so... Read more
Tom Coburn: The Year Washington Fled Reality – WSJ.com
December 31 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, ObamaYes, a Republican perspective. If yours is different, please share it. ===== By TOM COBURN Dec. 30, 2013 7:06 p.m. ET The past year may go down not only as the least productive ever in Washington but as one of the worst for the republic. In both the executive branch and Congress, Americans witnessed an unwinding of the country’s founding principles and of their government’s... Read more
What to Do When ObamaCare Unravels
December 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Health, ObamaCareShort on details – maybe not the author’s objective. But worth the read. ============= By John H. Cochrane Dec. 25, 2013 3:51 p.m. ET The unraveling of the Affordable Care Act presents a historic opportunity for change. Its proponents call it “settled law,” but as Prohibition taught us, not even a constitutional amendment is settled law—if it is dysfunctional enough, and if... Read more
Confessions of a Quantitative Easer
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, DebtNot the final word, but will YOUR totally ignore this guy? ====== By Andrew Huszar Nov. 11, 2013 7:00 p.m. ET I can only say: I’m sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program of the Fed’s first plunge into the bond-buying experiment known as quantitative easing. The central bank continues to spin QE as a... Read more
