Probably one of the most important pieces I have include in this blog. ======= By BRADLEY A. SMITH The Internal Revenue Service’s scandalous targeting of tea party and conservative groups refuses to die, as one by one the administration’s explanations prove untrue. We were told that the White House, like the rest of the country, learned about the program on May 10 through a planted... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
The IRS Attack on Political Speech
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionThe Al Qaeda Obama Ignored
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The LeftThe second shortest distance in Washington now runs between an Obama speech and its empirical disproof …the executive branch of government has been operating on a contrary set of assumptions… …the gist of the address was clear, as was its purpose: to declare the war on terror won—or won well-enough—and go home. Facts and analysis were arranged to suit the policy goal.... Read more
The Tea Party’s Path to Irrelevance?
August 7 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtInteresting perspective. Worth the read. ====== WASHINGTON — THE Tea Party has a new crusade: preventing illegal immigrants from gaining citizenship, which they say is giving amnesty to lawbreakers. Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, recently told Politico that his members were “more upset about the amnesty bill than they were about Obamacare.” They’re so upset, in fact, that Republican... Read more
Can’t Wait for Others to See The Light
August 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The Left, US ConstitutionMy initial thought is that liberals- some of my friends included -would not like this at all. But Mr. Henninger makes a good point: “The political left, historically inclined by ideological belief to public policy that is imposed rather than legislated…” ====== If we learned anything about Barack Obama in his first term it is that when he starts repeating the same... Read more
An Employment Primer
July 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Obama, Tax IssuesI like most of John Mauldin’s stuff. This one was interesting and disturbing enough to share. What think/say ye? ==== A Lost Generation By John Mauldin | Jul 27, 2013 It is pretty well established that a tax increase, especially an income tax increase, will have an immediate negative effect on the economy, with a multiplier of between 1 and 3 depending upon whose... Read more
A Bombshell in the IRS Scandal
July 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, IRS, Noonan, Party PoliticsNoonan ‘making it hurt’ again. I wish some in Congress would be equally focused. ============ The IRS scandal was connected this week not just to the Washington office—that had been established—but to the office of the chief counsel. That is a bombshell—such a big one that it managed to emerge in spite of an unfocused, frequently off-point congressional hearing in which some members... Read more
