Let’s talk about who is disenfranchised. ===== By THOMAS FLEMING Some youthful memories were stirred by the news this week that the president plans to use his State of the Union speech next Tuesday to urge Congress to make voter registration and ballot-casting easier. Like Mr. Obama, I come from a city with a colorful history of political corruption and vote fraud. The president’s... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
A Jersey Lesson in Voter Fraud
February 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, UncategorizedGold, Greenbacks and Inflation—A History and a Warning
January 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US DebtGood Econ 201 Lesson. ======= By PAUL MORENO The Federal Reserve, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, is tasked by Congress with managing the money supply so as to preserve price stability while maximizing employment. But with the central bank having increased the money supply by 25% since the financial crash of 2008—while the federal government has borrowed $5 trillion—can inflation be... Read more
Notable & Quotable – WSJ.com
January 15 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtJust had a very related discussion Sunday with son and friend… ===== From George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language” (1946): A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and... Read more
Only Newtown? God Help Us
December 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Politically correctMr. Stein says it so very well. Teaching morality? Rearing young men in America? Turning a blind eye? ====== Sunday I learned about the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school while we were setting up at Fox News to tape Cavuto on Business. The news was so horrible that we all felt as if we had lost our legs and could no longer... Read more
All In Favor of Equal Opportunity!
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, Unions, US CourtsLouisiana Judge Timothy Kelley sure is a fast writer. Only hours after the end of a two-day trial, the Balzac of the judiciary rolled out a 39-page opinion striking down the state’s pioneering voucher program as unconstitutional. Could it be that he knew how he was going to rule before the trial? The state district judge in Baton Rouge ruled that... Read more
