I’m in total shock… ======= WSJ 11/18/2016 On Donald Trump’s victory Republicans in Congress are primed for an ambitious agenda, and not a moment too soon. One immediate problem is ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid, which has seen enrollment at least twice as high as advertised. Most of the insurance coverage gains from the law come from opening Medicaid eligibility beyond its original goal of... Read more
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Trump and the Democrats
November 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Obama, Ruling ClassWell, well, well. ============ WSJ 11/11/2016 Donald Trump’s victory is already inspiring reflection about the future of the Republican Party, and rightly so, but Democrats don’t seem to be undertaking any similar introspection. This is a mistake, because they wouldn’t have been ushered out of power up and down the ballot if the American public wasn’t rejecting the results and methods... Read more
Meltdown at Justice
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftIts beyond belief- the ineptitude, if not outright abuse -how this Democrat Administration operates. ================= WSJ 11/2/2016 Fewer than three of 10 Americans trust government to do the right thing always or most of the time, Gallup reports, and the years since 2007 are “the longest period of low trust in government in more than 50 years.” The details emerging about the multiple... Read more
Podesta’s Email Address
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party Politics, Ruling Class, The LeftThis should put an end to the idea that “you can be anything you really commit yourself to”. ================== Thomas Frank, writing in the Guardian on Oct. 31: Then there is the apparent nepotism, the dozens if not hundreds of mundane emails in which petitioners for this or that plum Washington job or high-profile academic appointment politely appeal to [John] Podesta—the ward-heeler of... Read more
Non-Catholics for Church ‘Reform’
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Religious Persecution, The LeftA totally objective press. Right. ============== By Robert P. George Arthur Schlesinger Sr. said that anti-Catholicism is “the deepest bias in the history of the American people.” I don’t know if that’s true anymore, as I don’t run into much anti-Catholicism from ordinary Americans. Yet I can’t say I’m surprised by the noxious anti-Catholic bigotry contained in emails exchanged between leading progressives,... Read more
Dumbed-Down America
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The LeftOn our way to …? ======== The Weekly Standard’s Andrew Ferguson, writing Oct. 6, on an article about Donald Trump in Vanity Fair by that magazine’s editor, Graydon Carter: One of the weirder aspects of anti-Trump mania is its sniffy tone. And it’s especially weird coming from card-carrying liberal Democrats. For two generations our culture and its institutions have been living under... Read more
