On 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
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Massachusetts Charter Showdown
September 3 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Education, Ruling ClassThe intensity of opposition to Charter schools, even public ones, is nothing short of amazing. Why, might one ask, is this so? ========= WSJ 9/1/2016 Republican Governors who face Democratic legislatures have a tough slog, but one path to political leverage is a referendum at the ballot box. Charlie Baker is using that route in November to override a Massachusetts House that is... Read more
Banana Republic of N. America
August 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, Law, Obama, The LeftIf this does is not exactly what we see in “Banana Republics” I don’t know how else it can be explained. ========= WSJ 8/29/2016 By Andy Koenig Imagine if the president of the United States forced America’s biggest banks to funnel hundreds of millions—and potentially billions—of dollars to the corporations and lobbyists who supported his agenda, all while calling it “Main Street Relief.” The... Read more
I Thought the Left was “Pro-Choice”?
August 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, The LeftThe fact, yes, FACT, that the Left says NOTHING, confirms that they do not care about principle, but only about power. ====== WSJ 8/29/2016 By Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. And Joshua S. Lipshutz The California Supreme Court announced Aug. 22 that it would not hear Vergara v. California, a landmark case fighting for the educational rights of publicschool students. The court’s unwillingness even to... Read more
Blame someone else
August 20 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, ObamaCarePurely Obama. Never his fault. =========== WSJ 8/18/2016 Democrats claimed for years that ObamaCare is working splendidly, though anybody acquainted with reality could see the entitlement is dysfunctional. Now as the law breaks down in an election year, they’ve decided to blame private insurers for their own failures. Their target this week is Aetna, which has announced it is withdrawing two-thirds of its ObamaCare... Read more
History of a Climate Con
April 14 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Global Warming, Obama, The LeftIf you don’t agree with the “global warming nay-sayers” here’s another angle that shouldn’t be a problem for anyone to understand. [One of the best recaps I have read.] ======== WSJ 4/13/2016 How’s this for an irony? As state attorneys general gin up a fake securities-fraud case against oil companies over climate change, starting with Exxon Mobil Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission... Read more
