A sop to the voters… ==== Sept. 19, 2014 6:24 p.m. ET Recently we told you about a study from the New America Foundation showing how changes to the federal student-loan program will wreak fiscal havoc in the future. A new government report shows that Uncle Sam’s swelling loan portfolio is already threatening taxpayers. The Congressional Budget Office has released its monthly budget review,... Read more
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Student Loans Worse Than Expected
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, ObamaHow Wisconsin Prosecutors Became Campaign Partisans
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionImagine, if you can, that the subject was “left leaning”? ======== By Richard M. Esenberg Sept. 19, 2014 6:53 p.m. ET Last year Wisconsin prosecutors—at the behest of Milwaukee’s Democratic District Attorney John Chisholm —launched a secret criminal investigation involving almost every conservative advocacy group in the state. Armed law-enforcement personnel executed pre-dawn searches of the homes of consultants for the Wisconsin Club for... Read more
Al Gore v. Al Jazeera v. the Truth
August 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat PartyOf course, The Left will not attach one of their own. ========== As with the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, let’s hope both sides lose. Al Gore sued Al Jazeera, saying it still owes him $65 million from the sale two years ago of Mr. Gore’s unwatched liberal cable channel for $500 million. Al Jazeera says it’s rightfully holding back monies left in... Read more
What’s Missing in Ferguson, Mo.
August 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The LeftVery thoughtful piece worth reading. ========== The lead item on much television news since the weekend has been the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer. On display was what has now become the fairly standard response in these matters: the inconsolable mother, the testimony of the dead teenager’s friends to his... Read more
Territories Free of ObamaCare
July 21 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, ObamaCare, The Left, US ConstitutionI thought we held to the principle of “Lex Rex”? Apparently, not all ‘elected officials’ do, or care. =========== Last week’s burst of world disorder was ideal for a news dump, and the White House didn’t disappoint: On no legal basis, all 4.5 million residents of the five U.S. territories were quietly released from ObamaCare. Where does everybody else apply? The original House... Read more
Noonan: The Crisis on the Border
July 18 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Noonan, Obama, The LeftAgree, that this issue is not simple, likely has several causes, but that it is not a good omen for America. ========== By – Peggy Noonan “No one who wants to help has authority, and no one with authority is helping.” What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown.... Read more
