The Left-wing press will be tripping over themselves to confess their misguided analysis and judgement, to date. ===== By Bret Stephens Updated March 9, 2015 7:44 p.m. ET Darren Wilson has been exonerated, again, in last August’s shooting death of Michael Brown, and that ought to be as much a vindication for the onetime Ferguson, Mo., police officer as it is a teachable moment... Read more
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Ferguson, Lies and Statistics
March 10 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Obama, Party Politics, Politically correct, The LeftThe Mumbo-Jumbo of ‘Middle-Class Economics’
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Economics, Party PoliticsYou can prove anything with numbers. This article addresses a prime example of this ‘truism’. It also reinforces the importance of “defining terms”. ======= By Alan Reynolds March 2, 2015 7:01 p.m. ET In the “Economic Report of the President” released on Feb. 19, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers defines “middle class economics” primarily by the average income of the bottom 90%.... Read more
The Voter Suppression Myth Takes Another Hit
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat PartyLet the discussion “begin”. Do more restrictive voter laws really “suppress the Black vote” or not? ========== By Robert D. Popper Dec. 28, 2014 6:57 p.m. Federal lawsuits against North Carolina claim that recent changes to the state’s election laws will “suppress” minority votes. For example, in N.C. State Conf. of NAACP v. McCrory, plaintiffs assert that the new laws “impose a disproportionate... Read more
Wisconsin Targets the Media
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Losing Freedom, The LeftThis is serious stuff. ========== A secret political speech probe looked into radio talk-show hosts. Updated Dec. 21, 2014 9:54 p.m. The Wisconsin assault on political speech has been in a lull, but it reappeared with a bang on Friday with a fresh document release by a state court. The disclosures include evidence that Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board wanted to go after Milwaukee radio... Read more
Diane Furchtgott-Roth on the National Labor Relations Board
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, US ConstitutionI don’t hear any Democrats complaining. Must be this is their MO. ========= Economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth writing for RealClearMarkets.com, Dec. 23: On Friday, just before the holidays, NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin announced that he had issued complaints against McDonald’s MCD +1.01% franchised restaurants and McDonald’s USA, the parent corporation, as joint employers. Workers complained that they were unfairly disciplined in retaliation for... Read more
Senate Democrats and 9/11 Amnesia
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Radical Islam, TerrorismPerhaps some “balance” would be helpful to the Democratic Report… Here again, it would be welcome to hear some more ‘objective’ discussion about the matter. ============== By Louis J. Freeh Dec. 10, 2014 8:00 p.m. Seventy-three years ago this week, on a peaceful, sunny morning in Hawaii, a Japanese armada carried out a spectacular attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor,... Read more
