Its 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
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Meltdown at Justice
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftPodesta’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
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
