Along with “crony capitalizm”, this kind of “party politics” should be abandoned by both parties. What the Democats are doing – do YOU agree with this method? ============== The Obama Administration has targeted for-profit colleges as if they are enemy combatants. And now it has succeeded in putting out of business Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges for a dilatory response to document requests.... Read more
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Guilty until Proven Innocent – Democrat Style
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party PoliticsThe Daydream and the Nightmare
July 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Noonan, Obama, The LeftI am worried how much more the world can slip into “bad places” over the final years for Obama’s presidency. “Still proud of the man you elected? He sure has brought ‘change'”. ====== I don’t know if we sufficiently understand how weird and strange, how historically unparalleled, this presidency has become. We’ve got a sitting president who was just judged in a... Read more
The High Price of Obama Fatigue
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Obama, The Left======= Updated June 19, 2014 3:28 p.m. ET With 2½ years left in the Obama presidency, it is at least an open question what will be left of it by December 2016. Or us. In this week’s Wall Street Journal-NBC poll, conducted as the disintegration of Iraq began, Mr. Obama’s approval rating has fallen to 41% and his handling of foreign policy to... Read more
Coalition of the Disappointed
April 18 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Obama, The LeftAh… ====== You can tell it’s an election year because so many noncrises are suddenly urgent priorities. Real median household income is still lower than it was in 2007, the smallest share of Americans is working since 1978, and the Russians are marching west, but Democrats are training fire on race, gender and the grievances of identity politics. “We have this congenital disease,... Read more
A Catastrophe Like No Other
April 4 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Noonan, ObamaCareWell? ========== Put aside the numbers for a moment, and the daily argument. “Seven point one million people have signed up!” “But six million people lost their coverage and were forced onto the exchanges! That’s no triumph, it’s a manipulation. And how many of the 7.1 million have paid?” “We can’t say, but 7.1 million is a big number and redeems the program.” “Is it a... Read more
What I’ve Learned Teaching Charter Students
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party PoliticsWho is really “for the children”? ====== I’m a seventh-grade math teacher at Success Academy Harlem West, a public charter school. On April 30 and May 2, 3, the 272 students at my school, along with some 480,000 other New York City public school children, will sit for the state math exam. Last year, 89% of my seventh-graders and 83% of our... Read more
