One of the biggest scams in my memory.. ====== Democrats devised the government takeover of student loans as an entitlement that might never be repaid, though they sold it as a money saver. New evidence of this giant con arrives courtesy of a report this week by the Government Accountability Office that estimates the taxpayer losses at $108 billion and counting. To help... Read more
Archive for the ‘Interesting’ Category
Obama’s Giant Student-Loan Con
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Education, Interesting, ObamaMelvin Laird, R.I.P.
November 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, InterestingOne of the unsung heros of the USA… ============ By Edwin J. Feulner I was a young staffer on Capitol Hill during the Johnson administration, soaking up lessons from my boss, Republican Congressman— later Defense Secretary—Melvin R. Laird, who died Wednesday at the age of 94. A proven warrior in World War II in the Pacific, Mel never talked about that to the kids... Read more
Welcome home!
July 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Western CivilizationDo you wonder why people risk death to come to the USA? Let’s keep it that way, please. ======= WSJ 7/2/2016 For the new recipient of a green card, life in the U.S. provides relief from the experiences of less hospitable places. BY AATISH TASEER ‘WELCOME HOME, SIR,” the immigration officer said when I presented him with my green card at John F. Kennedy Airport... Read more
The Parlance of Pilots
June 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, InterestingInteresting, indeed. And I’m sure there are other applications. =========== From “The Parlance of Pilots,” by Mark Vanhoenacker, a British Airways senior first officer, for Aeon online, June 9: Imagine a plane that flies from London to Bangkok. The pilots speak first to British air-traffic controllers but, just a few minutes after takeoff, the British controllers hand them over to Belgian... Read more
Do You Know Your Employee?
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Work worldI believe lots of organizations are in the very same boat. ========== WSJ 4/9/2016 BY DANIEL HUANG AND LINDSAY GELLMAN Entry-level bankers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. gathered in a lower Manhattan hotel ballroom last April to listen to the firm’s top executives try to fire them up about their budding careers. David Solomon, co-head of the firm’s investment bank, took on the... Read more
Castiglione: Lost Genius.
January 16 | Posted by mrossol | Art, InterestingSure wish I could visit this collection. ====== By Karen Wilkin WSJ Jan. 12, 2016 5:23 p.m. Fort Worth, Texas It’s not an overstatement to describe “ Castiglione: Lost Genius. Masterworks on Paper From the Royal Collection,” at the Kimbell Art Museum, as “revelatory.” I confess, however, that I hadn’t planned to see the exhibition. I simply happened to arrive in Fort Worth on the... Read more
