If 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
Archive for the ‘Law’ Category
Banana Republic of N. America
August 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, Law, Obama, The LeftReign In the Prosecutors!
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Law, Losing Freedom, The Left, US Constitution, US CourtsIf the targets of the prosecutors were leftists, or Democrats, I’m afraid there would have been a lynching long ago. ====== WSJ 8/19/2016 We wish we could stop writing about Wisconsin’s abusive prosecutors, but conservatives in the state are still fighting to have their rights vindicated in court. Readers are familiar with the secret John Doe probe by Democratic prosecutors that targeted conservative groups,... Read more
Who’s in Kahootz with Who?
June 18 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, LawMore citizens need to ‘push back’. ========= WSJ 6/17/2016 A seedy side of American law is the widespread collusion between the plaintiffs bar and government prosecutors, who trade contingency-fee lawsuits for campaign contributions. Now the contingencyfee arrangements are getting a legal challenge in Texas, where a citizen says they are unconstitutional. The government of Hunt County, Texas claimed that Kirk Grady was storing a... Read more
The Climate Police Blink
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, Global Warming, Law, ObamaWell, well. Where are all the “News Releases!”? ======= WSJ 6-16-2016 The Climate Police Blink There are few more rewarding sights than a bully scorned, so let’s hear it for the recent laments of Attorneys General Claude Walker (Virgin Islands) and Eric Schneiderman (New York), two ringleaders of the harassment campaign against Exxon and free-market think tanks over climate change. Consider Mr. Walker’s recent retreat... Read more
Why Checks & Balances?
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Losing Freedom, Obama, The Left, US CourtsNice example of the Executive Branch not doing their homework and blaming the Judicial for ‘not playing nice’. Also nice example of how the Obama wing of the Democrat party like to operate. They want to write, interpret, enforce and adjudicate everything. ========== WSJ 4/9/2016 Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and his media bodyguards are still pouting over his courtroom defeat in the MetLife... Read more
A Crooked World Needs Panama
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Law, Tax Issues, Western CivilizationCouldn’t say it any better. ============= WSJ 4/9/2016 So far the one certain crime, in the so-called Panama Papers scandal, is the theft and distribution of a Panamanian law firm’s private property, its confidential documents. With the U.S. government railing this week against the Pfizer-Allergan deal, even the media might notice that the world’s convoluted tax codes actually incentivize people legally to hold... Read more
