I think my PayPal account is going to be closed. ======== WSJ 2/11/2016 By William Ligon The American Founders believed religious liberty to be so essential that they enshrined it in the First Amendment. Today, however, it is treated as only another flashpoint in the culture wars. Simply look at the reaction to Georgia’s H.B. 757, a religious-freedom bill that my colleagues in the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
Why are Companies Siding Against Religious Liberty?
April 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftWhy 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
PC at Marquette
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftIf there is a better term I can use, please, help me out. ====== WSJ 4/8/2016 Blogging can be dangerous to your livelihood— or at least it can at Marquette University, where a professor may lose his job for expressing the wrong political views. In November 2014 an undergraduate approached philosophy instructor and PhD candidate Cheryl Abbate, after a class on John Rawls’... Read more
They Want Your IRA
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, ObamaI’m surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. ============= President Obama’s regulators aren’t slowing down, alas. And on Wednesday they unveiled another part of their plan to push Americans out of private investment accounts and into government-run plans. The Department of Labor says its so-called fiduciary rule will make financial advisers act in the best interests of clients. What Labor doesn’t say is that the... Read more
Let’s Stop It Before It’s Too Late
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Islam, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationFrom my friend Bob Ruble. If you don’t ready anything else today, read this. ============= More than 120 people braved the snow and ice Monday to rally in front of the Missoula County Courthouse, protesting an effort by the Obama administration and its army of community organizers to plant foreign “refugees” into small cities in western Montana. One of the speakers was a... Read more
Your Grandchildren Won’t Thank You..
February 2 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Losing Freedom, The LeftFrom a recent episode of the television show “Downton Abbey” and it was a great line! =========== Dowager Countess of Grantham ( Maggie Smith): For years I’ve watched governments take control of our lives, and their argument is always the same—fewer costs, greater efficiency. But the result is the same, too. Less control by the people, more control by the state, until... Read more
