From 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
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
Your Grandchildren Won’t Thank You..
February 2 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Losing Freedom, The LeftStop Taking Innocent Citizen Proterty
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Law, Losing FreedomTaking from citizens who aren’t even guilty… Only in Obama’s ‘America’ ===== WSJ Dec. 28, 2015 6:41 p.m. There’s plenty not to like in Washington’s recent budget bill, but there’s also encouraging news on property rights and the rule of law. Thanks to a reallocation of funds in the federal budget, the Department of Justice has been forced to stop rewarding state and... Read more
December 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, Terrorism, The Left
Why don’t we let intelligence agents do their job before terror attacks, not in the bloody aftermath. ==== By L. Gordon Crovitz Dec. 20, 2015 The massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., came a few days after a law went into effect banning access by intelligence agencies to key digital communications. It is time for the U.S. to get ahead of terrorism by... Read more
One Year After Cuba Normalization?
December 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, ObamaWell, I don’t hear the NYT crowing about this ‘victory’!?? ===== Mary Anastasia O’Grady Dec. 20, 2015 4:13 p.m. ET This month marks the first anniversary of President Obama’s unilateral rapprochement with Cuba. Upon making the Dec. 17 announcement, the Obama administration immediately moved to ease restrictions on American travel to the island and, by extension, boost revenues for the owners of its... Read more
The Liberal Theology of Gun Control
December 8 | Posted by mrossol | 2nd Amendment, Losing Freedom, Obama, The LeftYep, change the subject! ================ How does a man who entered the White House vowing to restore science to its proper place tell us that gun control is the answer to terrorism? After all, California already has strict gun control, as does France, which just had its second terrorist massacre this year. Not to mention that the one time when terrorists with assault... Read more
Chicago School of Free Speech
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftWSJ – 11/22/2015 “I’m a Liberal Profes sor, and My Liberal Stud ents Terrify Me,” read the headline of an essay for the liberal website Vox earlier this year. The author, who was frightened enough to write under a pseudonym, admitted that he “cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad,” including books by Mark Twain. The American... Read more
