WSJ 10/14/2016 =========== Boise, Idaho In the capital of the potato state, lawmakers have a power that few of their peers enjoy: They can review, and reject, new regulations coming out of executive-branch agencies. This has saved Idahoans from a slew of laughable and businessunfriendly restrictions. At the start of each legislative session, lawmakers spend weeks examining every proposed new regulation. They have the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
Greenberg, AIG and the Army
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Party Politics, Politically correctWSJ – 10/14/2016 The first weeks of Hank Greenberg’s trial suggest that, 11 years after then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer cried fraud and drove Mr. Greenberg out as CEO of AIG, prosecutors are still struggling to make a case. The New York Attorney General’s office has been overruled on efforts to introduce hearsay evidence, as well as material irrelevant to... Read more
Reign 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
Can Islam Really Function in Democracy?
July 27 | Posted by mrossol | Islam, Losing Freedom, Radical Islam, Western CivilizationTHis one is a bit long, but well worth the read. ===== WSJ 7/23/2016 First Egypt and now Turkey show the perils of ideological religious parties (and strongman rule), but other Muslim countries are faring better with democracy. BY YAROSLAV TROFIMOV IN 1999, a former mayor of Istanbul named Recep Tayyip Erdogan was imprisoned and banned from politics for life for reciting a poem. “Our... Read more
Catastrophe in Syria
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Middle East, Obama, The LeftNo kidding…. And the Left keeps giving him a “hall pass”. ====== WSJ 6/18/2016 A day after CIA Director John Brennan testified that ISIS now boasts far more fighters than al Qaeda had at its peak, there’s more disagreement in the Obama ranks. Fifty-one State Department diplomats have signed a letter that assails President Obama’s Syria policy—and calls for military strikes and the... Read more
Why Some “Americans” Don’t Buy-In to all Gun Control
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Terrorism, The Left, US ConstitutionSome of my friends question why anyone would not “sign up for ligitimate gun control laws.”? Well, perhaps they/you might consider this. =========== WSJ – Letter to the Editor. 6/16/2016 [You] . . and others describe the Orlando attack as the “largest mass shooting in U.S. history.” Hardly. According to Dee Brown (“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”), more than 150 people... Read more
