I’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
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A Taliban Easter
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, Terrorism, The LeftAnd your President cannot call this what it truly is. ====== 3/28/2016 There aren’t many Christians left in Pakistan, but that’s still too many for the Taliban. A splinter group of the Pakistani faction of the Islamist terror group claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on Christians celebrating in a park in Lahore on Easter Sunday. At least 65 people, mostly women... Read more
Why Americans Hate Government
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Obama, The LeftIf this was justified, please respond. ===== As government expands, so does its potential for abuse. Yet in the Obama era the media have largely abandoned their role as watchdogs, and even gross abuses of power go unpunished. Consider the sordid persecution of for-profit Decker College, which has belatedly received vindication after being driven into bankruptcy a decade ago by a malicious... Read more
How We Might Defeat Radical Jihadism – Noonan
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, ISIS, Noonan, Obama, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Terrorism, The LeftA great read. ===== 3/26/2016 These things are obvious after the Brussels bombings: In striking at the political heart of Europe, home of the European Union, the ISIS jihadists were delivering a message: They will not be stopped. What we are seeing now is not radical jihadist Islam versus the West but, increasingly, radical jihadist Islam versus the world. They are on the move... Read more
The Court Needs Balance
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Obama, US CourtsVery well said. ===== WSJ 2/21/2016 The president has every right to nominate a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia. He shouldn’t, but he has the right by law and precedent. The reasons he shouldn’t spring from facts particular to the moment and having to do with what Justice Scalia symbolized. In a 50/50 country, one that suffers deep ideological divisions and is constantly... Read more
Regulating For-Profit Universities?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party Politics, The LeftI’m betting Obama will have a special “News Q & A” on this one… ========== WSJ 2/17/2016 President Obama’s Department of Education has been waging a seven-year war against for-profit colleges. So it’s a lesson in the self-interested ways of the modern regulatory state to see a veteran of that war now seeking to profit from education. Check out last week’s proposed sale of... Read more
