Very 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
Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
The Court Needs Balance
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Obama, US CourtsRegulating 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
The Carbon Tax Budget
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Obama, Tax IssuesIf this isn’t the way it is, let me know. ====== WSJ 2/10/2016 President Obama rolled out his $4.1 trillion fiscal 2017 budget proposal on Tuesday, and the good news is that most of it has no chance of passing. The blueprint is nonetheless important as a statement of progressive priorities and the direction a Democratic successor might lean. That goes in... Read more
Your President negotiating on your behalf…
January 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, ObamaNot sure how many more days I can simply go on … “Oh, well, Not a concern of mine…” ======= WSJ 1/21/2016 By David Locke Hall The release Saturday during a prisoner swap of four Americans held by Iran, including the reporter Jason Rezaian and Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, is certainly welcome news. But the details of this deal, arranged after a year... Read more
Obama, Trump and Sanders
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, ObamaA huge percentage of Americans are blind. They simply do not think. ===== WSJ 1/14/2015 There is Barack Obama’s State of the Union and there is the state of the union anyone else can see. The new year began with an underground nuclear-bomb test in North Korea, the worst first week for the Dow since 1897, and Iran forcing 10 U.S. sailors to their... Read more
Do You Care What ISIS Wants?
January 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Obama, The LeftHillary thinks its important; some think being on ISIS ‘hate em’ list is something to be proud of. ==== To Spite ISIS The post-9/11 cliché “the terrorists will have won” now has a successor: “what ISIS wants.” President Obama himself employed a variation of the new slogan in his speech after the San Bernardino attack: “We should not be drawn once more into... Read more
