In case you forgot, President Obama is a Constitutional Attorney… ========= By David B. Rivkin Jr. And Lee A. Casey Dec. 2, 2015 6:51 p.m. WSJ Two days after terrorists rampaged in Paris, the Obama administration announced that it had transferred five prisoners—including a former Osama bin Laden bodyguard—from the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates. In the past... Read more
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Obama’s Guantanamo Power Play
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US ConstitutionPresident Guantanamo
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, US ConstitutionPresident Obama rode into the White House vilifying George W. Bush’s “unchecked presidential power” and “ignoring the law when it is inconvenient,” as he put it in 2007. Yet now Mr. Obama is poised to exceed any executive action his predecessor so much as contemplated as he may shut down Guantanamo Bay in defiance of inconvenient laws he signed. Attorney General... Read more
Kurds on the Right Side of History
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | ISIS, Obama, Radical Islam, The LeftFrom French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy’s “Thinking the unthinkable: This is war,” in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Nov. 16: I come now to the heart of the matter. The real source of this flood of horror. And that is the Islamic State, which occupies a good third of Syria and Iraq and provides to the perpetrators of possible future Bataclans the... Read more
Palestinian State of Denial
November 9 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle East, ObamaYou do not make peace with enemies. You make peace with former enemies. ======= In the history of political clichés, has there ever been one quite so misjudged as the line—some version of which is attributed either to Israel’s martyred Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin or fabled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan—that “you make peace with your enemies, not with your friends”? OK, “give peace... Read more
The Democrat Party in Practice
August 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Tax IssuesTax payers will pay. ========= WSJ Aug. 21, 2015 6:53 p.m. The arc of progressive politics these days seems to be hoping to benefit from proposing policies to solve the problems their previous policies have created—and hoping nobody notices the cause and effect. Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates have been proposing new ways for college students to reduce or write-off their... Read more
Obama’s Lawless Labor Board
August 14 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, Labor, ObamaI’m sure there is a good reason here, folks. ====== WSJ Aug. 11, 2015 7:47 p.m. ET One of President Obama’s legacies will be his abuse of executive authority, and his hits keep coming. On Friday a federal appeals court struck down a ruling of the National Labor Relations Board because, incredibly, its acting general counsel was in the job illegally. The scofflaw was... Read more
