Said pretty well… —– Serious people feel an obligation to listen whenever Barack Obama speaks. They furrow their brow and hold their chin and parse every word. They assume that most everything a president says is significant, which is true. They assume that what’s significant must also be well-informed. Not necessarily. I’ve been thinking about this as it becomes clear that, even at... Read more
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Student Loans Worse Than Expected
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, ObamaA sop to the voters… ==== Sept. 19, 2014 6:24 p.m. ET Recently we told you about a study from the New America Foundation showing how changes to the federal student-loan program will wreak fiscal havoc in the future. A new government report shows that Uncle Sam’s swelling loan portfolio is already threatening taxpayers. The Congressional Budget Office has released its monthly budget review,... Read more
Obamas Curious Rage
September 3 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, ObamaCalm when it comes to Putin, ISIS and Hamas, but furious with Israel. =========== Barack Obama has become ‘enraged’ at the Israeli government, both for its actions and for its treatment of his chief diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. ” So reports the Jerusalem Post, based on the testimony of Martin Indyk, until recently a special Middle East envoy for... Read more
A Terrorist Horror, Then Golf
August 23 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaSays a lot… ======= WASHINGTON — He had just hung up the telephone with the devastated parents before heading in front of the cameras. Unusually emotional, President Obama declared himself “heartbroken” by the brutal murder of an American journalist, James Foley, and vowed to “be relentless” against Islamic radicals threatening to kill another American. But as soon as the cameras went off, Mr.... Read more
Obama To Stretch Scope Of Executive??
August 6 | Posted by mrossol | Immigration, Obama, US ConstitutionI would be surprised if Obama didn’t ‘go for broke’ on this one. ==== By the end of the summer, President Barack Obama will make what some activists and legal experts say could be the “boldest move” of his presidency as he prepares to move without Congress on immigration reform. The coming executive actions to change immigration policy could become the defining moment... Read more
Noonan: The Crisis on the Border
July 18 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Noonan, Obama, The LeftAgree, that this issue is not simple, likely has several causes, but that it is not a good omen for America. ========== By – Peggy Noonan “No one who wants to help has authority, and no one with authority is helping.” What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown.... Read more
