Your President, your government at work for YOU! ========= Nothing like the end of a week in August with a hurricane on the way to bury another political favor for unions. When not telling U.S. companies where they are allowed to locate their operations, the National Labor Relations Board will now require them to display pro-organizing propaganda. The new rule issued last Thursday... Read more
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Mere Proposals
September 1 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, The Left“Mine don’t count…” ====== Among the core assumptions of modern liberalism is that future regulations have no more effect on the economy than future taxes, as if expectations don’t matter and businesses don’t prepare now for their costs tomorrow. President Obama’s letter to John Boehner yesterday is a classic of the genre. Last week the Speaker asked the White House to disclose any... Read more
Address a Joint Session of Congress, when?
September 1 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party PoliticsI guess if you can’t “win” on principle, work the process to your best advantage. ====== By CAROL E. LEE And PATRICK O’CONNOR After protracted budget fights, no one thought the two political parties would easily hold hands this fall as the legislative season begins anew. But a dispute Wednesday over the timing of a presidential speech showed the depth of rancor between... Read more
Leading from Behind?
September 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Obama, The LeftMr. Ajami almost always speaks with insight and sense… He here helps explain why Libya and Iraq are so different. ================= By FOUAD AJAMI On the face of it, the similarities of the undoing of the terrible regimes of Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi are striking. The spectacles of joy in Tripoli today recall the delirious scenes in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in 2003—the... Read more
Mary Kissel: Justice’s New War Against Lenders – WSJ.com
August 31 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaBy MARY KISSEL Talk about not learning from past mistakes: A government department is again intimidating banks into lending to minority borrowers at below-market rates, all in the name of combating “discrimination.” Welcome to the next housing mess. The 1990s may have brought us supercharged politicized lending, but Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is taking the game to an entirely new level,... Read more
