Review & Outlook: Obama’s Libyan Abdication The battle for Libya has reached a bloody impasse. Moammar Gadhafi continues to hold Tripoli, but his sons and mercenaries have been unable to break the uprising or retake the country’s east. Having loudly declared that Gadhafi “needs to step down from power and leave,” President Obama now seems to... Read more
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Pressure Mounts on Absent Democrats
March 4 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftPressure Mounts on Absent Democrats – WSJ.com. I thought the American Political System was based on participation? Aren’t Democratic and Republican elected officials elected so that they will “be there” and represent their constituents? If they don’t like the proposal, cannot they simply offer an amendment for everyone to be part of the union, everyone to earn union wages and benefits…... Read more
People are Standing in Line for the Privilege to be Regulated!
March 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Obama, SocialismStill Too Big, Still Can’t Fail – WSJ.com. … He said what..? === The 2010 Dodd-Frank law was sold as a way to prevent future bank bailouts. But so few people believe it that Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has embarked on a campaign to convince the markets that next time really will be different. On Friday... Read more
Notable & Quotable – WSJ.com
March 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaNotable & Quotable – WSJ.com. Don’t be afraid of the “big words”… =:) ========== Leon Wieseltier writing at the New Republic on March 2: As the dictators fall, the clichés fall, too. Cairo and Tunis and Tripoli are littered with the shards of platitudes about what is possible and what is impossible in Arab societies, in closed societies. Civilizational analysis... Read more
McCain and Lieberman call for a more forceful U.S. response to Libyan crisis – Yahoo! News
February 28 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, ObamaMcCain and Lieberman call for a more forceful U.S. response to Libyan crisis – Yahoo! News.
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