Lot of damage can still be done. ========= WSJ 12/24/2016 Barack Obama’s decision to abstain from, and therefore allow, last week’s vote to censure Israel at the U.N. Security Council is a fitting capstone for what’s left of his foreign policy. Strategic half-measures, underhanded tactics and moralizing gestures have been the president’s style from the beginning. Israelis aren’t the only people to feel... Read more
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Obama’s Anti-Israel Tantrum
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle East, ObamaTotally despicable. ======== WSJ 12/24/2016 The decision by the United States to abstain from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel over its settlements on the West Bank is one of the most significant, defining moments of the Obama Presidency. It defines this President’s extraordinary ability to transform matters of public policy into personal pique at adversaries. And it defines the reality of... Read more
Obama’s Midnight Express
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, TrumpOnly a ‘blind press’ could miss this. =========== WSJ 12/23/2016 Barack Obama isn’t known for humility, though rarely has his lack of grace been more on display than in his final hours in office. The nation rejected his agenda. The president’s response? To shove more of that agenda down the nation’s gullet. Notice the growing and many ugly ways the Obama administration is actively... Read more
Michelle’s Trump Despair
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Henninger, ObamaPoor Michelle. Breaks my heart. ============= WSJ 12/22/2016 Amid all the sentiments, ideas and stress that enwrap the Christmas season, one idea abides: hope. On Christmas Day, in every church the world over, whether a cathedral or the shell of an ancient chapel in Iraq, congregants will sit down to hear a homily on hope. This being post-election America in 2016, it is fitting... Read more
Obama’s Last Stand
December 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Obama, The LeftWell, maybe not “last”… ======= WSJ 12/6/2016 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Sunday delivered a symbolic victory to the environmental left by denying a permit to complete the 1,200 mile Dakota Access oil pipeline. The political obstruction illustrates why it’s so hard to build anything in America these days. Construction is almost complete on the Dakota Access, which aims to transport a... Read more
What the Dakota Pipeline Is Really About
December 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, Law, Obama, The LeftAgain, this is so sad, that the President of the USA would ignore the law… =========== WSJ 12/7/2016 A little more than two weeks ago, during a confrontation between protesters and law enforcement, an improvised explosive device was detonated on a public bridge in southern North Dakota. That was simply the latest manifestation of the “prayerful” and “peaceful” protests against the Dakota Access... Read more
