I get the feeling that 1/2 the population wants more of the same. =========== WSJ 7/26/2016 President Obama said in 2008 that he wanted to be the reverse Ronald Reagan, and in one sense he has been. As he takes the Democratic stage in Philadelphia Wednesday he can rightly claim to have fulfilled most of his major progressive policy goals. The difference is... Read more
Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
Catastrophe in Syria
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Middle East, Obama, The LeftNo kidding…. And the Left keeps giving him a “hall pass”. ====== WSJ 6/18/2016 A day after CIA Director John Brennan testified that ISIS now boasts far more fighters than al Qaeda had at its peak, there’s more disagreement in the Obama ranks. Fifty-one State Department diplomats have signed a letter that assails President Obama’s Syria policy—and calls for military strikes and the... Read more
Put Britain at ‘The Back of the Queue?”
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Obama, Western CivilizationYou will not hear the liberal media call President Obama out on this one, but really, how brazen does the man have to be to lecture USA’s best allies? ========== WSJ 6/18/2016 By Andrew Roberts On June 23 the British people will be going to the polls to choose whether they want to continue with the present system whereby 60% of British laws are... Read more
Chicago: The Wild, Wild West
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party Politics, Policing, The LeftWell, you asked for it. Be thankful. ============= WSJ 6/16/2016 By Heather Mac Donald Someone was shot in Chicago every 150 minutes during the first five months of 2016. Someone was murdered every 14 hours, and the city saw nearly 1,400 nonfatal shootings and 240 fatalities from gunfire. Over Memorial Day weekend, 69 people were shot, nearly one an hour, topping the previous year’s... Read more
The Climate Police Blink
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, Global Warming, Law, ObamaWell, well. Where are all the “News Releases!”? ======= WSJ 6-16-2016 The Climate Police Blink There are few more rewarding sights than a bully scorned, so let’s hear it for the recent laments of Attorneys General Claude Walker (Virgin Islands) and Eric Schneiderman (New York), two ringleaders of the harassment campaign against Exxon and free-market think tanks over climate change. Consider Mr. Walker’s recent retreat... Read more
President Canute
June 14 | Posted by mrossol | ISIS, Obama, Radical Islam“Stop!” ==== In the spring of 2013 Barack Obama delivered the defining speech of his presidency on the subject of terrorism. Its premise was wrong, as was its thesis, as were its predictions and recommendations. We are now paying the price for this cascade of folly. “Today, Osama bin Laden is dead, and so are most of his top lieutenants,” the president... Read more
