Well, 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
Archive for the ‘Party Politics’ Category
Chicago: The Wild, Wild West
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party Politics, Policing, The LeftThe Super Pac Bust
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Party PoliticsWSJ 2/21/2016 Campaign fundraising may preoccupy the press corps, but it isn’t dominating the presidential race. A new analysis from the Center for Competitive Politics shows that the amount of spending by candidates and their Super Pacs was negatively correlated with results in Iowa and New Hampshire. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is illustrating that piles of Super Pac cash can’t elevate... Read more
Great Democrat Judicial Hits
February 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, US CourtsAh, how soon we forget. === WSJ 2/21/2015 Senate Democrats haven’t made much progress shaming Republicans into yielding on President Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee, and no wonder. As much as they’re trying, they can’t erase their own abusive history of double and sometimes triple standards in confirmation politics. Earlier this week we chronicled New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s faked alibi... Read more
Animas River Accounting?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionYou want to talk about ‘hall passes’ or what? ============= WSJ – 2/17/2016 If a private company dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into Colorado waterways, we’d be flooded with daily media updates for months. Yet the press has by now forgotten the disaster unleashed in August when EPA contractors punctured an abandoned mine. New evidence suggests the government isn’t coming clean... Read more
The New Schumer Precedent
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionReally, now… ====== WSJ 2/17/2016 Supreme Court vacancies tend to showcase political consistency—or lack thereof. So it is amusing to watch how thoroughly New York Senator Chuck Schumer has been reduced to self-parody as he tries to excuse his 2007 demand that Democrats reject, sight unseen, any of George W. Bush’s nominees “if—God forbid—there is another vacancy under this President” during the last... Read more
Regulating For-Profit Universities?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party Politics, The LeftI’m betting Obama will have a special “News Q & A” on this one… ========== WSJ 2/17/2016 President Obama’s Department of Education has been waging a seven-year war against for-profit colleges. So it’s a lesson in the self-interested ways of the modern regulatory state to see a veteran of that war now seeking to profit from education. Check out last week’s proposed sale of... Read more
