It boggles my mind.. ========= The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has a storied history, but many organizations outlive their moral purpose and it’s now clear this one has. The civil-rights outfit has come down firmly on the side of trapping poor minority children in education failure factories. On Saturday the NAACP’s national board voted to ratify a resolution... Read more
Archive for the ‘Party Politics’ Category
The NAACP’s Disgrace
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Party Politics, The LeftGreenberg, AIG and the Army
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Party Politics, Politically correctWSJ – 10/14/2016 The first weeks of Hank Greenberg’s trial suggest that, 11 years after then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer cried fraud and drove Mr. Greenberg out as CEO of AIG, prosecutors are still struggling to make a case. The New York Attorney General’s office has been overruled on efforts to introduce hearsay evidence, as well as material irrelevant to... Read more
Double Standard Anyone?
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Hillary Clinton, Liberal Press, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionThe Left protects its own. And they dare someone to try and stop them… ==== WSJ 8/19/2016 As for the suspicion that there is one standard for the Clintons and one for everyone else, witness the FBI’s interaction this week with Congress over Hillary Clinton’s agency file. The Gmen are back to being G-men— at least now that the Democratic nominee is off... 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 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
