Really, 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
Archive for the ‘Party Politics’ Category
The New Schumer Precedent
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionRegulating 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
Please, Don’t Confuse Me With Facts
February 15 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Law, Party Politics, Policing, RacismI’m sure Bernie and Hillary will help get the facts out in the open soon. ======== WSJ 2/12/2016 By Heather Mac Donald A television ad for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign now airing in South Carolina shows the candidate declaring that “too many encounters with law enforcement end tragically.” She later adds: “We have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systemic... Read more
An Alternative Black History Month
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsNYT? Won’t read this there… ======== By Jason L. Riley, WSJ 2/10/2016 Black History Month, which began as Negro History Week some 90 Februarys ago, was meant to be temporary. Its founder, historian Carter G. Woodson, envisioned a time when black history would be incorporated with American history and no longer require separate recognition. Woodson’s optimism was warranted. Americans today are led by a... Read more
Deport Nikki Haley??
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | Immigration, Party Politics, Republican(s)Interesting indeed. ======= WSJ 1/15/2016 When Nikki Haley offered the Republican response to President Obama’s final State of the Union, the American people heard an articulate conservative who has twice been elected Governor in South Carolina. It’s a sign of the GOP’s distemper that some conservatives denounced her because she didn’t denounce legal immigration. Gov. Haley’s parents came to America from India. Her father... Read more
Hiding the Rise of Violent Crime
December 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Party Politics, Policing, The LeftNot getting the attention it needs to get. I’m disappointed, though not surprised, that the Obama administration as well as many on the Left do not want to have a more open discussion. Where is the Reverend Jesse Jackson? Where is Al Sharpton? Where is Eric Holder? ===== By Heather Mac Donald Dec. 25, 2015 1:09 p.m. WSJ Murders and shootings have spiked in... Read more
