Imagine, if you can, that the subject was “left leaning”? ======== By Richard M. Esenberg Sept. 19, 2014 6:53 p.m. ET Last year Wisconsin prosecutors—at the behest of Milwaukee’s Democratic District Attorney John Chisholm —launched a secret criminal investigation involving almost every conservative advocacy group in the state. Armed law-enforcement personnel executed pre-dawn searches of the homes of consultants for the Wisconsin Club for... Read more
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How Wisconsin Prosecutors Became Campaign Partisans
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionGuilty until Proven Innocent – Democrat Style
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party PoliticsAlong with “crony capitalizm”, this kind of “party politics” should be abandoned by both parties. What the Democats are doing – do YOU agree with this method? ============== The Obama Administration has targeted for-profit colleges as if they are enemy combatants. And now it has succeeded in putting out of business Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges for a dilatory response to document requests.... Read more
IRS Lost Email Jeopardy
June 25 | Posted by mrossol | IRS, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionAnd the press, who hold to their sacred duty to expose Govt ‘mis-management’, is total absent this discussion. =========== The IRS is spinning a tale of bureaucratic incompetence to explain the vanishing emails from former Tax Exempt Organizations doyenne Lois Lerner and six other IRS employees. We have less faith by the minute that there is an innocent explanation for this failure... Read more
Cantor Bows Out With Grace
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Party PoliticsGive him credit for his class. ========= Peggy Noonan – June 12, 2014 6:03 p.m. ET Eric Cantor took his defeat with style and dignity. He conceded without bitterness, acknowledged disappointment, blamed no one but himself—”I fell short”—called his leadership position the honor of his life and briskly announced the date he’d step down. He played it straight about who should succeed him... Read more
What I’ve Learned Teaching Charter Students
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party PoliticsWho is really “for the children”? ====== I’m a seventh-grade math teacher at Success Academy Harlem West, a public charter school. On April 30 and May 2, 3, the 272 students at my school, along with some 480,000 other New York City public school children, will sit for the state math exam. Last year, 89% of my seventh-graders and 83% of our... Read more
Improving Education for the Poor… and the Left
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Obama, Party Politics, The Left, UnionsAgain, no surprises. ====== Feb. 28, 2014 6:48 p.m. ET New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio carried through this week on one of his campaign’s “progressive” promises: his assault on charter schools. Mr. de Blasio announced that he would not allow Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy to open three new charter schools that had been approved by previous Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Readers of these... Read more