One in seven…? This is progress? ============ The Obama and Romney campaigns spent Tuesday sniping over whether the President deserves an “incomplete” grade, as Mr. Obama put it, for fixing the economy. The more revealing news was the Department of Agriculture report, released on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, that 46,670,373 Americans are now on food stamps. That’s an all-time record, at... Read more
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“We Have Lived Beyond Our Means”- Brown
August 31 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Party Politics, The Left, UnionsUnions howl.. ==== In a long-overdue moment, governor Jerry Brown has finally admitted the obvious, the state’s pension system is broke and California Has “Lived Beyond Our Means”. Unions of course are howling at that obvious admission. California Governor Jerry Brown and lawmakers have reached a deal to raise public employees’ retirement ages, have them pay more into their pension accounts, and cap... Read more
Ohio’s Jewish Marine and the New GOP
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, The LeftInteresting, and not just because I’m in Ohio. ==== Will Jewish voters go for a conservative Mormon? That’s been the question since Mitt Romney secured the GOP nomination. The more intriguing question for 2012 may be this: Will Jews vote for a conservative Jew? We’ll find out come November in Ohio. In what has become one of the most high-profile races in the... Read more
Social Justice and Ryan the Heretic
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Party Politics, Religion, The LeftA sad commentary of some in the Catholic Church today. ===== Say this for the liberal impulse in American Catholicism: In its day, it leavened the faith. Against the church’s tendencies to clericalism, it promoted the contributions of the laity. Against suspicions in Rome, it championed the American experiment. In particular, the liberal impulse advanced the idea of religious liberty for all... Read more
The Postmodern President
August 16 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party PoliticsHeavy sigh. ========== President Obama spent his formative years in academia, so he’s no doubt familiar with postmodernism, the literary theory that rejects objective reality and insists instead that everything is a matter of interpretation and relative “truth.” At any rate he’s running the first postmodern Presidential campaign, now organized almost exclusively around allegations about his opponent that bear no relation to... Read more
