Review & Outlook: Vindicating the CIA – WSJ.com. Well, again I wait for the moaning and bleating of the liberal press… = The education of the Obama Administration on antiterror policy has been remarkable to behold, and the latest installment is Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to pull the plug on the investigation into most CIA interrogations. The disgrace is... Read more
Archive for the ‘Party Politics’ Category
Why the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks
June 27 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Obama, Party PoliticsWhy the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks A very, very compelling, gut-wrenching piece. =============== The Great Recession has now earned the dubious right of being compared to the Great Depression. In the face of the most stimulative fiscal and monetary policies in our history, we have experienced the loss of over 7 million jobs, wiping out every job gained since the... Read more
The Food-Stamp Crime Wave
June 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Obama, Party PoliticsJames Bovard: The Food-Stamp Crime Wave – WSJ.com. … The Obama administration is far more enthusiastic about boosting food-stamp enrollment than about preventing fraud. Thanks in part to vigorous federally funded campaigns by nonprofit groups, the government’s AmericaCorps service program, and other organizations urging people to accept government handouts, the number of food-stamp recipients has soared to... Read more
Obama’s Worst Week, Pawlenty’s Best
June 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftA Henninger: Obama’s Worst Week, Pawlenty’s Best – WSJ.com. If next year the American people pull the plug on the Obama presidency, mark down the past week as the beginning of the end . . . and what looks like the real beginning of Tim Pawlenty’s candidacy. Incumbency isn’t merely a function of political inevitability but of the fact that... Read more
Obama’s Nuclear Politics
June 12 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party Politics, The LeftStrassel: Obama’s Nuclear Politics – WSJ.com. Just more WSJ “Sour Grapes!”… ==== The Obama administration has shown a certain ruthless streak when it comes to getting what it wants. For its latest in brass-knuckle tactics, consider the ongoing fight over the proposed Yucca nuclear waste facility. This tale begins in 2008, when candidate Obama was determined to win Nevada, a... Read more
