A phenomenon not unique to America. ====== 8/13/2016 WSJ Peggy Noonan. This is about distance, and detachment, and a kind of historic decoupling between the top and the bottom in the West that did not, in more moderate recent times, exist. Recently I spoke with an acquaintance of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and the conversation quickly turned, as conversations about Ms. Merkel now... Read more
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How Elites Forsake Their Countrymen
August 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism Tags: Ruling ClassPanama Bernie
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Henninger, Socialism, Tax Issues, The LeftIts not the progressives… ===== Bernie Sanders caused the Panama Papers. Bernie of Vermont didn’t do it by himself, of course. The world’s most famous socialist, and Hillary Clinton’s albatross, had a lot of help. Spare me the crocodile tears over the immorality of tax avoidance. Panama is an indictment of government greed. After World War II, the governments of the West established... Read more
The Liberals Turn a Blind Eye…
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism, The Left, Western CivilizationJust about makes me gag all over again… ===== WSJ 2/17/2016 From historian Alan Charles Kors’s “Can There Be an ‘After Socialism’?” for the Atlas Society, Sept. 27, 2003: No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more coldblooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning... Read more
How Lois Lerner Got a Pass
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Obama, Socialism, The LeftObama isn’t ‘fuming’ about this one… ==== April 15, 2015 6:55 p.m. ET If Americans know anything about the IRS it’s that it accepts no excuses, and so they trudged wearily on Wednesday to pay their taxes. That’s in notable contrast to the free passes that keep flowing to the tax agency’s most famous former employee, Lois Lerner. Opinion Journal Video American Action Forum Director... Read more
Breaking Another Promise
March 13 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, SocialismCertainly he is building his legacy… ===== By PETE HEGSETH Updated March 12, 2015 8:16 p.m. ET Last August President Obama signed the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act, the most significant reform to the Department of Veterans Affairs in decades. Seven months later, the Veterans Choice Program, a core part of the law designed to help veterans see private doctors, is floundering. Yet... Read more
Bankruptcy Options for Student-Loans??
March 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Obama, Socialism, The Left, US DebtAnother MAJOR ‘wealth transfer’ from taxpayers, to non-payers. An absolute crock… ======= By Josh Mitchell And Katy Stech March 10, 2015 12:17 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—The White House said Tuesday it is weighing whether to make it easier for Americans to discharge student loans through bankruptcy, a major change that would effectively open the door for student debt being treated on par with credit-card debt... Read more
