WSJ 10/14/2016 =========== Boise, Idaho In the capital of the potato state, lawmakers have a power that few of their peers enjoy: They can review, and reject, new regulations coming out of executive-branch agencies. This has saved Idahoans from a slew of laughable and businessunfriendly restrictions. At the start of each legislative session, lawmakers spend weeks examining every proposed new regulation. They have the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Socialism’ Category
Regulation: Meeting Its Match in Idaho
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Law, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, SocialismDon’t Worry, the Kids Will Pay
August 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Obama, Socialism, The LeftChange the Left believes in… ====== WSJ 8/29/2016 As President Obama ends his second term, he’s leaving plenty of political parting gifts. The latest is a 35% single-year increase in the federal budget deficit, and a rising trajectory of spending and debt as a share of the economy. Hillary Clinton’s campaign promise of more “stimulus” spending next year suddenly looks a lot more... Read more
How Elites Forsake Their Countrymen
August 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism Tags: Ruling ClassA 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
Panama 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


