Change 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
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Double Standard Anyone?
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Hillary Clinton, Liberal Press, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionThe Left protects its own. And they dare someone to try and stop them… ==== WSJ 8/19/2016 As for the suspicion that there is one standard for the Clintons and one for everyone else, witness the FBI’s interaction this week with Congress over Hillary Clinton’s agency file. The Gmen are back to being G-men— at least now that the Democratic nominee is off... Read more
Reign In the Prosecutors!
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Law, Losing Freedom, The Left, US Constitution, US CourtsIf the targets of the prosecutors were leftists, or Democrats, I’m afraid there would have been a lynching long ago. ====== WSJ 8/19/2016 We wish we could stop writing about Wisconsin’s abusive prosecutors, but conservatives in the state are still fighting to have their rights vindicated in court. Readers are familiar with the secret John Doe probe by Democratic prosecutors that targeted conservative groups,... Read more
Who’s got Moscow’s Back?
August 20 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Middle East, Obama, Russia, The LeftYes, let’s not forget to tell the whole story… ============= WSJ 8/18/2016 By Sohrab Ahmari Donald Trump’s fondness for Vladimir Putin emerged during the GOP primary, when he refused to condemn the Russian dictator for murdering dissident journalists. Since then the New Yorker hasn’t backed away from positions on NATO, Ukraine and Syria that have no doubt gone down well in Moscow. Then again, so... Read more
Obama’s Age of Discord
July 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftI get the feeling that 1/2 the population wants more of the same. =========== WSJ 7/26/2016 President Obama said in 2008 that he wanted to be the reverse Ronald Reagan, and in one sense he has been. As he takes the Democratic stage in Philadelphia Wednesday he can rightly claim to have fulfilled most of his major progressive policy goals. The difference is... Read more
Europe is Hopeless, No?
July 27 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Politically correct, The Left, Western CivilizationEurope needs some backbone, or its over. ============== At last count, members of the European Union spent more than $200 billion a year on defense, fielded more than 2,000 jet fighters and 500 naval ships, and employed some 1.4 million military personnel. More than a million police officers also walk Europe’s streets. Yet in the face of an Islamist menace the Continent... Read more
