You want to talk about ‘hall passes’ or what? ============= WSJ – 2/17/2016 If a private company dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into Colorado waterways, we’d be flooded with daily media updates for months. Yet the press has by now forgotten the disaster unleashed in August when EPA contractors punctured an abandoned mine. New evidence suggests the government isn’t coming clean... Read more
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Animas River Accounting?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionThe New Schumer Precedent
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionReally, now… ====== WSJ 2/17/2016 Supreme Court vacancies tend to showcase political consistency—or lack thereof. So it is amusing to watch how thoroughly New York Senator Chuck Schumer has been reduced to self-parody as he tries to excuse his 2007 demand that Democrats reject, sight unseen, any of George W. Bush’s nominees “if—God forbid—there is another vacancy under this President” during the last... Read more
Regulating For-Profit Universities?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party Politics, The LeftI’m betting Obama will have a special “News Q & A” on this one… ========== WSJ 2/17/2016 President Obama’s Department of Education has been waging a seven-year war against for-profit colleges. So it’s a lesson in the self-interested ways of the modern regulatory state to see a veteran of that war now seeking to profit from education. Check out last week’s proposed sale of... Read more
Let’s Stop It Before It’s Too Late
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Islam, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationFrom my friend Bob Ruble. If you don’t ready anything else today, read this. ============= More than 120 people braved the snow and ice Monday to rally in front of the Missoula County Courthouse, protesting an effort by the Obama administration and its army of community organizers to plant foreign “refugees” into small cities in western Montana. One of the speakers was a... Read more
Bernie Bashes Wallstreet
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Politically correct, The LeftSo, this is ‘Big, bad, Wallstreet, eh?’ ============== By Bret Stephens, Feb. 8, 2016 7:14 p.m. ET Last Friday a crane collapsed in lower Manhattan, killing a man named David Wichs. The next day the papers told the story of his life: a Jewish immigrant from Czechoslovakia; a math whiz with a degree from Harvard; a thoughtful neighbor and husband; “the nicest,... Read more
Your Grandchildren Won’t Thank You..
February 2 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Losing Freedom, The LeftFrom a recent episode of the television show “Downton Abbey” and it was a great line! =========== Dowager Countess of Grantham ( Maggie Smith): For years I’ve watched governments take control of our lives, and their argument is always the same—fewer costs, greater efficiency. But the result is the same, too. Less control by the people, more control by the state, until... Read more
