At some point your temperature will have to rise. ========== The White House insists President Obama is “outraged” by the “inappropriate” targeting and harassment of conservative groups. If true, it’s a remarkable turnaround for a man who helped pioneer those tactics. On Aug. 21, 2008, the conservative American Issues Project ran an ad highlighting ties between candidate Obama and Bill Ayers, formerly... Read more
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Conservatives Became Targets in 2008
May 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The LeftThis Is No Ordinary Scandal
May 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The LeftWe the people…. we need to wake up. =============== We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to dangerous. No one likes what they’re seeing. The Justice Department assault on the Associated Press and the ugly politicization of... Read more
A Battering Ram Becomes a Stonewall
May 24 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, The LeftThis IRS thing is as serious as anything in the past 20 years. We the people better demand accountability or ‘Shame on us.’ ==================== “I don’t know.” “I don’t remember.” “I’m not familiar with that detail.” “It’s not my precise area.” “I’m not familiar with that letter.” These are quotes from the Internal Revenue Service officials who testified this week before the House... Read more
The Evil in Boston
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | Radical Islam, The LeftEvil. Let’s call a spade a spade. Let’s call radical Islam what it actually is: evil. =============== Before we move on from Boston—move on from psychoanalyzing the Brothers Tsarnaev, and their parents; move on from fretting about when, exactly, Dzhokhar should have his Miranda rights read to him; move on from the (irrelevant) history lesson about Chechnya; move on from the speechifying... Read more
Boston and the Un-Bush
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Radical Islam, The LeftOn the Patriot Act, the president is very much his reviled predecessor’s mirror image. === With the terror of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing still seeping into the American psyche, how ironic it is that President Obama traveled this week to Dallas for the opening of the George W. Bush Library. Mr. Obama has built the politics of his presidency—its foreign policy... Read more
Clinging to Guns—and Abortion
April 19 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftI’ve already heard it: “We dont’ ‘cling’; we hold firmly to honorable convictions.” =============== Atop the quotable Barack Obama there will be this: “And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” Everyone clings to something. But when it comes to criticizing unseemly political dependencies, it’s almost always liberals... Read more