Real fair, yes? ====== April 21, 2015 7:43 p.m. ET Lawyers for the Labor Department on Wednesday will appear in federal court in Florida to answer to Judge M. Casey Rodgers, who sounds increasingly skeptical about the department’s honesty. The case is part of an attempt to regulate to death a legal guest-worker program. It’s called H-2B, and many businesses rely on these visas... Read more
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Ambushing Employers’ Speech Rights
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Labor, Law, The LeftThe Left at it . . . ====== By Thomas M. Johnson Jr. April 16, 2015 7:07 p.m. ET A popular narrative since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 posits that corporations have displaced political and religious minorities as the principal beneficiaries of First Amendment rights. There supposedly has been a “corporate takeover” of the First Amendment, as Harvard Law School’s... Read more
Obama’s Mideast Vacuum
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationAnother “total disaster” if you want my opinion. =========== March 26, 2015 7:21 p.m. An abiding goal of President Obama’s foreign policy has been to reduce America’s role in the Middle East, in the belief that it would lead to greater stability and serve U.S. interests. Has a policy ever been so thoroughly repudiated in so short a time? Mr. Obama has succeeded... Read more
The Campus Climate Crusade
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Global Warming, Liberal Press, Politically correct, The LeftWhy is the left not willing to have open dialog, discuss facts, consider alternate opinions? Is it because they have no argument, so all they have left is to demonize individuals? ================ Kimberley A. Strassel March 26, 2015 7:12 p.m. ET Conservative thought on campus these days is rare, though for some it’s still not rare enough. Witness the growing campaign by politicians, unions... Read more
Environmental Religion
March 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming, The LeftVery good argument, indeed. ============ From a speech by the late novelist Michael Crichton to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, 2003: Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it’s a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully,... Read more
