If this was justified, please respond. ===== As government expands, so does its potential for abuse. Yet in the Obama era the media have largely abandoned their role as watchdogs, and even gross abuses of power go unpunished. Consider the sordid persecution of for-profit Decker College, which has belatedly received vindication after being driven into bankruptcy a decade ago by a malicious... Read more
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Why Americans Hate Government
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Obama, The LeftHow We Might Defeat Radical Jihadism – Noonan
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, ISIS, Noonan, Obama, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Terrorism, The LeftA great read. ===== 3/26/2016 These things are obvious after the Brussels bombings: In striking at the political heart of Europe, home of the European Union, the ISIS jihadists were delivering a message: They will not be stopped. What we are seeing now is not radical jihadist Islam versus the West but, increasingly, radical jihadist Islam versus the world. They are on the move... Read more
Obama Education Profit Seekers
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, The LeftOh, my?! Say it ain’t so! ==== WSJ 3/26/2016 Even progressives need to make a living. And as the Obama Administration winds down, the great and good in government are looking for gainful private employment. Some of them are even smart enough to do it by exploiting the regulations they pushed while in government. Take Jim Shelton, the deputy secretary of education in 2013... Read more
Animas River Accounting?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionYou 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
The 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
