321? It would be funny if not so sad. =============== The sprawling Ivanpah solar power station in the Mojave Desert probably never would have been built without environmental activists and the subsidies and mandates they created, so there’s more than a little irony that BrightSource Energy, Google GOOGL +0.02% and another clean-tech utility are now getting an education in the... Read more
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What’s Missing in Ferguson, Mo.
August 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The LeftVery thoughtful piece worth reading. ========== The lead item on much television news since the weekend has been the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer. On display was what has now become the fairly standard response in these matters: the inconsolable mother, the testimony of the dead teenager’s friends to his... Read more
Mr. Speaker, please… We are being slaughered…
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, The LeftWhere is the “moral outrage”???? ========== From a translation by the MEMRI organization of a plea on Aug. 5 by Vian Dakhil to her fellow members of the Iraqi Parliament, on behalf of the Yazidi, a religious sect whose members are besieged on Mount Sinjar by the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: I beg you, Mr. Speaker, my people are... Read more
Palestine and Double Standards
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, The LeftVery well said. =========== What follows are excerpts from a June 30, 2014, news account by Tim Craig, the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Pakistan: “Pakistan’s military launched a major ground offensive in the northwestern part of the country Monday, beginning what army commanders say will be a ‘house-to-house search’ for terrorist leaders and other militants. “The offensive began after two weeks of airstrikes... Read more
Territories Free of ObamaCare
July 21 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, ObamaCare, The Left, US ConstitutionI thought we held to the principle of “Lex Rex”? Apparently, not all ‘elected officials’ do, or care. =========== Last week’s burst of world disorder was ideal for a news dump, and the White House didn’t disappoint: On no legal basis, all 4.5 million residents of the five U.S. territories were quietly released from ObamaCare. Where does everybody else apply? The original House... Read more
Noonan: The Crisis on the Border
July 18 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Noonan, Obama, The LeftAgree, that this issue is not simple, likely has several causes, but that it is not a good omen for America. ========== By – Peggy Noonan “No one who wants to help has authority, and no one with authority is helping.” What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown.... Read more
