“Not my fault…” Obama ====== From their fainting couches, the press corps “fact checkers” and the liberals who love them are having a spell over Paul Ryan’s Tampa convention speech. How dare he so much as mention the Wisconsin assembly plant that President Obama promised to keep open but didn’t? The claim is that there was nothing the White House could do, because... Read more
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Ohio’s Jewish Marine and the New GOP
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, The LeftInteresting, and not just because I’m in Ohio. ==== Will Jewish voters go for a conservative Mormon? That’s been the question since Mitt Romney secured the GOP nomination. The more intriguing question for 2012 may be this: Will Jews vote for a conservative Jew? We’ll find out come November in Ohio. In what has become one of the most high-profile races in the... Read more
Social Justice and Ryan the Heretic
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Party Politics, Religion, The LeftA sad commentary of some in the Catholic Church today. ===== Say this for the liberal impulse in American Catholicism: In its day, it leavened the faith. Against the church’s tendencies to clericalism, it promoted the contributions of the laity. Against suspicions in Rome, it championed the American experiment. In particular, the liberal impulse advanced the idea of religious liberty for all... Read more
The Hunt for Blue October
July 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, The LeftIf this quote stirs your interest… click the link… ======== …when the rate increases it is an increase, not the expiration of a decrease. Were it the latter, one could say that the Bush tax cuts were not tax cuts but the expiration of the Clinton increases, the Clinton increases the expiration of the Reagan cuts, the Reagan cuts the expiration of... Read more
Consumer Bureau Brushback
June 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, US Constitution, US CourtsAre you serious? OK then,… 9-0 ======== Washington’s regulators have great power, and in the case of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by Dodd-Frank as an independent agency, they also have no serious Congressional check. So three cheers for a recent Supreme Court decision reining in regulatory discretion that has zero foundation in law. And by the way, the... Read more
