Scam is a very good word for it. ===== WSJ 12/27/2017 After nationalizing student lending, the Obama Administration sought to reduce the government’s $1.3 trillion loan portfolio by allowing disgruntled borrowers to discharge their debt. Last week Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ended this fraud against taxpayers. After driving Corinthian Colleges out of business in 2014, the Education Department implemented a haphazard process to forgive... Read more
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The Definition of Stonewalling
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, The LeftEven I am surprised at how neglected this story has been by the main-street press. ========= WSJ 12/11/2017 Christopher Wray was supposed to bring a new candor and credibility to the FBI after the James Comey debacle, but the country is still waiting. The director’s testimony Thursday to the House Judiciary Committee suggests he has joined the Justice Department effort to stop the... Read more
Facts Don’t Really Matter
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Jenkins, Liberal Press, Special Counsel, The Left, TrumpAs with Republicans who came before, they are guilty of “something”; the only question is when we will find it…. ======== WSJ 12/8/1017 Pressing in on many of Donald Trump’s critics finally is the unreality of a Putin Trump conspiracy to put him in the White House, so now the switch has been to accuse him, after the election, of violating the Logan... Read more
Crime? What Crime?
December 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Special Counsel, The LeftWhat is the crime? ====== By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ Dec. 1, 2017 6:36 p.m. Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn on Friday pleaded guilty to lying about a non-crime. Even Adam Schiff, the House Democrat most determined to ride the Russia collusion story to bigger and better things, acknowledged that conferring with a representative of Russia about the incoming administration’s Russia policy is... Read more
When Listening is Not Listening
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left=== WSJ 11/16/2017 By Zachary Wood – Williamstown, Mass. ‘You’re a racist white supremacist!” a Williams College student shouted at Christina Hoff Sommers, after she finished a recent campus talk on feminism. To their credit, a handful of students responded to Ms. Sommers’s talk with challenging questions and cogent criticisms. But insults, rants and meltdowns consumed the majority of the question-and-answer session. As president... Read more
Republicans are Not Welcome Here
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The LeftWSJ – 11/16/2017 Carlos Curbelo sure seems to qualify as Hispanic. He’s the son of a Cuban father and mother who fled the Castro regime. He speaks Spanish. And as the Congressman for Florida’s 26th district—which includes the Florida Keys and parts of Miami-Dade County—it would seem only natural to join the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, as Mr. Curbelo has been asking... Read more
