Some good ideas here… ===== WSJ 2/21/2018 by John Carlson The most predictable fallout from last week’s school shooting in Florida is the impassioned reactions from both sides of the gun divide, which guarantee nothing will change. Gun-control supporters demonize firearms and Second Amendment supporters, blaming the National Rifle Association for mass murder. Conservatives see their critics as caring little about the... Read more
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Redistricting and the US Supreme Court
February 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, US ConstitutionThis one is flying under most people’s radar…to America’s harm. ===== WSJ 2/21/2018 Political chaos has broken out in Pennsylvania after the state’s high court last week redrew the congressional map for this year’s midterm elections. Behold our future judicial overlords if the U.S. Supreme Court rules that partisan gerrymanders are unconstitutional. Last month a 5-2 liberal majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court... Read more
No One is Facing Their Own Hyperbole
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, The Left, Trump, US ConstitutionNo commentary on how wrong they were… ====== WSJ 1/2/2018 As Donald Trump heads into his second year as President, we’re pleased to report that there hasn’t been a fascist coup in Washington. This must be terribly disappointing to the progressive elites who a year ago predicted an authoritarian America because Mr. Trump posed a unique threat to democratic norms. But it looks... Read more
Donald Trump’s Watergate? – WSJ
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionMr. Bork. A shame that the USA did not benefit from your presence on the Supreme Court. ======== WSJ 1/2/2018 Robert Bork has been dead five years. But at a moment when the air is thick with reckless talk about a “constitutional crisis” if President Trump were to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Bork’s explanation for his firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox... Read more
Obstruction of Justice? – WSJ
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Strassel, US ConstitutionNo one should be surprised that ‘they’ are not giving up easily. ===== WSJ 12/8/2017 K A Strassel Obstruction of Congress The media echo chamber spent the week speculating about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller can or will nab President Trump on obstruction- ofjustice charges. All the while it continues to ignore Washington’s most obvious obstruction— the coordinated effort to thwart congressional... Read more
The Right to Bear Arms
October 5 | Posted by mrossol | 2nd Amendment, American Thought, US ConstitutionA very well written and thought out article on an important topic. ======= The Washington Post – Dec 9, 2015 Charles C. W. Cooke is a staff writer at National Review and the author of “The Conservatarian Manifesto.” When debating the wisdom of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, the media tends to start from the presumption that the question is purely scientific, and that the... Read more
