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EPA Smack-Down Number Six

August 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US Constitution, US Courts

Is anyone seeing a pattern? ======= The Environmental Protection Agency has been waging a regulatory war on Texas—and losing in the federal courts. On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down another misguided EPA rule. Enacted in August 2011, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule was supposed to reduce air pollution emitted in one state and carried downwind to... Read more

Consumer Bureau Brushback

June 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, US Constitution, US Courts

Are 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

Killing Awlaki: Legal

October 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, US Courts

The people who decry this killing are the same group who will not support Ohio mothers, jailed because they choose to send there children to a school [because their [[public]] school is so bad. ========== In the decade before his death, Anwar al-Awlaki served as an imam at two American mosques attended by 9/11 hijackers. He corresponded regularly with Nidal Hasan before... Read more

Tale of Three Thefts: China, Russia, and the US

August 9 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Obama, Party Politics, Socialism, US Courts

Russia 2006 In December of 2006, Gazprom, the Russian energy monopoly, “accepted” control of Sakhalin-2 from Royal Dutch Shell. Sakhalin-2 is a drilling venture off Sakhalin Island in Russia’s North Pacific. Shell negotiated the offshore drilling rights with the Russian government to be Sakhalin-2’s owner and operator along with its two Japanese partners. In return, Shell agreed to invest $8 billion.... Read more

Release the Prisoners! – US Supreme Court

May 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, US Courts

“Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe mental illness, and many will undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym.” JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA, in a dissent on inmates who might be released under a Supreme Court ruling that ordered California to reduce its prison population. Ah, what does Scalia know… Read more

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