What? WHAT am I missing? ============ By STEVEN MALANGA Why do cities like Buffalo decline, and what role should government play in promoting recovery? In his State of the State Address this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced $1 billion in incentives to attract new investment to the beleaguered city by Lake Erie. “We believe in Buffalo,” he said, “and we’ll put our... Read more
Archive for the ‘The Left’ Category
Obama’s Scandals — and Scandal Deniers – Michelle Malkin – National Review Online
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, The LeftThe totally objective press… ============ With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to take account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of Pres. Barack Obama’s snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan asserted in May — while Operation Fast and Furious... Read more
The Pentagons Vindication
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, The Left“Ops, I was wrong… ” Senator … (don’t hold your breath) ======== U.S. forces left Iraq this month, but at least one Iraq war tradition has continued: Years after politicians and pundits manufactured a headline-grabbing controversy to tar the Bush-era Pentagon, investigators have found no wrongdoing. That’s the conclusion of the Defense Department’s Inspector General after a two-year probe of the Pentagon’s program... Read more
A narrow suffocating chamber of dogmatism.
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Politically correct, Radical Islam, The LeftBy NINA SHEA AND PAUL MARSHALL Last July in Istanbul, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton co-chaired a “High-Level Meeting on Combating Religious Intolerance” with the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Mrs. Clinton invited the OIC to Washington for a conference to build “muscles of respect and empathy and tolerance.” That conference is scheduled for Dec. 12 through Dec. 14. For more... Read more
The Union Zee Bridge
December 1 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Party Politics, The LeftWhat does it take for some people to learn a lesson? ======= Andrew Cuomo has a bridge to sell you, and we wish that was the set-up to a punch line. The New York Governor and government unions are hatching a plan to use the state’s pension funds to bankroll public works like replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge. In a radio interview with... Read more
The United States of EPA
December 1 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Environment, The LeftIf you can’t legislate, let the EPA do it… ======== Here’s one good way to consider the vote in 2012: It’s about whether to re-elect President Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, which these days runs most the U.S. economy. The EPA heaved its weight against another industry this month, issuing a regulation to sharply increase fuel economy. Under this... Read more
