You want to talk about ‘hall passes’ or what? ============= WSJ – 2/17/2016 If a private company dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into Colorado waterways, we’d be flooded with daily media updates for months. Yet the press has by now forgotten the disaster unleashed in August when EPA contractors punctured an abandoned mine. New evidence suggests the government isn’t coming clean... Read more
Archive for the ‘US Constitution’ Category
Animas River Accounting?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionThe New Schumer Precedent
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionReally, now… ====== WSJ 2/17/2016 Supreme Court vacancies tend to showcase political consistency—or lack thereof. So it is amusing to watch how thoroughly New York Senator Chuck Schumer has been reduced to self-parody as he tries to excuse his 2007 demand that Democrats reject, sight unseen, any of George W. Bush’s nominees “if—God forbid—there is another vacancy under this President” during the last... Read more
Obama’s Guantanamo Power Play
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US ConstitutionIn case you forgot, President Obama is a Constitutional Attorney… ========= By David B. Rivkin Jr. And Lee A. Casey Dec. 2, 2015 6:51 p.m. WSJ Two days after terrorists rampaged in Paris, the Obama administration announced that it had transferred five prisoners—including a former Osama bin Laden bodyguard—from the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates. In the past... Read more
President Guantanamo
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, US ConstitutionPresident Obama rode into the White House vilifying George W. Bush’s “unchecked presidential power” and “ignoring the law when it is inconvenient,” as he put it in 2007. Yet now Mr. Obama is poised to exceed any executive action his predecessor so much as contemplated as he may shut down Guantanamo Bay in defiance of inconvenient laws he signed. Attorney General... Read more
Show Us Your Donors
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, US ConstitutionDisclosure is the watchword for liberals who want to use campaign-finance laws to discourage political speech, but disclosure’s risk to the First Amendment reaches beyond politics. The Supreme Court may decide as early as Friday to hear a case on whether a government official can demand that a nonprofit group hand over a list of its major donors. The First Amendment... Read more
Notable & Quotable: George Will
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Losing Freedom, US Constitutiono o o ==== April 20, 2015 8:08 p.m. From columnist George F. Will’s keynote address at the inaugural Disinvitation Dinner, hosted in New York City on April 15 by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to honor those whose invitations to speak at U.S. universities were retracted because of their views: Free speech has never been, in the history of our... Read more
