Religious persecution? ========== WSJ 11/9/2015 Sheldon Whitehouse got his man. The Rhode Island Senator has been lobbying for prosecutions of oil and gas companies over climate change, and New York Attorney General and progressive activist Eric Schneiderman has now obliged by opening a subpoena assault on Exxon Mobil. This marks a dangerous new escalation of the left’s attempt to stamp out all disagreement... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
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
Ben Sasse on the Senate
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtWe need more like him. ============== From Sen. Ben Sasse’s maiden speech on the Senate floor, Nov. 3: I’m home basically every weekend, and what I hear— and what I’m sure most of you hear—is some version of this: A pox on both parties and all your houses. We don’t believe politicians are even trying to fix this mess. To the Republicans,... Read more
That New-Time Religion
October 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Western CivilizationA link from my son, who warns that the piece is long, but worth the read. I agree. =========== https://www.claremont.org/article/that-new-time-religion/ “…America’s more recent secular faith is far less coherent, organizationally and intellectually. What abideth is the disdain of the redeemed for the unredeemed, and especially for the unrepentant. The post-Protestants, whom Bottum also calls “the elect,” have rejected “benevolent toleration,” the “broad-shouldered acceptance... Read more
Frank Discussion on Muslim Immigration
September 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, IslamAt least someone is willing to talk plainly about an important issue. ============= Many in America feel that they cannot tell the truth when comes to the Muslim situation. They feel as though they are being mean or hard if they say what they feel. They are scared to have a large population of Muslims in their community. It... Read more
The Democrat Party in Practice
August 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Tax IssuesTax payers will pay. ========= WSJ Aug. 21, 2015 6:53 p.m. The arc of progressive politics these days seems to be hoping to benefit from proposing policies to solve the problems their previous policies have created—and hoping nobody notices the cause and effect. Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates have been proposing new ways for college students to reduce or write-off their... Read more
