Can’t say I agree with the author, 100%, shoot, probably not 70%, but I like the point he makes about Disney. Some organizations don’t really get into “the facts”. ====== From remarks by Robert J. Papp Jr., U.S. special representative for the Arctic and retired Coast Guard admiral, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., March 12: A very bright young lady... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Fighting to Keep Catholic Schools Catholic
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Religious Persecution, Western CivilizationWorth the read. And worth taking a stand for private institutions. ========== By Ryan T. Anderson And Leslie Ford March 5, 2015 7:09 p.m. ET San Franciscans are currently debating a simple question: Should the government respect the right of Catholic schools to be authentically Catholic? San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone thinks so. But eight California senators and assemblymen sent the archbishop a letter last... Read more
Closure in Ferguson
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Racism, The LeftWell, well, well. ======== March 5, 2015 6:47 p.m. ET So maybe Ferguson was the wrong vignette after all, at least if the political goal was to indict modern America as irredeemably bigoted. After the protests about race and policing, and public disorder including riots in the St. Louis suburb, the Justice Department has now discredited the proximate cause. On Wednesday Justice’s civil-rights shop... Read more
The Right-to-Work Advantage
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Labor, Party Politics, UnionsMore discussion would be welcome! ============= By Luke Hilgemann And David Fladeboe March 4, 2015 6:51 p.m. ET Wisconsin will likely become the nation’s 25th right-to-work state within the next week. No longer will the Badger State’s private-sector employees be compelled to join a labor union and pay dues as a condition of employment. Debates over this contentious public policy are usually cast as fights... Read more