I thought this a helpful article. Hope you do to. ============= By Laura Saunders Dec. 19, 2014 Roth accounts can be a great way to save for retirement—and it is getting easier to use them. Roths include both tax-sheltered individual retirement accounts and company-sponsored 401(k) savings plans, and, as with traditional versions of these accounts, assets grow tax-free. In many other important ways, though, Roths... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Polish Candor for Europe
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, RussiaThe least I can say is that my father was born in Poland. I am fortunate. ============ ‘Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” Henry Kissinger once asked. After Monday’s changing of the guard atop the EU, there’s Donald Tusk. The new president of the European Council, a group of the leaders of EU member states, brings a clear-eyed geopolitical... Read more
Senate Democrats and 9/11 Amnesia
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Radical Islam, TerrorismPerhaps some “balance” would be helpful to the Democratic Report… Here again, it would be welcome to hear some more ‘objective’ discussion about the matter. ============== By Louis J. Freeh Dec. 10, 2014 8:00 p.m. Seventy-three years ago this week, on a peaceful, sunny morning in Hawaii, a Japanese armada carried out a spectacular attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor,... Read more
Watch Out for That Puddle
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Environment, US ConstitutionThis is one example of why the Founders created ‘checks and balances’. ========== Earlier this year the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule redefining the “waters of the United States” that are subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act. The two agencies recently finished collecting public comments on their draft rule and are deciding how to... Read more
Mobs of New York
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, The Left, US ConstitutionPerhaps one of the most important articles I have read in a long time. It is worth broader discussion. ================= How did we get to the point in the United States where street protesters are treated as sainted figures, no matter what they do? How did it happen that important public leaders—the American president, the mayor of New York, college presidents—feel obliged... Read more