Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category

Is a Roth Account Right for You?

December 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Tax Issues

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

UVA, Ferguson and Media Failure

December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism

No one is surprised. ===== In March 2007 the New York Times Magazine ran a stunning 12,000-word cover story on the subject of “The Women’s War.” It told the story of several female veterans of the war in Iraq, of the sexual assault some had endured in the military, and of their subsequent struggles with alcoholism, depression, PTSD and other effects of... Read more

Polish Candor for Europe

December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Russia

The 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, Terrorism

Perhaps 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 Constitution

This 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 Constitution

Perhaps 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

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