I’m inclined to discount the gluten-free ‘push’, but let the article speak. ================ A decade ago, few Americans had heard of gluten. Today, one survey says, almost a third are trying to avoid the element found in grain. In growing numbers, the world’s biggest food makers and restaurant chains are retooling recipes and labels to tap into the concern, creating a multibillion-dollar... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Fouad Ajami on America and the Arabs
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Radical IslamSome exerpts from a very good thinker and writer. =============== Editor’s note: Fouad Ajami, the Middle Eastern scholar and a contributor to these pages for 27 years, died Sunday at age 68. Excerpts from his writing in the Journal are below, and a related editorial appears nearby: “A Tangled History,” a review of Bernard Lewis’s book, “Islam and the West,” June 24, 1993: The... Read more
Fouad Ajami, Great American
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle EastI am sorry to see him gone. He wrote with insight and clarity. RIP ========== Fouad Ajami would have been amused, but not surprised, to read his own obituary in the New York Times. “Edward Said, the Palestinian cultural critic who died in 2003, accused [Ajami] of having ‘unmistakably racist prescriptions,'” quoted obituarist Douglas Martin. Thus was Said, the most mendacious, self-infatuated and... Read more
Obama’s Iraq Feint
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iraq, Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamHe fooled Americans with a promise of change and transparency. Is his real goal offering the US to Islam in exchange for “Supreme Islam Ruler of the World”? ======================= So President Obama now says he will send “up to 300” military advisers to Iraq to help reverse the advance of al Qaeda, but not to do any fighting. He may agree... Read more
Patent Office Comanches
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtI don’t think the name should be changed, but I grant some logic for the dislike. ========= Updated June 18, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET From J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to Lois Lerner’s IRS, we thought we’d seen everything in the politicization-of-government file. But now even the lowly patent clerks are following liberal orders and deputizing themselves as George Custers to drive the Washington... Read more
The Collapsing Obama Doctrine
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaRarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. ======= Updated June 17, 2014 7:34 p.m. ET As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama’s past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. “If... Read more
