June 12, 2014 7:20 p.m. ET From a talk by former Sen. Joseph Lieberman at an Aspen Institute-sponsored conference in Prague, June 10: The relative peace, prosperity, tolerance and security achieved from Lisbon to Tallinn is by any historical measure not the natural state of the European continent. On the contrary, this has been a part of the world that has proven... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Liberty and Law: Not self-protecting or self-perpetuating.
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing FreedomTransgender Surgery Isn’t the Solution
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtPaul McHugh – June 12, 2014 7:19 p.m. ET The government and media alliance advancing the transgender cause has gone into overdrive in recent weeks. On May 30, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services review board ruled that Medicare can pay for the “reassignment” surgery sought by the transgendered—those who say that they don’t identify with their biological sex.... Read more
Trading With the Taliban
June 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Radical Islam, The LeftThat Mr. Obama—and his liberal friends—denounced George W. Bush for similar signing statements is one more antiterror irony of this Presidency. Other Americans will pay the price for the terrorist hostage swap. ============ The return of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from the clutches of the Taliban is cause for relief for his family and all Americans. But there’s no denying that the price of... Read more
Life Lessons From Navy SEAL Training
May 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy======== Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, gave a commencement address last week that graduates, and their parents, won’t soon forget. May 23, 2014 6:40 p.m. ET The following is adapted from the commencement address by Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University of Texas at Austin on May 17. The University... Read more
To the Class of 2014
May 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, The LeftOh, my! Cannot believe that former Princeton President William Bowen ‘unloaded’ quite ‘this bad’. ======= To the Class of 2014 [Commencement address at Haverford, May 18, 2014 ] WSJ_May 19, 2014 7:30 p.m. ET Dear Class of 2014: Allow me to be the first to offend you, baldly and unapologetically. Here you are, 22 or so years on planet Earth, and your entire lives have... Read more
Henninger: #BokoHaram Doesn’t Sing
May 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Radical Islam, Terrorism, The LeftNail squarely hit with big hammer. It is gut-wrenching to see the US of A come to what it has come to. Is is any wonder that Russians like Putin? At least he is a leader who knows that actions make more of a difference than endless deliberations. ====== WSJ_May 21, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET The tweeting has subsided. That tends to happen in... Read more
