Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category

Your Father is a Realist

November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Western Civilization

Great article about immigrants. (I’m one.) ====== WSJ 11/2/2018 I own and rent out 25 mom-and-pop storefronts in Lakewood, Ohio, an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland. About 20% of my tenants are immigrants. I sell them the American dream—a chance to run their own business—and they sell beer, cigarettes, used furniture, and services like dry cleaning and haircuts. The stores are street-level... Read more

Worried About Big Brother?

November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, China, Social Engineering, The Left

Oh, yes, we should be really, really worried! ====== WSJ 11/5/2018 By Andy Kessler Hardly a week goes by that I don’t run into people who, when I ask how they are doing, tell me they’re worried about authoritarianism. Living in California, my impulse is to ask if they’re worried about the state’s one-party rule. But before I can get that out, the... Read more

A Short History of American Medical Insurance – Imprimis

October 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism

One of the best “short” analysis of how the USA got to where we are relative to health insurance. Imprimis is a publication of Hillsdale College. ========== Imprimis – September 2018 By John Steele Gordon The following is adapted from a talk delivered on board the Crystal Symphony on July 25, 2018, during a Hillsdale College educational cruise to Hawaii. Perhaps the most astonishing thing about... Read more

Is the Government Really Helping the “Poor”?

October 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Socialism

Quite interesting. The picture often looks quite different when you put all the variables on the table or into the algorithm. ====== By Phil Gramm And John F. Early ‘The War on Poverty is not a struggle simply to support people,” declared President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. “It is an effort to allow them to develop and use their capacities.” During the... Read more

High Noon

October 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Kavanaugh

WSJ 10/4/2018 By Danial Henninger In the matter of the Democratic Party versus Judge Brett Kav anaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is time to have it out. We have arrived at an inevitable moment in every classic Western showdown. There is nothing left to talk about. We don’t need any more FBI reports. It’s time to go out... Read more

Destroy the Judge

October 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Kavanaugh, The Left

Very good piece. ===== WSJ 10/2/2018 William McGurn As malignant as were the campaigns against Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, even they didn’t face accusations as vile and unrelenting as the unsubstantiated charges against Brett Kavanaugh. Adding to the injustice is that the frenzy surrounding his nomination isn’t really about him. It’s about Roe v. Wade. The 1973 Supreme Court... Read more

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