You- and Trump -may not like history, but there it is. ==== 5/3/2018 WSJ. By Jay Winik How risky is the proposed summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un? As America’s greatest modern presidents have found, summitry is an inherently high-stakes gamble. No matter how well scripted, events can take on a life of their own—or go dangerously awry. In... Read more
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Governments Steal Money
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Democrat Party, The LeftYou are not surprised, are you? ==== WSJ 5/3/2018 Progressives might get more Americans to trust them with health care or education if Democratic state politicians could do the government basics of enforcing public safety and picking up the garbage. Witness how states are diverting fees that fund 911 emergency services into other priorities. Commissioner Michael O’Rielly of the Federal Communications Commission has... Read more
Student Interrogated … For Going to Gun Range with Dad
April 25 | Posted by mrossol | 2nd Amendment, American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correctI can hardly believe, and yet I can. This country is going so … PC that some days it is hard to leave the house. ===== ==== If it weren’t clear enough where bureaucrats stand in the 2nd Amendment vs. gun control debate, one need look no further than high school student Kyle Kashuv. While the media swarm around left-leaning kids who are... Read more
Why are So Many People Closed Minded??
April 23 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, The LeftIf you don’t appreciate this article, you are BLIND. ===== WSJ 4/23/2018 By Annafi Wahed It was an unseasonably cold night, but I made the trek from Harlem to a meetup in Brooklyn. The organizers promised a night of big ideas and freethinking; the group thread included a quote from David Bohm about the virtue of free dialogue. But as with many such... Read more
Name Calling..
April 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The LeftWhen you don’t want to engage, folks often resort to ‘name calling’. Not very productive. I agree with the authors. ======== By Margaret Kimbrell White And Sasha Borowsky For an object lesson in how venomous American politics has become, look no further than the insults hurled in our direction late last month. We’re two millennial women who work at No Labels, a... Read more
The Cudgel of ‘White Privilege’
April 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, RacismThis was good, thoughtful. Yes, understanding racial issues takes a LOT of effort. For all races. ===== BY Zachary Wood, WSJ 20180409 “White people need to be checked, Zach. End of discussion.” I was talking with an Ivy League historian, a fellow African- American, about “white privilege.” I asked if his goal was to antagonize or to promote dialogue. “Do you know who... Read more
