Let elected officials govern. ===== WSJ 1/25/2019 Another week, another liberal court injunction against the Trump Administration. This month a federal judge blocked the Commerce Department from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. At issue is whether the President and his appointees control the government bureaucracy or the other way around. Liberals cheered when Obama officials invoked executive discretion to... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Who Should Run The Census?
January 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, US ConstitutionNot to Late to Quit Social Media – Cal Newport
January 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal Development, TechnologyShould be required reading for all. [As in ‘everyone’]. ===== WSJ 1/26/2019 by By Kate Bachelder Odell Americans may not agree on much, but here’s one point of consensus: Social media isn’t entirely wonderful. Facebook has its privacy scandals, and who would join Twitter for the camaraderie? This week an ugly online mob demonstrated the point by setting upon a... Read more
What Trump Might be doing Right – Letters
January 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Republican(s), The Right, TrumpSome very good responses to Peggy Noonan’s editorial of 12/29/2018, where she tried to encourage “Trump insiders” to “speak up – on the record”. ======= Peggy Noonan asks “Trump insiders” to speak candidly about how the administration conducts the people’s business (“Trump Insiders, Come Out of the Shadows,” Declarations, Dec. 29). Two years are indeed enough time to evaluate the conduct of... Read more
Why Kansas City – NR
January 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, MilitaryWhy Kansas City?In a recent letter to the editor following Allen C. Guelzo’s informative piece “The Great War’s Great Price” (November 12), Colin Calhoon pointed out that a memorial does exist in Washington, D.C., honoring District of Columbia residents who bravely served during the war. In his response, Mr. Guelzo commented that a national World War I memorial also “oddly”... Read more
The Politics of Work
November 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EconomicsVery interesting, indeed. ===== WSJ 11/24/2018 By Jason Willick Since election night 2016, liberal pundits have debated whether Donald Trump won because of “economic anxiety” or “cultural resentment.” According to Oren Cass, “these aren’t different things.” The real issue, the Manhattan Institute scholar says, is work. Whether and how people are employed—what their role is in society’s productive system—“is both an economic... Read more
American Exceptional??
November 27 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtI would say that America is an ‘exceptional’ nation. === WSJ 11/24/2018 By Allen C. Guelzo Americans like to believe we are an exceptional people. We speak of ourselves as a city upon a hill, a nation lifting our light beside the golden door, a people who more than self their country loved and mercy more than life. Exceptionalism was a... Read more
