When Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York, he tried to cut off taxpayer funding for a museum showing a work entitled “The Holy Virgin Mary,” featuring an image of the Madonna smeared with elephant dung, surrounded by cutout porn photos of female genitalia. Mr. Giuliani said the museum didn’t have a “right to government subsidy for desecrating somebody else’s... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
White House Goes Mum on Free Speech
September 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Radical IslamMuslims, Mormons and Liberals
September 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, The LeftThe best “talk” on this subject that I have read. Excerpt: ” . . . the most “progressive” administration in recent U.S. history will make no principled defense of free speech to a Muslim world . . .” ========== ‘Hasa Diga Eebowai” is the hit number in Broadway’s hit musical “The Book of Mormon,” which won nine Tony awards last year. What does... Read more
Airbrushed History and Dusted-Off Promises
September 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftWhy are the “fact checkers” checking? ============== In his speech in Charlotte, N.C., last Thursday, Mr. Obama said, “I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy. I never have.” In truth, he did. Mr. Obama and his economic team claimed in a Jan. 9, 2009, report that if his stimulus bill were passed, joblessness would peak at 8% in... Read more
Henninger: The Obama Democrats
September 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftDon’t look for this analysis in the liberal press… ============== … the Chicago teachers union …[have] got goals, and what they want from the people of Chicago or America is compliance. … The modern Democratic Party, the party of Obama, is about permanent division and permanent opposition. Despite seven Democratic presidencies since FDR, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Harvard still grieves, “The system is... Read more
Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime
September 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsThe inconvenience of it all… ============ WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently... Read more
‘Who They Love’
September 6 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, American Thought, Party Politics, The Left“What they don’t verbalize…” ========== ” . . . First, the Democrats are eager to wage cultural war. They love abortion and same-sex marriage, although there was a telling rhetorical difference in the way they handled those two subjects. They are embarrassed by, maybe even ashamed of, their enthusiasm for abortion. The word itself was almost never mentioned. We recall it escaping the... Read more
