Let’s keep our allies. ===== WSJ 4/20/2017 Henninger After 59 Tomahawk missiles landed on a Syrian airfield, followed by the dropping of a 21,600-pound bomb on Islamic State’s hideouts in Afghanistan, the world has begun to ask: What is Donald Trump’s foreign policy? And so the search begins by pressing what Mr. Trump has done so far against various foreign-policy templates. Is he... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
A Trump Alliance Strategy
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Middle East, TrumpBehold the Master Conspirator
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Liberal Press, The LeftOnce again, as Mr. Jenkins explains, the silence is deafening. ====== WSJ 4/19/2017 Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. It was the bombshell that bombed. The Washington Post reported last week that a Trump campaign adviser, in the middle of last year’s election campaign, had indeed been singled out by the FBI for surveillance as a potential Russian agent. Unfortunately for the conspiracy theorists, it... Read more
Susan Rice Unmasked
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftWill the major media pick up this story??? === WSJ 4/4/2017 Well, what do you know. On the matter of who “unmasked” the names of Trump transition officials in U.S. intelligence reports, we now have one answer: Susan Rice, Barack Obama’s national security adviser. A U.S. intelligence official confirms to us the bombshell news, first reported Monday by Bloomberg, that Ms. Rice requested the... Read more
The Twilight of [White] Christianity
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Christianity, Western CivilizationThis has been in progress for decades… ====== By William McGurn WSJ 4/4/2017 A specter is haunting America—the specter of white Christian nationalism. If you are looking for signs, it’s not hard to find them. Inside the White House, presidential strategist Steve Bannon invokes a 1973 French novel called “The Camp of the Saints,” in which France is overwhelmed by its own compassion... Read more
Fake News and the Digital Duopoly
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, TechnologyIf you think Google, Facebook, or even LinkedIn, are ‘charities’ and primarily concerned with the task of “serving mankind” I would say you are deluded. ========== By Robert Thomson WSJ 4/5/2017 ‘Fake news” has seemingly, suddenly, become fashionable. In reality, the fake has proliferated for a decade or more, but the faux, the flawed and the fraudulent are now pressing issues because the... Read more
So Much for Donald Mussolini
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, TrumpIs it possible the popular media could be wrong more then the weatherman is? ====== WSJ 3/8/2017 Well, that was fast, if predictable. We’re referring to the conventional wisdom that has moved without a moment of self-reflection from declaring Donald Trump to be a dangerous fascist to a hopeless incompetent. Not too long ago our leading media lights were using Mussolini and Hitler analogies... Read more
