Well, Mr. President??? ===== By The Editorial Board WSJ Jan. 19, 2018 Donald Trump spent 90 minutes talking to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the White House on Friday trying to avoid a government shutdown, and after he left Mr. Schumer vouchsafed that “we made some progress.” But apparently not enough to stop him and his fellow Democrats from threatening to filibuster... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Charles Is in Charge – WSJ
January 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, TrumpPoor Ol’ Fusion?
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsPlease pass the box of Kleenex… ===== WSJ 1/4/2018 Let’s see. The Clinton campaign hires Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, to investigate the Trump campaign. Fusion hires a former British spy, Christopher Steele, who produces a dossier based on Russian sources full of rumor, hearsay and an occasional fact to allege collusion between the Kremlin and Trump campaign. The dossier gets to... Read more
America’s Alarmingly Archaic Arsenal
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, MilitaryNo surprise here, folks… WSJ has been raising this for years.. ======== WSJ 1/4/2018 By Mark Helprin The Trump administration’s recently unveiled National Security Strategy is an excellent and overdue statement of intent. But unless it is ruthlessly prioritized, political and budgetary realities will make it little more than a wish list. And in regard to nuclear weapons, it hardly departs from the... Read more
Not a Victim Anymore?
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, Politically correct, Racism“…Racism is as endemic to the human condition, just like stupidity is.” ====== Shelby Steele, 1/12/2018 WSJ The recent protests by black players in the National Football League were rather sad for their fruitlessness. They may point to the end of an era for black America, and for the country generally—an era in which protest has been the primary means of black advancement... Read more
Make Iran Great Again!
January 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, Middle East, Obama, TrumpOnly one post for tonight. This one should be enough… ========= WSJ 1/4/2018 Iran erupted last Thursday. By Friday, the protests against the government, which began in Mashhad near the Afghan border, had spread to dozens of cities. So when we traveled on Saturday to a movie theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to see “Darkest Hour,” Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Winston Churchill,... Read more
Help Iranians!!
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, Politically correct, TrumpDon’t be like Obama… ======= WSJ 1/2/2018 Iran has a peculiar habit of surprising Americans. It has done so again with the protests engulfing its major cities. The demonstrations began over economic grievances and quickly transformed into a rejection of theocracy. The slogans must have unsettled the mullahs: “Death to Khamenei!” “Death to Rouhani!” “We will die to get our Iran back!” Imperialism has... Read more
