Do ya’ miss him yet? ===== By Kimberley A. Strassel WSJ March 2, 2017 6:59 p.m. ET George W. Bush gave Democrats a gift this week—which should be a reminder of the perils of demonizing political opponents. But don’t bank on the left accepting his gracious offering. Promoting his new book about veterans on NBC’s “Today” show, Mr. Bush was asked to weigh in... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
The Left Learns to Love Dubya
March 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The Left, TrumpWho’s Afraid of Student Journalists?
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correctThis story first broke by the New York Times? =================== By John J. Miller WSJ 2/9/2017 Riots last week at the University of California, Berkeley stopped Milo Yiannopoulos, a rightwing provocateur who contributes to Breitbart News, from speaking on campus. The violence forced the cancellation of his event and inflicted $100,000 in damage to school property, according to administrators. Then it spread to New... Read more
The DeVos Apocalypse
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Henninger, The LeftA bit more on this important event. It will be interesting to see the landscape 4 years hence. ================= WSJ 2/9/2017 By Daniel Henninger The extraordinary battle over Betsy De Vos’s nomination to be secretary of education is the defining event of the Trump presidency’s early days. As presented, the DeVos confirmation appeared to be a standard partisan conflict between Democrats... Read more
At the Trump Trauma Center, Nobody Comes for Treatment
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, Trump====== WSJ 2/8/2017 By Joseph Epstein I live in Evanston, Ill., a city of roughly 80,000 just outside Chicago at whose center is Northwestern University. Evanston went 88% for Hillary Clinton to 7% for Donald Trump. The morning after the election, the general glum in town was palpable. At Peet’s Coffee, at Whole Foods, among students, one could everywhere see the depression... Read more
The Real Democratic Party
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Party Politics, The Left, Unions===== WSJ 2/8/2017 The Senate made history Tuesday when Mike Pence became the first Vice President to cast the deciding vote for a cabinet nominee. The nominee is now Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The vote came after an allnight Senate debate in a futile effort by Democrats to turn the third Republican vote they needed to scuttle the nomination on claims that... Read more
The Next American Farm Bust Is Upon Us
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, TechnologyEcclesiastes 1:9-11 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new?” It has been already in the ages before us. There is no rememberance of later things yet to be among those who come after. ======== WSJ 2/8/2017 ... Read more
