Oh, to have been there… === By THOMAS FLEMING With Americans in uniform serving all over the world today, the idea of them celebrating Thanksgiving abroad does not strike anyone as unusual. With Americans locked in a world war in 1942, it certainly was. The hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops fighting the Axis powers in North Africa, the South Pacific and Europe celebrated... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
The Hillary Moment
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsNot to bad of an article here… ==== When Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson accepted the reality that they could not effectively govern the nation if they sought re-election to the White House, both men took the moral high ground and decided against running for a new term as president. President Obama is facing a similar reality—and he must reach the same... Read more
The Brain-Dead Left
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftI have to hand it to Mr. Taranto. Anyone with some additional thoughts? ========= By JAMES TARANTO “They paused to scream at the walls of a Citibank branch.” To our mind, that sentence more than anything we’ve read encapsulates the spirit of Obamaville. It originally appeared in a San Francisco Chronicle story about an incident in which “dozens of college students” invaded a Bank... Read more
The Divider vs. the Thinker – Noonan
October 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party PoliticsPeople are increasingly fearing the divisions within, even the potential coming apart of, our country. Rich/poor, black/white, young/old, red/blue: The things that divide us are not new, yet there’s a sense now that the glue that held us together for more than two centuries has thinned and cracked with age. That it was allowed to thin and crack, that the... Read more
