Why isn’t the press talking about facts? ====== WSJ 5/11/2017 Nixon. Watergate. Tuesday night massacre. Coup. Dictator. Impeachment. Those are the words political elites are throwing around after President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, and that’s in the news stories. The meltdown reflects the temper of the times and hostility to Mr. Trump, but it also ignores the need to repair... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Rod Rosenstein’s Justice – WSJ
May 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionThe James Comey Show – WSJ
May 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, The Left, US ConstitutionYou would know none of this from the public, left-leaning press. =========== 5/11/2017 WSJ Daniel Henninger If you read nothing else while fighting through the maelstrom around President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, read the full text of Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein’s memorandum titled “Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI.” Mr. Rosenstein’s memo makes meticulously clear the short version... Read more
How to Raise an American Adult – WSJ
May 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal, Personal Development====== WSJ May 5, 2017 We all know the noun adult. But I was perplexed last year to hear the new verb to adult. In social media, especially on Twitter and Instagram, it birthed a new hashtag: #adulting. As in: “Just paid this month’s bills on time #adulting,” or “Decided I couldn’t watch Netflix 8 hours straight and went to the grocery... Read more
The Left’s War on Free Speech – Imprimis
May 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Strassel, The LeftAt least read the first 7 paragraphs… ==== The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 26, 2017, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. I like to introduce the topic of free speech with an anecdote about my children. I have three... Read more
The Truth About Muhammad Ali and the Draft
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Islam, Radical IslamMy bet? That you’ve never heard this before… ========== WSJ 4/28/2017 By Paul Beston On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali—then still known to many by his birth name, Cassius Clay—reported to Local Board No. 61 in Houston for induction into the U.S. armed forces. The 25-year-old heavyweight champion spent the morning filling out forms and receiving a physical exam. In the afternoon,... Read more
Letters about “Evil White Men”
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, StupiditySome of the best letters I’ve read in a long time… ===== WSJ 4/28/2017 A ‘Snowflake’ Blizzard Buries Free Thought In “Those ‘Snowflakes’ Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus” (op-ed, April 22), Heather Mac Donald suggests the source of “snowflake” behavior among millennials on college campuses comes from a cultural orientation that is contra-Occidental and that students view themselves as victims of... Read more
