What is the crime? ====== By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ Dec. 1, 2017 6:36 p.m. Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn on Friday pleaded guilty to lying about a non-crime. Even Adam Schiff, the House Democrat most determined to ride the Russia collusion story to bigger and better things, acknowledged that conferring with a representative of Russia about the incoming administration’s Russia policy is... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Crime? What Crime?
December 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Special Counsel, The LeftCalling Alabama Women
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Republican(s), Western CivilizationShe always makes me think. ==== WSJ 11/18/2017 Peggy Noonan Alabama has its back up, or at least its Republicans and conservatives do, and it’s understandable. They don’t like when Northerners and liberals and people in Washington tell them who their senator should be. They don’t like when reporters from outside come down and ask questions and turn over rocks looking for what’s crawling... Read more
Republicans are Not Welcome Here
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The LeftWSJ – 11/16/2017 Carlos Curbelo sure seems to qualify as Hispanic. He’s the son of a Cuban father and mother who fled the Castro regime. He speaks Spanish. And as the Congressman for Florida’s 26th district—which includes the Florida Keys and parts of Miami-Dade County—it would seem only natural to join the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, as Mr. Curbelo has been asking... Read more
The Senate Seat is Not Worth…
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Liberal Press, Republican(s)==== From “A Senate Seat Is Not Worth Roy Moore” by Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, Nov. 14: Imagine a well-intentioned honest liberal Democrat granted the power of clairvoyance in 1998. If he could look ahead to 2017, and see the consequences, what do you think he would tell his party about former President Bill Clinton? What would he say as... Read more
Prosecutors Gone Wild
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Party Politics, Special CounselWe ignore at our own peril.. ==== By Daniel Henninger WSJ 11/15/2017 American politics has become an endless fox hunt. The hounds’ heads jerked up this week on news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, responding to a request from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, had asked the Justice Department’s career lawyers to look into the possibility of appointing a second special prosecutor,... Read more
The Sickness in Higher Education
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Losing Freedom, The LeftI’m sure I’ve posted stuff about education before. This one is a good one. ===== Posted in WSJ 11/14/2017 By John M. Ellis The sheer public spectacle of near-riots has forced some college administrators to take a stand for free expression and provide massive police protection when controversial speakers like Ben Shapiro come to campus. But when Mr. Shapiro leaves, the conditions that... Read more
