If this doesn’t give you the creeps about what the Gov can do, it should. ======= WSJ 4/20/2017 President Trump dumped Preet Bharara as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the celebrity prosecutor is conducting another media vindication tour. But a few problems from his tenure are left to resolve, including the ongoing legal crusade against David Ganek. When... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Unfinished Preet Bharara Business
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Losing Freedom, US CourtsA Trump Alliance Strategy
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Middle East, TrumpLet’s keep our allies. ===== WSJ 4/20/2017 Henninger After 59 Tomahawk missiles landed on a Syrian airfield, followed by the dropping of a 21,600-pound bomb on Islamic State’s hideouts in Afghanistan, the world has begun to ask: What is Donald Trump’s foreign policy? And so the search begins by pressing what Mr. Trump has done so far against various foreign-policy templates. Is he... Read more
Behold the Master Conspirator
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Liberal Press, The LeftOnce again, as Mr. Jenkins explains, the silence is deafening. ====== WSJ 4/19/2017 Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. It was the bombshell that bombed. The Washington Post reported last week that a Trump campaign adviser, in the middle of last year’s election campaign, had indeed been singled out by the FBI for surveillance as a potential Russian agent. Unfortunately for the conspiracy theorists, it... Read more
Susan Rice Unmasked
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftWill the major media pick up this story??? === WSJ 4/4/2017 Well, what do you know. On the matter of who “unmasked” the names of Trump transition officials in U.S. intelligence reports, we now have one answer: Susan Rice, Barack Obama’s national security adviser. A U.S. intelligence official confirms to us the bombshell news, first reported Monday by Bloomberg, that Ms. Rice requested the... Read more
The Twilight of [White] Christianity
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Christianity, Western CivilizationThis has been in progress for decades… ====== By William McGurn WSJ 4/4/2017 A specter is haunting America—the specter of white Christian nationalism. If you are looking for signs, it’s not hard to find them. Inside the White House, presidential strategist Steve Bannon invokes a 1973 French novel called “The Camp of the Saints,” in which France is overwhelmed by its own compassion... Read more
Fake News and the Digital Duopoly
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, TechnologyIf you think Google, Facebook, or even LinkedIn, are ‘charities’ and primarily concerned with the task of “serving mankind” I would say you are deluded. ========== By Robert Thomson WSJ 4/5/2017 ‘Fake news” has seemingly, suddenly, become fashionable. In reality, the fake has proliferated for a decade or more, but the faux, the flawed and the fraudulent are now pressing issues because the... Read more
