Anyone who suggests that Castro was anything but a vicious dictator – I pray God would have mercy on your soul. =========== WSJ 11/28/2016 Armando Valladares in May accepting the Canterbury Medal from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty: When I was 23 years old I refused to do something that at the time seemed very small. I refused to say a few... Read more
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Castro ‘what?’ !
November 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, The LeftThe Recount Hail Mary
November 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The LeftNo one is surprised… ===== WSJ 11/28/2016 Remember when Democrats and the left scored Donald Trump for worrying that the election might be “rigged”? Well, now that he’s won, the same crowd is demanding recounts in three battleground states on grounds that the Russians rigged the results. On Saturday what’s left of the Clinton campaign said it will join the recount effort demanded... Read more
What to Tell Your Children About Trump
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Trump====== WSJ 11/19/2016 By Peggy Noonan Eight points and two anecdotes as we continue to digest this astounding election. You don’t know a tree is hollow until you push hard against it and it falls. The establishments of both parties did not know, a year ago, that they were hollow trees. They thought themselves strong because they always had been, and people think... Read more
Another Judge Is Unpersuaded
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, US CourtsMy guess is Mr Obama will explain this at his next news conference. ====== WSJ 11/19/2016 The Obama Administration’s executive overreach received another rebuke on Wednesday, this time from a federal court in Texas. In National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Perez, Judge Sam Cummings granted a motion for summary judgment and rejected the Labor Department’s attempt to stack another deck for unions. The... Read more
Steve Bannon on Politics as War
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Right, TrumpThis article might be a misinformed as all the other stories about Mr. Bannon, or it might not be. ========== WSJ 11/19/2016 By Kimberley Strassel It’s hard to think of Steve Bannon as a low-profile guy. He has garnered about as many headlines over the past week as Donald Trump—no small feat. He is the executive chairman of the hard-right Breitbart News, among... Read more
Melvin Laird, R.I.P.
November 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, InterestingOne of the unsung heros of the USA… ============ By Edwin J. Feulner I was a young staffer on Capitol Hill during the Johnson administration, soaking up lessons from my boss, Republican Congressman— later Defense Secretary—Melvin R. Laird, who died Wednesday at the age of 94. A proven warrior in World War II in the Pacific, Mel never talked about that to the kids... Read more
