Former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who died this week, writing in a Jan. 17, 2007, op-ed for the Washington Post: The brewing fight in Congress over continued funding of the war in Iraq . . . is an ominous reminder of 1975, when Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War three years after our combat troops had left. With... Read more
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Medicaid Explodes
November 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, ObamaCareI’m in total shock… ======= WSJ 11/18/2016 On Donald Trump’s victory Republicans in Congress are primed for an ambitious agenda, and not a moment too soon. One immediate problem is ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid, which has seen enrollment at least twice as high as advertised. Most of the insurance coverage gains from the law come from opening Medicaid eligibility beyond its original goal of... Read more
We Women Voters Can Think for Ourselves
November 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, The LeftSome great Letters to the Editor, here. ========= WSJ 11/18/2016 It appears liberal elites have learned nothing from Donald Trump’s victory if Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg is representative (“Groups of Women Voters Hurt Clinton,” U.S. News, Nov. 12). She concluded that there are women “who are skeptical about women’s political leadership” and that “we still live in a sexist country.” As an older woman,... Read more
What Comes After the Uprising
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, TrumpWhat, indeed… ============= WSJ 11/12/2016 Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself. Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind. . . . Call it the mores, call it God or Fate . . . That force exists and moves. And when it moves It will employ a hard and actual stone To batter into bits an actual wall And change the... Read more
Where Are the Visas for the Afghans Who Helped American GIs?
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle EastIf something pains me, this is high on the list. =========== WSJ 11/13/2016 By Juliana Goldrosen And Ari Hoffman Qismat, a young Afghan who bravely served as an interpreter alongside American troops in the hills of Tora Bora, spent Veterans Day as a target of ISIS, in mortal danger due to his service to the U.S. Also on Veterans Day, members of Congress honored the... Read more
Trump Voters
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, TrumpAlec MacGillis writing on Trump voters Nov. 10 at ProPublica.org : What they shared were three things. They lived in places that were in decline, and had been for some time. They lacked strong attachment to either party at a time when, even within a single metro area like Dayton [Ohio], the parties had sorted themselves into ideological, geographically disparate... Read more
