At 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
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
The Left’s War on Free Speech – Imprimis
May 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Strassel, The LeftThe 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
Unfinished Preet Bharara Business
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Losing Freedom, US CourtsIf 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
A 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
