Will 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
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Susan Rice Unmasked
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftThe 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
So Much for Donald Mussolini
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, TrumpIs it possible the popular media could be wrong more then the weatherman is? ====== WSJ 3/8/2017 Well, that was fast, if predictable. We’re referring to the conventional wisdom that has moved without a moment of self-reflection from declaring Donald Trump to be a dangerous fascist to a hopeless incompetent. Not too long ago our leading media lights were using Mussolini and Hitler analogies... Read more
Senatorial Embarrassment
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The Left====== By Orrin G. Hatch WSJ 3/26/2017 During last week’s confirmation hearing for Judge Neil Gorsuch, some of my Senate colleagues heard from teachers who were using the occasion as an educational tool. Indeed, Supreme Court confirmation hearings can be a civics lesson for the nation. They offer unparalleled insight into the Constitution and the proper role of judges in our system... Read more
Bill Gates on Robots
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Tax Issues, TechnologyBill Gates is a smart guy, but I think he is missing the point with his view of robots and the impact on jobs. ===== WSJ 4/26/2017 By Andy Kessler Bill Gates, meet Ned Ludd. Ned, meet Bill. Ludd was the 18thcentury folk hero of anti-industrialists. As the possibly apocryphal story goes, in the 1770s he busted up a few stocking frames—knitting machines used... Read more
