If you are willing to think and reasonably discuss the issue, I invite you to this perspective. =========== By Ashley H. Lukis I can understand why gun control dominates the public conversation after incidents like Sandy Hook, like Virginia Tech, like Charleston. What I cannot begin to comprehend is how, when faced by an ideological monster who has pledged his allegiance to an... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Orlando is not about Gun Control
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Radical Islam, The LeftAmerica Deserves Better
June 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ClintonI think the WSJ is on to something here. ======= Even amid a terrorist massacre on the scale of Orlando, the American people are getting more reasons to justify their unhappiness with the political class. By which we mean the day-after responses of President Obama and the two presumptive nominees, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The American people deserve a better... Read more
The Parlance of Pilots
June 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, InterestingInteresting, indeed. And I’m sure there are other applications. =========== From “The Parlance of Pilots,” by Mark Vanhoenacker, a British Airways senior first officer, for Aeon online, June 9: Imagine a plane that flies from London to Bangkok. The pilots speak first to British air-traffic controllers but, just a few minutes after takeoff, the British controllers hand them over to Belgian... Read more
Clinton Email Deceptions
May 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Hillary ClintonDon’t expect to hear this from the liberal left leaning press corp. =========== WSJ 5/26/2016 Hillary Clinton has said for more than a year that her use of a private email server as Secretary of State violated no federal rules and posed no security risk. Only the gullible believed that, and now everyone has proof of her deceptions in a scathing report... Read more
American Dead in Foreign Fields
May 26 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtLeft and Right, this is for all of us. ========== By Uwe E. Reinhardt WSJ 5/26/2016 If you have not ever done so, I urge you to program into your next trip abroad a visit to an American military cemetery. There are quite a few in Europe, and some in Asia. You can find a list online. These cemeteries are settings of an awesome... Read more
Farm to Fable
April 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Food10% of the world’s population might have the $$ to pay for local, happy food, but the other 90% doesn’t want to pay the price of starvation on behalf of the 10%. =========== WSJ 4/18/2016 From the first in a series of “Farm to Fable” articles by Tampa Bay Times food critic Laura Reiley, April 13: With the tagline “Local, simple and honest,”... Read more
