I honor these men… ===== WSJ 12/3/2016 By Bob Greene It once was a big day in the United States, an end-of-autumn Saturday when, inside the walls of homes in huge cities, small towns and rural hamlets, everything seemed to stop for a few hours. The black-and-white television sets would be turned on, the shades in the rooms drawn or lights dimmed to prevent... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Safeguarding Knowledge
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education==== Roger Scruton, writing in “What’s the Point of Education?”—a Nov. 3 article for the British magazine, the Spectator: Why does the state take an interest in education? The prevailing view . . . has been that the state takes an interest in education because it is the right of every child to receive it. . . . The assumption has been,... Read more
Letters: Pardon for Clinton??
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Hillary Clinton, TrumpI happen to agree with most of these letters. Trump should not pre-empt getting the facts into the light. ========== The thrust of your Nov. 23 editorial “Democracy’s Verdict on Clinton” is that President-elect Donald Trump did the right thing by deciding not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her email and Clinton Foundation issues. But the subject is much larger and more important... Read more
Democrats Send Their Regrets
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Ruling Class, StrasselWell, well, well. Now isn’t that special.. ====== WSJ 12/2/2016 Regrets? Delaware Sen. Chris Coons has a few— and not too few to mention. At the top of his list is his party’s decision in 2013 to blow up the filibuster for most presidential nominees. “Many of us will regret that in this Congress,” a dejected Mr. Coons told CNN on Tuesday. “Because it... Read more
Trump vs Press Corp
November 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, TrumpPlease, Mr. Trump, let some better people into the room.’ ======= WSJ 11/28/2016 O utsider Donald Trump was elected president in significant part because of his promise to shake up Washington. He’ll soon find that one of the most entrenched forces that object to any change affecting them is the White House press corps. As last week’s meetings with the media showed, a... Read more
Castro ‘what?’ !
November 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, The LeftAnyone 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
