A phenomenon not unique to America. ====== 8/13/2016 WSJ Peggy Noonan. This is about distance, and detachment, and a kind of historic decoupling between the top and the bottom in the West that did not, in more moderate recent times, exist. Recently I spoke with an acquaintance of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and the conversation quickly turned, as conversations about Ms. Merkel now... Read more
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Putin and Those Democratic Emails
July 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ClintonHard to blame Bush anymore… === WSJ 7/26/2016 Here’s the last word Democrats wanted to hear at their Philadelphia convention this week: emails. But there it was after WikiLeaks released 20,000 internal emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee revealing, among other things, that party officials had favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. That wasn’t news, but it gave the Sanders legions a new... Read more
Obama’s Age of Discord
July 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftI get the feeling that 1/2 the population wants more of the same. =========== WSJ 7/26/2016 President Obama said in 2008 that he wanted to be the reverse Ronald Reagan, and in one sense he has been. As he takes the Democratic stage in Philadelphia Wednesday he can rightly claim to have fulfilled most of his major progressive policy goals. The difference is... Read more
The Fourth of July – Hassam
July 4 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtGreat painting for July 4th! ========== WSJ 7/2/2016 BY JOHN WILMERDING ONE CENTURY after it was painted, Childe Hassam’s “The Fourth of July, 1916” has come to the New-York Historical Society as a gift from Richard Gilder, in time to celebrate Independence Day, 2016. Its full subtitle was “The Greatest Display of the American Flag Ever Seen in New York, Climax of the... Read more
Welcome home!
July 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Western CivilizationDo you wonder why people risk death to come to the USA? Let’s keep it that way, please. ======= WSJ 7/2/2016 For the new recipient of a green card, life in the U.S. provides relief from the experiences of less hospitable places. BY AATISH TASEER ‘WELCOME HOME, SIR,” the immigration officer said when I presented him with my green card at John F. Kennedy Airport... Read more
Catastrophe in Syria
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Middle East, Obama, The LeftNo kidding…. And the Left keeps giving him a “hall pass”. ====== WSJ 6/18/2016 A day after CIA Director John Brennan testified that ISIS now boasts far more fighters than al Qaeda had at its peak, there’s more disagreement in the Obama ranks. Fifty-one State Department diplomats have signed a letter that assails President Obama’s Syria policy—and calls for military strikes and the... Read more
