The Left at it . . . ====== By Thomas M. Johnson Jr. April 16, 2015 7:07 p.m. ET A popular narrative since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 posits that corporations have displaced political and religious minorities as the principal beneficiaries of First Amendment rights. There supposedly has been a “corporate takeover” of the First Amendment, as Harvard Law School’s... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Ambushing Employers’ Speech Rights
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Labor, Law, The LeftWhatever the Ayatollah Wants
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, Obama, Radical IslamObama keeps giving “us” away. ======= April 19, 2015 5:36 p.m. ET Give Ayatollah Ali Khamenei credit for knowing his opposition. Two weeks ago the Supreme Leader declared that Western sanctions had to be lifted immediately as a condition of a nuclear deal. And sure enough, on Friday President Obama said Iran would get significant sanctions relief immediately upon signing a deal. The Ayatollah... Read more
Cops are doing their Job.
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, PolicingProbably not “news worthy enough”. =========== Day in and day out, the great majority of cops do their job the right way. April 19, 2015 5:17 p.m. From host Bob Schieffer’s weekly commentary for CBS ’s “Face the Nation,” April 19: The best training to be a reporter or anything else is to work the police beat, because every story you cover is the worst... Read more
Notable & Quotable: George Will
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Losing Freedom, US Constitutiono o o ==== April 20, 2015 8:08 p.m. From columnist George F. Will’s keynote address at the inaugural Disinvitation Dinner, hosted in New York City on April 15 by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to honor those whose invitations to speak at U.S. universities were retracted because of their views: Free speech has never been, in the history of our... Read more
You Want Us to do Your Wedding?
April 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Religious PersecutionThis is good! = = = = Radical activists in the gay community have put pedal to the metal to force gay acceptance from Christians — making not only their position but also their tactics anti-Christian. They are deliberately targeting the Christian wedding industry — the cakemakers, the caterers, the quaint bed-and-breakfast owners, and the like. They are headhunting Christians who refuse... Read more
The Study of Military History
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Military, Western CivilizationThe topic as been purged from US university curricula at our peril. ============ From remarks by Lewis E. Lehrmanat the New-York Historical Society on March 23, when the $50,000 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History was awarded to Alexander Watson’s “Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I” (Basic Books, 2014): The study of military history has in fact been purged from... Read more
