Hard to grasp that someone is “getting it right” for a change… ======= WSJ 12/3/2015 For Wisconsin prosecutors who won’t take a hint, subtlety doesn’t work. So on Wednesday the state Supreme Court rejected their motion to reconsider the John Doe probe of conservative groups, ordered seized documents handed over to the court, and terminated Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz. The Justices had already ruled... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Mr Schmitz Is Terminated
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, The Left
Chicago School of Free Speech
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftWSJ – 11/22/2015 “I’m a Liberal Profes sor, and My Liberal Stud ents Terrify Me,” read the headline of an essay for the liberal website Vox earlier this year. The author, who was frightened enough to write under a pseudonym, admitted that he “cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad,” including books by Mark Twain. The American... Read more
Vision and Leadership
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Western CivilizationWSJ – 11/23/2015 On April 27, 1982, I sat across the cabinet room conference table from President Reagan as I briefed the National Security Council on our plans for ending and prevailing in the Cold War. In the midst of my presentation, Reagan peered over his spectacles to ask, “Why can’t we just push ’em over backwards?” The assembled wise men mumbled... Read more
This Favored Land
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtHappy Thanksgiving 2015 ================== From President James Madison’s 1815 Thanksgiving proclamation: No people ought to feel greater obligations to celebrate the goodness of the Great Disposer of Events and of the Destiny of Nations than the people of the United States. His kind providence originally conducted them to one of the best portions of the dwelling place allotted for the great family... Read more
World Order in Crisis
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, The Left, Western CivilizationI have slowly drifted from supporting American military involvement in “other’s affairs”, but this article has given me pause. Have you noticed how far the world as “disintegrated” in a mere 7 years from what “stability” there was in the past 60 or so? And what did America’s involvement have to do with the order we have had during this... Read more
