Not a surprise that the New York Times has this as their Quote of the Day. History being re-interpreted to their liking. The West is Bad. ====== QUOTATION OF THE DAY (from NYT) The myth of Magna Carta lies at the whole origin of our perception of who we are as an English-speaking people, freedom-loving people who’ve lived with a degree... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Summer Reading List
May 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Personal DevelopmentBy Gilbert T. Sewall May 29, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Parents often think fate has singled their children out for poorly chosen school reading assignments. It hasn’t. A distressed father recently told me about seeing his high-school-age daughter’s summer reading list and realizing that it was devoted exclusively to contemporary writers such as David Eggers, Malcolm Gladwell and Barbara Ehrenreich.... Read more
‘Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism’ Review
May 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ArtI’m in a little “Art Club”, and I found this interesting. ========== By Lance Esplund May 25, 2015 2:28 p.m. ET Andover, Mass. It is nearly impossible to convey the original impact an artist from the past had on his contemporaries. What matters is his artworks’ impression in the here-and-now. But art and artists don’t exist in a vacuum. A painter’s worth can be... Read more
A Double-Standard Windfall for the Clintons
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Party Politics, The LeftIf Hillary was Republican, there would be blood in the streets…. =========== By Shannen W. Coffin And Michael J. Edney Consider these facts: The chairman of a Canadian company named Uranium One reportedly donated $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. At the same time the company was seeking U.S. government approval to sell a 51% controlling... Read more
Rethinking the U.S. Surrender on Nuclear Power
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, The LeftIts religion. ============ By Eric McFarland April 27, 2015 7:11 p.m. ET The ghosts of Lenin and Mao might well be smirking. Communist and authoritarian nations are moving to take global leadership in, and profit from, the commercial use of nuclear power, a technology made possible by the market-driven economies of the West. New research and development could enable abundant, affordable, low-carbon energy as... Read more
When America Loses a War – WSJ
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, The LeftWere you alive? I couldn’t express my feelings at the time, but these were days when I was in turmoil inside. I hope I do not live to see it repeated. ============== By William McGurn April 27, 2015 7:21 p.m. ET 108 COMMENTS Even from a remove of 40 years, those last, tragic images from outside the U.S. embassy in Saigon remain a... Read more
