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America’s Strategy Deficit

February 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, Noonan, Sequester

Leading from behind. =========== By PEGGY NOONAN Updated Jan. 30, 2015 6:33 p.m. ET Something is going on here. On Tuesday retired Gen. James Mattis, former head of U.S. Central Command (2010-13) told the Senate Armed Services Committee of his unhappiness at the current conduct of U.S. foreign policy. He said the U.S. is not “adapting to changed circumstances” in the Mideast and must... Read more

A Speech Netanyahu Must Give

February 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Israel, Obama

Agree. Netanyahu gains little, if anything, by not speaking. He, at least, will speak more truth that Obama. ============== By BRET STEPHENS Feb. 2, 2015 7:41 p.m. ET Even friends of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are second-guessing his decision to accept House Speaker John Boehner ’s invitation to address Congress next month on the subject of Iran, over loud objections from the Obama... Read more

What De Blasio Won’t See

December 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Policing

New York’s mayor doesn’t understand how police maintain order. The scene around midtown Manhattan during the holidays is something of a madhouse—in a good way. Tens of thousands of tourists, including families, descend on Rockefeller Center to see the tree, Radio City to see the shows, and Fifth Avenue to see the department store windows, culminating in the New Year’s Eve... Read more

“Soon to be Cancelled”

December 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, US Constitution

The encroachment onto the First Amendment right to “freedom of expression” by the ‘vocal opposition’ is something that should concern everyone. Especially true freedom loving people. I don’t like everyone’s speech content either, but I am more confident that the truth will prevail than I am about wanting to protect my ears and the ears of everyone else. ============= An essential freedom-of-speech... Read more

The Worldview that Makes the Underclass

December 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Economics, Socialism

This is a rather long piece, but it is well worth your time. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Reading this, its almost impossible to see from one paragraph to the next for all the smoke. ================= The following is adapted from a speech delivered on May 20, 2014, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Dearborn, Michigan. I worked for 15 years... Read more

Urban Rioting

December 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism, US Courts

Edward Banfield on urban rioting in the 1960s in “The Unheavenly City” (1968): The rioters knew they had little or nothing to fear from the police and the courts. Under the pressure of the civil rights movement and of court decisions and as the result of the growing ‘professionalism’ of police administrators . . . the patrolman’s discretion in the use... Read more

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