WSJ – 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
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
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
Wonderland: Missouri and Paris
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Losing Freedom, The Left, Western CivilizationHeading for moral disaster. ========= Daniel Henninger. WSJ – 11/19/2015 We are back where we came in. After 9/11, 98 U.S. senators voted to pass the USA Patriot Act. In time, the political and moral solidarity of that moment dissolved. The words “Patriot Act” became anathema on the global left—a moral affront. How long will the solidarity of Paris last? Before Islamic terrorists murdered... Read more
From Kristallnacht … to America
November 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionYes, where is the US? ========== WSJ 11/9/2015 By John H. Lang Monday, Nov. 9, marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1938, when Nazi hordes ran wild throughout Berlin, as well as in other German cities. Jewish houses of worship were desecrated and then set afire. Thousands of Jews were rounded up, some beaten to death, others sent to concentration camps. Jewish-owned businesses... Read more
