Very thoughtful piece worth reading. ========== The lead item on much television news since the weekend has been the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer. On display was what has now become the fairly standard response in these matters: the inconsolable mother, the testimony of the dead teenager’s friends to his... Read more
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What’s Missing in Ferguson, Mo.
August 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The LeftSilicon Valley Takes on North Korea
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, N KoreaInteresting. I’d bet this group will make more progress than any government effort. ========== Silicon Valley’s ambitions range far and wide, from taking on hotels and taxi operators to connecting toothbrushes to the Internet. Now, it’s starting to turn its focus to North Korea. Over the weekend, about 100 hackers, coders and engineers gathered in San Francisco to brainstorm ways to pierce the... Read more
A new ‘Religious Test’?
July 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Religion, US ConstitutionSeth Lipsky writing in the New York Post, July 12: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” “No . . . ever . . . any.” It’s not only the most emphatic statement in the entire Constitution but probably in all of American law. . . . [Yet] an advertisement... Read more
The Post-Pax Americana World
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftBut we’re so much better off now, aren’t we? ……. [Cry me a river.] ============= In 2008 Fareed Zakaria wrote an influential book titled “The Post-American World.” It was, mercifully, not another lament about American decline. Instead, the book described “the rise of the rest”—China, Brazil, Turkey and other supposedly emerging powers—and made the case that the U.S. had to learn how... Read more
Westchester USA
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat PartyYour Democrat party in action. ====== Residents of the northern New York City suburbs were recently treated to a TV ad invoking images of the Jim Crow South and claiming that Westchester County executive Rob Astorino has “repeatedly violated anti-discrimination laws for years.” None of the ad is true, but it does reveal some important political news with national implications. To wit, Mr.... Read more
Obama’s Troublesome Congress
July 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Obama, US ConstitutionWill no one rid me of this troublesome priest?—King Henry II Why work with the Presidency when the man in office thinks he can simply change lawfully enacted legislation at a whim? ========== The President of the United States went to Minneapolis the other day, where he gave a speech complaining about Republicans in Congress who stand in the way of what... Read more
