Is this so difficult? ============== Amity Shlaes points out that after the floods of November 1927 President Calvin Coolidge said in his State of the Union address that “the government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazards of the elements” (“A Tale of Two Vermont Floods, 84 Years Apart,” Cross Country, Sept. 3). Forty years before that, President Grover Cleveland... Read more
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Compromise Hasn’t Served Conservatives Very Well — Letters to the Editor – WSJ.com
September 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsSome good responses – especially the first one… ============ Peter Berkowitz cautions conservatives not to demand uncompromising purity from their politicians (“The Myth of Conservative Purity,” op-ed, Sept. 7). Mr. Berkowitz argues that achievement of basic conservative goals requires clarity of principles, but also pragmatism that gives “due weight to settled expectations and longstanding practices” (e.g., public education and state assistance to... Read more
How Politics Is Like Magic
September 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsSuspending our disbelief. A great way to put it. =============== By PENN JILLETTE I’m a Las Vegas magician. One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They’re all hanging from a thread—sometimes literally. Now, I don’t know jack about politics or economics. But what’s... Read more
A European’s Warning to America
September 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftThis is a March 2011 story, but in light of the past few weeks or month, I think it is “a word to the wise”. ========== By DANIEL HANNAN On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied. “Your president was plainly born in Brussels.” American conservatives... Read more
The Muslims are not Happy
September 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Radical IslamThe Muslims are not happy. · They are not happy in Gaza. · They are not happy in the West Bank. · They are not happy in Jerusalem. · They are not happy in Israel. (There is no equality) · They are not happy in Egypt. · They are not happy in Libya. · They are not happy in Algeria. · They are not happy in Tunis. · They... Read more
