Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category

Notable & Quotable – WSJ.com

March 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama

Notable & Quotable – WSJ.com. Don’t be afraid of the “big words”… =:) ========== Leon Wieseltier writing at the New Republic on March 2: As the dictators fall, the clichés fall, too. Cairo and Tunis and Tripoli are littered with the shards of platitudes about what is possible and what is impossible in Arab societies, in closed societies. Civilizational analysis... Read more

The Information

March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy

Book Review: The Information Very, very interesting. Maybe more important than all the other articles I’ve posted this week. == By JOHN HORGAN In 1989, I traveled to a Boston suburb to interview Claude Shannon, the inventor of information theory.... Read more

Its all about the Children

March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Socialism, The Left

Review & Outlook: Crushing Hopes in Compton – WSJ.com. Can I enroll? ==== No good idea goes unchallenged by the forces of the educational status quo, but the tactics they’re using to stop the first experiment at “parent trigger” school reform in California sure are revealing—and ugly. As we reported in December, a majority of parents (more than 250) have... Read more

Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out

March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Socialism, US Debt

Charles G. Koch: Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out – WSJ.com. “Must reading” if you want one great synopsis of what is wrong with America today.    Thank you! Mr Kock! = By CHARLES G. KOCH Years of tremendous overspending by federal, state and local governments have brought us face-to-face with an economic crisis. Federal spending will total at least $3.8 trillion this... Read more

Is There an Arab George Washington?

March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, The Left

Bret Stephens: Is There an Arab George Washington? – WSJ.com. If “History” wasn’t your thing… It’s not too late! === On learning that George Washington intended to follow up his victory at Yorktown by retiring to his farm at Mount Vernon, George III told the painter Benjamin West: “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the... Read more

What’s with the White, modest income, Voters?

March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism

Notable & Quotable – WSJ.com. Michael Barone writing Feb. 26 in the Washington Examiner: It’s a question that puzzles most liberals and bothers some conservatives. Why are so many modest-income white voters rejecting the Obama Democrats’ policies of economic redistribution and embracing the small-government policies of the Tea Party movement? It’s not supposed to work out that way, say the... Read more

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Sorry, but there aren't any posts in the American Thought category yet.

Verified by ExactMetrics