A bit more on this important event. It will be interesting to see the landscape 4 years hence. ================= WSJ 2/9/2017 By Daniel Henninger The extraordinary battle over Betsy De Vos’s nomination to be secretary of education is the defining event of the Trump presidency’s early days. As presented, the DeVos confirmation appeared to be a standard partisan conflict between Democrats... Read more
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The DeVos Apocalypse
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Henninger, The LeftMichelle’s Trump Despair
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Henninger, ObamaPoor Michelle. Breaks my heart. ============= WSJ 12/22/2016 Amid all the sentiments, ideas and stress that enwrap the Christmas season, one idea abides: hope. On Christmas Day, in every church the world over, whether a cathedral or the shell of an ancient chapel in Iraq, congregants will sit down to hear a homily on hope. This being post-election America in 2016, it is fitting... Read more
Democrats Send Their Regrets
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Ruling Class, StrasselWell, well, well. Now isn’t that special.. ====== WSJ 12/2/2016 Regrets? Delaware Sen. Chris Coons has a few— and not too few to mention. At the top of his list is his party’s decision in 2013 to blow up the filibuster for most presidential nominees. “Many of us will regret that in this Congress,” a dejected Mr. Coons told CNN on Tuesday. “Because it... Read more
What to Tell Your Children About Trump
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Trump====== WSJ 11/19/2016 By Peggy Noonan Eight points and two anecdotes as we continue to digest this astounding election. You don’t know a tree is hollow until you push hard against it and it falls. The establishments of both parties did not know, a year ago, that they were hollow trees. They thought themselves strong because they always had been, and people think... Read more
What Comes After the Uprising
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, TrumpWhat, indeed… ============= WSJ 11/12/2016 Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself. Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind. . . . Call it the mores, call it God or Fate . . . That force exists and moves. And when it moves It will employ a hard and actual stone To batter into bits an actual wall And change the... Read more
America’s Decadent Leadership Class
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, RussiaHit nail on head! ========= It is quite dreadful and a showing of the gravest disrespect that, if U.S. intelligence agencies are correct, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has inserted himself into America’s presidential election. And it could not have deeper implications. If Russia is indeed behind the leaks of the emails of Democratic Party operatives Mr. Putin may have many reasons, as he often... Read more
