Really? Is there really something to discuss? If this isn’t as plain as the nose on your face … =========== It is possible to identify how far down the mountain American politics has fallen in one word—Benghazi. Benghazi is no longer the place in Libya where U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by Islamist militias. “Benghazi” is now just another neutralized buzzword in... Read more
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Obama, Trump and Sanders
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, ObamaA huge percentage of Americans are blind. They simply do not think. ===== WSJ 1/14/2015 There is Barack Obama’s State of the Union and there is the state of the union anyone else can see. The new year began with an underground nuclear-bomb test in North Korea, the worst first week for the Dow since 1897, and Iran forcing 10 U.S. sailors to their... Read more
The Year Christmas Died – Wonderland
December 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Christmas, Henninger“…A Christmas celebration in disguise?” Its coming to that, yes. ======= As we moved into December and what for some time has been called “the holiday season,” the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Tennessee issued a “best practices” directive for the campus to “ensure your holiday party is not a Christmas party in disguise.” A Christmas party in disguise?... 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
Noonan: The Trigger-Happy Generation
May 26 | Posted by mrossol | Noonan, Politically correctMs Noonan’s comments apply to more than the college grad. ============ Updated May 22, 2015 10:34 a.m. ET Readers know of the phenomenon at college campuses regarding charges of “microaggressions” and “triggers.” It’s been going on for a while and is part of a growing censorship movement in which professors, administrators and others are accused of racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, gender bias and... Read more
Net Neutrality?
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Obama, TechnologyThese guys must have attended public schools. ===== By Daniel Henninger March 11, 2015 6:58 p.m. ET Washington’s seizure of the Internet is one of the great case studies in the annals of political naïveté. Over several years, leading lights of the Web—among them Netflix,Google and Tumblr—importuned the Obama White House to align itself with the cause of net neutrality. “Net neutrality,” like so many progressivist-y... Read more
