A not unique perspective, but valid nonetheless. ========= By Peggy Noonan Updated March 13, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Maybe we’re not stuck in Scandal Land. For a while I’ve assumed Hillary Clinton would run for her party’s nomination and be a formidable candidate in the general election. After Tuesday’s news conference I’m not so sure. Did she seem to you a happy, hungry warrior? She couldn’t... Read more
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A Plan For ISIS
February 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Noonan, Obama, Radical IslamDeer in the headlights…. that’s the White House. ================ By Peggy Noonan Feb. 5, 2015 6:33 p.m. ET Everything’s frozen. When you ask, “What is the appropriate U.S. response to ISIS?” half the people in Washington answer: “ George W. Bush broke Iraq and ISIS was born in the rubble. There would be no ISIS if it weren’t for him.” The other half... Read more
America’s Strategy Deficit
February 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, Noonan, SequesterLeading from behind. =========== By PEGGY NOONAN Updated Jan. 30, 2015 6:33 p.m. ET Something is going on here. On Tuesday retired Gen. James Mattis, former head of U.S. Central Command (2010-13) told the Senate Armed Services Committee of his unhappiness at the current conduct of U.S. foreign policy. He said the U.S. is not “adapting to changed circumstances” in the Mideast and must... Read more
Mobs of New York
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, The Left, US ConstitutionPerhaps one of the most important articles I have read in a long time. It is worth broader discussion. ================= How did we get to the point in the United States where street protesters are treated as sainted figures, no matter what they do? How did it happen that important public leaders—the American president, the mayor of New York, college presidents—feel obliged... Read more
A Year of Living on the Brink
October 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, HenningerThese are the smart people on the Left we’re talking about… ================ History will mark down 2014 as the year predicted 49 years ago by Martha and the Vandellas. In 1965 the group recorded a Motown classic, “Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide.” We’re there, at the brink. Liberia, ISIS, Ukraine, Hong Kong, a hospital fighting Ebola infections in Dallas, the year’s stock-market... Read more
Yes, Obama and his Minions Think We are Stupid.
October 21 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Ebola, Noonan, Obama, The LeftThey’re smart people. So if a 11 year olds know the answer, so do they. Only they don’t care. =============== The administration’s handling of the Ebola crisis continues to be marked by double talk, runaround and gobbledygook. And its logic is worse than its language. In many of its actions, especially its public pronouncements, the government is functioning not as a soother... Read more
