If it waddles like a duck; quacks like a duck, then its a duck. = = = = By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ Oct. 24, 2017 6:17 p.m. ET Let’s give plausible accounts of the known facts, then explain why demands that Robert Mueller recuse himself from the Russia investigation may not be the fanciful partisan grandstanding you imagine. Here’s a story consistent with... Read more
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The FBI’s Political Meddling
October 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Party Politics, The LeftNoonan: On Democracy and Trump
May 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, TrumpAnother thoughtful piece by Peggy Noonan. ========== By Peggy Noonan. WSJ 5/20/2017 This will be unpleasantly earnest, but having witnessed the atmospherics the past 10 days it’s what I think needs saying: Everyone, get serious. Democracy is not your plaything. This is not a game. The president of the United States has produced a building crisis that is unprecedented in our history. The question, at... Read more
The James Comey Show – WSJ
May 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, The Left, US ConstitutionYou would know none of this from the public, left-leaning press. =========== 5/11/2017 WSJ Daniel Henninger If you read nothing else while fighting through the maelstrom around President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, read the full text of Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein’s memorandum titled “Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI.” Mr. Rosenstein’s memo makes meticulously clear the short version... Read more
The Left’s War on Free Speech – Imprimis
May 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Strassel, The LeftAt least read the first 7 paragraphs… ==== The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 26, 2017, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. I like to introduce the topic of free speech with an anecdote about my children. I have three... Read more
A Trump Alliance Strategy
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Middle East, TrumpLet’s keep our allies. ===== WSJ 4/20/2017 Henninger After 59 Tomahawk missiles landed on a Syrian airfield, followed by the dropping of a 21,600-pound bomb on Islamic State’s hideouts in Afghanistan, the world has begun to ask: What is Donald Trump’s foreign policy? And so the search begins by pressing what Mr. Trump has done so far against various foreign-policy templates. Is he... Read more
The GOP’s ObamaCare Choke
March 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Republican(s), StupidityI have no idea what Republican senators are smoking, but they are f***ing out of their mind. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, PEOPLE!! ======= WSJ 3/16/2017 Less than three months into full control of government and the chance to reshape the American system for a generation, Republicans are doing something no one thought possible: They are reinventing the circular firing squad. Even... Read more
