( Dossiers and Disinformation…) ========= Holman W Jenkins, Jr. 1/12/2018 WSJ Glenn Simpson, in the now-released transcript of last summer’s interview with congressional investigators on the Trump dossier, mentions his former employment with The Wall Street Journal and Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper. He doesn’t mention the Unification Church-owned (i.e., Moonies) Insight magazine in the mid-1980s. I know because I worked there too.... Read more
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Poor Ol’ Fusion?
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsPlease pass the box of Kleenex… ===== WSJ 1/4/2018 Let’s see. The Clinton campaign hires Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, to investigate the Trump campaign. Fusion hires a former British spy, Christopher Steele, who produces a dossier based on Russian sources full of rumor, hearsay and an occasional fact to allege collusion between the Kremlin and Trump campaign. The dossier gets to... Read more
No One is Facing Their Own Hyperbole
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, The Left, Trump, US ConstitutionNo commentary on how wrong they were… ====== WSJ 1/2/2018 As Donald Trump heads into his second year as President, we’re pleased to report that there hasn’t been a fascist coup in Washington. This must be terribly disappointing to the progressive elites who a year ago predicted an authoritarian America because Mr. Trump posed a unique threat to democratic norms. But it looks... Read more
Tales from the NEA Crypt
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, NEAWhere is the NEA?? The silence is condemning.. ====== WSJ 1/2/2018 Detroit’s public schools are among the nation’s worst, which may explain how far they’ll go to deny students a better choice. Witness how the school district is preventing a charter from expanding into an abandoned elementary school. Detroit Prep is a public charter school with 80 students from kindergarten to second... Read more
Who Can You Believe?
December 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Liberal Press, StrasselYes, is it any wonder the public seems to see all this as bad? ====== WSJ 12/22/2017 Kimberly Strassel In the wake of last year’s election, a humiliated press corps was forced to reassess, to explain how it had gotten the presidential race so monumentally wrong. Conclusions: It had been too blinded by its own biases, too sheltered from Middle America. It apologized.... Read more
The Definition of Stonewalling
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, The LeftEven I am surprised at how neglected this story has been by the main-street press. ========= WSJ 12/11/2017 Christopher Wray was supposed to bring a new candor and credibility to the FBI after the James Comey debacle, but the country is still waiting. The director’s testimony Thursday to the House Judiciary Committee suggests he has joined the Justice Department effort to stop the... Read more
