Heading 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
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Wonderland: Missouri and Paris
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Losing Freedom, The Left, Western CivilizationNet 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
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
Obama’s Troublesome Congress
July 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Obama, US ConstitutionWill no one rid me of this troublesome priest?—King Henry II Why work with the Presidency when the man in office thinks he can simply change lawfully enacted legislation at a whim? ========== The President of the United States went to Minneapolis the other day, where he gave a speech complaining about Republicans in Congress who stand in the way of what... Read more
