5/9/20 WSJ When truckers come to our farm for pinto beans, we don’t shake hands or bump elbows. Instead, we practice social distancing: Drivers pull up and roll down their windows. From seven or eight feet away, we tell them where to go and how to get their load. They’ll stay in or near their cab the whole time. Nobody told us... Read more
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
The Farmer’s Guide to Distancing and Personal Freedom
May 11 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Big Govt, Coronavirus, Losing FreedomThoughts on the Current Crisis – Imprimis
April 16 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Big Govt, Coronavirus, Losing Freedom, The Left, US ConstitutionThis is rather long, but it may be one of the more important pieces I post. I just finished Hillsdale’s online course The US Constitution 101. In the course you learn how the USA has gotten from the founders to today and how the Constitution is thought about, to how our government functions today. The current COVID-19 “crisis”... Read more
Schiff’s Surveillance State
December 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Impeachment, Losing Freedom, The Left
WSJ 12/5/2019
Democrats are trying to convince Americans that President Trump should be ousted for trying to “dig up dirt” on a rival. They’d have more credibility if they didn’t abuse their surveillance powers for drive-by smears of Republicans and a free press.
Adam Schiff’s 300-page House Intelligence impeachment report doesn’t include much new about...
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Current Elitist Threats to Our Republic
September 10 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Democrat Party, Losing Freedom
MARK HENDRICKSON – The Epoch Times 9/6/2019
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”—Ronald Reagan
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken
“There are men [and now women] in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to...
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australia to protect free speach
September 10 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Australia, Losing FreedomHear, hear! Well done, AUS!! == = = =
RICHARD SZABO – The Epoch Times
The Australian government is setting up a task force to protect the freedom of expression at universities countrywide, amid concerns of foreign influence by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The University Foreign Interference Task Force will bring together representatives from universities, national security...
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femimist professor under fire
September 6 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left
WSJ 8/31/2019 THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW with Camille Paglia
By Tunku Varadarajan
When Camille Paglia was an “obnoxious adolescent” of 15, she had what she describes as “this huge fight with a nun” in upstate New York. Ms. Paglia, 72, remembers the incident with a clarity that suggests a lifetime of unresolved umbrage.
“We were released from school...
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