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North Carolina’s Gerrymander Coup – WSJ

September 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Losing Freedom, Party Politics

If you can’t win politically, get the courts on your side. ======== WSJ – 9/1/2018 The Supreme Court this year punted on deciding two partisan gerrymander cases. Democrats have now refused a fair catch and decided to run the ball back up the field for a touchdown in North Carolina, where liberal judges this week struck down the state’s congressional map. Republicans control 10... Read more

The Crucifix in Every Building?

August 11 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Christianity, Europe, Losing Freedom, Religion, Western Civilization

I am thinking through this one. I appreciate that a country is certainly shaped by it’s culture and religious history, but is this the best way to present it? But why should a people not want to retain their heritage? Hmm. ==== BY FRANCIS X. ROCCA AND DREW HINSHAW WSJ 9/10/2018 ROME—Lawmakers in Italy’s new parliamentary majority want a crucifix to hang in every... Read more

Does Diversity Really Unite Us? Citizenship and Immigration – Imprimis

August 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Social Engineering

The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 11, 2018, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Colorado Springs. President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal border crossers has provoked a hysterical reaction from Democrats, establishment Republicans, the progressive-liberal media, Hollywood radicals, and the deep state. What particularly motivated the ire of these Trump-haters was the fact that the... Read more

Who is Being Reckless Here?

May 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Losing Freedom, US Constitution

I sure hope Congress does not back off doing its job.. ===== 5/3/2018 Rod Rosenstein this week invoked an unusual defense to explain his slow-walking of documents to Congress. “They should understand by now that the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted,” Mr. Rosenstein said. “We’re going to do what’s required by the rule of law, and any kind of... Read more

Marx’s Apologists Should be Red in the Face

May 5 | Posted by mrossol | Communism, Losing Freedom, Socialism

WSJ – 5/3/2018 Paul Kengor OK, one of my daughter’s favorite professors… ===== May 5 marks the bicentennial of Karl Marx, who set the stage with his philosophy for the greatest ideological massacres in history. Or did he? He did, but deniers still remain. “Only a fool could hold Marx responsible for the Gulag,” writes Francis Wheen in “Karl Marx: A Life” (1999).... Read more

Student Interrogated … For Going to Gun Range with Dad

April 25 | Posted by mrossol | 2nd Amendment, American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct

I can hardly believe, and yet I can. This country is going so … PC that some days it is hard to leave the house. ===== ==== If it weren’t clear enough where bureaucrats stand in the 2nd Amendment vs. gun control debate, one need look no further than high school student Kyle Kashuv. While the media swarm around left-leaning kids who are... Read more

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