Not sure if Don R Ivey is for real, but there is probably more truth in this short email that I was sent than in half the coverage of the Charlottsville disturbance. ======== Recently I received a questionnaire and request for money from the Republican Party and strongly agree with every question, as I have since Obama was elected. Unfortunately the one question... Read more
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
I Just Want It Fixed
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Republican(s), TrumpA Philosopher Gets Pilloried
May 12 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftAnother example of the left’s ‘war on free speech’. Don’t argue the issue, rather attack the messenger. ====== By Jillian Kay Melchior [ as reported in WSJ 5/9/2017] Usually, when junior professors publish scholarly articles, they are lucky to elicit more than a yawn. But last week the philosophical musings of Rebecca Tuvel, an associate professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., provoked... Read more
The Bolton Unmasking Files
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Losing Freedom, Party Politics, The LeftNo one is surprised… ======= WSJ 5/1/2017 Democrats and their press allies are going all in to squelch the Susan Rice “unmasking” story, insisting that the decision by Barack Obama’s national security adviser to seek the name of at least one Trump campaign official was routine and no big deal. Tell that to former Bush Administration official John Bolton, whom Democrats pilloried for... Read more
Letters about “Evil White Men”
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, StupiditySome of the best letters I’ve read in a long time… ===== WSJ 4/28/2017 A ‘Snowflake’ Blizzard Buries Free Thought In “Those ‘Snowflakes’ Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus” (op-ed, April 22), Heather Mac Donald suggests the source of “snowflake” behavior among millennials on college campuses comes from a cultural orientation that is contra-Occidental and that students view themselves as victims of... Read more
Unfinished Preet Bharara Business
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Losing Freedom, US CourtsIf this doesn’t give you the creeps about what the Gov can do, it should. ======= WSJ 4/20/2017 President Trump dumped Preet Bharara as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the celebrity prosecutor is conducting another media vindication tour. But a few problems from his tenure are left to resolve, including the ongoing legal crusade against David Ganek. When... Read more
A World Unsafe for Democracy
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | Losing Freedom, Western CivilizationHow the disengagement working out for you? It certainly is a concern of mine, and on which I have a major disagreement with Mr. Trump. ===== WSJ 4/4/2017 By Bret Stephens This week marks the centenary of America’s entry into World War I, when Woodrow Wilson vowed that “the world must be made safe for democracy.” He and his fellow statesmen failed to... Read more
