No surprise here, folks… WSJ has been raising this for years.. ======== WSJ 1/4/2018 By Mark Helprin The Trump administration’s recently unveiled National Security Strategy is an excellent and overdue statement of intent. But unless it is ruthlessly prioritized, political and budgetary realities will make it little more than a wish list. And in regard to nuclear weapons, it hardly departs from the... Read more
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America’s Alarmingly Archaic Arsenal
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, MilitaryGoogle-Facebook Anti-Democracy??
December 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing FreedomThe power these two organization wield should concern us all. ========== WSJ 12/19/2017 ‘Amonopoly on the means of communication,” Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson wrote in “Leviathan,” their 1975 novel, “may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of ‘monopoly in the means of production.’ ” Bear that in mind when you hear this next statistic: In 2017... Read more
When Listening is Not Listening
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left=== WSJ 11/16/2017 By Zachary Wood – Williamstown, Mass. ‘You’re a racist white supremacist!” a Williams College student shouted at Christina Hoff Sommers, after she finished a recent campus talk on feminism. To their credit, a handful of students responded to Ms. Sommers’s talk with challenging questions and cogent criticisms. But insults, rants and meltdowns consumed the majority of the question-and-answer session. As president... Read more
The Sickness in Higher Education
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Losing Freedom, The LeftI’m sure I’ve posted stuff about education before. This one is a good one. ===== Posted in WSJ 11/14/2017 By John M. Ellis The sheer public spectacle of near-riots has forced some college administrators to take a stand for free expression and provide massive police protection when controversial speakers like Ben Shapiro come to campus. But when Mr. Shapiro leaves, the conditions that... Read more
Jihad on the Bike Path – Steyn
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Stupidity, Western CivilizationI can’t commend this blog post enough. Mark hits the nail SQUARE on the head. Here is an excerpt: “Why? Why does every public place have to get uglified up just because politicians don’t want to address the insanity of western immigration policies that day by day advance the interests of an ideology explicitly hostile to our civilization? Instead politicians want to... Read more
Gary Player is Worried About America
October 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correctAmericans need to listen. ===== WSJ 9/30/2017 BY BRIAN COSTA “THE REST OF THE WORLD is laughing at you,” Gary Player said, and he was only getting started.
Gary Player
The nine-time major champion was sitting on a bench at the driving range at Chelsea Piers, where Manhattan meets the Hudson River, late Thursday afternoon. A few hours earlier, he...
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