Right to the point. =========== One unfortunate reality of modern politics is the right-left mutually reinforcing media echo chamber. The most extreme voices on either side broadcast the most outrageous statements of the other side as a way to define their opposition and attract attention to themselves. This is the way to understand the flurry of fever-swamp chatter about impeaching President Obama.... Read more
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The Post-Pax Americana World
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftBut we’re so much better off now, aren’t we? ……. [Cry me a river.] ============= In 2008 Fareed Zakaria wrote an influential book titled “The Post-American World.” It was, mercifully, not another lament about American decline. Instead, the book described “the rise of the rest”—China, Brazil, Turkey and other supposedly emerging powers—and made the case that the U.S. had to learn how... Read more
Where’s Jim Comey?
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, IRS, Losing Freedom, ObamaWhere is the “all concerned about Americans’ rights” press????????? ============== Congressional investigators keep uncovering troubling facts in the IRS political targeting scandal, which makes us wonder: Where is that independent and intrepid G-Man James Comey ? The FBI director told the HouseJudiciary Committee on June 11 that his agency’s IRS investigation—ordered a year ago by Attorney General Eric Holder —is still “very active”... Read more
Abandoning Afghanistan…
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamJonathan Foreman writing on Afghanistan in the July/August issue of Commentary magazine: [T]he truly awful aspect of this retreat is that America may be about to abandon Afghanistan just when it seems to have turned a corner—when a new leader is about to take power after a peaceful democratic process, when economic growth is transforming life for millions, and when... Read more
Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Forming Alliances We Never Thought Possible – Yahoo Finance
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Liberal Press, Middle East, Obama, SyriaAlmost exclusively reactive, never proactive or leading. And this is what it has gotten the USA. I’m surprised that this article was published by the AP. The press has been oh so slow to ‘analyze’ impacts of Obama’s actions (hard to call it a ‘policy’) overseas. ===== AP Here’s how quickly things can change in the volatile Middle East: Less than one year... 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
