Lot of damage can still be done. ========= WSJ 12/24/2016 Barack Obama’s decision to abstain from, and therefore allow, last week’s vote to censure Israel at the U.N. Security Council is a fitting capstone for what’s left of his foreign policy. Strategic half-measures, underhanded tactics and moralizing gestures have been the president’s style from the beginning. Israelis aren’t the only people to feel... Read more
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‘The Resistance’ vs. Trump’s Cabinet
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsTwo-faced, may be a good term…. ============ WSJ 12/24/2016 The progressive Donald Trump doomsday clock is still at a minute to midnight even as the President-elect has named a string of mainstream cabinet nominees, and Senate Democrats are signaling that they plan to fight nearly all of them. They’re even calling themselves “the resistance,” which does accurately capture the combination of melodrama and... Read more
What Al Gore told Trump
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Party Politics, Science==== WSJ 12/10/2016 During the decades we’ve been waiting for actual climate data to validate or invalidate our climate models (we’re still waiting), at least one phenomenon has been reliably observed. This is the political domestication and cooptation of the once-vexing global warming hypothesis. A pioneering shaman of this transmutation was BP CEO John Browne, who in the 1990s declared his company... Read more
Meltdown at Justice
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftIts beyond belief- the ineptitude, if not outright abuse -how this Democrat Administration operates. ================= WSJ 11/2/2016 Fewer than three of 10 Americans trust government to do the right thing always or most of the time, Gallup reports, and the years since 2007 are “the longest period of low trust in government in more than 50 years.” The details emerging about the multiple... Read more
Podesta’s Email Address
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party Politics, Ruling Class, The LeftThis should put an end to the idea that “you can be anything you really commit yourself to”. ================== Thomas Frank, writing in the Guardian on Oct. 31: Then there is the apparent nepotism, the dozens if not hundreds of mundane emails in which petitioners for this or that plum Washington job or high-profile academic appointment politely appeal to [John] Podesta—the ward-heeler of... Read more
The NAACP’s Disgrace
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Party Politics, The LeftIt boggles my mind.. ========= The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has a storied history, but many organizations outlive their moral purpose and it’s now clear this one has. The civil-rights outfit has come down firmly on the side of trapping poor minority children in education failure factories. On Saturday the NAACP’s national board voted to ratify a resolution... Read more
