I don’t agree with Podhoretz on everything, but this article is pretty good. ============ Is America Exceptional? NORMAN PODHORETZ served as editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine from 1960-1995. He was a Pulitzer Scholar at Columbia University, earning his bachelor of arts degree in 1950. He also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cambridge University, England, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Kellett... Read more
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American Exceptionalism?
November 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Socialism, The LeftDebasing the Currency – and more…
October 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, SocialismThis is a must read. We are repeating history… to our detriment. ========= Popular Delusions Memo to Central Banks: You’re debasing more than our currency By Dylan Grice, Societe Generale At its most fundamental level, economic activity is no more than an exchange between strangers. It depends, therefore, on a degree of trust between strangers. Since money is the agent of exchange, it is the... Read more
The Great Famine in China
October 28 | Posted by mrossol | SocialismWhy did my parents know about this in 1960? I was brought up “knowing” that there were “Chinese children starving” ============ By MICHAEL FATHERS It is difficult to look dispassionately at some 45 million dead. It was not war that produced this shocking number, nor natural disaster. It was a man. It was politics and one man’s vanity. The cause was famine and... Read more
Are Entitlements Corrupting Us? Yes
September 5 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, SocialismLong, but an important read. ============= By NICHOLAS EBERSTADT The American republic has endured for well over two centuries, but over the past 50 years, the apparatus of American governance has undergone a radical transformation. In some basic respects—its scale, its preoccupations, even many of its purposes—the U.S. government today would be scarcely recognizable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, much less to Abraham Lincoln... Read more
Food Stamp Nation
September 5 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Socialism, UncategorizedOne in seven…? This is progress? ============ The Obama and Romney campaigns spent Tuesday sniping over whether the President deserves an “incomplete” grade, as Mr. Obama put it, for fixing the economy. The more revealing news was the Department of Agriculture report, released on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, that 46,670,373 Americans are now on food stamps. That’s an all-time record, at... Read more
Maryland – Vision for America!
August 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, SocialismHmm… ====== By STEPHEN MOORE What’s the fiercest rivalry in American politics today? There’s Obama-Romney, of course, but try O’Malley-McDonnell—neighboring governors battling across the Potomac River over how best to resuscitate a moribund economy. Martin O’Malley, Maryland’s liberal Democratic governor, is competing for jobs, businesses and tax dollars with Bob McDonnell, Virginia’s conservative Republican chief executive. Both are rising stars considered potential presidential... Read more


