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Is Canada Losing the Cold War?

December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Communism, Socialism

From Epoch Times.  12/26/2020 I’m old enough, just barely, to remember watching Paul Henderson score his winning goal against the Soviets in the final game of the 1972 Summit Series. I knew that something important had happened, but I didn’t fully understand what it was until much later. Yes, it was hockey, and our national pride was at stake, but there... Read more

A Pandemic of Misinformation – WSJ

December 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Coronavirus, Losing Freedom, Socialism

WSJ 12-21-20  By Scott W. Atlas “Believe the Science”.  Yet there is more and more confirmation that “science” is much more politicized that ever before.  The “population” as a whole is probably more likely to make better overall decisions than “the scientists”.    (Oh, and yes, I did get two BS degrees and and a MS degree. So ‘science’ is not... Read more

A Lesson for Socialists- WSJ

February 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, Socialism

I am not sure why this is a difficult concept. =====

Years ago, when an editor asked me if Boeing would be around to pay off a 100-year bond it had recently offered, I flippantly replied that 100 years was only two product cycles for the company. I underestimated the duration of its products. The Boeing 747 first... Read more

A Short History of American Medical Insurance – Imprimis

October 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism

One of the best “short” analysis of how the USA got to where we are relative to health insurance. Imprimis is a publication of Hillsdale College. ========== Imprimis – September 2018 By John Steele Gordon The following is adapted from a talk delivered on board the Crystal Symphony on July 25, 2018, during a Hillsdale College educational cruise to Hawaii. Perhaps the most astonishing thing about... Read more

Is the Government Really Helping the “Poor”?

October 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Socialism

Quite interesting. The picture often looks quite different when you put all the variables on the table or into the algorithm. ====== By Phil Gramm And John F. Early ‘The War on Poverty is not a struggle simply to support people,” declared President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. “It is an effort to allow them to develop and use their capacities.” During the... Read more

Marx’s Apologists Should be Red in the Face

May 5 | Posted by mrossol | Communism, Losing Freedom, Socialism

WSJ – 5/3/2018 Paul Kengor OK, one of my daughter’s favorite professors… ===== May 5 marks the bicentennial of Karl Marx, who set the stage with his philosophy for the greatest ideological massacres in history. Or did he? He did, but deniers still remain. “Only a fool could hold Marx responsible for the Gulag,” writes Francis Wheen in “Karl Marx: A Life” (1999).... Read more

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