I get the feeling that 1/2 the population wants more of the same. =========== WSJ 7/26/2016 President Obama said in 2008 that he wanted to be the reverse Ronald Reagan, and in one sense he has been. As he takes the Democratic stage in Philadelphia Wednesday he can rightly claim to have fulfilled most of his major progressive policy goals. The difference is... Read more
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Europe is Hopeless, No?
July 27 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Politically correct, The Left, Western CivilizationEurope needs some backbone, or its over. ============== At last count, members of the European Union spent more than $200 billion a year on defense, fielded more than 2,000 jet fighters and 500 naval ships, and employed some 1.4 million military personnel. More than a million police officers also walk Europe’s streets. Yet in the face of an Islamist menace the Continent... Read more
Catastrophe in Syria
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Middle East, Obama, The LeftNo kidding…. And the Left keeps giving him a “hall pass”. ====== WSJ 6/18/2016 A day after CIA Director John Brennan testified that ISIS now boasts far more fighters than al Qaeda had at its peak, there’s more disagreement in the Obama ranks. Fifty-one State Department diplomats have signed a letter that assails President Obama’s Syria policy—and calls for military strikes and the... Read more
Chicago: The Wild, Wild West
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party Politics, Policing, The LeftWell, you asked for it. Be thankful. ============= WSJ 6/16/2016 By Heather Mac Donald Someone was shot in Chicago every 150 minutes during the first five months of 2016. Someone was murdered every 14 hours, and the city saw nearly 1,400 nonfatal shootings and 240 fatalities from gunfire. Over Memorial Day weekend, 69 people were shot, nearly one an hour, topping the previous year’s... Read more
An Assault Rifle Education
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | 2nd Amendment, The LeftYes, yes, this is from the WSJ. I know. Instead of disparaging the source, kindly address the issue. ============ WSJ 6/16/2016 In the wake of the Orlando terrorist massacre, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats have called for reinstating Bill Clinton’s ban on “assault weapons.” If her version works as well as her husband’s did, the terrorists will have won. From 1994 to 2002 Congress... Read more
Why Some “Americans” Don’t Buy-In to all Gun Control
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Terrorism, The Left, US ConstitutionSome of my friends question why anyone would not “sign up for ligitimate gun control laws.”? Well, perhaps they/you might consider this. =========== WSJ – Letter to the Editor. 6/16/2016 [You] . . and others describe the Orlando attack as the “largest mass shooting in U.S. history.” Hardly. According to Dee Brown (“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”), more than 150 people... Read more
