Mr Stephens is right on the money – again. ================= Nobody who watched Barack Obama’s speech Sunday night outlining his strategy to defeat Islamic State could have come away disappointed by the performance. Disappointment presupposes hope for something better. That ship sailed, and sank, a long time ago. By now we are familiar with the cast of Mr. Obama’s mind. He does not... Read more
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Fighting Terror by Self-Reproach – WSJ
December 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftMr Schmitz Is Terminated
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, The LeftHard to grasp that someone is “getting it right” for a change… ======= WSJ 12/3/2015 For Wisconsin prosecutors who won’t take a hint, subtlety doesn’t work. So on Wednesday the state Supreme Court rejected their motion to reconsider the John Doe probe of conservative groups, ordered seized documents handed over to the court, and terminated Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz. The Justices had already ruled... Read more
Chicago School of Free Speech
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftWSJ – 11/22/2015 “I’m a Liberal Profes sor, and My Liberal Stud ents Terrify Me,” read the headline of an essay for the liberal website Vox earlier this year. The author, who was frightened enough to write under a pseudonym, admitted that he “cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad,” including books by Mark Twain. The American... Read more
World Order in Crisis
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, The Left, Western CivilizationI have slowly drifted from supporting American military involvement in “other’s affairs”, but this article has given me pause. Have you noticed how far the world as “disintegrated” in a mere 7 years from what “stability” there was in the past 60 or so? And what did America’s involvement have to do with the order we have had during this... Read more
Kurds on the Right Side of History
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | ISIS, Obama, Radical Islam, The LeftFrom French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy’s “Thinking the unthinkable: This is war,” in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Nov. 16: I come now to the heart of the matter. The real source of this flood of horror. And that is the Islamic State, which occupies a good third of Syria and Iraq and provides to the perpetrators of possible future Bataclans the... Read more
