Agree, that this issue is not simple, likely has several causes, but that it is not a good omen for America. ========== By – Peggy Noonan “No one who wants to help has authority, and no one with authority is helping.” What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown.... Read more
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Noonan: The Crisis on the Border
July 18 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Noonan, Obama, The LeftThe Post-Pax Americana World
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftBut we’re so much better off now, aren’t we? ……. [Cry me a river.] ============= In 2008 Fareed Zakaria wrote an influential book titled “The Post-American World.” It was, mercifully, not another lament about American decline. Instead, the book described “the rise of the rest”—China, Brazil, Turkey and other supposedly emerging powers—and made the case that the U.S. had to learn how... Read more
The Daydream and the Nightmare
July 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Noonan, Obama, The LeftI am worried how much more the world can slip into “bad places” over the final years for Obama’s presidency. “Still proud of the man you elected? He sure has brought ‘change'”. ====== I don’t know if we sufficiently understand how weird and strange, how historically unparalleled, this presidency has become. We’ve got a sitting president who was just judged in a... Read more
Where are the Palestinian Mothers?
July 2 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical Islam, The LeftVery tough for me to understand the mindset, thought process, etc. I have tried. ============= In March 2004 a Palestinian teenager named Hussam Abdo was spotted by Israeli soldiers behaving suspiciously as he approached the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank. Ordered at gunpoint to raise his sweater, the startled boy exposed a suicide vest loaded with nearly 20 pounds of explosives... Read more
IRS Lost Email Jeopardy
June 25 | Posted by mrossol | IRS, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionAnd the press, who hold to their sacred duty to expose Govt ‘mis-management’, is total absent this discussion. =========== The IRS is spinning a tale of bureaucratic incompetence to explain the vanishing emails from former Tax Exempt Organizations doyenne Lois Lerner and six other IRS employees. We have less faith by the minute that there is an innocent explanation for this failure... Read more
The High Price of Obama Fatigue
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Obama, The Left======= Updated June 19, 2014 3:28 p.m. ET With 2½ years left in the Obama presidency, it is at least an open question what will be left of it by December 2016. Or us. In this week’s Wall Street Journal-NBC poll, conducted as the disintegration of Iraq began, Mr. Obama’s approval rating has fallen to 41% and his handling of foreign policy to... Read more
