At the end of the article Ms. Sharp tells of the harrassment that conservatives like her receive. Not that you would read about it in the New York Times…. =========== WSJ 12/10/2016 By Kyle Peterson In the war of ideas, a think tank is like a munitions factory, churning out the matériel to push the trench line a few miles forward. As luck... Read more
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The Spoils of the GOP’s State Conquest
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Republican(s), The RightSteve Bannon on Politics as War
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Right, TrumpThis article might be a misinformed as all the other stories about Mr. Bannon, or it might not be. ========== WSJ 11/19/2016 By Kimberley Strassel It’s hard to think of Steve Bannon as a low-profile guy. He has garnered about as many headlines over the past week as Donald Trump—no small feat. He is the executive chairman of the hard-right Breitbart News, among... Read more
Advice to Congress
November 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, The RightFormer Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who died this week, writing in a Jan. 17, 2007, op-ed for the Washington Post: The brewing fight in Congress over continued funding of the war in Iraq . . . is an ominous reminder of 1975, when Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War three years after our combat troops had left. With... Read more
The Case for a Really Open GOP Convention
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The RightA very good, thought provoking article for me. ======== WSJ 4/9/2016 As the odds rise of a contested Republican presidential convention, Donald Trump’s and Ted Cruz’s camps are insisting that one of them must be the nominee. The Trump argument is that even if he falls short of the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination, denying it to him at the... Read more
Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, The Right, Western CivilizationI couldn’t agree more with Mr. Scalia. And I consider myself way on the conservative end of the scale. We don’t diss math because white collar criminals use it. We don’t speak against sex because some men rape women. Why don’t we think and discuss liberal education the same way? ======= By Christopher J. Scalia March 27, 2015 6:07 p.m. ET Dismissing the... Read more
