Some very good responses to Peggy Noonan’s editorial of 12/29/2018, where she tried to encourage “Trump insiders” to “speak up – on the record”. ======= Peggy Noonan asks “Trump insiders” to speak candidly about how the administration conducts the people’s business (“Trump Insiders, Come Out of the Shadows,” Declarations, Dec. 29). Two years are indeed enough time to evaluate the conduct of... Read more
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What Trump Might be doing Right – Letters
January 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Republican(s), The Right, TrumpIs Trump Really Ready to Negotiate?
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, N Korea, TrumpYou- and Trump -may not like history, but there it is. ==== 5/3/2018 WSJ. By Jay Winik How risky is the proposed summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un? As America’s greatest modern presidents have found, summitry is an inherently high-stakes gamble. No matter how well scripted, events can take on a life of their own—or go dangerously awry. In... Read more
Tariffs
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, TrumpWe’ve seen this movie before.. ==== WSJ 3/7/2018 From a 1930 letter signed by 1,028 economists opposed to the Smoot- Hawley Tariff Act: We are convinced that increased protective duties would be a mistake. They would operate, in general, to increase the prices which domestic consumers would have to pay. By raising prices they would encourage concerns with higher costs to undertake production,... Read more
Tale of Two Shutdowns
January 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, TrumpIf you don’t “get it”, I am not sure I can help. ========= WSJ 1/22/2018 The government shutdown continued on Sunday as Senate Democrats imitate Republican Ted Cruz’s 2013 strategy of using government funding to force a President’s hand on an unrelated issue. Mr. Cruz wanted ObamaCare repeal while Democrats want to coerce the GOP on immigration, but the budget blackmail strategy deserves... Read more
Charles Is in Charge – WSJ
January 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, TrumpWell, Mr. President??? ===== By The Editorial Board WSJ Jan. 19, 2018 Donald Trump spent 90 minutes talking to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the White House on Friday trying to avoid a government shutdown, and after he left Mr. Schumer vouchsafed that “we made some progress.” But apparently not enough to stop him and his fellow Democrats from threatening to filibuster... Read more
Make Iran Great Again!
January 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, Middle East, Obama, TrumpOnly one post for tonight. This one should be enough… ========= WSJ 1/4/2018 Iran erupted last Thursday. By Friday, the protests against the government, which began in Mashhad near the Afghan border, had spread to dozens of cities. So when we traveled on Saturday to a movie theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to see “Darkest Hour,” Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Winston Churchill,... Read more
