Agree that people have not changed, even if the speed of the world has. Pres. Trump needs to PAY ATTENTION. ====== WSJ 8/12/2017 ‘North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”— President Trump Tuesday “During the Cuban Missile Crisis we stood behind JFK. This is... Read more
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Let Calm and Cool Trump ‘Fire and Fury’
August 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, N Korea, TrumpTrump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense – WSJ
June 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Russia, TrumpPut a sticky-note on this one. ============== WSJ – By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. May 26, 2017 8:06 p.m. ET The Trump -Russia business is finally coming into clearer, more rational focus. Former Obama CIA chief John Brennan, in testimony this week, offered no evidence of Trump campaign cooperation with Russian intelligence. Instead he spoke of CIA fears that Russia would try to recruit/blackmail/trick... Read more
Trump’s White House Mess
May 31 | Posted by mrossol | TrumpTrump must like the chaos. ===== WSJ 5/31/2017 White House aides are leaking that President Trump is considering a staff shakeup to stop them from leaking, and the casualty on Monday was communications director Mike Dubke. Mr. Trump certainly needs to fix his White House mess, but staff changes won’t matter unless the President accepts that he is the root of the dysfunction. Mr.... Read more
Noonan: On Democracy and Trump
May 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, TrumpAnother thoughtful piece by Peggy Noonan. ========== By Peggy Noonan. WSJ 5/20/2017 This will be unpleasantly earnest, but having witnessed the atmospherics the past 10 days it’s what I think needs saying: Everyone, get serious. Democracy is not your plaything. This is not a game. The president of the United States has produced a building crisis that is unprecedented in our history. The question, at... Read more
The 25th Amendment? Forget It
May 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Trump, US ConstitutionInteresting, indeed. I cannot remember this section of the 25th Amendment. ====== WSJ 5/19/2017 By Brian C. Kalt Interest in Section 4 of the 25th Amendment is peaking. Multiple amateur constitutional scholars have advocated its use to remove President Trump from office, as an alternative to impeachment. But Section 4 is a tool for a different job. Its use under today’s circumstances has the... Read more
A Trump Alliance Strategy
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Middle East, TrumpLet’s keep our allies. ===== WSJ 4/20/2017 Henninger After 59 Tomahawk missiles landed on a Syrian airfield, followed by the dropping of a 21,600-pound bomb on Islamic State’s hideouts in Afghanistan, the world has begun to ask: What is Donald Trump’s foreign policy? And so the search begins by pressing what Mr. Trump has done so far against various foreign-policy templates. Is he... Read more
