Interesting, 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
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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
So Much for Donald Mussolini
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, TrumpIs it possible the popular media could be wrong more then the weatherman is? ====== WSJ 3/8/2017 Well, that was fast, if predictable. We’re referring to the conventional wisdom that has moved without a moment of self-reflection from declaring Donald Trump to be a dangerous fascist to a hopeless incompetent. Not too long ago our leading media lights were using Mussolini and Hitler analogies... Read more
The Left Learns to Love Dubya
March 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The Left, TrumpDo ya’ miss him yet? ===== By Kimberley A. Strassel WSJ March 2, 2017 6:59 p.m. ET George W. Bush gave Democrats a gift this week—which should be a reminder of the perils of demonizing political opponents. But don’t bank on the left accepting his gracious offering. Promoting his new book about veterans on NBC’s “Today” show, Mr. Bush was asked to weigh in... Read more
At the Trump Trauma Center, Nobody Comes for Treatment
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, Trump====== WSJ 2/8/2017 By Joseph Epstein I live in Evanston, Ill., a city of roughly 80,000 just outside Chicago at whose center is Northwestern University. Evanston went 88% for Hillary Clinton to 7% for Donald Trump. The morning after the election, the general glum in town was palpable. At Peet’s Coffee, at Whole Foods, among students, one could everywhere see the depression... Read more
Obama’s Midnight Express
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, TrumpOnly a ‘blind press’ could miss this. =========== WSJ 12/23/2016 Barack Obama isn’t known for humility, though rarely has his lack of grace been more on display than in his final hours in office. The nation rejected his agenda. The president’s response? To shove more of that agenda down the nation’s gullet. Notice the growing and many ugly ways the Obama administration is actively... Read more
