Good advice to Mr. Trump. =========== WSJ 12/22/2016 By Samuel Tadros Islamic State’s local affiliate in Sinai claimed credit for the bombing of St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church in Cairo earlier this month. The group could not have chosen a more symbolic target. Erected in 1911, St. Peter’s was an architectural marvel built and decorated by Italian architects and mosaic artists. It stood for... Read more
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Trump’s Opportunity: Saving Coptic Christians
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, TrumpLetters: Pardon for Clinton??
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Hillary Clinton, TrumpI happen to agree with most of these letters. Trump should not pre-empt getting the facts into the light. ========== The thrust of your Nov. 23 editorial “Democracy’s Verdict on Clinton” is that President-elect Donald Trump did the right thing by deciding not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her email and Clinton Foundation issues. But the subject is much larger and more important... Read more
Trump vs Press Corp
November 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, TrumpPlease, Mr. Trump, let some better people into the room.’ ======= WSJ 11/28/2016 O utsider Donald Trump was elected president in significant part because of his promise to shake up Washington. He’ll soon find that one of the most entrenched forces that object to any change affecting them is the White House press corps. As last week’s meetings with the media showed, a... Read more
What to Tell Your Children About Trump
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Trump====== WSJ 11/19/2016 By Peggy Noonan Eight points and two anecdotes as we continue to digest this astounding election. You don’t know a tree is hollow until you push hard against it and it falls. The establishments of both parties did not know, a year ago, that they were hollow trees. They thought themselves strong because they always had been, and people think... Read more
Steve 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
What Comes After the Uprising
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, TrumpWhat, indeed… ============= WSJ 11/12/2016 Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself. Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind. . . . Call it the mores, call it God or Fate . . . That force exists and moves. And when it moves It will employ a hard and actual stone To batter into bits an actual wall And change the... Read more
