Archive for the ‘Trump’ Category

What Barr Should Declassify

July 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Trump

The story you won’t hear on most news outlets.. WSJ  7/3/2019

Finally America has its George Smiley, the fictional master spy from the John le Carré novels. Smiley knew the importance of a spy agency being willing to get to the bottom of its own major cock-ups. Attorney General William Barr has been given power by Donald Trump... Read more

Escape from hell (collusion)

April 18 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Henninger, Trump

WSJ  4/18/2019   Daniel Henninger

On Jan. 10, 2017, a news-and ente r tainment website called BuzzFeed published the text of the Steele dossier. Simultaneously, most of the U.S. media began running stories based on anonymous intelligence sources suggesting the possibility of a link during the previous year’s election between U.S. President-elect Trump and Vladimir Putin. This came... Read more

What Trump Might be doing Right – Letters

January 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Republican(s), The Right, Trump

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

Is Trump Really Ready to Negotiate?

May 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, N Korea, Trump

You- 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, Trump

We’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, Trump

If 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

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