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Quran Burning: Aid to the Enemy

April 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Radical Islam

Rabinowitz: Petraeus Misfires on Quran Burning. Excerpt:  To this the only sane response is no. They are not understandable, these passions that so invariably find voice in mass murder, the butchery of imagined enemies like the people hunted down in the U.N. office Friday, and of everyone else the mobs encountered who might fit the bill. We will not prevail over terrorism and the related bloodlust of this fundamentalist fanaticism as long as our leading ... Read more

Pressure Mounts on Absent Democrats

March 4 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Obama, Party Politics, The Left

Pressure Mounts on Absent Democrats – WSJ.com. I thought the American Political System was based on participation?  Aren’t Democratic and Republican elected officials elected so that they will “be there” and represent their constituents? If they don’t like the proposal, cannot they simply offer an amendment for everyone to be part of the union, everyone to earn union wages and benefits… and all move to Lake Wobegon …? ” === By AMY MERRICK And KRIS MAHER Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin and Indiana ... Read more

Gunmen Kill Pakistan’s Religious Minorities Minister

March 4 | Posted by mrossol | Radical Islam

Gunmen Kill Pakistan’s Religious Minorities Minister – WSJ.com. Of course, this has nothing, nothing to do with Islam… Or? ============ By ZAHID HUSSAIN And TOM WRIGHT ISLAMABAD—Suspected Islamic militants shot dead the most senior Christian in Pakistan’s national government, in the latest sign that political moderates backed by the U.S. are failing to rein in a growing wave of Islamist extremism. The second killing this year of a politician who has stood against the blasphemy law, which sanctions the death penalty... Read more

The Information

March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy

Book Review: The Information Very, very interesting. Maybe more important than all the other articles I’ve posted this week. == By JOHN HORGAN In 1989, I traveled to a Boston suburb to interview Claude Shannon, the inventor of information theory. Then 73, Shannon was shy and his memory was poor, so his wife, Betty, answered many of my questions.... Read more

Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out

March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Socialism, US Debt

Charles G. Koch: Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out – WSJ.com. “Must reading” if you want one great synopsis of what is wrong with America today.    Thank you! Mr Kock! = By CHARLES G. KOCH Years of tremendous overspending by federal, state and local governments have brought us face-to-face with an economic crisis. Federal spending will total at least $3.8 trillion this year—double what it was 10 years ago. And unlike in 2001, when there was a small federal surplus,... Read more

If You Are With Us, We Are Against You

February 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Politically correct, The Left

Douglas Murray: If You Are With Us, We Are Against You – WSJ.com. Help me understand. Is there something here or am I just being snookered? = By DOUGLAS MURRAY You’re either with us or against us, George W. Bush once said. A simple statement of political fact. Some nations tend to be broadly favorable toward your world view and thus broadly favorable to you. Others can be said to be broadly hostile to your world view and therefore hostile to you. But... Read more

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