Mr Henninger has it right: “…corporation headquarters are not profiles in courage…” WSJ 7/10/2019 The remarkable thing about Colin Kaepernick ’s banning of Nike ’s Betsy Ross flag sneaker to commemorate the Fourth of July isn’t that it happened, but how easily it happened. Nike’s management simply folded over “concerns that it could unintentionally offend.” Translating this waffly phrase into... Read more
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What Ails the U.S. Press? – WSJ
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Jenkins, Special CounselA timeworn TV commentator and professor of politics, in the moments before Robert Mueller ’s testimony began last week on MSNBC, told the audience that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election was an “act of war” by a “sworn enemy of the United States.”
Notice how each word is the sheerest nonsense. There is no forum in which countries “swear”...
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Where are the authorities?
July 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Losing Freedom
Seems reminiscent of police ignoring racial violence during the 20th century [in America].
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WSJ. 7/3/2019 By Andy Ngo, Portland, Ore.
‘No hate! No fear!” chanted the left-wing crowd as they marched downtown Saturday. I walked to the front of the line to record the protesters with my new GoPro camera...
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Please Resign. Sincerely, Elizabeth Warren
July 4 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party Politics
WSJ 7/3/2019
Democrats used to at least try to conceal their contempt for the private economy, but open hostility is now a political tactic. This week’s example is a broadside from Elizabeth Warren on a former Trump Administration official who dared to resume his career after leaving government.
In a Monday letter, Senator Warren blasted...
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What Barr Should Declassify
July 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, TrumpThe 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...
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