Except the die-hard MS crowd, who would probably not admit it… ====== By DAVID GELERNTER Computing is a young, heedless industry unused to reflection. The tragic death of Steve Jobs at 56 is the first event that has ever forced this hyperactive industry to sit still, pipe down, and think about what matters. Nearly everyone in the technology world is moved by his... Read more
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October 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, TechnologyKilling Awlaki: Legal
October 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, US CourtsThe people who decry this killing are the same group who will not support Ohio mothers, jailed because they choose to send there children to a school [because their [[public]] school is so bad. ========== In the decade before his death, Anwar al-Awlaki served as an imam at two American mosques attended by 9/11 hijackers. He corresponded regularly with Nidal Hasan before... Read more
Harold Hamm: How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia
October 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, ObamaAnyone know a good realtor in ND? ======= Harold Hamm, the Oklahoma-based founder and CEO of Continental Resources, the 14th-largest oil company in America, is a man who thinks big. He came to Washington last month to spread a needed message of economic optimism: With the right set of national energy policies, the United States could be “completely energy independent by the... Read more
AThe Truth About Who Fights for Us
September 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, MilitaryGod bless each and every service man and woman… ======= By ANN MARLOWE It should no more be necessary to write this article than to prove that there were Jews killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11. And yet the mythology refuses to die. Just last week, two well-educated and well-known writer acquaintances of mine remarked in passing on the “fact” that... Read more
What a caste society!
September 29 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtDorothy Rabinowitz writing Tuesday in the Journal’s Political Diary e-newsletter: The pundits busy divining the reasons Herman Cain won that Florida straw poll so handily can’t be blamed—it was a compelling spectacle and a distinctly satisfying one as straw poll results go. To have listened to the candidate’s prescriptions in his speech to the delegates Saturday was to see why. Everything... Read more