Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category

“Soon to be Cancelled”

December 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, US Constitution

The encroachment onto the First Amendment right to “freedom of expression” by the ‘vocal opposition’ is something that should concern everyone. Especially true freedom loving people. I don’t like everyone’s speech content either, but I am more confident that the truth will prevail than I am about wanting to protect my ears and the ears of everyone else. ============= An essential freedom-of-speech... Read more

The Worldview that Makes the Underclass

December 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Economics, Socialism

This is a rather long piece, but it is well worth your time. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Reading this, its almost impossible to see from one paragraph to the next for all the smoke. ================= The following is adapted from a speech delivered on May 20, 2014, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Dearborn, Michigan. I worked for 15 years... Read more

Urban Rioting

December 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism, US Courts

Edward Banfield on urban rioting in the 1960s in “The Unheavenly City” (1968): The rioters knew they had little or nothing to fear from the police and the courts. Under the pressure of the civil rights movement and of court decisions and as the result of the growing ‘professionalism’ of police administrators . . . the patrolman’s discretion in the use... Read more

The Other Ferguson Tragedy

December 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Racism

ByJason L. RileyNov. 25, 2014 7:21 p.m. ET By Jason L. Riley Nov. 25, 2014 7:21 p.m. We now know that Michael Brown was much more of a menace than a martyr, but that won’t stop liberals from pushing an anti-police narrative that harms the black poor in the name of helping them. The black teen in Ferguson, Mo., robbed a store, attacked a... Read more

Progressives and the Police

December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, The Left

========= Dec. 21, 2014 7:01 p.m. ‘What do we want? Dead cops!” So chanted marchers at one of the protests organized in the last month against the failure of grand juries to indict white officers in the death of black crime suspects Michael Brown and Eric Garner. On Saturday they got their wish, as a black assailant citing revenge for Brown and... Read more

Wisconsin Targets the Media

December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Losing Freedom, The Left

This is serious stuff. ========== A secret political speech probe looked into radio talk-show hosts. Updated Dec. 21, 2014 9:54 p.m. The Wisconsin assault on political speech has been in a lull, but it reappeared with a bang on Friday with a fresh document release by a state court. The disclosures include evidence that Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board wanted to go after Milwaukee radio... Read more

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