Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category

“..persons with no particular expertise..”

April 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Politically correct

At least one body of the US Govt is paying attention… ===== A big story of President Obama’s second term is how federal courts are overturning executive abuses. But sometimes the prosecution is so outrageous, and the legal smackdown so sublime, that the episode deserves special recognition. Such is the case with last week’s hilariously caustic rebuke of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... Read more

I’m Fighting to Restore a Free Society

April 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Socialism

I agree with Mr Koch on most of his thoughts below. [emphasis is mine] ========== I have devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It is those principles—the principles of a free society—that have shaped my life, my family, our company and America itself. Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the... Read more

High-Frequency Hyperbole

April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics

Second article. Some good stuff. ========== A few nights ago, CBS’s “60 Minutes” provided a forum for author Michael Lewis to announce that Wall Street is “rigged” and for the sponsors of a new trading venue called IEX to promise to unrig it. The focus of the TV segment was high-frequency trading, or HFT, an innovation now over 20 years old. The stock... Read more

Book Review: ‘Flash Boys’ by Michael Lewis – WSJ.com

April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics

Two articles. This first one is the book review ‘against’ High Speed Trading. The second will provide perspective. ======== In the spring of 2007, Brad Katsuyama, a rising New York banker at the Royal Bank of Canada, RY.T +0.01% realized something was funny with the markets. He was trying to buy 10,000 shares of Intel, INTC -0.38% offered at... Read more

The Dissing of the President

April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama

Mr Stephens only provides a small number of examples… ===== I’ve never liked the word diss—not as a verb, much less as a noun. But watching the Obama administration get the diss treatment the world over, week-in, week-out, I’m beginning to see its uses. Diss: On Sunday, Bloomberg reported that Hasan Rouhani named Hamid Aboutalebi to serve as the ambassador to the United... Read more

Jeremiah Denton – Remember him?

April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom

Jeremiah Denton never blinked. He did not blink while leading bombing runs over North Vietnam as commander of a squadron of A-6 Intruders. He did not blink after he was shot down and taken prisoner on July 18, 1965, three days after his 41st birthday. And he did not blink when, 10 months later, he was hauled before a Japanese film crew... Read more

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