Long, but very worth the time… ============= If you’re making money on the Wall Street scale — which is nothing like your boring, middle-management in the Fortune 500, Hamptons-and-Mercedes, barely–a–1 percenter type money — then you can buy basically anything. When real-estate investor Robert Rosania put part of his storied champagne collection up for sale in 2008, the auction was predicted to... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Amy Chua: Tiger Mom’s Long-Distance Cub
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, Politically correctWe need more ‘tiger Moms’… ======== A lot of people have asked me whether I still “tiger mom” my older daughter, Sophia, now that she’s in college. Do I block sleepovers from afar, drill her on schoolwork remotely, monitor piano practice by Skype and make sure that she never watches TV or plays computer games? Actually, it’s just the opposite. My husband and... Read more
The Pentagons Vindication
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, The Left“Ops, I was wrong… ” Senator … (don’t hold your breath) ======== U.S. forces left Iraq this month, but at least one Iraq war tradition has continued: Years after politicians and pundits manufactured a headline-grabbing controversy to tar the Bush-era Pentagon, investigators have found no wrongdoing. That’s the conclusion of the Defense Department’s Inspector General after a two-year probe of the Pentagon’s program... Read more
Chinese Foreign Aid to USA
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EconomicsEconomist Mark J. Perry at american.com, Dec. 2: Let me break from [the] consensus about China’s currency policy and present an alternative position: In the best of all possible worlds for the United States, China would use its labor and capital to manufacture consumer products like clothing, footwear, furniture, electronics, and appliances and send $300 billion worth of these products to... Read more
Part of the battle…
December 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, Radical IslamBrigitte Gabriel speaking on the subject how anti-American Islam is infiltrating the educational system of the United States. A very good video.
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Where Were Penn State’s Trustees?
December 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy“When the football coach is the highest paid employee of the university…” One of the best comments on perhaps the “basic problem” at US universities in 2011… “We” are accountable, too. We want “great football” more than we are willing to put up for really great higher education. ========== By ANNE NEAL Every generation or so, a scandal emerges that not only exposes the... Read more
