We ignore at our own peril.. ==== By Daniel Henninger WSJ 11/15/2017 American politics has become an endless fox hunt. The hounds’ heads jerked up this week on news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, responding to a request from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, had asked the Justice Department’s career lawyers to look into the possibility of appointing a second special prosecutor,... Read more
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Prosecutors Gone Wild
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Party Politics, Special CounselThe James Comey Show – WSJ
May 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, The Left, US ConstitutionYou would know none of this from the public, left-leaning press. =========== 5/11/2017 WSJ Daniel Henninger If you read nothing else while fighting through the maelstrom around President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, read the full text of Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein’s memorandum titled “Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI.” Mr. Rosenstein’s memo makes meticulously clear the short version... Read more
A Trump Alliance Strategy
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Middle East, TrumpLet’s keep our allies. ===== WSJ 4/20/2017 Henninger After 59 Tomahawk missiles landed on a Syrian airfield, followed by the dropping of a 21,600-pound bomb on Islamic State’s hideouts in Afghanistan, the world has begun to ask: What is Donald Trump’s foreign policy? And so the search begins by pressing what Mr. Trump has done so far against various foreign-policy templates. Is he... Read more
The GOP’s ObamaCare Choke
March 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Republican(s), StupidityI have no idea what Republican senators are smoking, but they are f***ing out of their mind. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, PEOPLE!! ======= WSJ 3/16/2017 Less than three months into full control of government and the chance to reshape the American system for a generation, Republicans are doing something no one thought possible: They are reinventing the circular firing squad. Even... Read more
McCarthyism At Middlebury
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Politically correctI hope that Mr Henninger is correct, but I am not betting a lot of money on it. ===== Daniel Henniger, WSJ 3/11/2017 The violence committed against Charles Murray and others at Middlebury College is a significant event in the annals of free speech. Since the day the Founding Fathers planted the three words, “freedom of speech,” in the First Amendment to the... Read more
The DeVos Apocalypse
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Henninger, The LeftA bit more on this important event. It will be interesting to see the landscape 4 years hence. ================= WSJ 2/9/2017 By Daniel Henninger The extraordinary battle over Betsy De Vos’s nomination to be secretary of education is the defining event of the Trump presidency’s early days. As presented, the DeVos confirmation appeared to be a standard partisan conflict between Democrats... Read more