I don’t agree with Podhoretz on everything, but this article is pretty good. ============ Is America Exceptional? NORMAN PODHORETZ served as editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine from 1960-1995. He was a Pulitzer Scholar at Columbia University, earning his bachelor of arts degree in 1950. He also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cambridge University, England, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Kellett... Read more
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Muslims, Mormons and Liberals
September 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, The LeftThe best “talk” on this subject that I have read. Excerpt: ” . . . the most “progressive” administration in recent U.S. history will make no principled defense of free speech to a Muslim world . . .” ========== ‘Hasa Diga Eebowai” is the hit number in Broadway’s hit musical “The Book of Mormon,” which won nine Tony awards last year. What does... Read more
Strassel: Mr. Romney, Trust Your Pants – WSJ.com
September 14 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Party PoliticsStrassel: Well said. Romney needs to start talking… Hello?? === In the classic 1968 film “Once Upon a Time in the West,” a villainous Henry Fonda shoots one of his lackeys, in part for the sin of wearing both a belt and suspenders. How do you trust a man, muses Fonda, who “can’t even trust his own pants?” The bold Romney who picked... Read more
Henninger: The Obama Democrats
September 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftDon’t look for this analysis in the liberal press… ============== … the Chicago teachers union …[have] got goals, and what they want from the people of Chicago or America is compliance. … The modern Democratic Party, the party of Obama, is about permanent division and permanent opposition. Despite seven Democratic presidencies since FDR, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Harvard still grieves, “The system is... Read more
Eric Holders Gritted Teeth
September 11 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Party Politics, The LeftThis will cover the NY Times for days, I’m certain of it. =============== It must be tough on the left, not being able to trash John Durham. Mr. Durham, recall, is the special prosecutor appointed in 2008 by then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate allegations that the CIA had illegally destroyed videotapes of CIA detainee interrogations. The prosecutor’s mandate was expanded in 2009... Read more
The Janesville President – WSJ.com
August 31 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, The Left“Not my fault…” Obama ====== From their fainting couches, the press corps “fact checkers” and the liberals who love them are having a spell over Paul Ryan’s Tampa convention speech. How dare he so much as mention the Wisconsin assembly plant that President Obama promised to keep open but didn’t? The claim is that there was nothing the White House could do, because... Read more
