Another thoughtful piece by Peggy Noonan. ========== By Peggy Noonan. WSJ 5/20/2017 This will be unpleasantly earnest, but having witnessed the atmospherics the past 10 days it’s what I think needs saying: Everyone, get serious. Democracy is not your plaything. This is not a game. The president of the United States has produced a building crisis that is unprecedented in our history. The question, at... Read more
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What to Tell Your Children About Trump
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Trump====== WSJ 11/19/2016 By Peggy Noonan Eight points and two anecdotes as we continue to digest this astounding election. You don’t know a tree is hollow until you push hard against it and it falls. The establishments of both parties did not know, a year ago, that they were hollow trees. They thought themselves strong because they always had been, and people think... Read more
What Comes After the Uprising
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, TrumpWhat, indeed… ============= WSJ 11/12/2016 Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself. Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind. . . . Call it the mores, call it God or Fate . . . That force exists and moves. And when it moves It will employ a hard and actual stone To batter into bits an actual wall And change the... Read more
America’s Decadent Leadership Class
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, RussiaHit nail on head! ========= It is quite dreadful and a showing of the gravest disrespect that, if U.S. intelligence agencies are correct, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has inserted himself into America’s presidential election. And it could not have deeper implications. If Russia is indeed behind the leaks of the emails of Democratic Party operatives Mr. Putin may have many reasons, as he often... Read more
Do You Hate War?
August 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, NoonanYes. ======= WSJ 8/227/2016 Noonan. With the campaign proper about to begin, on Labor Day, a last August thought, a very simple one: War is terrible. It is my impression our candidates for president don’t really know this. They never say it, not in formal speeches or in thinking aloud, in reveries in friendly interviews. I would say of most of America’s... Read more
How We Might Defeat Radical Jihadism – Noonan
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, ISIS, Noonan, Obama, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Terrorism, The LeftA great read. ===== 3/26/2016 These things are obvious after the Brussels bombings: In striking at the political heart of Europe, home of the European Union, the ISIS jihadists were delivering a message: They will not be stopped. What we are seeing now is not radical jihadist Islam versus the West but, increasingly, radical jihadist Islam versus the world. They are on the move... Read more
