Former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who died this week, writing in a Jan. 17, 2007, op-ed for the Washington Post: The brewing fight in Congress over continued funding of the war in Iraq . . . is an ominous reminder of 1975, when Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War three years after our combat troops had left. With... Read more
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The Case for a Really Open GOP Convention
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The RightA very good, thought provoking article for me. ======== WSJ 4/9/2016 As the odds rise of a contested Republican presidential convention, Donald Trump’s and Ted Cruz’s camps are insisting that one of them must be the nominee. The Trump argument is that even if he falls short of the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination, denying it to him at the... Read more
Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, The Right, Western CivilizationI couldn’t agree more with Mr. Scalia. And I consider myself way on the conservative end of the scale. We don’t diss math because white collar criminals use it. We don’t speak against sex because some men rape women. Why don’t we think and discuss liberal education the same way? ======= By Christopher J. Scalia March 27, 2015 6:07 p.m. ET Dismissing the... Read more