======== Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, gave a commencement address last week that graduates, and their parents, won’t soon forget. May 23, 2014 6:40 p.m. ET The following is adapted from the commencement address by Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University of Texas at Austin on May 17. The University... Read more
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To the Class of 2014
May 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, The LeftOh, my! Cannot believe that former Princeton President William Bowen ‘unloaded’ quite ‘this bad’. ======= To the Class of 2014 [Commencement address at Haverford, May 18, 2014 ] WSJ_May 19, 2014 7:30 p.m. ET Dear Class of 2014: Allow me to be the first to offend you, baldly and unapologetically. Here you are, 22 or so years on planet Earth, and your entire lives have... Read more
Henninger: #BokoHaram Doesn’t Sing
May 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Radical Islam, Terrorism, The LeftNail squarely hit with big hammer. It is gut-wrenching to see the US of A come to what it has come to. Is is any wonder that Russians like Putin? At least he is a leader who knows that actions make more of a difference than endless deliberations. ====== WSJ_May 21, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET The tweeting has subsided. That tends to happen in... Read more
Bryan College: Were Adam and Eve real?
May 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ReligionGets to a critical argument… =========== By ALAN BLINDERMAY 20, 2014 DAYTON, Tenn. — William Jennings Bryan earned a permanent place in American history nearly nine decades ago in the Scopes trial, when he stood in a courtroom here and successfully prosecuted a teacher who broke the law by teaching evolution in a public school. While not quite “the fantastic cross between a circus... Read more
What ‘Hard Work U’ Can Teach Elite Schools
May 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, DebtVery solid model. ============== May 16, 2014 6:15 p.m. WSJ – Point Lookout, Mo. ‘We don’t do debt here,’ says College of the Ozarks President Jerry C. Davis. Looking for the biggest bargain in higher education? I think I found it in this rural Missouri town, 40 miles south of Springfield, nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. The school is College of... Read more
Prayer in the Public Square
May 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Religious Persecution, US ConstitutionGod hangs on by a vote at the Supreme Court. ========== May 5, 2014 7:13 p.m. ET The Supreme Court did a good turn for religious freedom on Monday, ruling that prayer is permitted at government meetings and doesn’t amount to an endorsement of religion. The disconcerting surprise is that the decision was only 5-4. Greece v. Galloway dealt with a challenge to the... Read more
