o o o ==== April 20, 2015 8:08 p.m. From columnist George F. Will’s keynote address at the inaugural Disinvitation Dinner, hosted in New York City on April 15 by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to honor those whose invitations to speak at U.S. universities were retracted because of their views: Free speech has never been, in the history of our... Read more
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
Notable & Quotable: George Will
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Losing Freedom, US ConstitutionNet Neutrality?
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Obama, TechnologyThese guys must have attended public schools. ===== By Daniel Henninger March 11, 2015 6:58 p.m. ET Washington’s seizure of the Internet is one of the great case studies in the annals of political naïveté. Over several years, leading lights of the Web—among them Netflix,Google and Tumblr—importuned the Obama White House to align itself with the cause of net neutrality. “Net neutrality,” like so many progressivist-y... Read more
St. Patrick, St. Joseph and Irish-Italian Harmony
March 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, ReligionI am Presbyterian. But we protestants and Catholics have many,many more common enemies than we have differences. We need to [quickly] learn how to focus on our commonalities if we are to survive long term. ========== Right after Valentine’s Day, the front window of my Brooklyn home sprouts a field of cardboard shamrocks each year. A statue of St. Patrick appears on... Read more
Fighting to Keep Catholic Schools Catholic
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Religious Persecution, Western CivilizationWorth the read. And worth taking a stand for private institutions. ========== By Ryan T. Anderson And Leslie Ford March 5, 2015 7:09 p.m. ET San Franciscans are currently debating a simple question: Should the government respect the right of Catholic schools to be authentically Catholic? San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone thinks so. But eight California senators and assemblymen sent the archbishop a letter last... Read more
A test of true diversity
February 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Religious PersecutionIf you want another perspective and some very interesting stories, WORLD MAGAZINE is tough to beat. ============ By Joel Belz Posted Oct. 17, 2014, 01:00 a.m. WORLD MAGAZINE Gordon College of Wenham, Mass. (a northeast Boston suburb), has never been known in the evangelical community as a right-wing or super-conservative institution. Pretty solidly biblical, most observers would say. And pretty balanced. Now and... Read more
“Soon to be Cancelled”
December 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, US ConstitutionThe encroachment onto the First Amendment right to “freedom of expression” by the ‘vocal opposition’ is something that should concern everyone. Especially true freedom loving people. I don’t like everyone’s speech content either, but I am more confident that the truth will prevail than I am about wanting to protect my ears and the ears of everyone else. ============= An essential freedom-of-speech... Read more
