Amazing, the fact that “history” has not taught everyone… =========== June 10, 2014 2:37 p.m. ET Just ahead of last month’s European Parliament elections, which saw the rise of far-right and anti-Semitic parties, four people were murdered in the Jewish Museum of Brussels. The shootings underscored that, in addition to political extremism, Europe’s Jews also face the violent threat of jihadists. Mehdi Nemmouche,... Read more
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Do Jews have a future in Europe?
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Losing Freedom, Racism, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionOnly America Can Prevent a Disaster in Iraq
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Losing Freedom========= L. Paul Bremer- June 15, 2014 6:04 p.m. ET The crisis unfolding in Iraq is heartbreaking especially for those families who lost loved ones there. They gave so much; it is all at risk. It did not need to be this way. As I wrote in these pages in December 2011 after the last of our military left Iraq, “President Obama made... Read more
Liberty and Law: Not self-protecting or self-perpetuating.
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing FreedomJune 12, 2014 7:20 p.m. ET From a talk by former Sen. Joseph Lieberman at an Aspen Institute-sponsored conference in Prague, June 10: The relative peace, prosperity, tolerance and security achieved from Lisbon to Tallinn is by any historical measure not the natural state of the European continent. On the contrary, this has been a part of the world that has proven... Read more
A Power Struggle Gets Ugly at Kansas State
May 20 | Posted by mrossol | Losing FreedomIf its not about money, then what? And why aren’t other ‘institutions of higher learning’ speaking up? =========== Leticia Romero Just Wants to Transfer, but It Isn’t So Easy 5/20/2014 WSJ With the NCAA under legal attack, now facing increased pressure to allow its student-athletes a broader set of rights, critics of its policies are focusing on a new case that, they... 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
Cold War 2.0, the Videogame
April 18 | Posted by mrossol | Losing Freedom, Obama, Ukraine“..we let it go…” -======= We are close to the Putin endgame in Ukraine. On Wednesday troop-filled trucks flying Russian flags were seen in eastern Ukraine’s cities. The politically fractured and under-trained Ukrainian military sent toward Donetsk and other cities this week is no match for the camouflaged special-ops forces Russia has there, or the 50,000 Russian troops and fighter jets near... Read more
