Yep, change the subject! ================ How does a man who entered the White House vowing to restore science to its proper place tell us that gun control is the answer to terrorism? After all, California already has strict gun control, as does France, which just had its second terrorist massacre this year. Not to mention that the one time when terrorists with assault... Read more
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The Liberal Theology of Gun Control
December 8 | Posted by mrossol | 2nd Amendment, Losing Freedom, Obama, The LeftFighting Terror by Self-Reproach – WSJ
December 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftMr Stephens is right on the money – again. ================= Nobody who watched Barack Obama’s speech Sunday night outlining his strategy to defeat Islamic State could have come away disappointed by the performance. Disappointment presupposes hope for something better. That ship sailed, and sank, a long time ago. By now we are familiar with the cast of Mr. Obama’s mind. He does not... Read more
Obama’s Guantanamo Power Play
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US ConstitutionIn case you forgot, President Obama is a Constitutional Attorney… ========= By David B. Rivkin Jr. And Lee A. Casey Dec. 2, 2015 6:51 p.m. WSJ Two days after terrorists rampaged in Paris, the Obama administration announced that it had transferred five prisoners—including a former Osama bin Laden bodyguard—from the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates. In the past... Read more
President Guantanamo
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, US ConstitutionPresident Obama rode into the White House vilifying George W. Bush’s “unchecked presidential power” and “ignoring the law when it is inconvenient,” as he put it in 2007. Yet now Mr. Obama is poised to exceed any executive action his predecessor so much as contemplated as he may shut down Guantanamo Bay in defiance of inconvenient laws he signed. Attorney General... Read more
Kurds on the Right Side of History
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | ISIS, Obama, Radical Islam, The LeftFrom French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy’s “Thinking the unthinkable: This is war,” in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Nov. 16: I come now to the heart of the matter. The real source of this flood of horror. And that is the Islamic State, which occupies a good third of Syria and Iraq and provides to the perpetrators of possible future Bataclans the... Read more
Palestinian State of Denial
November 9 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle East, ObamaYou do not make peace with enemies. You make peace with former enemies. ======= In the history of political clichés, has there ever been one quite so misjudged as the line—some version of which is attributed either to Israel’s martyred Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin or fabled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan—that “you make peace with your enemies, not with your friends”? OK, “give peace... Read more
