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Gary Player is Worried About America

October 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct

Americans need to listen. ===== WSJ 9/30/2017 BY BRIAN COSTA “THE REST OF THE WORLD is laughing at you,” Gary Player said, and he was only getting started.

Gary Player
The nine-time major champion was sitting on a bench at the driving range at Chelsea Piers, where Manhattan meets the Hudson River, late Thursday afternoon. A few hours earlier, he... Read more

James Madison Weeps

September 27 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left, US Constitution

WSJ Sept. 19, 2017 7:13 p.m. ET ‘Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government,” wrote Ben Franklin. “When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” Imagine what Franklin, James Madison and the other Founders would make of a new Brookings Institution survey showing that American college students have no clue what... Read more

Don’t Even Think About Being Evil

August 15 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Politically correct

Hope this doesn’t reflect on my work-place, but not sure I would bet money on that. ===== WSJ 8/15/2017 By Heather Mac Donald ‘Just wait till those campus snowflakes enter the real world—that’ll shape ’em up!” So goes a typical response to totalitarian hysteria at colleges. The firing of a Google engineer last week for questioning the company’s diversity ideology exposes that hope as... Read more

Death by Diversity

June 20 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Politically correct, Socialism, Western Civilization

And this is what some folks are trying to sell to America. ========= WSJ – 6/19/2017 By Douglas Murray Europe in 2017 is racked with uncertainty— the eurozone crises, the endless challenges of the European Union, national elections that resemble endless rounds of bullet- dodging. Yet even these events are insignificant compared with the deep tectonic shifts beneath the Continent’s politics, shifts that Europeans—and... Read more

Morrissey on Manchester

May 28 | Posted by mrossol | ISIS, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Western Civilization

===== WSJ 5/25/2017 Celebrating my birthday in Manchester as news of the Manchester Arena bomb broke. The anger is monumental. For what reason will this ever stop? Theresa May says such attacks “will not break us”, but her own life is lived in a bullet-proof bubble, and she evidently does not need to identify any young people today in Manchester morgues. Also, “will not... Read more

A Philosopher Gets Pilloried

May 12 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left

Another example of the left’s ‘war on free speech’. Don’t argue the issue, rather attack the messenger. ====== By Jillian Kay Melchior [ as reported in WSJ 5/9/2017] Usually, when junior professors publish scholarly articles, they are lucky to elicit more than a yawn. But last week the philosophical musings of Rebecca Tuvel, an associate professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., provoked... Read more

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