If there is a better term I can use, please, help me out. ====== WSJ 4/8/2016 Blogging can be dangerous to your livelihood— or at least it can at Marquette University, where a professor may lose his job for expressing the wrong political views. In November 2014 an undergraduate approached philosophy instructor and PhD candidate Cheryl Abbate, after a class on John Rawls’... Read more
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PC at Marquette
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftHow We Might Defeat Radical Jihadism – Noonan
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, ISIS, Noonan, Obama, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Terrorism, The LeftA great read. ===== 3/26/2016 These things are obvious after the Brussels bombings: In striking at the political heart of Europe, home of the European Union, the ISIS jihadists were delivering a message: They will not be stopped. What we are seeing now is not radical jihadist Islam versus the West but, increasingly, radical jihadist Islam versus the world. They are on the move... Read more
Let’s Stop It Before It’s Too Late
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Islam, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationFrom my friend Bob Ruble. If you don’t ready anything else today, read this. ============= More than 120 people braved the snow and ice Monday to rally in front of the Missoula County Courthouse, protesting an effort by the Obama administration and its army of community organizers to plant foreign “refugees” into small cities in western Montana. One of the speakers was a... Read more
Bernie Bashes Wallstreet
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Politically correct, The LeftSo, this is ‘Big, bad, Wallstreet, eh?’ ============== By Bret Stephens, Feb. 8, 2016 7:14 p.m. ET Last Friday a crane collapsed in lower Manhattan, killing a man named David Wichs. The next day the papers told the story of his life: a Jewish immigrant from Czechoslovakia; a math whiz with a degree from Harvard; a thoughtful neighbor and husband; “the nicest,... Read more
America the Indispensable
December 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, The Left, Western CivilizationI would be much obliged to hear dissent from the views shared here by Robert Murdock. =========== WSJ – 12-2-2015 Before I thank Henry Kissinger, and before delivering my modest message, I feel obliged to alert college students, progressive academics and all other deeply sensitive souls that these words may contain phrases and ideas that challenge your prejudices. In other words, I formally... Read more
Fighting 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
