George Bush made ’em do it… ========== By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY If your concern about the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers is limited to assuring that they will never be in a position to repeat their grisly acts, rest easy. The elder, Tamerlan—apparently named for the 14th-century Muslim conqueror famous for building pyramids of his victims’ skulls to commemorate his triumphs over infidels—is... Read more
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Make No Mistake, It Was Jihad
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, Politically correct, Radical IslamDonald Kagan on Democracy – part 3
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctA good read… ============ In the decades since, faculties have gained “extraordinary authority” over universities, Mr. Kagan says. The changes in the universities were mirrored in the society at large. “The tendency in this century and in the previous century at least has been toward equality of result and every other kind of equality that could be claimed without much regard for... Read more
Donald Kagan on Democracy – part 2
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctA good read. ======== He means across academia, but that is also true in his case. Mr. Kagan resigned the deanship in April 1992, lobbing a parting bomb at the faculty that bucked his administration. His plans to create a special Western Civilization course at Yale—funded with a $20 million gift from philanthropist and Yale alum Lee Bass, who was inspired by... Read more
Donald Kagan on Democracy – part 1
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctA very good read. Will be a multi-part post. ===== By MATTHEW KAMINSKI New Haven, Conn. Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his “farewell lecture” here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War inspired comparisons to Edward Gibbon’s Roman history—uncorked a biting critique of American higher education. Universities, he proposed, are failing... Read more
Clinging to Guns—and Abortion
April 19 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftI’ve already heard it: “We dont’ ‘cling’; we hold firmly to honorable convictions.” =============== Atop the quotable Barack Obama there will be this: “And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” Everyone clings to something. But when it comes to criticizing unseemly political dependencies, it’s almost always liberals... Read more
9-24-177-620. Do you know this metric?
April 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctGreat advice for us all: my liberal friends, but also my conservative ones. ============== By WARREN KOZAK This is the season when college notifications go out, and a simple “yes” is seen as a ticket to success. Applicants, though, can never be quite sure why they were accepted or rejected—subjective criteria, in addition to test scores, are used in the evaluations. For many New... Read more
