Great 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
Archive for the ‘Politically correct’ Category
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April 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctOnly Newtown? God Help Us
December 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Politically correctMr. Stein says it so very well. Teaching morality? Rearing young men in America? Turning a blind eye? ====== Sunday I learned about the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school while we were setting up at Fox News to tape Cavuto on Business. The news was so horrible that we all felt as if we had lost our legs and could no longer... Read more
Never Blame a Woman
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftDon’t hold your breath… ============== By JAMES TARANTO President Obama’s faux-chivalrous defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice got some backup Friday, when “a dozen female members of the House,” all Democrats and “the majority of them African American like Rice,” held a Capitol Hill press conference. They asserted, in the words of an Associated Press report, that “Republican senators’ angry criticism . .... Read more
How Free Speech Died on Campus
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctAs go the universities, so goes the culture… ============= By SOHRAB AHMARI New York At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America: the modern university—”a bizarre, parallel dimension,” as Greg Lukianoff, president of the... Read more
When the Arab Jews Fled
October 14 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Politically correct, Religious PersecutionI guess it depends on who writes the history books… =========== smaller Larger facebooktwittergoogle pluslinked ininShare.0EmailPrintSave ↓ More . . smaller Larger By LUCETTE LAGNADO Fortunée Abadie is still haunted by the day in 1947 when mobs stormed the Jewish Quarter of the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo, shortly after the United Nations vote that laid the groundwork for the creation of Israel. Aleppo, a city where... Read more
Benghazi Was Obamas 3 a.m. Call
October 5 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Politically correct, The LeftIf only Bush were present, we would hear more… =========== “…. The U.S. ignores warnings of a parlous security situation in Benghazi. Nothing happens because nobody is really paying attention, especially in an election year, and because Libya is supposed to be a foreign-policy success. When something does happen, the administration’s concerns for the safety of Americans are subordinated to considerations of Libyan... Read more
