Where is the “moral outrage”???? ========== From a translation by the MEMRI organization of a plea on Aug. 5 by Vian Dakhil to her fellow members of the Iraqi Parliament, on behalf of the Yazidi, a religious sect whose members are besieged on Mount Sinjar by the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: I beg you, Mr. Speaker, my people are... Read more
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Mr. Speaker, please… We are being slaughered…
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, The LeftPalestine and Double Standards
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, The LeftVery well said. =========== What follows are excerpts from a June 30, 2014, news account by Tim Craig, the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Pakistan: “Pakistan’s military launched a major ground offensive in the northwestern part of the country Monday, beginning what army commanders say will be a ‘house-to-house search’ for terrorist leaders and other militants. “The offensive began after two weeks of airstrikes... Read more
Territories Free of ObamaCare
July 21 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, ObamaCare, The Left, US ConstitutionI thought we held to the principle of “Lex Rex”? Apparently, not all ‘elected officials’ do, or care. =========== Last week’s burst of world disorder was ideal for a news dump, and the White House didn’t disappoint: On no legal basis, all 4.5 million residents of the five U.S. territories were quietly released from ObamaCare. Where does everybody else apply? The original House... Read more
Noonan: The Crisis on the Border
July 18 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Noonan, Obama, The LeftAgree, that this issue is not simple, likely has several causes, but that it is not a good omen for America. ========== By – Peggy Noonan “No one who wants to help has authority, and no one with authority is helping.” What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown.... Read more
The Post-Pax Americana World
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftBut we’re so much better off now, aren’t we? ……. [Cry me a river.] ============= In 2008 Fareed Zakaria wrote an influential book titled “The Post-American World.” It was, mercifully, not another lament about American decline. Instead, the book described “the rise of the rest”—China, Brazil, Turkey and other supposedly emerging powers—and made the case that the U.S. had to learn how... Read more
The Daydream and the Nightmare
July 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Noonan, Obama, The LeftI am worried how much more the world can slip into “bad places” over the final years for Obama’s presidency. “Still proud of the man you elected? He sure has brought ‘change'”. ====== I don’t know if we sufficiently understand how weird and strange, how historically unparalleled, this presidency has become. We’ve got a sitting president who was just judged in a... Read more
