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The IRS Loses Lerner’s Emails

June 21 | Posted by mrossol | IRS, The Left

In case you miss this on the front page of the New York Times… ========== June 13, 2014 7:02 p.m. ET The IRS—remember those jaunty folks?—announced Friday that it can’t find two years of emails from Lois Lerner to the Departments of Justice or Treasury. And none to the White House or Democrats on Capitol Hill. An agency spokesman blames a computer crash.... Read more

The Iraq Debacle

June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The Left

Your great leader and statesman… ========== An extended civil war is likely. A terrorist caliphate is possible. The magnitude of the debacle now unfolding in Iraq is becoming clearer by the day, with the terrorist army of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, marching ever closer to Baghdad. On Tuesday the al Qaeda affiliate captured Mosul, a city with a... Read more

Trading With the Taliban

June 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Radical Islam, The Left

That Mr. Obama—and his liberal friends—denounced George W. Bush for similar signing statements is one more antiterror irony of this Presidency. Other Americans will pay the price for the terrorist hostage swap. ============ The return of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from the clutches of the Taliban is cause for relief for his family and all Americans. But there’s no denying that the price of... Read more

To the Class of 2014

May 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, The Left

Oh, my! Cannot believe that former Princeton President William Bowen ‘unloaded’ quite ‘this bad’. ======= To the Class of 2014 [Commencement address at Haverford, May 18, 2014 ] WSJ_May 19, 2014 7:30 p.m. ET Dear Class of 2014: Allow me to be the first to offend you, baldly and unapologetically. Here you are, 22 or so years on planet Earth, and your entire lives have... Read more

Henninger: #BokoHaram Doesn’t Sing

May 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Radical Islam, Terrorism, The Left

Nail squarely hit with big hammer. It is gut-wrenching to see the US of A come to what it has come to. Is is any wonder that Russians like Putin? At least he is a leader who knows that actions make more of a difference than endless deliberations. ====== WSJ_May 21, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET The tweeting has subsided. That tends to happen in... Read more

Behind the East German Lie

May 18 | Posted by mrossol | Socialism, The Left

I’m first generation American, but ‘the East” was never far from my thoughts. ============= After three generations, a family’s faith in the state disappears. May 6, 2014 12:22 a.m. ET From “Red Love: The Story of an East German Family,” a new memoir by Maxim Leo: I think that for both my grandfathers the [German Democratic Republic] was a kind of dreamland, in which they... Read more

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