British Novelist to American Grads: There’s Nothing Virtuous about Being Offended

Mark Antonio Wright National Review 5/19/2015

A rather uneventful college commencement season full of the usual platitudes and bromides was shaken up by British novelist Ian McEwan’s refreshingly challenging the zeitgeist of trigger warnings, free-speech zones, and campus censorship at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania this week.

McEwan did not shy away from addressing the current […]

Obama’s Blind Spot About Anti-Semitism

Jonathan S. Tobin Commentary Magazine 2/9/2015

There has been a great deal of justified criticism about President Obama’s unwillingness to respond to terrorist outrages with the sort of moral leadership that can rally the West to fight back. His comments at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast in which he sought to create a false moral […]

Valerie Jarrett Emerges To Declare Paris March 'No Show' Story FINISHED

DW Ulsterman 1/15/2015

When Valerie comes out front and center, you know there’s an issue deeply troubling to this White House. In this instance it is even some in the Mainstream Media declaring a major blunder for not having sent a high ranking member of the administration to the Paris march following the Charlie Hebdo […]

'Tout est Pardonné'

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6 Times the Obama Administration Said Its Job Was to Promote Islam

Ben Shapiro Breitbart.com National Security 8 Jan 2015

On Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced that the Obama administration would prioritize fighting Islamophobia in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in France. Never mind that most Westerners aren’t Islamophobic, but rather GettingShotInTheFaceForExpressingMyOpinion-Phobic.

The real problem, according to the Obama administration, […]

At the French National Assembly today, a moment of silence and a song

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