Section: FrontPage Mag (USA)
Speaking Truth to the Pope; Speaking Truth to Muslims
On Wednesday, July 27, Pope Francis arrived in Krakow, Poland, in order to celebrate World Youth Day. As part of this trip, the pope commented on controversy surrounding Muslim migration to Europe. Many of these comments reveal an apparent ignorance of Polish history and current reality, a privileging of Marxist and culturally relativist...
Winning Eurovision Song Remembers Communist Atrocities
The song “1944,” by singer-songwriter Susana Jamaladynova who performs as Jamala, has won the 2016 Eurovision song contest for Ukraine. This victory makes the annual event something more than a musical competition. “1944” recalls Stalin’s mass deportation of Crimean Tatars. As the Guardian explained, Stalin accused the Tatars of...
Obama's DOJ Won't Call "Felons", Felons Anymore
Understandable. We wouldn’t want to stigmatize murderers, drug dealers, rapists and robbers. Their victims might disagree, but they’re just Crimeaphobic. Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason, who has headed the Office of Justice Programs since 2013, announces in a guest post that her agency will no longer use words such as “felon”...
Contemplating War in Europe
During one of my recent research trips to Germany, among a small discussion group, a colonel in the German Bundeswehr raised a few eyebrows with an off-the-record observation: If Russian President Putin, he posited, ever unleashed his large and powerful mechanized forces across the North European Plain – through Belarus, Poland, Germany and...
Chernobyl and Communism
Chernobyl has been much in the news, with good reason. Thirty years ago, on April 26, 1986, as Lydia Smith noted in the International Business Times, “one of the four nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine exploded. It was the most catastrophic nuclear disaster the world has ever witnessed, sending massive amounts of...
The Holocaust, the Left, and the Return of Hate
Reprinted from TheTower.org. Alex Chalmers, the co-chair of the Oxford University Labour Club, resigned on February 17, citing widespread anti-Semitism and hostility to Jews among its members. His statement and a subsequent press release by the Oxford University Jewish Society make for sobering reading, not least because this is not an isolated...
Putin Praises Obama's "Strength"
This is A+ trolling. Count on a KGB guy to take Obama’s “weakness is strength” meme and turn it around on him. “That’s very good that my colleague possesses the courage to make such statements.” “Barack, as a senator, criticized the administration for its actions in Iraq. But, as president, he allowed a...
The Fallacy of Focusing on Islamic Radicalization
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. There are Jihadists from dozens of countries who have joined ISIS. What do they all have in common? The official answer is radicalization. Muslims in Europe are “radicalized” by alienation, racism and unemployment. Neglected by...
Obama's Obscene, Hypocritical Lecture About Press Freedom
Politico’s Jack Shafer has an entertaining rant skewering Obama’s condescending lecture to the press. How do we hate Obama’s treatment of the press? Let me count the ways. Under his administration, the U.S. government has set a new record for withholding Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a recent Associated Press...
Arrest George Soros
It is time to hold radical ringleader George Soros to account for the growing civil unrest that he has helped to foment in this presidential election cycle and his efforts to shut down Donald Trump rallies using physical force and intimidation. Soros, the billionaire speculator, is the preeminent funder of the activist Left in America, which...
