Via The Times of Israel:
Four people were shot and killed at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse Monday morning.
A rabbi and his two young children were among the dead, as well as an 8-year-old girl. Several more people were injured.
Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, was on his way to...
Some scary warnings out there, as reported by The Telegraph:
As the Italian government struggled to borrow and Spain considered seeking an international bail-out, British ministers privately warned that the break-up of the euro, once almost unthinkable, is now increasingly plausible.
Diplomats are preparing to help Britons abroad through a banking collapse and ...
Felix Salmon (h/t HotAir)
… I don’t see much hope that the unemployment rate will come down to a remotely acceptable level any time soon. Realistically, America’s unemployed are here to stay. And we’re only just beginning to understand how that’s going to affect the political economy of the nation.
A near permanent dependent...
Good afternoon, all! I’m back from my summer at The Wall Street Journal Europe where I interned as a Bartley Fellow. I’m now in my senior year at Cornell & I will try to post here as much as I can as I search for a full-time job...
And the Kurdish State.
Via Israel Matzav,
Spain to recognize ‘Palestine’ on the ’1967 lines’
The Palestinian Authority announced on Thursday that Spain has decided to recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines before September. A spanish diplomat told Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath that Spain would support making the state...
In a draft statement the G-8 nations were
set to echo Obama’s call for negotiations based on the 1967
borders, the same framework which caused outrage in the U.S.
Congress:
Group of Eight leaders will give “str...
It’s a, um, a European, um, wedding toast training, um, ping ponging, um, partying like it’s 2008, whatever….
This tweet is making waves on our side of the pond:
He doesn’t need a Medicare plan, because he got bin Laden.
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Thanks to reader Emily, who was in Rhode Island recently for her daughter’s graduation from Providence College, for alerting me to this article in the Providence Journal about PC’s so-called Lost Class of ’44.
The story is somewhat familiar but worth remembering; a class of college students who met the call of...
The war in Europe was over, but the war in the Pacific went on. Truman announced the victory with solemn caution of the road ahead.
And then for a day, Americans spiked the football:
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Today it still seems possible:
I watched it and I loved it.
The flyover by WWII vintage bombers and fighter planes was a nice touch, recalling the memory of the song “There will always be an England.”
And I’ll use any excuse to run this audio:
David Cameron has generated a stir in Europe by giving a speech in which he said that state-sponsored multiculturalism has failed:
Note that Cameron was not criticizing multi-racial or multi-ethnic societies; he was proclaiming the failure of policies which sought to segregate and separate groups in the name of multiculturalism rather than assimilating...
“Generational Theft” is a term frequently used to describe the Democrats purchase of current entitlements and payouts to politically connected groups using borrowed money. The consequences of these type of actions can be seen in Europe, where the younger generation is left hopeless.
I focused on Greece in an earlier post, Greece...
I have posted previously about the plight of the Jews of Malmö, Sweden, who have been under siege by the Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, what I called Malmö Syndrome.
Islamists across Europe have used anti-Israel agitation to justify acts of anti-Semitic violence, and anti-Israel leftists have either encouraged or excused such violence, as in Malmö. In a...
The “we must do something now to save the planet” crowd is eating crow in Europe, as the European Commission biofuel plan is falling apart.
As reported by The Independent,
Biofuel plan will cause rise in carbon emissions:
Britain’s promise...
