Obama: “ISIS Is Contained.” Really?

Today’s football spiking from the ever-prescient and diligent Nation defender, President Obama — Jhihadi John has been vaporized. Along with three cheers for me, Obama claimed, “. . . we have contained them.” Whew, that must be really good news, after all, a President wouldn’t lie. Umm, oh, wait, what’s that noise? A bomb?

A French Lesson For Our Media

A profound event has awakened a lethargic world. Millions of people have instantly materialized in city squares across Europe and in cities elsewhere around the globe in peaceful demonstrations of solidarity with those slain in the Muslim terrorist attacks on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. Most of the signs carried by the mourners held very simple and very telling words, “Je Suis Charlie.”