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Links to recent articles you may have missed:
1)”International Humanitarian Law, Proportionality, and the Killing of Children,” December 31, 2023.
International Humanitarian Law, Proportionality, and the Killing of Children
Written on November 29, 2023 A child is one of the miracles of Creation. Maybe the greatest miracle of Creation. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours with a five-year-old girl and her family. She is from the family of a very dear friend. My five-year-old friend is the daughter of loving parents who have done a very good job so of raising her. She is ta…
2)”Rush to Judgment: Internet and other mobs, canceling leaders without due process, and the Rule of Law in America; Antisemitism and free speech on campus, and other controversies,” December 12, 2023.
Rush to Judgment: Internet and other mobs, canceling leaders without due process, and the Rule of Law in America
Adapted from from The Eighteenth Century Club, December 10, 2023 Amidst the heated controversy surrounding Congressional testimony on free speech and anti-semitism, which has led to the resignation of the President of the University of Pennsylvania, David French has offered a careful and closely reasoned analysis of the issues involved.
3)”REPRISE: A Prayer for the Children of Syria; Christmas Prayer from 2012, December 25, 2023.
REPRISE: A Prayer for the Children of Syria
For background, see 1) James Rowles, “Remembering Christmas and War Crimes in Syria, 10 years ago--Part One,” Trenchant Observations, December 24, 2023. 2)”The Olympic Games, and the Battle for Aleppo, Begin—Obama’s Debacle in Syria — Update #70 (July 28), The Trenchant Observer,