Jihadist boasts of freely crossing Europe's borders; Freedom from speech...more

On American campuses, freedom from speech   ...What kind of parenting produces children who, living in the lap of Ivy League luxury, revel in their emotional fragility? One answer is: Parents who themselves are arrested-development adolescents, with all the anxieties and insecurities of that developmental stage. They see themselves in their darlings...

Jihadist boasts of freely crossing Europe's borders ...Despite being on wanted lists, Abdelhamid Abaaoud has shuttled between Syria and Europe, exploiting the migrant crisis on EU borders.

The 27-year-old has been able to plan two atrocities and brainwash hundreds of young men to join Islamic State, including his 13-year-old brother...

So Far: Syrian Refugees in U.S. Include 2,098 Muslims, 53 Christians ...Of 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted into the U.S. since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, only 53 (2.4 percent) have been Christians while 2098 (or 96 percent) have been Muslims, according to State Department statistics updated on Monday.

The remaining 33 include 1 Yazidi, 8 Jehovah Witnesses, 2 Baha’i, 6 Zoroastrians, 6 of "other religion," 7 of "no religion," and 3 atheists...

Russia Says Bomb Downed Plane in Egypt and Intensifies Attacks on ISIS Hours after confirming for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb brought down a Russian charter jet over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt more than two weeks ago, killing all 224 people aboard, Russia joined France in bombing Islamic State targets in Syria....

Obama speech in Turkey: We’re not changing our strategy on ISIS because it’s working, you know  If you want to try to make sense of this, knock yourself out...

Huma email revealed: Hillary 'often confused'    An email released yesterday by Judicial Watch reveals that Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest aide at the State Department, warned that Hillary was “often confused.” Dated January 26, 2013, the email came two months after the fall the former first lady suffered at her Chappaqua mansion. That incident resulted in a brain injury so serious that she had to wear special glasses to correct double vision. A month after her fall, the State Department officially claimed: "Judging by the woman we saw this morning and the workload that she´s got she seems to be fully recovered," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters...

Downton Abbey ‘banned God for fear of alienating viewers’ 
Downton Abbey’s historical advisor has revealed that religious references were deliberately left out of the show for fear they would alienate increasingly secular audiences.

Alistair Bruce, whose role is to ensure historical accuracy in the drama, said that the beginning of a meal is never shown because “no one was ever allowed to see a grace being said”.
“I think that the view was that we’d leave religion out of it”, he explained...