Freedom of religion means. . .religions you don’t agree with
IJN Editorial StaffAug 23, 2012
Should Jews be denied the Presidential Medal of Freedom because Judaism believes in the Chosen People? Should Catholics be denied the Nobel Prize because Catholicism...
No light from Ramallah
IJN Editorial StaffAug 16, 2012
Ramallah has approved the construction of a memorial honoring the Palestinian terrorists who killed 11 Israelis in a 1975 attack on the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv. We are...
A ray of light from Egypt?
IJN Editorial StaffAug 16, 2012
When Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, Israel and Egypt agreed that the area would remain demilitarized. No one dreamed that anyone might fight there...
Aurora. . .Wisconsin: Scourge of the times
IJN Editorial StaffAug 09, 2012
The nation, and Colorado, have barely had time to catch their collective breath after last month’s massacre in an Aurora theater while yet another mass killing takes...
Outrage is not enough
IJN Editorial StaffAug 09, 2012
Outrage is not enough. Knowledge is not enough. Conscience is not enough. Relief efforts are not enough. Genocide is not stopped by sentiment. There’s a pattern to...
Gordon Friednash, 1933-2012
IJN Editorial StaffAug 02, 2012
They invented the word integrity for Gordon Friednash. They invented something else, too: the capacity to inject a smile and a joke and a bit of deadpan humor into a...
Missy makes us proud
IJN Editorial StaffAug 02, 2012
Everyone in Colorado is cheering for Missy Franklin. As of Wednesday, the 17-year-old Regis Jesuit High student won two golds, a bronze and set a record in the...
Preventing sexual abuse in schools
IJN Editorial StaffAug 02, 2012
What if? What magical and frustrating words those are — the cornerstone of hindsight. What if 9/11 were thwarted before those jets took off? What if somebody had an...
Forty years and one minute since the Munich massacre
IJN Editorial StaffJul 26, 2012
It is extremely unfortunate that the International Olympic Committee’s boneheaded (anti-Semitic? anti-Israel?) refusal to honor the Israeli athletes murdered by...
The dark night descending into a gun obsessed culture
IJN Editorial StaffJul 26, 2012
The killer in the Aurora theater is alone responsible for his acts. The cause of the killings is himself. It is a gross oversimplification of causality within a complex,...