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Knowing when to answer a door, when to ring a bell, whether or not to take an elevator was essential during an oppressive occupation.

A French friend, who was a very young girl during the German occupation of Paris, once told me that those dark years were like a “secret garden.” She knew it existed, but she never knew how to enter it or what exactly it contained. What had happened? How did the Parisians thwart the harshness of the German occupation? Should they have done more to oppose it? And, inevitably, what would she herself have done as an adult under the same circumstances? No one, not even her parents, would easily speak about this period to her. Was it sadness, shame or just therapeutic forgetting?

Charles Kaiser’s “The Cost of Courage” combines a thorough and quite accessible history of Europe’s six-year murderous paroxysm with a deftly told story from this secret garden. The Boulloches—father Jacques, his wife Hélène and their four children—were a comfortable bourgeois, Catholic Parisian family: “They blend[ed] a soft anticlericalism with a sharp republican spirit.” As with many such families under the occupation, this one was divided about how to react to its indignities.

Jacques, the director of France’s highway system, had fought heroically in World War I and readily helped Jewish friends go into hiding in 1940. But he thought it essential to serve France and not to “weaken the nation, to which he and his ancestors ha[d] devoted decades of service.” He and Robert, the eldest son, continued to work—as technocrats, not ideologues—for the Vichy regime. Robert, who had served in the French army during the short war of May-June 1940, returned to his job in the finance ministry but was soon recruited by a Resistance group. He declined because of his age (27) and his feelings of responsibility to his defeated nation. Instead, he suggested to the recruiters that his younger brother, André, would be ideal for such work. Soon the three younger Boulloches—André (25), Jacqueline (22) and Christiane (17)—began diligently and dangerously serving an at first chaotic, then increasingly sophisticated Resistance.

The administration is forcing low-income housing into wealthy enclaves, whether or not anyone wants it.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are popular with black voters, but that doesn’t mean the couple wants to live around them. And vice versa. This reality troubles President Obama, though his remedy is what’s really troubling.

When the Clintons went house-hunting in 1999, neighborhood diversity wasn’t much of a priority. The family settled on a five-bedroom Colonial in Chappaqua, N.Y., a lush suburb north of New York City where the population is more than 90% white, less than 1% black and multimillion-dollar homes abound. No one has produced evidence of racial discrimination against buyers who can afford homes in Chappaqua and other wealthy enclaves of Westchester County, where the town is located. But monochrome residential housing patterns upset the sensibilities of officials in Mr. Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Well there is this other candidate from Florida who ignites interest…..Senator Marco Rubio….rsk

Even family loyalists are yet to commit to the former Florida governor

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa—Jeb Bush likely will have the most money of any Republican running for president in 2016. He leads the field or shares a top position in national polling.

But so far in Iowa, Mr. Bush is a laggard, tied for fifth place in early opinion surveys.

When the former Florida governor arrives on Wednesday for his first Iowa rally as a declared presidential candidate, he’ll encounter a Republican voting pool whose most conservative members are wary of some of his policy stances. But even some of Iowa’s longtime Bush family loyalists are hesitant to push for a third Bush president or say they are holding off until the campaign shows it is committed to competing in the state with the first nominating contest.
State Rep. Mary Ann Hanusa worked in the White House for President George H.W. Bush, and under President George W. Bush she led the Office of Presidential Personal Correspondence, a role that included responsibility for vetting the letters the president signed personally. “I was the only Iowan working in the West Wing on 9/11,” she said.

But Ms. Hanusa isn’t a Jeb Bush supporter. She said she met him for the first time in March on his first visit to Iowa, and Mr. Bush, she said, still has to work to win support from her and others in the state.

Editor’s note: The following is the first in a series of articles that will center on the Frontpage motto: “Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” Each piece will examine recent examples of leftist overreach and expose the totalitarian mindset animating these excesses.

A policy at least two years in the making, and President Obama’s broadest attempt to fundamentally transform the United States of America, is moving forward. Unveiled in July of 2013 at the NAACP convention, a plan known as “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) will require the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to gather data on segregation and discrimination in every neighborhood in America and attempt to “fix” these alleged problems. The move little more than social engineering on steroids, giving further credence to the slogan emblazoned on the Frontpage Magazine masthead: “Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”

The final regulations are due out this month and HUD is pitching them as a plan to “diversify” America. “HUD is working with communities across the country to fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for all,” a spokeswoman for the agency explained. “The proposed policy seeks to break down barriers to access to opportunity in communities supported by HUD funds.”

A civilized society’s first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions, rules of etiquette and moral values. These behavioral norms — mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings — represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important thou-shalt-nots, such as thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not steal and thou shalt not cheat. They also include all those courtesies that have traditionally been associated with ladylike and gentlemanly conduct.

The failure to fully transmit these values and traditions to subsequent generations represents one of the failings of what journalist Tom Brokaw called “The Greatest Generation.” People in this so-called great generation, who lived during the trauma of the Great Depression and fought World War II, not only failed to transmit the moral values of their parents but also are responsible for government programs that will deliver economic chaos.

After Rachel Dolezal graduated from Howard University, a historically black college that is 95% black [2] making it one of the least diverse schools in the country, she sued for racial discrimination alleging that she had been denied a teaching assistant position and financial aid because of her race.

She told her black adopted brother that the college had assumed she was black when she had applied.

According to her brother, “She used to tell us that teachers treated her differently than other people and a lot of them acted like they didn’t want her there.”

That experience might have made someone else racist, but Rachel Dolezal internalized the racism she experienced at Howard. And her brother states [3] that it was what led her to become “self-hating”.

After that, she started being “hateful to white people.”

The home address of blogger Pamela Geller was tweeted by ISIS terrorists just days after Boston police killed a knife-wielding jihadi who threatened to behead her.

According to the Daily Mail, Geller’s New York address was posted on a Twitter account linked to British-born Islamic State fighter Abu Hussain al-Britani. Twitter suspended the account on Friday shortly after the post threatening Geller appeared.

Geller told Greta Van Susteren tonight that she is “deeply concerned.”

“Islamist propaganda is so potent that it is influencing children as young as five… If I feel the need to be extra vigilant [with my own children], then I think you need to feel the need to be extra vigilant.” — Mak Chishty, Britain’s most senior Muslim police officer.

“It is very noticeable that the main Islamist groups are not really up in arms about this. They want it, because it will feed the narrative of grievance and victimhood they love. They will be able to use it to say, look, we told you so.” — Haras Rafiq, Director of the Quilliam Foundation.

“You can’t protect democracy by undermining democracy… It is a battle of ideas and we have to defeat these ideas by argument, not by banning even having the debate. What we need, far more than any new law, is a counter-argument and a policy which can inspire [Muslim] society to defeat extremist ideas.” — Rashad Ali, counter-extremism specialist at the Home Office’s de-radicalization program.

“As the party of one nation, we will govern as one nation, and bring our country together. That means actively promoting certain values… And it means confronting head-on the poisonous Islamist extremist ideology. Whether they are violent in their means or not, we must make it impossible for the extremists to succeed.” — British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Britain is facing an “unprecedented” threat from hundreds of battle-hardened jihadists who have been trained in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, according to MI5, the domestic counter-intelligence and security agency. It warns that are now more Britons trained in terrorism than at any point in recent memory.

When it comes to horse racing, we tend to remember the names of the horses more than the jockeys, but here’s a jockey you really should know.
On June 6, American Pharoah became the first horse to win racing’s Triple Crown in 37 years.

It’s just the 12th horse in history to win all of the three major racing events in a single year — the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. But there’s another part of this story you might not have heard about: the jockey.
American Pharoah’s jockey, Victor Espinoza, donated all his winnings from the Belmont Stakes to charity.All of it. Reportedly $80,000.Wow.
The charity is City of Hope, and they fight cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other life-threatening illnesses.

In an interview with ABC News, Espinoza casually mentioned his plans for the massive payday.

“I won the Triple Crown right now, but I don’t make any money because I’m donating all the money to the City of Hope.”

The group confirmed Espinoza’s plans to donate on their website, and included another statement from him:

“Good health — that’s what I want for everyone. With good health, people can enjoy life and do those things that make them happy. By working to defeat cancer, City of Hope’s researchers and doctors are bringing a greater chance of health and happiness to people everywhere.”

Stephane Richard files complaint with Paris court over death threats and leak of his personal information

The head of telecom giant Orange has taken legal action after receiving death threats against himself and family members amid a row over withdrawing his brand from Israel, legal sources said Tuesday.

Stephane Richard filed a complaint at a Paris court last week before heading to Israel in a bid to calm the controversy, a source close to the affair disclosed.

“Stephane Richard received death threats on his telephone and his personal data were published on an Internet site in the context of the controversy over Orange’s presence in Israel,” the source said. Once these personal details were published, Richard received hundreds of calls, including death threats, added the source, who did not wish to be named.

The French telecommunications giant declined to comment on the issue. The row erupted after Richard commented during a news conference in Cairo on June 3 that the firm was planning to withdraw its brand from Israel at the earliest possible opportunity.

Orange licenses its name and logo for use by Israeli firm Partner Communications under an agreement due to run until 2025.

Israel reacted furiously to Richard’s comments, accusing him of bowing to a Palestinian-led boycott campaign.