Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I didn’t watch the SOTU. Aside from finding Obama a boring, inelegant speaker, I was helping a client with trial prep. Today, the trial got continued for a few months so, before settling in for a nice 12 hour sleep (I wish!), I can blog — and share with you,
Continue readingTrey Gowdy conduct a masterful examination of MIT Prof. Jonathan “Stupid Americans” Gruber. What made it so good was that he had Gruber repeatedly offer the canned defense that he (Gruber) was arrogant, stupid, and ill-informed. That defense might have flown once but, when a formerly boastful MIT professor said it over
Continue readingBefore I dive into my round-up, I wanted to discuss with you a poster that a very liberal friend of mine put up on Facebook. It’s the Leftist version of various posters you’ve seen here discussing Leftist logic (e.g., as Dixon Diaz says, “A liberal is someone who lives in
Continue readingIt’s very natural, given what happened to the Jews at Nazi (and Communist and Muslim) hands in just the last 75 years to think of them as victims. But they’re not. They’re survivors, and fighters, and people who have created one of the most stable, dynamic, free, creative, prosperous nations
Continue readingToday is Erev Yom Hashoah, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Israel, it is a poignant moment honored by every citizen (or at least, every Jewish citizen). In the rest of the world, it is a moment to be forgotten, ignored, or denied. Back in the 1930s, no one
Continue readingColor is an interesting thing. I long ago realized that the 1920s and 1930s seem further away for me, visually, than the pre-modern era. The difference is color. When I think of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance or the Enlightenment, even though the images are frozen, they still are
Continue readingShe’s a high school senior, but damn! if she doesn’t give a stunningly good talk about the way in which the New York Times, despite knowing about the Holocaust, not only downplayed it, but effectively kept American policy away from helping Europe’s besieged Jewish population: There is no anti-Semite worse
Continue readingToday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day that was once a memorial day, a day of looking back, but is now a chilling tocsin of what the future might hold. Everywhere in the world, antisemitism is on the rise. Nor is this the cold, clinical antisemitism that once characterized England
Continue readingThe one thing that’s been nice about Obama’s presidency is the fact that the Democrats ramped down their Nazi rhetoric. It used to be that you couldn’t open a Leftist web page without hearing that Bush and Cheney were Nazis, and that every Republican policy initiative promised to create a
Continue readingAs a Jew, the Holocaust is always with me. When I whine about something (which I often do), I’m instantly stricken with guilt because I know that, 70 years ago, across Europe, women with lives similar to mine (middle-aged, middle-class) were suddenly pitched into a nightmarish maelstrom from which there
Continue readingA matched set: The first about the beasts at the top of the Nazi hierarchy, the second about the beasts at the bottom.
Continue readingWhen I watch Obama in action, I become very worried that Yom Hashoah, instead of being only a remembrance of things past, will be joined by a Yom Hashoah II, the sequel. But today, I won’t blog about that. Instead, I urge you to read this story of a young
Continue readingI’ve long had a conflicted emotional relationship to Poland. I know that Poland bore the brunt of the first official Nazi invasion in WWII, back in August 1939. I also know that the Poles suffered horribly under the Soviets. In the modern era, it was the Poles whose bravery exposed
Continue readingYou’ve no doubt read about the false Holocaust love story that’s caused Oprah such anguish. I have a real story for you. I knew the players and can speak to their veracity. Harry’s parents were able to get him out of Germany during the late 1930s. By that time, he’d
Continue readingWith regard to Iran, Israel is currently facing two options. It can launch a preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, which will allow Israel to survive intact while inflicting minimal loss of life or property against Iran. Alternatively, it can allow Iran to take a preemptive strike against Israel (which
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