Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Today 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 readingWhen I lived in England, the Tottenham Hotspurs, a London based football club, was doing very, very well. It had done very, very well the year before too. So Chas & Dave, a popular English duo, wrote a song, which became a massive hit. The song is undeniably catchy, and
Continue readingChuck Hagel apologized for making a fairly nasty gay slur more than a decade ago. The execrable Andrew Sullivan is proud of Hagel, especially because Hagel’s mea culpa wasn’t accompanied by a companion mea culpa to the Jews and the State of Israel, as to both of which Hagel has
Continue readingIn a sane world, Steve Crowder would have his own TV show, rather than three-minute segments. Of course, the discipline of a three-minute segment means that every word he says is worthy. There is no useless, time-consuming filler. Watch and learn. (Ah, heck, you guys already know this. But watch
Continue readingEveryone is having a good laugh at young Obama’s pompous, turgid, and self-referential writing about T.S. Eliot. My thoughts actually went somewhere else. T.S. Eliot was a tried-and-true antisemite. That’s why I’ve always given him a wide berth. The young Obama apparently did not feel the same way about Eliot’s
Continue readingThe handwriting was on the wall in 2008 but Jews, despite having eyes, could not see it: Obama is not now and never was a friend to Israel. His social and political allegiances meant that any protestations of friendship were lies. And certainly his acts during more than three years
Continue readingI wrote this during Iran’s Green Revolution. For the paragraphs regarding Iran, please feel free to substitute Syria, the Sudan, the economic victims of the financially decimated European Union, Palestinian children who are pawns in Hamas’ genocidal strategy, or any other group of people groaning under a tyrant’s yoke. ****
Continue readingOne of my favorite books is a tattered paperback tucked safely into my bookshelf, called The Book of Heroic Failures: The Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain. It’s a humorous compilation of things that just didn’t go right. Two of the more charming chapters introduce
Continue readingToday, a gunman hunted out a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing four (three of whom were young children) and then vanishing. Despite the unusual specificity of the targets (i.e., Jewish children), the usual suspects are very busy denying that the unusual specificity of the targets had anything to do with
Continue readingOf the many, many things I do that irritate my husband, two are pertinent here. First, I actually listen to what he says. This can be frustrating for him, because he doesn’t always use his words with precision. When we’re having a discussion and I say “But you said…” his
Continue reading[UPDATE: I received an email from someone who I have reason to believe is indeed close to the story, rebutting my charges. I still think the film slipped up, but I am certain that the SEALS are not antisemites. Read more here.] In my earlier post, I accused Act of
Continue reading[UPDATE: I received an email from someone who I have reason to believe is indeed close to the story, rebutting my charges. I still think the film slipped up, but I am certain that the SEALS are not antisemites. Read more here.] [I didn’t want to clutter this post with
Continue readingMy brain is slowly warming up here so I’m not yet capable of original content. Instead, let me offer other people’s wonderful stuff. To get this set started, you have to begin by reading a speech that the Ayatollah Khomeini made in 1942, in which he stated explicitly that Islam
Continue readingHere’s the lede: The great thing about living in San Francisco is that it is socially and culturally responsible. The bad thing is, a city that is so socially and culturally responsible can’t resist taking the bait when a fringe group tries to provoke a reaction. In a non-Bizarro world,
Continue readingAmerican universities pay lip service to multiculturalism and inclusiveness, but one of their despicable secrets is that, while conservative and Jewish speakers are ignored or shouted down with no push-back whatsoever from the university administrations, pro-Palestinian speakers are given a bully pulpit. The worse their rhetoric — the more anti-inflammatory
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