Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I didn’t bother to read the entirety of an endless article about a bad thing happening in Mexico. No, I’m not talking about drug cartels or about Mexican citizens being slaughtered by guns sent over courtesy of a Democrat Department of Justice attempting to prove that guns hurt people. I’m
Continue readingWouldn’t you like to have lunch with this guy? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1N1zhUm84w[/youtube]
Continue readingDo you remember Johnny Carson’s droll “I did not know that”? I do. And that’s precisely what popped into my head when JKB sent me a link to a post discussing the fact that 161 years ago, the U.S. Navy outlawed flogging. It’s a wonderful little story, especially because it
Continue readingObama is having a bad week when it comes to Joo . . . janitors. After his mispronunciation faux pas (which was probably the innocent act of a mental stumble bum, but which sounded appalling coming from Obama, who has proven hostile to Israel and the Jews), he’s now issued
Continue readingBill Whittle narrates this clear summation of 20th and 21st century relations between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. It does not reflect well on the Arabs: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U[/youtube]
Continue readingA few days ago, I mentioned Robin of Berkeley’s American Thinker piece about the two different types of Jews in America: the kind who are reflexively liberal and reflexively pro-Israel, and the kind who are reflexively Leftist and reflexively hostile to Israel. Robin’s point was that the former do not
Continue readingRobin of Berkeley hits a home run — actually, she hits it right out of the park — in this post explaining the two different types of Jews who support Barack Obama. One type is the type I used to be, an unthinking liberal, who actually loves America and strongly
Continue readingAn antisemitic Jew I know, rather than seeing the Passover ceremony as the celebration of freedom (the world’s first and for a long time only successful slave revolt), and of justice and morality (the Ten Commandments), derides the whole ceremony as the unconscionable and immoral celebration of the genocide of
Continue readingMy Manchurian candidate post is getting a lot of readership, and I can’t even figure out what the sources are. It’s just kind of dribbling around the internet. That post focused on something very specific about Obama, which is the disconnect between his much trumpeted innate qualities. We are told
Continue readingIt will be interesting to see how Obama’s talks with Netanyahu go. Netanyahu is light years ahead of Obama in terms of intelligence and experience. Obama, however, has dense ideological filaments in his brain that may render him incapable of deviating from his biases. In other words, I doubt that
Continue readingI agree with Jonathan Tobin, who notes the Pope’s missteps and tone-deafness while in Israel, but then goes on to add this important caveat: But to say that Benedict is not John Paul should not be an excuse for Israelis or Jews to spend this week bashing either the Vatican
Continue readingSometimes, things just come together. After shamefully neglecting my facebook, I checked in today and got a letter from a friend, asking why non-Jewish Americans should still support Israel when both American and Israeli Jews have so consistently made bad choices in support of that nation. It’s a good question,
Continue readingOne of the things that was most obvious about the Mumbai massacre was the extraordinary effort the attackers — who were ostensibly upset about the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir — made to kill Jews. Not only did they seek out Jews in the hotels, they planned carefully and in advance
Continue readingContentions blog has a short post about the Jewish vote for Obama. I wrote a comment to that post, and share it with you here: American Jews aren’t really Jewish anymore. With regard to Prop. 8’s success in California (preserving male/female marriage), I told a disappointed Jewish acquaintance, who was
Continue readingThe title of my post is not true. But it could be, which is really, really sad: American elementary and high school textbooks contain many “gross misrepresentations” of Judaism, Christianity and Israel, according to a book-length study released this week by the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish and Community Research.
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