Elections, PA Style?
The folks at PowerLine claim that the following image is from an election rally in the PA. I haven’t seen this elsewhere, but the problem is that this is entirely too believable. As PowerLine’s...
Skeptical About Skeptics
In a column in Scientific American (Nov., pg. 34) appropriately enough called �Skeptic,� Michael Shermer (publisher of a journal that bears that name) tells us what is wrong with the recent spate of scientific...
The new anti-Semitism
A few weeks ago, a colleague (Rabbi Yitz Etshalom) and I agreed to appear on a radio program called Focus on the Mideast. The station is ultra-leftist (Marxist would be more accurate); the host...
Oops
Are we surprised? In the same week that the previously-mentioned op-ed from Peace Now attempts to blame Bush for the violence, a prominent Palestinian editor says that Arafat never intended to make peace at...
Look in a Mirror, Lady
Slack-jawed disbelief — it’s the only possible reaction. Those with rational minds will be amazed by this gem from the President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now. Peace Now, of course, is the...
Dead on, as usual
Evelyn Gordon of the Jerusalem Post is an old friend from college. At the beginning of her college career, she was both liberal and non-religious. By the end, she had improved considerably on both...
Would Vilna have voted Kerry?
There’s a Reform Temple in Pennsylvania that, for several decades, blew a French Horn on Rosh HaShanah. Then younger members started agitating for the use of a real Shofar, instead. The old-timers responded with...
More Moronicism
First of all, my erev Shabbos entry didn’t give examples of violence between 1993 and 1996 that Carter manages to ignore. Alan Miller sent a letter to the NY Times (where Carter’s drivel first...
A Warm Place in Hell
George Bush once again demonstrated his understanding of terrorism and terrorists. He had nothing positive to say about Arafat, so he chose (wisely, as a head of state) to say nothing about him at...
Carter’s Bigotry
Jimmy Carter is the only president that I have seen in person. I recall visiting the Air and Space Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) as a boy, and there he was, waving from...