darn, I was just about to say that, to Pat's eternal credit, he actually has something nice to say about Israel. Regardless, the antisemites at Townhall are sure to howl at the moon, on cue, that anyone who dares to criticize Pat is a Neocon trained dog.

a truly ironic and frustrating aspect to this is the self-infliction. Jews are overrepresented in the three primary information sources, news media, entertainment media and academia. Because they are overwhelmingly leftist, they are determined to show their "impartiality" by judging Israel more harshly than any of her other detractors and even more than the countries and terrorist organizations dedicated to exterminating her (you know it's bad when the NYT comes down harder on Israel than Al Jazeera).

This is at least in part the carryover of the diaspora mentality of begging for acceptance - it's laudable when other ethnic groups show pride and loyalty to the home country but Jews are not to show the slightest preference for...

Stay classy, Mary! Funny how you genuflect toward (oops, sorry, I meant knee jerk toward) "better off aborted" as the final solution to almost anything. don't libs think most children would be better off aborted?

are to civil rights what "peace" groups are to peace, what "environmental" groups are to the environment, what "women's" groups are to women, and what "pro-choice" groups are to the "choice" of the baby.

the segment of young women who (un-) dress in nightclub clothes also attend synagogue. While I suppose we should be encouraged by their attendance, it strikes me as odd that many of these seemingly intelligent and sophisticated women have no more sense of boundaries than a three year old.

I cannot agree that a woman's clothing - no matter how inappropriately sexual - is an excuse for a man's illicit conduct (infidelity, rape, etc.). I prefer the free market approach of self-regulation ( i.e. women who (un-) dress as sex objects will inevitably be viewed as sex objects) to the heavy-handed Taliban approach.

Our lives have spiritual and physical dimensions, both of which are important and necessary to both a marriage and...

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The blurring of these meanings is not a mere academic exercise but part of an effort to characterize anti-semitism as right wing when in fact most of it comes from the left, and to obscure the fact that the right is far more pro-Israel than the left. Read the left wing sites - for every Herman there are hundreds anti-semitic and anti-Israel hatemongers who make Herman look like Golds Meir). Look at polling data: despite Jews voting 80-90% Democratic, the support for Israel runs much higher among Republicans (and especially conservatives) than it does among Democrats and liberals. But if you only listened to the academic and media elites (both disproportionately represented by liberal Jews), you would think that a Jew's...

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A tip o' the kippah for Lynne for citing the recent Norman Podhoretz book. Two other helpful books are Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism and Bernard Goldberg's Bias.

Podhoretz and Jonah Goldberg see at least part of this ironic (but potentially deadly) phenomenon attributable to confusion over basic terms: what we currently call "conservative" is really classical liberalism (limited government, individual freedom & responsibility, equality of opportunity), while what we currently call "liberal" is progressive statism (government as provider, collective good, equality of result). Jewish law, has far more in common with classical liberalism (with its reliance on G-d's law) than it does in progressive statism, with its...

have tongue-in-cheek down but appear to have some fundamentally flawed assumptions underlying their tongue-in-cheek-edness.

Opposition to the welfare state is only inconsistent with "thinning the herd" if you consider the latter to be a conservative ideal. In fact, both the welfare state and "thinning the herd" (championed, as Honest Lib pointed out, by Planned Parenthood - not exactly the Hoover Institute) are manifestly liberal ideals.

Liberals divide everyone by race (and sex and ethnicity and income and..) because, in addition to their cynical desire to divide and manipulate, they fundamentally see people as part of a collective (and always in service to the all-powerful State).

So while many liberals...

what do Google, WHO & Wikipedia know that we closed-minded America firsters don't? In support of your theory, there are more people trying to get into the United States than all of those other countries ahead of us - combined! And that's just legally! In fact, some of those in line are from all of those other countries ahead of us!

Which gets me to thinking - I'm wondering if we are becoming even more close minded as a country by letting in all those immigrants from countries 1 through 36? I'll check with Google, WHO & Wikipedia and let you know