BTW, people and animals that had the misfortune to cross paths with Mr. Magoo usually left that encounter thinking he was a lunatic verses just being merely nearsighted. Dear Mr. Giles: I think you mean "versus."

Dear Mr. Prager: There were no "Palestinian" refugees when the state of Israel was founded in 1948. Nobody called them that. In 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews were Palestinians, It said so right on their birth certificates. Israel expelled some ARABS, after five Arab states rejected the U.N. partition plan and attacked Israel. Other ARABS left voluntarilly, thinking that Israel would be defeated in a week and they couldcome back and loot Jewish property. You're right to point out that, at one time, even those wonderful folks who brought you the Spanish Inquisition were prepared to admit that Jesus and His original followers were JEWS. There are leftists and pseudo-intellectuals in England, now, who are trying to pretend that they were "Palestinians." The New Testament clearly states that they were Jews. In 1933 A.D., the Jews in Palestine were called Palestinians. Remember the Palestine Post newspaper? Remember when Toscanini conducted the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra? In 33 A.D., the Jews in Palestine were NOT called Palestinians.

If there were a kickback scandal involving the Cyclone Fence Company, they could call it the "Gategate."

Dear Goshawk: Thanks.

I thought maybe you meant her hopes were APPARITIONS-ghosts.

Benghazi Gate. I got fed up decades ago with that joke. Ever since Watergate, every expose or scandal has been a this-that-or-the-other-gate. It just isn't funny any more.

Two-thirds of gun owners are willing to defy the law if politicians ban private possession of firearms. I decided a long time ago that I would defy the law if any nanny state I was living in tried to ban caffeine.

Mary Berg's Warsaw Ghetto, A Diary was published in 1945, before Anne Frank's diary.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" was the first major book to give the Holocaust its agonized human face. In the novel The Diary of Anne Frank was the Albert Hackett/Frances Goodrich PLAY. It turned Anne, that eloquent particularist, into a trite assimilationist.The DIARY was published as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

I object to the term "kangaroo court." It's perhaps one of my pet peeves, but I think "kangaroo court" should be reserved for procedures that don't pretend to abide by due process, procedures thrown together by convicts in a prison or soldiers on a battlefield. Procedures that pretend to abide by due process and baltantly don't should be called star chamber proceedings.