What a strangely reasonable nuanced first remark. However, I'll take you one further. It's not so much that most people have nuanced social views as it is that most Americans know that the FEDERAL government has no role in your personal social activities. Conservatives will be much better off when they realize advocating for smaller government means advocating for smaller government and not just smaller economic government and bigger social government.

The establishment clause, in addition to what has been stated previously, does not remove religion from government it simply disallows the establishment of an "official" state religion, in reaction to the oppression of the Church of England. As well, it is designed to protect religions FROM the government and not the other way around. More importantly, the Ten Commandments are NOT a Christian symbol. Obviously they were given to Moses on Sinai, so they are Jewish. Christians believing in the old Testament, adopted them, and Muslims, who believe in the prophesies of both New and Old Testaments, ALSO believe they are the word of g0d. Justinian used them as the basis for his code, the grandfather of all modern legal systems. This is an absurd attack, as it always has been, on the liberty of the vast majority, in defense of some non existent "right" of a small minority.

Actually, they've had "their" (there is not such thing as a Palestinian) since the formation of TransJordan as the 'Arab' state in the division of the British mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

Everything well said, but Armstrong might start looking for answers to the terrible rift between the black and Jewish Communities in his own family as his brother Montel is a notorious Holocaust denier. There are amazing ties between the 2 communities. One often overlooked is that besides the concept of protecting the oppressed and Tikkun Olam, American Jews who had survived the Holocaust owed an enormous debt to the African American Soldiers who served in WWII and who, in large numbers were the first faces they saw as the camps were liberated. Because of the refusal of FDR to integrate the army, black Americans were used in the front of many combat units as mine sweepers and so were the first to come upon the camps.

That is simply a lie.

The police have an absolute right to stop him and to ask for the firearm. This has been ruled on over and over again, and would certainly qualify as a Tarry stop, the same reason the Arizona law is Constitutional. Arresting him, and keeping his weapons after determining he was committing no crime, and was licensed is another matter.

Star, while I generally love you, Israel was NOT born out of the Holocaust. The modern Zionist movement started a century before, and the Jewish state was promised to the Zionists and the already Jewish majority in Jerusalem in the early parts of the 20th century before World War ONE. It is the Arab narrative, and that of Obama, that claims Israel is the result of some kind of collective guilt. That story makes deligitimzing it all the easier. Don't fall for that.

Actually, during the Mandatory period, the British referred to the Jews as Palestinians. A simple reading of British press, or viewing of British newsreels from the time will confirm this.

It is illegal, and punishable by death to practice Judaism in most Arab states. Virtually every Jew was ejected from the Arab nations in 1948 and there are thriving communities of refugees, not called that b/c Israel accepted them, from all of those nations in Israel who yearn to be able to go back, at least for a visit, to their former homes in Yemen, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. Israel was founded as a socialist state but has not been one in many decades. The kibbutz movement was socialist. During Netanyahu's time as finance minister he made major transformations to the economy, including weakening the national union, Histradut. Israel has more companies on the Nasdaq than any country but the US and by FAR the most per capita.

Jews have been the majority in Jerusalem since the late 1800's.