Trump and the Jews

From David Harsanyl at The Federalist, The Left’s Response To The Mass Shooting Of Jews Is An Act Of Bad Faith: Every Jew who’s ever prayed understands the importance of Jerusalem in our faith, culture, and history. It was President Trump, not any of the other...

Performance Outrage

from Kevin Williamson at National Review, Rage Makes You Stupid: Our politics is full of performative outrage, histrionics that are designed to imbue unserious people with an air moral seriousness and to keep the rubes emotionally invested long enough to get them to a...

Tree of Life

My first wife, Renee Saroff Oliner, died of cancer at age 42 in 1995. She came from the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburg and her family were members of the Tree of Life Synagogue. I have attended Bar Mitzvahs for my nieces and nephews there as well as funerals,...

The Progressives’ Last Line of Defense

From The Origins of Progressive Agony by Victor Davis Hanson a the National Review: Progressive astrologists predicted a series of Obamas for the next half-century. But in truth, the country was never really progressive. Until Obama, no Democrat without a Southern...

Demonic

From Peggy Noonan at The Wall Street Journal, Voices of Reason and Unreason: A word on the destructive theatrics we now see gripping parts of the Democratic Party. The howling and screeching that interrupted the hearings and the voting, the people who clawed on the...