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The War on Catholic Judicial Appointments began in 2017 when Dianne Feinstein used her seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee to go after Judge Amy Coney Barrett. In Feinstein’s shockingly bigoted words: “The dogma lives loudly within you.”

It is ridiculous to pack the streets with protests and to self-flagellate over “ethical standards” that do not exist in any real world because those standards are not real. They are ridiculous.

Between the Democrats holding the House and the Left strangle-holding most of the media, life in America no longer is about news and reality, but is a never-ending game show: “Trump That Trump!” Every week another guest contestant, usually hawking a new book or lawsuit.

The latest insanity is the race by Democrat contenders to promise “reparations” to American Blacks for the historic crime of slavery. They do not believe in this proposal, obviously not. This latest madness is offered as a bald-faced bribe, a cash payment for votes, pure and simple. “Vote for me, and I will send you a check.”

What was on the table: Either Jewish Home and Otzma merge for the election, assuring a continuing religious-right Government, or they run alone, handing the Government to the Left even though the Left will have fewer votes and reflect the minority.

Now that we are in the Age of the Hate Hoax, it is valuable to look closer at a recent “anti-Semitic” temple attack that the Left initially promoted as more proof of the evils of Trump and White nationalists. They promoted it — until it turned out that the vandal who attacked the Jewish house of worship was a (i) Black (ii) LGBT (iii) Obama supporter.

What’s with all the Left-wing cruel and vicious hoaxes that depict very good Americans as racist, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic in order to tar-and-feather conservatives in general, and Caucasian heterosexual male supporters of President Trump in particular? And what’s with the compulsion to be seen as a victim?

In a society where hate speech is condemned, calling someone hateful, when it is false, can be a potent expression of hate. The Left has raised the use of hate as hateful accusation to a fine art.

In 2006, we passed by-laws which declared that “no RCBC member synagogue may permit women to receive aliyot to the Torah in any form or in any circumstance.” At the time, nobody even dreamt we would have to spell out the inadmissibility of female clergy.

Ours is a remarkably kind, accepting, and fair country. Yes, this country once was blighted by slavery, but more than 300,000 White American men gave their lives to end that tragic institution more than 150 years ago. Slavery ended. Like the Holocaust of only 75 years ago, it is part of a history book now.