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We benefit from the $110 billion Saudi arms deal, and need the Saudis to stand as the front-line Arab Muslim bulwark against Iranian Shiite expansionism and terror. But we know the Saudis bring shame on us every time we call them “our friends.”

Aside from the fact that it is undemocratic to urge a specific group of people to stifle their speech, especially in matters of communal discourse and concern, there is an elephant in the room which Dr. Friedman seems to disregard.

After years of effort to promote transgenderism as a normal and even “in” and “cool” type of identity, deserving of broad protections and demanding respect bordering on that of a royal class, the bubble is being burst with a pierce of reality.

They whine without end. At times one wonders whether the Democrats are a political party, a stomping grounds for urging people to stomp on opponents’ grounds, or a whinery. And when they whine, they never stop, no matter how often the truth is explained.

When people who identify as progressive Orthodox clergy defend and welcome open expression of homosexual identity in Jewish religious practice, it conveys a sense of acceptance of homosexual conduct.

To square the idea of openly conducting a lifestyle and structuring a home in a manner that the Torah condemns in quite harsh terms with the idea of “not forsaking anything” in the Torah is quite a stretch; I don’t think that the greatest of logicians could explain it.

The FBI investigation, rather than playing into Democrats’ hands, launched a new phase: the process of clearing Justice Kavanaugh’s good name. Justice Brett Kavanaugh will survive — and thrive.

When you have faced character assassination and won, you are unstoppable. And that is what the Democrats now will have on their hands with Justice Kavanaugh. He is going to beat it. He will be unstoppable, not the same person he was as recently as four months ago.

I am disgusted by the Democrats and The Resistance. I am disgusted by their falsehoods, their deceit, their mendacity, their hypocrisy, their sanctimonious lying. Here is my prediction of how the coming week will play out. [Written prior to and published during the holiday.]

President Trump, whom The Resistance portrays regularly as an irrational authoritarian who is bull-headed and listens to no one, swiftly agreed to the compromise proposal. Lots of good will come this November from hanging in there.