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Predictions and Observations on How the Coming Week Will Play Out for the Kavanaugh Confirmation
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.]
Why One More Frustrating Week Helps Kavanaugh and the GOP
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.
The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Played Maximally Well for the Republicans Under the Circumstances
Looking back on the day’s riveting events, it is amazing how effectively the Republicans and Judge Kavanaugh sidestepped the perils and emerged perhaps even stronger than the morning augured.
OK, Now It’s Really ‘I’m Spartacus’ Time!
Men also deserve to be believed.
Show Trial
Guilt was presupposed and foreordained. Those who confessed were executed and those who refused to confess were also executed. The only difference was that those who confessed might succeed in sparing their immediate family members from exile or execution.
Democrats and Kavanaugh, Spartacus and Crucifixion
I find myself so upset now over the viciousness of the Democrats these past several weeks that I have to write. I think of the words that open Chapter 62 of Isaiah: “For Zion’s sake I cannot hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I cannot remain silent until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a flaming torch.”
The Audacity of Obama
No one elected Trump imagining him to be a paragon of morality. But those who supported the vastly more consequential lies and frank divisiveness of the Obama era are in no position to lecture.
Dems know how to be mean. Republicans should learn.
America is getting better by the day, and it is precisely the policies of the current administration that, with God’s help, have steered America back toward its upward course. And it is totally ironic that the primary beneficiaries of these dramatic improvements in America are precisely the people who most oppose President Trump.
Second Thoughts on ‘Racism’ at Barkan or Badatz
The accusation of racism may turn out to be a poorly-researched case of “shoot first, ask questions later,” inspired in not a small part by a traditional trope used by anti-Semites throughout history.
The Nation-State Law Is Not the Problem
Begin at the beginning: “Palestine,” rather than describing an “indigenous” population, is a name associated with colonialism, supremacism, slavery and bigotry — especially against Jews.