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When “Inclusion” Equals Exclusion – of the Torah
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.
Exactly as Predicted — and How the Winning Kavanaugh Confirmation Struggle Next Plays Out
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.
Peripheral Thoughts on the Impending Confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh
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.
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.