I'm ok with calling out conspiracy theories, and correcting people who cling to irrational explanations for events in the real world that happened to disappoint them. I'm OK with raising sincere questions about vulnerabilities in our systems.
What I'm not OK with is the double standard that our media uses to label any Republican effort to question elections, or change election laws, a threat to democracy, while questions or challenges raised by Democrats are lauded.
Look, for example, at the latest article by Politico on voting technology being hackable -- this time, in modems that report results. Just days after the Jan. 6 committee ripped Trump for such claims in 2020, they are suddenly OK.
What's the difference? It's clear: the Democrats are on their way to a beating in a few weeks, and the media need to give them an excuse other than their failing policies and their "woke" ideology. They ruined lives over claims like this.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/14/wireless-modems-could-endanger-midterms-00061769
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- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
