We are well beyond the stage at which the various controversies surrounding our leaders have reached a degree of complexity that is impossible to manage. That allows partisans -- and the media -- to create highly selective narratives.
What conservatives have rarely had in this country is the opportunity to see a real investigation of liberal wrongdoing such that it became totally undeniable and led to real consequences. The system is almost designed so it can't happen.
It would be good, for instance, to document exactly what happened to make the "Russia collusion" hoax so destabilizing. There should be a real inquiry -- not a January 6-style show trial -- led by serious people with serious conclusions.
Instead we are stuck with things like the slow efforts of John Durham -- whose investigation is now being smeared by the New York Times as some kind of cover operation for Trump (the Times, of course, invested heavily in the hoax).
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- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
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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 ...
