1. Trump was right all along: Hunter Biden's job was to protect Burisma from a prosecutor, and Joe Biden had him fired using the threat of U.S. loan guarantees. Trump was impeached for being right.
2. Biden lied all along: He lied about not talking to his family about their businesses; he lied about his family not making money from China; he lied about not having anything to do with Burisma.
3. Dan Goldman is a clown: He played the role of fearsome prosecutor when empowered by Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry. But today he tried to defend the indefensible.
4. The media are pathetic: Now they are trying to pretend everyone knew all along that Biden had talked to his son's business partners, when in fact no one outside conservative media reported it or cared.
5. The DOJ is part of the coverup: They are going after Trump while trying to cut sweetheart deals for Hunter Biden that would bury the evidence of Joe Biden's wrongs -- and they are doing it in plain sight.
That's just the beginning. But essentially Biden is a corrupt family boss, and the media have covered for him, and Democrats have bought into hoax after hoax after hoax. It might eventually bite them.
This week’s portion launches the great story of Abraham, who is told to leave everything of his life behind — except his immediate family — and to leave for “the Land that I shall show you.”
There’s something interesting in the fact that Abraham is told to leave his father’s house, as if breaking away from his father’s life — but his father, in fact, began the journey, moving from Ur to Haran (in last week’s portion). His father set a positive example — why should Abraham leave him?
Some obvious answers suggest themselves — adulthood, needing to make one’s own choices, his father not going far enough, etc.
But I think there is another answer. Abraham (known for the moment as Abram) needs to establish his own household. This is not just about making one’s own choice, but really about choosing one’s own starting point. It’s starting over.
Sometimes we start over in fundamental ways even if much that surrounds us remains the same. Sometimes the journey we have to ...
The story of Noah is familiar; the details, less so.
Noah is often seen as an ambivalent figure. He was righteous -- but only for his generation. What was his deficiency?
One answer suggests itself: knowing that the world was about to be flooded, he built an Ark for the animals and for his own family -- but did not try to save anyone else or to convince them to repent and change their ways (the prophet Jonah, later, would share that reluctance).
Abraham, later, would set himself apart by arguing with God -- with the Lord Himself! -- against the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, saying that they should be saved if there were enough righteous people to be found (there were not).
Still, Noah was good enough -- and sometimes, that really is sufficient to save the world. We don't need heroes every time -- just ordinary decency.
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