The other three were jokes, or outrages. The Georgia case has a particularly heartbreaking quality, and I think it is because so many people were indicted, including lawyers and campaign aides, for doing what both parties always do: find any legal path to victory.
This is the criminalization of politics. I've pointed out on Twitter that Hillary Clinton and her aides were never prosecuted for the Russia collusion hoax; nor were Democrats prosecuted for their admitted "shadow campaign" (i.e. conspiracy) to "save" the 2020 election.
In a healthy democracy, the process is more or less a tacit agreement to take turns. We have reached the stage at which Democrats, unable to accept the fact that a populist conservative won in 2016, have decided to make it impossible for the opposition to compete.
This is a soft coup, and it can only be undone in one of two ways: a massive effort to elect a Republican (likely Trump) in 2024; or else an internal rebellion by a dissident Democrat (RFK Jr.) who will force his party back within the bounds of civilized democratic discourse.
This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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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 ...
