I made this point immediately during yesterday’s astonishing press briefing — and Mark Levin made it again later — but the Biden administration’s appalling effort to push social media companies to carry its water on the coronavirus vaccine helps Trump make his case that these companies are just like arms of the government and are therefore bound by the Forst Amendment, meaning they can’t censor him.
I’m pro-vaccine, and if the administration can’t make the case for a life-saving medical breakthrough — one it disparaged on the campaign trail — then that’s because Biden sucks, not because of “misinformation.”
Amazing that they try to pull this garbage while the Cuban regime literally controls the Internet to repress dissent.
Anyway, Trump’s novel case just went from long shot to damned good argument.
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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 ...