Many conservative Jews have supported the “Christian” right because they mindlessly support Israel.  Judging from events happening in Texas, maybe they are about to be reminded of what these people really think about real live Jews, as “Christian” fanatics have demonstrated for the previous 2000 years…

Wikileaks and Julian Assange have certainly caught the attention of the world, for which I applaud them.  Looking around, I discovered Assange has his own blog, and it is well worth looking through.  One of his most fascinating essays is available at cryptome (scroll down, the formatting sucks).  I discovered it by being led to…

Anyone wishing something worthwhile would come out of Washington has got to be disappointed in the outcome of Tuesday’s elections.  Disappointed, but not surprised.  Even though as both a party and on almost every issue the Republicans poll begind the Democrats, they whipped them soundly in the House.  The reasons are many, have nothing to…

I imagine most of my readers already voted by mail or are planning to vote today.  If you are teetering on staying home because the weather sucks or the Democrats are a disappointment, remember that (in almost every case for national and state office, anyway) the opponents of the Democrats are generally monsters, thugs, or…

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