You probably don’t know this, but the other day, a terrorist snuck into a Jewish neighborhood in Israel and attacked a 13-year-old boy with an axe, killing him,

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     There’s nothing revelatory about the fact that contemporary Judaism keeps drifting towards the notion that this is primarily a religion about social justice with its tikkun olam banner now more significant than the Magen David.  In fact, for a growing number of Jews, Judaism is really the opportunity to celebrate liberalism with Jewish food and ceremony - in that order.  Passover, which begins next week, is viewed as an ecumenical occasion to talk about slavery and disenfranchisement throughout the world, from the gravest examples to the most petty.  There’s a seat at the seder for everyone who has a gripe and a Haggadah to match it.

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They’re at it again, the Jew-haters of the world, this time calling upon their minions to take physically to the streets of Israel to try and provoke a deadly confrontation for which they can blame the Jews.

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“Toronto - A local bookstore has ’sold out’ of a controversial marriage guide that advises Muslim men on how to beat their wives….its author [also] advises that ‘the husband should treat the wife with kindness and love, even if she tends to be stupid and slow sometimes.’” Stupid enough to marry a Muslim. And slow enough to not run away. [End.]

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I didn’t even hear about this at the time, but apparently in 2010 an Albanian in England beheaded a Brit. The update is that he was sentenced last week:

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     Twenty-five years ago, the Reverend Al Sharpton jumped headfirst into the public spotlight to defend a black teenager who accused six white men of repeatedly raping her and smearing her body with dog feces and racial slurs.  Even after a grand jury found that Tawana Brawley had concocted an elaborate hoax to deflect punishment by her murderous step-father, Sharpton refused to concede that the truth made any difference.  What was important to him then was race-mongering and getting the maximum media play from his histrionic agit-prop.  Now, a generation later, he has found another opportunity to foment racial unrest in the case of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was killed in Florida by a mixed race Hispanic man serving as a neighborhood watchman.

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All the signs are there, yet way too much of the West is either ignoring them, denying them or, worse, are fine with them and where they’re leading.

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Who was the greatest American military commander of the 20th Century? Was it World War I General Blackjack Pershing or either of the two popular World War II biopic generals, George Patton or Douglas MacArthur? How about George Marshall, a superb leader of the war effort in World War II, but one whose role was more coordination and delegation than command? If the answer depends on military accomplishment alone, then it is unquestionably General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II and coincidentally the 34th President of the United States.

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A&E’s “Dog the Bounty Hunter” returns this week after a month’s hiatus. But it was that last episode before the hiatus that I can’t get out of my mind. Imagine the surreality of stumbling onto the show whose star Duane Chapman in 2007 was caught dissuading his son from bringing around his black girlfriend and other “n—–s” — and finding oneself being lectured by the Dog to “not discriminate against anybody and it’s about time that we became leaders of that in America.”

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President Obama has launched his re-election effort. He’s kicking it off with no official governing business today; instead he’s spending the day at campaign and fundraising events. Five of them, to be exact.

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Today, the agent for Peyton Manning was instructed to open negotiations with the Denver Broncos for the purpose of signing the quarterback to a multi-year deal that could be worth $60 million dollars. On the surface, John Elway, the general manager of the Broncos looks like a genius here. Manning is a lock for the NFL Hall of Fame. He is known for bringing his former team, the Indianapolis Colts, to nine straight playoff appearances and a Super Bowl victory. He is an 11-time Pro Bowler and has won the MVP award four times. Denver is incredibly blessed to have this champion except for the elephant in the living room. A very BIG elephant.

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Michelle Obama has been busy getting her organic garden ready for the spring and summer, pushing her “Let’s Move” exercise campaign, and seating herself next to George Clooney at last night’s state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron.

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A maxim says, “Dance with the one that brung you.”  For half-a-century, Democrats have waltzed with leftist pressure groups, bowing and bartering.  By contrast, till George W. Bush the Republican dance card featured Americanism v. tribalism, general v/ special interest, and melting pot v. manic pluralism.

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At first blush, the news stories of tweeted Palestinian and Israeli photos could be seen as two examples of the same dishonesty. But it doesn’t take much digging to realize these two things are not the same at all, despite how it’s presented in the press.

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Over the past few weeks, Team Obama and the Democrats have been letting out a collective sigh of relief, excited that the worst politically may be behind them and that better days were ahead: an improving economy and with it, sunnier re-election chances for Obama.

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The National Football League faces an oncoming spate of lawsuits by former players over traumatic brain injuries. Class-action suits filed in several states have already been consolidated to a federal court in Philadelphia and more suits by former players suits are certain to follow. Meanwhile, the recent revelation that teams unofficially paid bounties to defensive players, offering large sums of money for “cartoff” and “knockout” injuries that removed opponents from games comes at a bad time, suggesting the NFL has condoned deliberate violence and downplayed the long-term consequences.

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# of brain tumors expected in 2012 from field personnel in 1980 = 7/100,000 x 1500 x 32 = 3.4

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Attendees’ reactions to President Barack Obama’s speech yesterday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference ranged, among the delegates with whom this reporter spoke, from mixed to strongly positive.

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My new book “Ayn Rand Nation” is out this week, and as the title indicates, it describes how the Russian-born philosopher has become a phenomenon in the thirty years since her death.

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As it happens, a unique opportunity has presented itself in the form of simultaneous news stories, to compare side-by-side two clearly offensive actions aimed at two different religious groups and how they’re being dealt with by the “victims.”

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