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י"ט בסיון ה'תש"ע (1 June 2010)

This is from Time Magazine and Reuters: The Blue-Red divide, by almost every measure, has gotten worse, and the ubiquity of electronic media spreads intense political and cultural disdain in the blink of an eye. The always-enlightening Google reveals that typing in “Obama worse president ever” yields 3.6 million results, versus 1.7 million for “Bush [...]

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A Political Army

ח' בכסלו ה'תש"ע (25 November 2009)

And suddenly the newspapers and airwaves are abuzz with threats against the Right not to turn the IDF into a “political army,” warnings that it is becoming a “political army,” suggestions of what might happen in a “political army.” If this confuses you, you aren’t alone. The IDF is no less political than any army, [...]

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Deflowering Leftists

י"א במרחשון ה'תש"ע (29 October 2009)

Well, it’s quite a bit more challenging to deflower a leftist in that sense; I’ve never met a leftist girl who’s of legal age to consent and still a virgin, though I don’t deny the possibility of their existence somewhere in the universe. What I mean is: taking a leftist’s innocence away by pulling back [...]

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