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It may be impossible to overstate the damage done to morality by the Democrats and other leftists calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi and declaring him "Hitler."

Asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN if she believes Trump is a "fascist," Kamala Harris said, "Yes, I do."

With regard to calling Trump "Hitler," Newsweek's fact-checker concluded: ...Read more

I have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my -- or any -- religion doesn't make sense, I don't accept it. That's why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is titled "The Rational Bible."

This strikes more than a few religious people as problematic, since many religious people thrive...Read more

It is a truism that the West was formed by Athens and Jerusalem -- meaning the rational thinking introduced by Greece and the moral and religious thought introduced by Israel.

Of the two, Jerusalem's contribution was the more enduring. Relatively few Westerners read Aristotle and Plato. Virtually every citizen of the West -- even the illiterate...Read more

I realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school.

I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil.

What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to anti-communism.

To my amazement, a great many ...Read more

Julie Hartman, a 24-year-old woman with whom I do a weekly podcast ("Dennis & Julie"), described the anti-Israel world perfectly: A vast number of people suffer from Israel Derangement Syndrome.

The description is, of course, based on the widely cited "Trump Derangement Syndrome," which supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris and the ...Read more

Last week, The New York Times featured an article titled: "How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal."

According to every poll, since 2016 there has been an unprecedented political/social gender gap between young American women and men.

Here is how the Times reported it:

"In 2001, young men and women had similar political ...Read more

A great many Americans claim that they cannot vote for former President Donald Trump because they loathe him.

That was also their argument in 2016 and 2020.

That argument was childish in 2016 and 2020, and it remains childish in 2024.

I say "childish" because mature people don't vote on the basis of whom they like. They vote on the basis of ...Read more

This is the headline of an article published Aug. 26 in the New York Times: "Fare Evasion Surges on N.Y.C. Buses, Where 48% of Riders Fail to Pay."

The article begins: "Every weekday in New York City, close to one million bus riders -- roughly one out of every two passengers -- board without paying.

"Fare evasion has led to startling financial...Read more

This past weekend, two biologically male boxers won gold medals in women's boxing at the Paris Olympics. On Friday, Imane Khelif of Algeria won the gold medal in the women's welterweight division. On Saturday, Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan won the gold medal in the women's featherweight division.

As reported by Boxing News, the oldest boxing ...Read more