The Other Half of History Daily Blog
Thoughts on modern politics from a historical perspective.
A Partisan Battle over Voter Fraud
The partisan battle over voter fraud continues to rage, and the Townhall website has several writers and columnists who are doing a pretty good job of covering it.
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Conservative Republican Jews
I got some intesting e-mail in response to last Wednesday’s column, in which I asked the semantic question “What is a ‘Jew’?”
A couple people have asked me if I can find any hard data to back up my idea that religiously observant Jews might be more conservative in their voting than ethnically Jewish atheists.
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Left Wing Religion – Government is God
John Hawkins published an interesting column this week about the hostility to Christianity that many left wingers harbor. Hawkins didn’t mention liberal hostility to Judaism in his column, but he could have. There is plenty of evidence that people on the left view both Old and New Testament beliefs with contempt and anger.
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Friday Links and Notes 3/9
Happy Friday all. Lots of interesting news this week.
Roger Hedgecock of Human Events reported on Monday that one particular IRS office, in Cincinnati, has been badgering Tea Party and other conservative groups all around the country. “We’re from the Government and we’re here to help!”
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What is a “Jew”?
There was an interesting story in the news Wednesday. The group American Atheists tried to put up a billboard in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in New York, and the owner of the building where the billboard was to be posted denied workers access to the building.
The article mentions that the president of American Atheists is a man named Dave Silverman, and describes him as having been “raised in the Jewish faith.” Interestingly, the MSNBC reporter who wrote the story was not willing to describe Silverman as ethnically Jewish, despite his obviously Jewish surname and his own account of his childhood.
So is the word “Jew” strictly a religious designation?
