Author: Jay D. Homnick

Today I feel a little less embarrassed, a little bit cleansed. Being a fellow Jew with Adam Schiff has become a tad more tolerable after the House of Representatives voted courageously to censure him for his despicable behavior. Schiff himself asserted pride in his own honorable activities and in his having been censured by a crowd of people presumably less honorable than himself. (RELATED: Adam Schiff Launches Senate Campaign) This sort of mealy-mouthed sanctimony is facilitated by the left-wing domination of the press. Since the lying reporters will lyingly report that any and all card-carrying members of the left are…

Old Jimmy Carter headed off to hospice four months ago (2/22/23) and has been living it up ever since. It is uncouth to speak ill of the dead, and probably not super kind to speak dead of the ill, but by the sound of things ol’ Jimma is neither. He is just too healthy to die and too embarrassed to go home, so instead he just hangs out like a kid after a tonsillectomy, sitting up in bed and eating ice cream. The famous Talmudic paradox applies here nicely. In Jewish law, any document received by mail from a person…

The Supreme Court’s decision against “affirmative action” racial preferences in college admissions makes for very good law. I find barely anything to quibble about in either the result or the arguments which underlie the written opinions of the majority. That said, I have always practiced “affirmative action” as an individual, and I probably always will. (RELATED: Supreme Court Ruling Undermines Corporate Wokeness) People who think like I do are opposed to big government in general and, as such, are not predisposed toward approving massive government intrusions into the choices made by private citizens. Occasionally riots must be broken up by…

Last week I took an involuntary vacation from writing in English, because two separate book projects in Hebrew on Biblical subjects both hit the proofreading stage simultaneously. Essentially I had to read through two Hebrew books of over two hundred pages each, checking all content, grammar, and spelling. But in the course of the intense Bible study this fostered, I was blessed to discover a vital source for everything that we do as conservative writers. Jewish students of Bible in Hebrew rely heavily on the commentary of Rash”i, an acronym for Rabbi Shlomo (Solomon) Yitzchaki (Isaacson), a genius scholar who…

Back to Professor Heather Cox Richardson, helpfully enlightening us schnooks… you know, the…

Professors are people who profess things. Notice that not all things professed are generally believed. In fact, when we listen closely to today’s professors, we note that they are inadvertently confessing. We must test for bias before we buy as truth. Which brings us back to our earlier quotation from Professor Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter, wherein she quoted the FBI threat report as warning about how “both domestic extremists and foreign terrorists are using online extremist messaging and calls for violence to motivate supporters to launch attacks.” (RELATED: Heather And Its Fertilizers) The prof uses this as proof to support…

Heather Cox Richardson self-identifies as a “historian” and works as a Professor of History at Boston College. Her newsletter is called Letters From An American, which sounds as anodyne as iodine. This earns her the benefit of the doubt as I examine her review of the FBI threat assessment document. On the other hand, I always bear in mind the words of the great Talmudic genius, Rabbi Chaim Zimmerman (1914-1995) who, among other distinctions, was my late father’s Talmud teacher in 12th grade at Rabbi Jacob Joseph School on the Lower East Side of New York, circa 1946. He was also…

I know personally two famous Heathers but was only recently introduced to the third. Heather Richardson Higgins is the CEO of Independent Women’s Voice and chairwoman of its sister organization, Independent Women’s Forum. She grew up wealthy but served as a Senate aide in Washington, D.C., eventually presiding over the family philanthropic foundation left by her father. Her background helps her in the broadest sense, in that she is never awed away from an important project by its price tag. If it needs to be achieved, its needs are achievable. Her famous quote: “Properly performed charity not only feeds you…

Why did the swimming teacher jump into the water? She wanted to test it. That is a sort of refreshing old joke from back in the day when women had two X chromosomes, making them mysterious, and did not ask Y, making them docile. Then the Women’s Liberation Movement came along and made women strong and unafraid to challenge the men who run things. Shortly thereafter, Title IX came into law and every university which accepted government funds had to support an equal amount of male and female athletics. There may have been some resentment at first, but the collegiate…

There is a negotiation of sorts involving the budget going on in various undisclosed locations around Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, none of these venues include restaurants, resulting in food being first “sent out for” from offices and then “sent in” to those offices. This looks like a metaphor for a successful series of talks, the “out” ultimately meeting the “in” at a place called “The Middle,” a famous but secret location noted for its reasonableness. In point of fact, this kind of delivery from eatery to conference rooms initiates the least agreeable meeting between food and the human body. Food gets…