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Bedrooms, Bathroom, and God: Why We Laugh Apr 13, 2018

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What really distinguishes liberalism from conservatism. Holding your own baby for the first time matters to all people in all places at all times. Tennis and marshmallows do not. Feeling hope as the sun rises is something all humans everywhere have always known. Riding a rollercoaster ride is not. Ancient Jewish wisdom's take on Scripture is that it covers everything that is applicable to all people everywhere, always. Such a universal experience is laughter. What is it and what makes some things funnier than others? Why does so much comedy revolve around toilet functions, sexual functions and God? Which is the better blueprint for families, companies, organizations and countries; kindness & compassion or law & discipline? Do you know what is so funny about laughter in the Bible? Who laughs more; liberals or conservatives?

Why Didn't My Jewish Boyfriend Marry Me? Her Sad Story & Reactions Apr 05, 2018

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Only about 20% of self-identifying American Jews believe in God and regard His Torah as authoritative. And the rest? What do they believe? Is it true that some parts of American Jewry are viewed as the circumcised wing of the Democratic Party? Why is so much American entertainment Jewishly flavored? This is not true for movies and TV programming from England or France. Is this observation anti-Semitic? If so, call the Anti-Defamation League. Or the Southern Poverty Law Center. The truth about both these disturbing organizations. The sad story of the Christian girl who wasted seven of her best years dating two Jewish men (one after the other).

How the term anti-Semitism is no longer about trying to hurt or harm Jews but has become a club with which to bludgeon conservatives into political silence. The overwhelming majority of self-identifying American Jews are political liberals (for reasons found in my book America's Real War). They conflate Jewish values with those of the Democratic Party and regard anyone who opposes their destructive political ideologies as anti-Semitic. With Jews prospering in America as never before and living as tranquilly as never before, it is impossible to claim that America is crawling with virulent anti-Semites-unless you wish to police people's thoughts which I thought we Jews oppose doing?

Modern Is Not Always Good; Ancient Is Not Always Wrong Apr 03, 2018

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Today's worst insults and most indicting criticisms: It's old fashioned; it's not modern; it's archaic; it's outdated; it's so yesterday. Many mistakenly believe that any idea not sufficiently progressive is automatically false and wrong. But what if some old ideas are actually true and right? Learn to judge the value of an idea regardless of its vintage.

And talking of older ideas with tremendous value, let's teach our children to court rather than date. Why the emotional roller-coaster of teenage and young adult dating does such a good job preparing for divorce.

Why do progressives always paint the past in dark colors? School children are indoctrinated to believe that everything done by Americans yesterday was evil. Did Americans really do nothing more than kill Indians and enslave blacks? Progressives believe that society needs them to make tomorrow bright and redeem us from our horrid past. History lessons are no more than exercises in self-flagellation in order to propagandize children to the idea they need progressive ideas and progressive politicians to seek good.

Why the World Hates the Jews Mar 25, 2018

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Is it because the Jews convinced the Romans to crucify Jesus? No; many who hate the Jews also hate Christianity. Is it because of Jews like Saul Alinsky, George Soros, Bernie Sanders, Sigmund Freud, Herbert Marcuse and many others? Partially, perhaps, but many who hate the Jews have never heard of these men. Why is it that Jew hatred seems to go hand-in-hand with communism, progressivism, socialism or whatever else you wish to label the Left. Soviet style socialism hated Jews. National Socialism (Nazi) hated Jews and modern progressive socialism as found on American university campuses hates Jews. People and places who possess pride in economic growth and wealth creation get on well with Jews. Hatred of the free-market and loathing of wide spread individual prosperity seems to go together with hating Jews. The more left a country leans the more likely it is to hate Israel. This show explains this bizarre pattern that is so much a part of today's geopolitics.

Also, why rioters destroy shops and stores In Their own neighborhoods which is strangely connected to the main topic. Wouldn't it make more sense for rioters to march to someone else's neighborhood before unleashing their barbarous impulses? Why firebomb the grocery store you shopped at yesterday? Why loot and destroy the business that employs your own neighbors?

Everything The Young Man Needs to Avoid and Do For Life Success Mar 16, 2018

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This show is about the magical ten years in a man's life; ages 13—23 years-old. These are the years in which subsequent success in life is rooted and, sadly, the years in which the origin of future failure can be found. Here are the step-by-step success strategies that a young man should follow for positioning himself for everything good in life. The show is not about the importance of being cool. It is not about learning how to rap or tap dance and it is not about social media. But it is about sex and money; the two areas in which most men have the most regrets. Here are the things you wish you knew when you were between 13 and 23 years-old. The show starts with Shakespeare and ends with Kipling; those two dead white guys knew a thing or two!

A genie pops out of the lamp and offers you a 're-do' of the ten years of your life; from when you were thirteen until the time you were twenty-three. Yes or no? I'd wager that you'd take up the genie's offer. You won't be surprised to hear that over 90% of the population agrees with you. Wouldn't you love to re-make the many crucial decisions of those ten years but with knowing what you now know?

What's Worse: Job Loss Or Spouse's Adultery? And Other Perplexing Problems - 3/8/18 Mar 08, 2018

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America's bizarre distinctions in how two human appetites are treated—sex and money.

With sex, anything that two consenting adults chose to do is viewed as nobody else's business. Anything at all! With money, even if two consenting adults agree to a certain job at a specific hourly rate, the government steps in to insist that employer must pay employee a minimum amount.

With sex, if one party decides not to deliver to another, not only is that fine but the other, the 'buying' party can be destroyed for even suggesting the deal to the reluctant 'seller'. With money, if one party, say, a baker, decides not to deliver to another party, the government steps in and punishes the reluctant seller.

Why hotel rooms in liberal cities are so expensive. What did Frank Sinatra/Ava Gardner, Clark Gable/Carole Lombard & Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn have in common? Why are CEO salaries in business "scandalous" but movie & sport star salaries are unworthy of scrutiny? School sex-ed, yes but gun-ed, no? Four revolutions that changed our world.

A Foolproof Mechanism For Making the Best Decisions On All of Life's Challenges Mar 04, 2018

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Your rabbi equips you with an invaluable tool: Your spouse asks you to stop doing something. Your boss at work asks you to start doing something. You kid asks you why you're doing something. Wouldn't it be great to come back with the right answer every time? The answer that, a day later you still admire rather than the answer you think of a day later and wish you'd given. How do you react wisely off the cuff? By arming yourself with the right basic beliefs. But when you start off with a wrong basic belief you end up making bad intuitive decisions in all the many daily circumstance.

For example, let's imagine someone saying: The most important thing in my life is money. Or, the most important thing in my life is my body's appearance. Or, the most important thing in my life is gaining knowledge. If you truly believe any of these 3 false ideas, and you can believe only one of them anyway since "most important" is singular, you are reducing the quality of your life. Of course each is important in its proper place in the matrix of your life's values, but most important? Absolutely not. Why science cannot be trusted for all decisions. How a misunderstanding of Einstein and Darwin helped destroy American public education. Why there really is hope for the future.

Serious People Know How To Stop School Shootings - But Not The Way You Think - 2/23/18 Feb 23, 2018

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A reasoned analysis of the Florida school shooting. Yes, there is a way to stop these tragedies, but, no, it has nothing to do with guns. What percentage of the hundreds of people you encounter every day are really crazy? How many so-called "homeless" are mentally imbalanced? Do you know why they are not being cared for in medical facilities where they would be safe—and so would we? Do you know any families being torn apart by having to struggle with a deeply troubled teenager all alone? Is the SCOTUS ruling of Roe v. Wade in 1973 connected in any way to the Parkland, Florida school shooting? Why did Hitler use precious resources killing 3 million Jews in Poland in 1942 while his eastern front was crumbling at Leningrad? Could you protect your family from a violent home invader?

The Fatal Fire That Burns In The Minds of Men (Well, Not All Men) - 2/17/18 Feb 18, 2018

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Why does Socialism exercise an almost irresistible appeal to secular people? Why are intellectuals, academics, bureaucrats, career-politicians and others drawn so powerfully to, liberalism, progressivism, well, actually to Socialism? We cannot combat what we don't understand. We cannot defeat what we cannot get a hold of. Let's probe the real roots of the problem.

A Baffled Martian Scrutinizes America These Past 110 Years - 2/9/18 Feb 09, 2018

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Grand Coulee Dam. Air-conditioning. Hoover Dam. Empire State Building. Over 3 million miles of highway. Golden Gate Bridge. Verrazano Bridge. Holland Tunnel. George Washington Bridge. Automatic transmissions. Commercial jet travel. Electric refrigerators. That and more took place 1900-1960. Since then…? Almost nothing! What! Why?

1960 is approximate date marking the end of Christianity as the respected central organizing force in American society. That date also marks the end of our ability to build really significant projects like bridges, dams and highways. Are they connected?

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