BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Racial Profiling is Nothing New America has gone through many shameful periods of racial profiling. Poles, Irish and Russians. Even the Puritans wouldn't go anywhere near the Quakers. Always an 'us vs. them' mentality. (By the way, do NOT try to equivalate these things with the profiling of Islamists. I don't know of any Poles or Irish who purposefully flew planes into buildings And I certainly don't know of ANY Jew who strapped explosives to their own child and sent them onto a crowded bus!) Hizzoner The Mensch has an interesting post in JPost on the karma bus and antisemitism (I won't comment on what he says about Carter other than 'regretable' is being polite: 'I don't want to talk with that dirty Jew' by Ed Koch In 1968, I was elected to Congress from the 17th Congressional District in Manhattan, known as the Silk Stocking District. My interests in Washington were diverse, ranging from mass transit to foreign affairs and human right...

A DEADLY MIX I was privileged to read Constantine's Sword about 5 years ago and I highly recommend it!! It's now a movie and I hope to get to see it. For those of us who love history, politics and insightful writing - it's a must. American Exceptionalism Meets Team Jesus: Interview with James Carroll By Tom Engelhardt He's a man who knows something about the dangers of mixing religious fervor, war, and the crusading spirit, a subject he dealt with eloquently in his book Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews . A former Catholic priest turned antiwar activist in the Vietnam era, James Carroll also wrote a moving memoir about his relationship to his father, the founding director of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. Carroll essentially grew up in that five-sided monument to American imperial power. For him, as a boy, the Pentagon was "the largest playhouse in the world" and he can still remember sliding down its ramps in his stocking fe...

MUST MISS THIS FALL: DHIMMI-TV The longer I am alive, the more I see how Hashem has a reason for everything that happens. I am not quite sure what the reason was today but here's what happened... I woke up in tremendous pain. This is the reason I am considered totally disabled, because flares hit me without warning. I got my child, who is in summer school, ready. By then a mild pain killer had kicked in. I got them to school and came home and went back to bed with a heated "oat bag." My long muscles burn when I am in flare and I only know some relief in sleep. The very second I wake up, I am back in pain. I am grateful that I had someone to pick my child up from school and bring them home. I struggled through making and eating dinner. (Now as my second pain killer is kicking in - I am doing my nightly blogging ritual then back to bed.) The above whinefest was because I had all good intentions of going with 2 friends to the rally today at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza ...