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2004 arrived safely, whispering how successfully the Bush administration has waged our war on terror. Although those who hate us intended us harm, Providence, along with our government's vigilance and preemptive actions, prevented all holiday season attacks. The only shocking attack the New Year brought us was the Democratic organization, Move On's depraved plans to produce television advertising comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. I thought it might be interesting to explore what Adolf Hitler himself might have thought of Move On's degenerate derangement. I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to...

Our television screens fail to convey the full horror of the recent earthquake in Iran that inflicted terrible deaths on over twenty thousand souls. America has once again led the international relief effort. It might seem callous to analyze this disaster even before all the victims have been buried, were it not for one timely parallel. Only a few days earlier, a small town on the California coast also endured an earthquake. Even taking the logarithmic nature of the Richter scale into account, from an objective geological perspective, these two events were almost identical, yet the California quake killed only...

Religious freedom: Not just for minorities Posted: January 3, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Rabbi Daniel Lapin© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Well, 2004 has arrived, which means that dreaded "C word" is behind us. Put politely, "the holiday season" has passed. Having shopped in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle lately and having listened to talk radio in each city, I couldn't help noticing a startling double standard. Overwhelmingly, store assistants and talk-radio hosts bid farewell to Jewish guests with a cheerful "Happy Hanukkah" while others, including those identified as Christians, received the generic "Happy holidays." With each passing year, secular fundamentalism more successfully injects...

As holiday lights festoon homes across America and menorahs come out of storage, most Americans think of Hanukkah and Christmas as calendar comrades keeping one another company in December. In some years, that is true, while in others Hanukkah falls earlier, coming out much closer to Thanksgiving, a holiday with which it has far more in common – both were holy days established to express gratitude to God. Hanukkah was established a little over 2,000 years ago, as ancient Jewish tradition records: "The next year those eight days were appointed a festival with praise and thanksgiving to God." On Dec....

And it came to pass in the days of Saddam ... Posted: December 17, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Rabbi Daniel Lapin© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com How should Jewish and Christian Americans of faith view the historic capture of Saddam Hussein? Most of us project the core elements of our own self image onto an imaginary big screen, which then displays our larger worldview. Those who chiefly think of themselves as journalists deploy their ubiquitous "objectivity." They analyze all news with the usual "on the one hand" and then follow it up with "but on the other ..." Then, we have those whose entire self...