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I've come to get irritated at the attack on the Second Amendment with these questions given to me when I go with one of my children to the doctors' office, which is Plymouth Pediatrics in Plymouth, NH.

The first question is whether the home is a gun-free home, along the lines of is it a smoke-free home. Then, failing that question, they want to know if the guns are locked up at all times.

Seemingly fair enough.

Yet, not so fast.

Lawrence Auster links to a riotous Ann Coulter opinion piece in response to a NYT article on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagin's upbringing in an apparently insufferably smug and intellectually self-contained Jewish environment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

I like it when she proposes a question to be asked to the nominee: One third of Americans are Evangelical Christian. Do you know any? Name two.

An aunt in the NYT is quoted as saying nothing was sacrosanct in the Kagin home. Well, Miss Coulter pierces that lie many times over. Also, some of the commentators to Mr. Auster's entry are well worth the reading. It's amazing how liberalism is so tyrannical people have to watch what they say very carefully for fear of saying something that will get them ostracized.

I heartily concur with Rick Darby, one of those commentators:

I admire many things about Jewish culture: the concern with justice and morality, the high value placed on literary and scholarly interests, a deep feeling for music and art. American Jews' tragic flaw, in my view, is a near-complete blind spot about toxic left-wing politics. They continue to act as though they are a persecuted minority, a pogrom about to fall on them any minute, and that their best defense is to turn the country into an ethnic patchwork of "majority minorities." So much intelligence, so little political wisdom.

As a philosemite this makes the hair stand up on my arms. Jews being the light to the world once again, as is normal (when they're not trying to survive). The Israelis ran circles around us, having two jumbo jets taking off from the Near East six hours after the horrible Haiti earthquake. And the IDF were the first soldiers on the ground there.

If Bush had been President, it'd be Katrina racism all over again.