I grew up with David Horowitz. He's older, so I got some of his hand-me-downs. Our parents were friends. He was a stellar student of history at Wisconsin (I think) and worked with D.F. Fleming, as I recall.

Later in life our paths diverged completely. Disillusioned with the left, he became a ultra-right-winger and easy to ridicule. And I did.

Today a friend forwarded me news that -- months ago -- Sarah Horowitz, one of his daughters had died. Included with that news was an essay David Horowitz wrote about his daughter which so humanized him and her, I'm not certain I'll be able to make fun of David again. I just hate it when political opponents as easily pilloried and demonized as David was, turn out to be people. I'm not going to agree with him, I don't think, but I'm going to have to give up sneering at him.

I didn't know this but last week was self-proclaimed "Islamo-facism awareness week," a right wing intolerance fest dreamed up by extremists Ann Coulter and David Horowitz. I only know that these fools were strutting around advocating intolerance because of an email I got from the organization Jews on First.

There is something so disgusting about the right wing fear of just about everything that isn't white, male, Protestant Christian. Ann Coulter is the perfect example of this. When we hear her condemning so-called Islamo-fascism, let's remember that she is the idiot who said right after 9/11 that:

"We should invade their [Muslim's] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

And what did she choose to advocate during her "Islamo-facism awareness week?" Anti-Semitism. Yes, she attacks Jews as part of her paranoia against Islam. Last week she told Donny Deutsch:

"we should throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians."

Ann Coulter also claimed that Christians want Jews "to be perfected" by converting to Christianity.  read more »