Talk’s cheap. Lifestyles aren’t.

There is a story in an 800-year-old book by a well-known Jewish, philosopher rabbi. In it, he tells of a man who sailed to a distant land, where he hoped to do some business and make money. While he was there, he met a fellow of a different religion and they had a discussion about God and truth. The traveler said, “God can provide a person with an income from anything and anywhere He so pleases.”

“Your actions stand in opposition to your words.”

“If things were as you claim, then you would have had no reason to travel here to make money. God could have provided you with an income in your place of residence.”

The fellow did not answer. He ran back to his boat and headed home. At least he realized that his claimed beliefs and his actual life did not overlap completely.

There has been much in the news about the children of top Iranian officials living the life in the Great Satan, otherwise known as the United States. We have learned that the apparently injured and disfigured new chief mullah has millions in real estate holdings all over the world. While one must always be careful to assume that children are identical in their views and beliefs to their parents, it would seem strange that the relations of General Soleimani live in LA but do not denounce the violent ways of their now vaporized uncle. It has been a staple of progeny of the dictatorial elite to live the life in the West. They take money absconded by their parents and live like Hollywood royalty: big houses, fast cars, travel, jewelry, parties. Dictators taking a country’s wealth and giving to their offspring is nothing new. That the State Department is starting to throw out some of the spoiled relatives living in the U.S. is something new.

But is such hypocrisy so rare? How many Hollywood grandees tell us of the evils of guns while they make movies with plenty of shooting........

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