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Steyn on The Twilight
of the West. Mark Hemingway, The Weekly Standard.
Excerpt: If you haven't already, go ahead and add Mark Steyn's
latest column to your weekend reading assignments. This might be the un-Steyn
column in that the effervescent and witty prose makes the message that we are
well and truly doomed palatable; it explains European politics in a concise and
understandable way to us geographically isolated Yanks; and Steyn is yet again
hammering home the message that culture is the source of the West's economic
and political woes:
Worth Reading :
Twilight of the
West: The developed world is all playing the same recessional. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt: One of the bizarre aspects of media coverage since
2008 is the complacent assumption that what’s happening is “cyclical” — a
downturn that will eventually correct itself — rather than profoundly
structural. Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, found herself skewered like
souvlaki on a Thessaloniki
grill for suggesting the other day that the Greeks are a race of tax
evaders. She’s right.
Class Warfare's
Losing Record. By Salena Zito, Real Clear Politics.
Excerpt: What the Obama campaign misses is that the working
class – white, middle-income, blue-collar Democrats – deeply resents the
dependency class and will not respond positively to such rhetoric. Successful
populists such as Republican Teddy Roosevelt and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt
did not allow their championing of “the little guy” to devolve into class
warfare. They realized that Americans tend to view the United States
as a land of opportunity and do not begrudge anyone for becoming wealthy.
VIDEO: Win Dinner
With Barack Obama And...By Jazz Shaw, HotAir.com
Excerpt: Without much fanfare, Team Obama rolled out a new
ad which will be running tonight during the MTV Movie Awards. It offers the
opportunity for two lucky people to have dinner with not only the President and
the First Lady, but with two of the people I’m sure we’d all like to spend time
with. One is Sarah Jessica Parker.
Revealed: How U.S. and U.K. forces rescue four hostages
from Afghan jihadis. Daily Mail Online.
Excerpt: [27-year-old] Miss Johnston is recovering from her
kidnap ordeal, which came to dramatic end on Friday when David Cameron sent SAS
troops to free her after her captors demanded a £7 million ransom. The British
soldiers – backed by US Delta Force, American Navy Seals and Afghan troops –
rescued Miss Johnston and three other hostages from a cave in the north eastern
province.
Excerpt: Florida
state officials will continue their quest to purge purportedly ineligible
people from voter-registration rolls, a representative of Secretary of State
Ken Detzner said Saturday, in defiance of objections from the U.S. Justice
Department and county officials who say the policy violates two federal voting
laws. (I admire the action if not the headline. ~Bob)
The Horror of Female
Genital Mutilation. Siobhan Courtney, Aljazeera
Excerpt: An estimated 66,000 girls have been illegally
mutilated in the UK ,
but no one has yet been prosecuted for this practice. "After the pain, it was the screaming that I'll never forget. It
wasn't just mine and my sister's screams, there were so many other girls there
- all being cut. I've never heard screams like that again and I don't think I
ever will." (Well, tough on the kids, but doing something about it
might get you accused of being racist or Islamophobic, thus hurting your
multicultural street cred, so too bad for them. ~Bob.)
Marine opens up about
Cody Green
Excerpt: Sergeant Mark Dolfini heard of Cody Green's
situation through his co-worker, and got in contact with Cody's parents. When
the call came that Cody was passing, he took action.
George Will on NYC
Soda Ban: 'The essence of contemporary liberalism, 'preposterous,' 'sinister'
Excerpt: “Let me read what Michael Bloomberg said, because
in one sentence he’s got the essence of contemporary liberalism — that is
something preposterous and something sinister,” Will said. “Listen to this:
‘We’re not taking away anyone’s right to do things.’ Could have fooled me.
“We’re simply forcing you to understand.’ Now, that’s modern liberalism — the
like of bossing people around, the kind of irritable gesture.”
Decision to Cut
Afghan War Funds in Automatic Cuts Riles GOP. Jeremy Herb, The Hill.
Excerpt: I am disappointed the president has made this
choice, since there is no clear mandate for it in the law,” House Armed
Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said in a statement. “Of course now,
more than ever it is the troops on the front lines in Afghanistan who
will bear the brunt of sequestration,” McKeon said. “If our forces on the front
line are truly going to have to do with less body armor, fewer medevacs, and
less ammunition he owes it to them to offer a credible way out of the pending
disaster.”
'Napalm Girl Photo'
from Vietnam War Turns 40. Margie Mason, Huffington Post.
Excerpt: After four decades, Phuc, now a mother of two sons,
can finally look at the picture of herself running naked and understand why it
remains so powerful. It had saved her, tested her and ultimately freed her.
"Most of the people, they know my picture but there's very few that know
about my life," she said.
Secret Cooperation Israel Deploys
Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines
Excerpt: A German shipyard has already built three
submarines for Israel ,
and three more are planned. Now SPIEGEL has learned that Israel is
arming the submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The German
government has known about Israel 's
nuclear weapons program for decades, despite its official denials.
Walker Challenger
Runs From Obama. Breitbart.com.
Excerpt: While Barrett has been reluctant to bring national
figures to Wisconsin , thanks in all likelihood
to the unpopularity of the president, Walker ’s
campaign has hosted South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey , Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia ,
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana , and Sen. Marco
Rubio of Florida .
Dreaming of a Superhero. By Maureen Dowd
Excerpt: ON Friday night, the nation’s capital was under a
tornado watch. And that was the best thing that happened to the White House all
week. As the president was being slapped by Mitt Romney for being too weak on
national security, he was being rapped by a Times editorial for being too
aggressive on national security. A Times article by Jo Becker and Scott Shane
revealed that the liberal law professor who campaigned against torture and the
Iraq war now personally makes the final decisions on the “kill list,” targets
for drone strikes.
What honor looks
like: The flash mob at Gate 38 of Reagan
National Airport .
By Chris Muller
Excerpt: Honor is a hard term to describe. It doesn’t have a
color or weight or shape. If someone were to ask me what honor looked like, I’d
probably struggle with what to say. But something happened on May 23, 2012 at
9:31 a.m. at Gate 38 of Reagan National Airport that might change that.
Suicide blast kills
15 in Bauchi church
Excerpt: A suicide bomber who tried to drive an
explosives-packed car into a church in Bauchi on Sunday killed at least 15 , 40
injured after suicide blast at Nigeria
church: rescue agency people, including himself, and injured 40, officials
said.
Latest US drone strike kills 10 'militants' in South Waziristan . By Bill Roggio
Excerpt: US
drones targeted a group of local Taliban fighters and "foreigners"
who were gathering to mourn the death of a commander who was killed in another
strike in Pakistan 's
Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan just one day ago. The
strike is the seventh in the past two weeks. The
remotely piloted and CIA-operated Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired
four missiles at a group of Taliban fighters loyal to Mullah Nazir who gathered
in the village of Mana Raghzai in South Waziristan ,
according to The
Associated Press.
'Flee to Allah' -
Preaching Hatred to Children in London .
English Defence League.
Excerpt: Amongst the speakers advertised in a promotional
YouTube video are: Haitham al-Haddad, who was a tutor to the Nigerian underwear
bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, supports the terrorist organisation Hamas
and, in a talk at the infamous East London Mosque in January 2011, said that
“the conflict between Islam and the enemies of Islam is an ongoing conflict… we
should pay the price of this victory from our blood, and Muslims are ready to
do so.” He is banned from speaking at the London School of Economics for
calling the Jews “the enemies of God, and the descendants of apes and pigs.”
Crackdown on Anniversary
of Tiananmen Square Protest. Rick Moran,
American Thinker.
Excerpt: Police in China
beat and detained political activists marking the 23rd anniversary of the
brutal crackdown on the Tiananmen Square
democracy protests on Sunday, rights campaigners said. Officers used violence
against activists in the southeast province
of Fujian and detained them, while
more than 30 people who came to Beijing
"to petition" were held and forced to return to their home province,
the activists reported.
Is Anti-Catholicism
on the Rise? Stephen Kokx, American Thinker.
Excerpt: Sandi Villarreal, associate web editor for the
left-leaning Christian website Sojourners, thinks Christians should simply turn
the other cheek when others mock the Church. I don't disagree with her
sentiments entirely; religious Americans should be lighthearted about certain
issues. But there is a difference between self-deprecation and allowing oneself
to be persecuted. When Catholics let others make fun of what they believe on a
regular basis, they act as enablers and become complicit in the culture's
acceptance of values antithetical to the ones preached by Jesus Christ.
Let's (Not) Get
Physicals. Elizabeth Rosenthal, New York Times
Excerpt: In 1979, a Canadian government task force
officially recommended giving up the standard head-to-toe annual physical based
on studies showing it to be “nonspecific,” “inefficient” and “potentially
harmful,” replacing it instead with a small number of periodic screening tests,
which depend in part on a patient’s risk factors for illness. Faced with such
evidence, I have not gotten an annual physical since around the time I finished
my medical training in 1989.
The Truth about Salt.
By Gary Taubes, New York Times.
Excerpt: Those trials have been followed by a slew of
studies suggesting that reducing sodium to anything like what government policy
refers to as a “safe upper limit” is likely to do more harm than good. These
covered some 100,000 people in more than 30 countries and showed that salt
consumption is remarkably stable among populations over time. In the United States ,
for instance, it has remained constant for the last 50 years, despite 40 years
of the eat-less-salt message.
Obama Economic Plan:
Go Buy A Thingamajig
Harsh Foreclosure
Critic Elizabeth Warren Reportedly Made a Fortune…‘Flipping’ Foreclosed Homes
Excerpt: Elizabeth Warren, who has railed against predatory
banks and heartless foreclosures, took part in about a dozen Oklahoma real estate deals that netted her
and her family hefty profits through maneuvers such as “flipping” properties,
records show. A Herald review has found that the Democratic U.S. Senate
candidate rapidly bought and sold homes herself, loaned money at high interest
rates to relatives and purchased foreclosed properties at bargain prices.
Arab Like Me--Arab
hatred of Israel
is driven by envy and fear.
Excerpt: There are two kinds of Arabs in this world. Those
who hate Jews, and those who don’t. And in my life, I have met more of the
former than the latter. I am not proud to say that. Arabs will not like me for
admitting it. But it is true. And it is something I wish the Obama
administration understood. It is something Americans should know as the “Arab
Spring” enters its second year.
Excerpt: "I always look at what is in the United States ’ interest first and foremost, and
this would hurt the United
States ’ interests,”
Senator Leahy stated firmly.
It is of course difficult to find as compelling a national interest as the
UNRWA, a refugee agency created exclusively for the benefit of five million
Arabs, approximately 30,000 of whom are actual refugees, but all of whom
hate the United States. (Well said, Mr. Greenfield. I should add to your
observations that the clamor for a Palestinian state is anachronistic nonsense.
Although funded by the US
and others (but not their Arab brethren), they already have their states, if
self-determination and self-governance is the yardstick. In terms of what they
lack, it is borders and border control. This they could have in a one hour
negotiation if that was their true intention. But we know that 100% irredentism
is their objective and that UNWRA and other such ruses are their weapons.
Cordially, Larry Greenberg.)
Cpl. Joe's long
journey home
Excerpt: He squatted down in front of them, smiled and
handed out the treats. The photograph of a young Marine and a smiling Iraqi
girl and boy was published in newspapers all over the United States
and the world. ... McCarthy was on his second deployment when he was killed.
5 bodies found in
burned vehicle in Pinal
County
Excerpt: Sheriff Paul Babeu told reporters Saturday
afternoon that the incident may be drug-related. (Mexico Cartel Violence IS HERE.
--DH)
MA Democrats: No
Entry to Convention Without Photo ID. By Mike Flynn
Excerpt: Wait, what? Democrats tell us that photo ID
requirements disenfranchise minority voters, who, inexplicably, have limited
access to photo IDs. Yet, at their own convention, they insist that all
delegates provide a photo ID to even have access to the convention floor. When
their own party is at state, it seems their priorities are somewhat different
that their rhetoric suggests.
Farmer Panic! Crops
Die As Gov't Blocks Wells--Big Brother refuses to allow citizens to rescue
harvest
Excerpt: Farmers in Colorado
are watching their fields dry up amid one of the worst droughts in the state’s
history. But just a few feet beneath them, the water is so plentiful it’s
flooding basements and causing septic systems to overflow. Yet the government
will not permit farmers to pump the water to save their crops.
Where Will You Be
When the Lights Go Out? By Marita Noon
Excerpt: We each know where we were when President Kennedy
was shot, when the Berlin Wall came down, and on the morning of 9-11. If we
continue on the current course, you’ll be telling your grandchildren where you
were the night the lights went out in America . America ’s energy policy is being
dominated by environmentalists’ priorities—regardless of the impact to the
American economy, individual communities, or economically-challenged citizens
Another congressman
joins Fast and Furious charge against Holder as contempt proceedings loom on
horizon
Excerpt: California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock has
joined scores of his House colleagues in pushing for Attorney General Eric
Holder to be held accountable for his role in Operation Fast and Furious.
Muslim Brotherhood
invades Tampa
to re-elect President Obama!
(Certainly makes you wonder about Obama's relationship with
the Muslim Brotherhood, and the decision to give them $1.5 billion dollars.
What is the specific purpose of this money? Just another danger to our way of
life! --GBH)
The Week That Was:
2012-06-02 (June 2, 2012)
Excerpt: "The number of those who reason well in
difficult matters is much smaller than the number of those who reason badly. If
reasoning were like carrying burdens, where several horses will carry more
sacks of grain than one alone, I should agree that several reasoners would
avail more than a single one; but reasoning is like running and not like
carrying, and one Arab steed will outrun a hundred pack horses." ~Galileo
Galilei, 1618. (The quotation is for any who still think science should be
determined by consensus/counting noses. For most people this needs no saying;
for others, it will bear no wisdom because they won’t accept it or will believe
it doesn’t apply to them or their cause (just like hitting an inside straight
is easier when your name is ____). The excerpt is taken from the weekly summary
by Ken Haapala. I urge you to read the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the
summary for still more confirmation AGW is over-hyped. The second, third and
fifth numbered articles are important with potential impacts upon our energy,
economic, and political futures (as though they could be divided! Hah!), and
all are republished in full at the end of the PDF. There are so many other good
articles I’ll probably send some as separate posts, just to give them a better
chance to be seen and read. Ron P.)
Report: Pro-Walker
Marine Arrested At WI Dem Rally
Excerpt: Franklin Center : Watch this video of a Gov. Scott
Walker-supporting marine getting in the mix at today’s Bill Clinton rally for
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in Wisconsin ,
days before the recall vote. And then watch the exclusive video of his arrest
for civil unrest. (When did they make "civil Unrest" a crime in Wisconsin ? All the SEIU
should be in jail, then. ~Bob.)
Paul Ryan Coming to Utah to Raise Money for
Mia Love
Excerpt: Want more evidence that Republicans consider Mia
Love’s race against Jim Matheson an extremely high priority? One of the party’s
heavy hitters is coming to Utah
to raise money for her. Republican sources tell Utah Policy that House Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan plans to visit Utah later this year to hold a fundraiser
for Love.
The Dead Baby Media.
Sultan Knish, a blog by Daniel Greenfield.
Excerpt: Anyone who has spent time in the Middle
East knows quite well that parading around dead bodies is part of
the Muslim ceremony of rallying for the next attack. These aren't funerals,
these are corpse parades and the corpses are often of unknown provenance,
accompanied by calls for vengeance. Sometimes the bodies are actually of those
killed in an attack. Just as often they died of natural causes or are freshly
dug up. Go to any Muslim conflict and you'll find both sides brandishing bodies
and sometimes even pieces of them.
Dems Abandoning Obama
and Joining GOP
Excerpt: Barack Obama has served as President of the United States
for just over three and third years. In that time, he has done more damage to
the United States
than any president in the history of the nation. He has placed the country on
the verge of a financial collapse that will make the Great Depression seem like
a minor economical hiccup. He has stripped more constitutional rights than any
president in history.
Trouble for Obama
Excerpt: If you think of politics as a tennis game, each
candidate is holding his serve nicely. Obama won the support of 88 percent of
Democrats in both the front and back halves of the six weeks of tracking;
Romney won just 7 percent of Democrats in the front and 8 percent in the back.
Among Republicans, Romney won 89 percent in the front half and 90 percent in
the back half. Obama pulled 7 percent of Republicans in both three-week
periods.
The disasters of
grossly optimistic thinking and financing
Along with the famous Solyndra collapse, several other
"Green" companies that got lots of support under the rush to give
money away are now coming under investigation. They are Abengoa Solar,
BrightSource Energy, First Solar, Nevada Geothermal, NextEra Energy Resources,
and SolarReserve. At least some of them are in deep trouble already, despite
billions in loans from the taxpayers. The pattern of total optimism and lack of
detailed checking for Green companies in the federal giveaway programs has
become pretty clear by the results we can see now. Meanwhile, conventional
companies looking for loans underwent a tremendously more lengthy and stringent
examination, and got fewer and smaller loans. This is just poor judgment on the
part of the people in charge of the stimulus. That many hundreds of billions
have been delivered into the economy yet we aren't seeing anything like the
desired results tells us this was just not well done. While Mr. Obama didn't
personally make all those decisions, the people he put in charge did, and they
made decisions more on what they wanted to believe than on good business
principles. Environmental idealism is a good thing in general, as a chemist and
technical person I am very concerned about the environment. But idealism has to
be tempered with pragmatism, and that certainly did not take place. Obsessive
drives towards what are perceived as wonderful ideas "for the good of the
planet" with no thought of some balance in the decision making process
have proven both here and all over Europe to
be counterproductive. The simple dictum of "Look before you leap" has
been ignored in way too much of what's gone on during Mr. Obama's time in
office. And the really amazing thing is that neither he nor any of his team
have learned anything from these huge mistakes. Back to that combination of
arrogance, ignorance, and self-justification that has typified them from Day
One. --Del
Robin Hoods Don't
Smash Shop Windows: Shouldn't supposedly selfish conservatives—not idealistic
liberals—be producing nasty mobs? By John Agresto
Excerpt: The myth persists that the left—while it might
often be naive and unrealistic—still has its heart in the right place. Those
who want to redistribute income are the gallant Robin Hoods of contemporary
life. "Occupiers" and socialists clearly have real concern for the
downtrodden and poor. Those who demand social justice are more sincere, more
compassionate, more spiritual, and surely more Christian than the rest of us.
A ‘blowing smoke’
re-election strategy
Excerpt: ‘Axelrod is endeavoring not to panic.” So reads a
sentence in John Heilemann’s exhaustive article on Barack Obama’s campaign in
this week’s New York
magazine. While Heilemann‘s sympathies are undoubtedly with Obama, he does a
fine job of summarizing the arguments and tactics of both sides.
O’s assassinations--
If W had done it ...
Excerpt: The New York Times and Newsweek both ran long,
largely admiring articles on how President Obama selects individual terrorists
to terminate with extreme prejudice. The administration’s “smart power” isn’t
working out so well, but smart killing is a smash success.
'Beware a rerun of the Great Panic of
2008': Head of World Bank warns Europe is heading for 'danger zone' as world
markets suffer bleakest day of the year so far
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153324/Markets-facing-rerun-Great-Panic-2008-Head-World-Bank-warns-Europe-heading-danger-zone-bleakest-day-global-economy-year.html#ixzz1wmcQ9fLl
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153324/Markets-facing-rerun-Great-Panic-2008-Head-World-Bank-warns-Europe-heading-danger-zone-bleakest-day-global-economy-year.html#ixzz1wmcQ9fLl
Excerpt: The head of the World Bank yesterday warned that
financial markets face a rerun of the Great Panic of 2008. On the bleakest day
for the global economy this year, Robert Zoellick said crisis-torn Europe was heading for the ‘danger zone’. (More economic
bad news, but expected. Key to the US is the election of Romney in
November. Perhaps industry fears will end and recovery will begin. The US does not have the money to help bail out
Europe, but why would any Nation want to waste money on entitlement countries
like Greece ...too
late for them! They will not help themselves. --GBH)
Small businesses feel
hit of state (CA) unfriendliness
Excerpt: California ,
well-known for not being the friendliest state for businesses, was ranked the
worst in the country for friendliness to small business, according to a report
released this week, and the Imperial
County area had one of
the worst of the worst ranks.
LA Top Cops Partner
With Islamists
Excerpt: Few local law-enforcement officials in the United
States have proven themselves more Islamist-friendly than Los Angeles County
Sheriff Lee Baca, whose department has been dogged by allegations of
malfeasance in office, and the Los Angeles Police Department's top deputy
handling counterterrorism issues, Michael Downing. Downing has expressed a
benign view of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian-based fundamentalist
movement which seeks a global Islamic Caliphate as its ultimate objective.
During a May 2011 town hall meeting, he acknowledged the group is operating in
the United States ,
but his biggest concern was "not to demonize the Brotherhood here."
Nancy Pelosi:
ObamaCare Ironclad because “I Know the Constitution”
Excerpt: When asked why she is so confident the Supreme
Court will uphold the health care law, Pelosi says, “Because I know the
Constitution.” “This bill is ironclad,” she continued.
Another shoe to drop
for the US dollar
Excerpt: This week saw yet another move from the Chinese
government to internationalize its currency and eventually overtake the dollar.
The latest? Direct foreign exchange between the Chinese
renminbi and the Japanese yen.
766,000 More Women
Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office
Excerpt: The number of American women who are unemployed was
766,000 individuals greater in May 2012 than in January 2009, when President
Barack Obama took office, according to data released today by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. (Obama's War on Women. ~Bob.)
Team Romney Uses
Obama's Media Pals To Hit Him With Solyndra
Excerpt: The effective aggressiveness of the Romney campaign
has been on full display this week, starting with Romney's very wise decision
not to jump in the media trap of repudiating Donald Trump all the way to
yesterday, when Romney out-community organized Team Obama by giving them a
taste of their own heckle-medicine. The ad below, released yesterday by the
RNC, is standalone brilliant, hitting and defining Obama with Solyndra. But there's
something larger at work that's also worth mentioning. Have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GrHAApqp8Cw
DOJ sues Las Vegas casino for screening
non-citizen workers
Excerpt: While proponents of immigration enforcement have
been told that the federal government monitors the hiring of illegal aliens by
the private sector, including adherence to the federal employment verification
(I-9) program, Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department appears to
have made a decision to penalize organizations that zealously comply.
10 Reasons Obama Must
Disclose His College Records
Excerpt: An objective press corps ought to be curious. But
it has by and large refused to pursue the issue, even though it hectored George
W. Bush to release his college transcripts.
Jealous God Obama
Attacks Rival Religions. By Stella Paul
Excerpt: Thou shall have no other gods before Obama. For
Obama is a jealous god who demands total obeisance. In 2008, Americans voted to
deify a unique man of history. Obama is much more than the first president to
be raised by a transsexual nanny in Indonesia . He's also the very first
commander-in-chief to thank his drug dealer in his high school yearbook, instead
of his mom.
Excerpt: Today’s jobs number
are so weak that financial-market participants are beginning to see another
abyss in our future. One big factor is the extent to which the European
economies are beginning to crater in a manner that is depressingly
familiar.
Sybil Hussein Obama?
Excerpt: The man who apparently believes he is "The
First Jewish President" has revealed yet another persona meant to wow a
particular demographic. But by adding one more element to the amalgamation of
the composite individual running the country, who evolves faster than Charles
Darwin could say "natural selection," Obama is proving that he
actually knows less about everything other than race-baiting and class warfare
than any other president, because he learned about those things.
Obama’s Insult to
American Jews, the Same Day as His ‘Gaffe’ on Poland
Excerpt: The president’s Poland gaffe at the Medal of
Freedom award ceremony has got the most attention, but one must also look at
what transpired later the same day. After the president finished awarding the
Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to various recipients, many of them Jewish, he met
privately with a group of Conservative Jewish rabbis and Jewish community
leaders. … If anyone accused Obama of being “a puppet of the Israel lobby,”
it was the same left-wing friends and black nationalists who supported him when
they assumed once he got in office he would be an advocate for the
Palestinians….
Ten game changers
that could decide the race between Obama and Romney
Excerpt: Ten potential game changers loom over the
presidential race and could determine whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins
in November, according to political experts. Both campaigns and their networks
of allies have plotted strategy for months but as the military adage holds, no
battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.
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