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My new line of sympathy cards
Cover: I'm so sorry for your loss
Inside: The death of your loved one was not optimal
Letter to the Chicago
Though I hold a world view entirely different from Clarence
Page's, perhaps best explained in Dr. Thomas Sowell's brilliant book A Conflict of Visions, I've long been an
admirer of the clarity of Page's writing and the power of his intellect. Now
comes his column on "binders." Readers are left to decide if Page's
intellect is so deficient that he was unable to understand that Romney was
referring to "binders full of the
resumes of women" or if Page has been reduced to the role of a
polemist regurgitating Democrat talking points, however inane. Nothing better
illustrates the paucity of seriousness in the Obama campaign than that, between
meetings with his top foreign policy advisers on The View, the two major issues the President and his sycophants
like Page are reduced to talking about are "binders" and Big Bird.
Robert A. Hall.
Information on my
books
Poll: Romney gaining
ground in Ohio
Excerpt: President Obama's lead over GOP challenger Mitt
Romney in Ohio
narrowed to just one percentage point, tumbling from the five-percentage-point
advantage Obama had a week ago, according to a Public Policy Polling (PPP)
survey released Saturday. The poll found Obama now has a 49-to-48-percent
advantage over Romney among likely voters in the battleground state.
Whoopi’s “Wicked
Step-Sister” Act
Excerpt: Ann Romney appeared on “The View” on Thursday. One
could argue that this decision exhibited a shocking lack of sense or, at the
very least, taste by Mrs. Romney, but there is another possibility. Mrs. Romney
was being smart…or at the very least, charitable.
How The Taliban Is Thwarting The War On Polio. By Jackie Northam
Excerpt: But the new campaign, like previous efforts, hasn't
been able to overcome one critical problem: getting into parts of Pakistan 's lawless tribal regions along the
border with Afghanistan
to vaccinate the children there.
Weighty
Memento: War Veteran's Brave Secret Revealed Only After His Cremation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/9618342/Weighty-memento-war-veterans-secret-revealed-after-his-death.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/9618342/Weighty-memento-war-veterans-secret-revealed-after-his-death.html
Excerpt: Mr Brown told loved ones he still had a 'bullet' in
his leg and asked his grandchildren not to sit on his knee because of the pain
it caused. But when he died last week aged 94 his family had him cremated and
were stunned when staff handed them back a big bag of shrapnel. The bag
contained a whopping 6oz of bomb shrapnel that he had been carrying around for
60 years.
Libyan
Ambassador Christopher Stevens Warned State Department About Security Problems
on the Day He was Murdered. Daily Caller
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/19/libyan-ambassador-christopher-stevens-warned-the-state-department-about-security-problems-the-day-he-was-murdered/#ixzz29mctIxNr
Excerpt: Across 166 pages of internal State Department documents — released Friday by a pair of Republican congressmen pressing the Obama administration for more answers on the Benghazi terrorist attack — slain U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and the security officers assigned to protect him repeatedly sounded alarms to their superiors in Washington about the intensifying lawlessness and violence in Eastern Libya, where Stevens ultimately died. On Sept. 11 — the day Stevens and three other Americans were killed — the ambassador signed a three-page cable, labeled “sensitive,” in which he noted “growing problems with security” in Benghazi and “growing frustration” on the part of local residents with Libyan police and security forces.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/19/libyan-ambassador-christopher-stevens-warned-the-state-department-about-security-problems-the-day-he-was-murdered/#ixzz29mctIxNr
Excerpt: Across 166 pages of internal State Department documents — released Friday by a pair of Republican congressmen pressing the Obama administration for more answers on the Benghazi terrorist attack — slain U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and the security officers assigned to protect him repeatedly sounded alarms to their superiors in Washington about the intensifying lawlessness and violence in Eastern Libya, where Stevens ultimately died. On Sept. 11 — the day Stevens and three other Americans were killed — the ambassador signed a three-page cable, labeled “sensitive,” in which he noted “growing problems with security” in Benghazi and “growing frustration” on the part of local residents with Libyan police and security forces.
MILLOY: EPA's illegal human experiments
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/18/epas-illegal-human-experiments/#ixzz29mfqNGe0
Excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued in federal court for allegedly conducting illegal experiments on human beings. The case tests whether a government agency can violate the law and the most sacrosanct ethics of scientific research — and get away scot-free. Based on thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, since 2004 and continuing through the Obama administration, the EPA intentionally has been exposing dozens, if not hundreds, of human subjects to extraordinarily high levels of air pollutants such as diesel exhaust and fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/18/epas-illegal-human-experiments/#ixzz29mfqNGe0
Excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued in federal court for allegedly conducting illegal experiments on human beings. The case tests whether a government agency can violate the law and the most sacrosanct ethics of scientific research — and get away scot-free. Based on thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, since 2004 and continuing through the Obama administration, the EPA intentionally has been exposing dozens, if not hundreds, of human subjects to extraordinarily high levels of air pollutants such as diesel exhaust and fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5.
In Pakistan ,
a 14-year-old girl is shot by Muslim extremists for daring to call for
education for women. In Tunisia ,
a young woman who was raped by three policemen is about to on trial for
committing an "indecent act." Her crime: she was sitting with her
fiancé in a car when the policemen surprised them and brutally raped her.
Syrian refugee girls who fled the fighting in their country are being forced
into marriages by Muslim men, who are exploiting the plight of their families
to fulfill sexual fantasies. (If the Democrats cared so much about women, they
would not be so cozy with the Muslim BROTHERhood. Cordially,
Larry Greenberg)
Excerpt: Even
before his inauguration, Barack Obama was an imaginary man, the creation of his
admirers. Think back to the 2008 Time magazine cover depicting
him as FDR, the Newsweek cover of the same year on which he
was shown casting Lincoln’s shadow, or the $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize
awarded to him “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international
diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”—this in 2009, less than a year after
he had taken office.
The Ghosts of WWII
The Obama you don't
know
Excerpt: Above all, as America 's first black chief
executive, Obama symbolized the healing of long-festering wounds that were the
terrible national legacy of slavery, the Reconstruction Era and Jim Crow. We
would be, finally, one nation. But after nearly four years in office, Obama has
become a sharply polarizing figure.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Ah, so the data were ‘puzzling’ and
‘incredible’—not believable. So perhaps the only way to reconcile the two
excerpts above is to draw the conclusion that, while the AEI apparently knows
that the data were not deliberately manipulated, they are, sadly, some
combination of inaccurate and unreliable rubbish. Am I being too harsh? Well,
much US labour market data are not particularly ‘hard’ but based on surveys,
estimates and models rather than on real numbers
Worth Reading : 55 Facts
About The Debt And U.S.
Excerpt: he future of the United States of America is being
systematically destroyed by our politicians, but unfortunately most Americans
don't really grasp exactly what is happening. 30 years ago, our national debt
had just crossed the one trillion dollar mark. Just recently, it crossed the 16
trillion dollar mark. Prior to every election, politicians from both parties
swear up and down that they will do something about our exploding debt, but it
never happens.
The End of the
American President. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: The American presidency came to an end on October
15, 1992 during a Town Hall debate between Bush I, Ross Perot and Bill Clinton.
The stage of the Town Hall seemed more like a place for Phil Donahue or Sally
Jesse Raphael to strut around, biting their lips, and dragging out tawdry tales
for audience applause, than for three presidential candidates to discuss the
future of the country.
Worth Reading : Benghazi
Excerpt: The real issue isn’t whether President Obama used
the word “terror” the day after the Benghazi
terror attack, but whether Obama truly comprehends the Islamist terror threat
to America
and the West. It’s not simply that Obama and his team spent so many days
denying the obvious — that the Benghazi assault was a long-planned operation by
an al Qaeda offshoot — or even that the administration reduced security on the
ground in Libya, despite local pleas to increase it. It’s that the Obama team
is still in denial about the resurgence of the threat, which by my count has
produced more terror attacks in the United States in the last three years
(though fortunately nothing on the scale of 9/11) than in the previous eight.
2012 Marine Corps
Birthday Video Message
From the Commandant and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.
The Benghazi
Excerpt: The recent events in Benghazi , Libya United States
works. I have personally been involved at the managerial level in foreign
intelligence acquisition and the testing of intelligence sources, and have
personally written a specific Middle East
collection requirement for a Department of Defense agency.
Excerpt: Home Depot Founder Bernie Marcus shares his
concerns for our nation and how frightened he is by what Pres. Obama's policies
mean for America ,
especially for our children and future generations.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: I recently attended the Walter
Duranty Awards for Journalistic Mendacity, a highly entertaining
event aimed at calling attention to the past year’s most egregious instances of
mainstream-media bias. Sponsored jointly by The New Criterion and Pajamas Media,
the awards are named after the most notoriously corrupt journalist of all time:
the New York Times Moscow correspondent, Soviet apologist, and 1932
Pulitzer winner who pushed the Stalinist line that reports of the great famine
in the Ukraine—brought on by forced collectivization and causing an estimated 6
million deaths—were nothing more than “malignant propaganda.”
Excerpt: The US
killed al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula 's
senior Sharia, or Islamic Law, official in a drone strike in early October,
according to a Yemeni journalist who is closely connected to the terror group.
Sheikh Abu Zubeir 'Adil al'Abab, the Sharia official, was described at AQAP's
fourth most important leader.
Obama’s Cabinet
Members Violating Federal Election Law and No One Cares
http://godfatherpolitics.com/7615/obamas-cabinet-members-violating-federal-election-law-and-no-one-cares/
Excerpt: In 1939, the Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities was passed by Congress and became federal law. The act prohibits federal employees from being involved or holding membership in any political organization which advocates the overthrow of the constitutional form of government. (Say, isn’t that what the Democratic Party has been doing with the help of Barack Obama and Eric Holder?)
http://godfatherpolitics.com/7615/obamas-cabinet-members-violating-federal-election-law-and-no-one-cares/
Excerpt: In 1939, the Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities was passed by Congress and became federal law. The act prohibits federal employees from being involved or holding membership in any political organization which advocates the overthrow of the constitutional form of government. (Say, isn’t that what the Democratic Party has been doing with the help of Barack Obama and Eric Holder?)
Retired Army General
Franks backs Romney
Excerpt: “We only got two choices,” Franks said Saturday
during a telephone interview from Green
Bay , where he addressed the Big 10 VFW
Conference. “We can stay with what we’ve got or we can make a change …
When you find yourself in a hole stop digging.” Franks is among more than 300
retired officers who comprise Romney’s “military advisory council.”
ACORN
Whistleblower Anita Moncrief, Ex-Liberal: "They are very evil....they've
attacked our culture...and basically over-sexualized our kids."
Excerpt: A writer, blogger, activist and mom, Moncrief is
affiliated with True the Vote and
has been disowned by some of her own family for her newfound beliefs. The
Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas recently spoke with Moncrief about the efforts by the left to divide America along race, class
and gender, why the left wants to grow government dependency and the price
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Workers at Chevy Volt
battery plant built with federal money paid to do nothing for months
Excerpt: Now a new report says in one Michigan plant, built with $151 million in
federal money to assemble battery cells for the Chevrolet
Volt, workers have been paid for months to do nothing. According
to WOOD-TV of Grand Rapids, Mich., the 300 workers at the LG Chem
plant in nearby Holland
have yet to ship a single production battery cell since the plant opened late
last year. (Your tax dollars at...well, I guess "work" is the wrong
word. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: On Thursday, police in Phoenix arrested Carlos Noe Flores, 35, after
he reportedly shot another drug trafficker. 9you can't say that shooting drug
dealers is a job Americans won't do. I'm perfectly willing.... ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Mitt Romney is never going to be as smooth an orator
as The Anointed One. He is not nearly as articulate. So, when Mitt Romney tried
to illustrate his immense respect for the abilities of women by recounting how
he achieved a majority of women on his Governor's staff, he related that, after
demanding more women candidates, he was given "binders full of
women". Yes, Governor Romney should have said, aided by women's groups, he
was supplied with more resumes for women for his staff. Well, desperate to find
some faux pas, the liberals and the liberal media jumped all over Romney's
statement.
Ahead
of Election, Obama Stops Releasing ‘Stimulus’ Reports
Excerpt: The $831,000,000,000 economic “stimulus” that
President Obama spearheaded and signed into law requires his administration to
release quarterly reports on its effects. But "the most transparent
administration in the history of our country" is now four reports
behind schedule and has so far not released any reports whatsoever in 2012. Its
most recent quarterly report is for the quarter than ended on June 30, 2011.
(Probably bogged down with too many "legitimate" issues. Besides,
he's the president. The law doesn't apply to him. --MasterGuns)
Playboy Shoot Absent From Candidate's Resume: State
legislative challenger describes herself as Sunday school teacher. By Bob Unruh
Excerpt: A race for a state legislative seat in Washington state is
turning white-hot with a report today that the Democrat challenger who
describes herself as a Sunday school teacher appeared as a model in Playboy
magazine. (Well, she showed more "transparency" than Obama, ~Bob.)
The real jobs
numbers: 41% of America
Excerpt: Even if the US Labor Department has determined that
the unemployment level has finally plateaued after months of staggering jobs
statistics, the truth behind the numbers isn’t all that nice. Only four out of
every 10 adults in the US
is employed. While the percentage of Americans filing jobless benefit claims
isn’t what it was during an unemployment epidemic that ravaged the country
throughout the majority of US President Barack Obama’s administration, the
Labor Department’s numbers are largely inflated on account of how they
determine what actually constitutes looking for work.
Excerpt: Barack Obama was under renewed pressure over his
handling of the fatal attacks on the US
consulate in Benghazi
last night, after CIA sources said they had reported "within 24
hours" that the assault was carried out by Islamist militants.
Jihad Watch cartoon:
Muslim enraged by Swiss flag
Worth Sharing: Absolutely Uncertain
Excerpt: A new, 18-minute mini-documentary follows the
journey of Irina, a 23-year-old liberal, Jewish New Yorker who voted for Obama
in 2008. Yet as her connection to Israel
has grown, and she has learned more about the President's policies across the
Middle East and towards Israel
in particular, Irina has come to realize that "when the chips are
down," the President may not "have Israel 's back" as he says.
Former Senator George
McGovern, '72 Democratic presidential nominee, dies at 90
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/21/former-presidential-nominee-george-mcgovern-dies-at-0/#ixzz29wvuKotb
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/21/former-presidential-nominee-george-mcgovern-dies-at-0/#ixzz29wvuKotb
Reported at the time, he bought a small country inn in Connecticut , which
failed, and complained loudly about all the government regulations--passed by
liberals like him--which were putting him under. ~Bob.
Worth Reading
Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war
between the Arabs and Israel
broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other
major wars, in 1948 and 1967. The 1967 War lasted only six days
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Simply put, to see our fundamental political
divisions as a tug of war between the government and the individual is to
accept the progressive premise that individuals and the state are all there is
to society. The premise of conservatism has always been, on the contrary, that
what matters most about society happens in the space between those two, and that
creating, sustaining, and protecting that space is a prime purpose of
government. The real debate forced upon us by the Obama years—the underlying
disagreement to which the two parties are drawn despite themselves—is in fact
about the nature of that intermediate space, and of the mediating institutions
that occupy it: the family, civil society, and the private economy.
Excerpt: In his October 11, 2012 Friday sermon, posted on
the website of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), the movement's General Guide,
Muhammad Badi', focused on the topic of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He
stated that the Muslims, rather than the Jews or Christians, are the sons of
Abraham, and that "the world will not know happiness, security and
stability until it is under the guardianship of Islamic shari'a." He went
on to say that the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
is just as valuable to the Muslims as the Ka'ba in Mecca ,
and that Jerusalem
is Muslim land. (This is the viewpoint, if not the policy of the new
Egyptian government. This is the policy of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Hezbollah
and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan and the unstated desire of the
Palestinian Authority, the parliament of Jordan and the likely rulers of
Syria--to mention a few. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
What Do the Jews Have to Do? By Aaron Goldstein
Excerpt: I will also remember them because the Lebanese judo
team refused to train in the same room with their Israeli
counterparts. Olympic officials, who would not be moved to hold a moment’s
silence for athletes, moved heaven and earth to aid and abet anti-Semitism by
placing a screen in the room so the Lebanese team would not be blinded by
gazing at the Jews. As Mark Steyn noted it was a case of “taking the Jew out of judo.” When
someone says they don't love you, that in fact they hate you and yearn for your
destruction, it makes sense to take them seriously. To expect that rejection of
a century of goodwill concessions and gestures will suddenly turn positive or
at least benign is the exemplar of wishful thinking. Such wishful thinking is
tantamount to a death wish. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Excerpt: The U.S.
administration gradually reversed its policy regarding uranium enrichment.
Under the new policy, the right to use enriched uranium was reinterpreted as
countries' right to enrich uranium on their own soil, as long as it was for
civilian/peaceful purposes. (The Obama administration is reportedly considering
accepting an Iranian offer to negotiate one on one following the election. Will
Obama accept the red herring to demonstrate the "wisdom" of his
incremental and incomplete sanctions approach to an electorate made jumpy
by Benghazi ? Or
will he summarily reject the gambit, thereby demonstrating his macho? I
can see the mullahs smirking. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Obama's Last Stand.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Democrats do not have a great track record in the
White House. The number of Democratic presidents who have won second terms is
small and becomes much smaller with the second half of the 20th Century. Unlike
Congressional shifts which reflect regional politics more than a national
referendum, the Presidency is a referendum on the usages of the nearly
unlimited power of its holder. The Democratic strategy has been to substitute
iconography for competence and their iconic presidents have invariably been men
of dubious character.
What's behind Obama's
'disdain' for Romney? By Michael
Goodwin
Excerpt: “There was a baseline of respect for John McCain.
The president always thought he was an honorable man and a war hero,” an Obama
adviser told Thrush. “That doesn’t hold true for Romney. He was no goddamned
war hero.” So Obama looks down on Romney because Mitt was never captured by the
enemy and tortured? That’s weird, given that Obama himself never served in the
military, though he did famously complain that working in a private business
was like being “behind enemy lines.” I guess you had to be there to appreciate
his pain.
Twitter Gives Saudi Arabia
Excerpt: Saudi
Arabia did not have an Arab Spring. But it
has had a revolution of sorts.
Open criticism of this country’s royal family, once
unheard-of, has become commonplace in recent months. Prominent judges and
lawyers issue fierce public broadsides about large-scale government corruption
and social neglect. Women deride the clerics who limit their freedoms. Even the
king has come under attack. All this dissent is taking place on the same forum:
Twitter.
My Only
Disappointment in the President. By Jack Dunphy
Excerpt: But there is one crisis – and it is a genuine
crisis – that Mr. Obama was uniquely situated to address yet has failed to do
so. I refer to the horrific level of inner-city crime in America , the
root cause of which is the appalling number of children whose fathers are
little more than sperm donors. It is considered crass to discuss such things
but facts are facts, and the fact is that no ethnic group in America has a
higher rate of illegitimate births than do blacks, at 72.5 percent.
Excerpt: A powerful car bomb exploded in Lebanon 's capital of Beirut on Oct. 19, killing at least eight
people and wounding 80. It was the largest bombing in the country since 2008.
The blast occurred in a predominantly Christian section of central Beirut , 200 yards from
the headquarters of the Phalange, a Christian party that is an outspoken critic
of the Syrian regime.
Excerpt: Constitutionally protected speech can never be
legitimized as a cause of violence…..The administration has attempted to walk a
disgraceful line on this. First, it has worked closely with Islamist
governments for four years, endeavoring to carve out of the First Amendment’s
carapace the protection of speech that criticizes Islam. Clearly aware that
this is a rogue effort, Obama and his minions further suggest that the
Constitution limits only what laws government may enact, not
any extra-legal methods – what Secretary of State Clinton
euphemistically calls “shaming” — by which government pursues ends the
Constitution forbids.
Obama campaign
borrows $15 million from Bank of America
Excerpt: Obama For America took out a $15 million loan
from Bank of America last month, according to the campaign’s October monthly
FEC report. The loan was incurred on September 4 and is due November 14, eight
days after the election. OFA received an interest rate of 2.5% plus the current
Libor rate….Last month, two weeks after OFA took out the loan, Bank of America
announced a plan that would lay off 16,000 workers by the end of the year.
Obama campaign
accepted UK
Excerpt: “Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London , told The Post he
was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month
through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was
rejected,” the NY Post reported.... “For a campaign that is very
sophisticated in its fund-raising capabilities, they do not make one effort to
try to even see or ask somebody to check a box that says they are a US citizen,”
Peter Schweizer, the institute’s president, told the NY Post. In May, The Daily
Caller reported several instances of what appears to be criminal fraud in
Obama’s online donations system. (We have to win by 5% to offset fraud. ~Bob.)
Worth Sharing: Bow to Nobody
Eulogies for Cops. By
Steve Willard
Excerpt: The 141-year-old Camden , New Jersey Camden
is one of the most dangerous cities in the United States . The death knell
came from, among other things, a hostile governor/legislature and a
municipal population that has more tax takers than taxpayers. A
non-union, experimental county-wide policing program, will take its
place. How it will all work out remains to be seen. In the meantime,
RIP to the CPD.
Excerpt: On September 10, 2012, the amateurish, anti-Muslim
YouTube video “Innocence of Muslims” had been on the Internet for three months
with exactly seventeen views. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, UN Ambassador
Susan Rice, and an army of Obama surrogates conducted a media blitz blaming
this obscure video no one had seen for the entire Middle East exploding on
9/11, including a “protest turned violent” at the Libyan consulate that killed
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. We later learned that there
was no protest.
Romney For President
Announces Military Advisory Council
Excerpt: Today, Romney for President announced its Military
Advisory Council. (Impressive list. ~Bob.)
Beware the Chinese
Sea-Dragon. By Alex Ward
Excerpt: Recently, Chinese assertiveness was brought to the
fore by its sparring with Japan
over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea .
In early September a conflagration of anti-Japanese protests and boycotts
engulfed China
after the Japanese government attempted to buy ownership of the disputed atolls
from a Japanese businessman. The Chinese government responded forcibly, sending
roughly 1,000 fishing vessels to the area, flanked by six frigates and several
surveillance units. (Our naval fleet size is not capable of standing the
world-wide demands we see before us today. Some say the fleet size is what is
was in WWI. That is not true. However, we did not have the demands that are
currently projected for a credible world situation today. We need to ramped up
the fleet for a stand-off capability. We also need to bring the Air Force up to
a more sizable force which will allow for further [enhanced] stand-off
capability. A land war scenario in Asia can
only fail. Leverage our technical advantage. Infantry is a (very) last resort
in that AO—just as it would be impossible for an Asian force to attack the
continental U.S. .
Strategic suppression of resources will be a more effective approach to
incapacitating one another—which is not (I believe) our default position.
--Greg, USMC, Ret.)
Good cartoon.
The Failure of the
American Jewish Left. By David Brog
Excerpt: In early September 2012, many in the pro-Israel
camp were disturbed by a series of events at the Democratic National Convention
in Charlotte .
First, the committee drafting the party platform eliminated traditional
language recognizing Jerusalem as Israel 's
capital. Next, the party elders chose to restore the language and called for a
pro forma voice vote from the delegates in support of this amendment. Instead,
what looked and sounded like an angry majority of the delegates voted against
recognizing Jerusalem as Israel 's
capital. This hostility should not have come as a surprise. (The polite Left,
i.e. Liberals, in general refuse or are viscerally unable to
identify the evil in an ideology propounded in "dialectial"
literature. Mr. Brog makes the case that today's Jewish apologists for
Palestinian irredentism and jihadism is the same kind of self-destructive
foolishness of Wallace followers in the 1940s. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
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Your link to the 55 facts does not work. When I bing it I see it on a number of questionable websites (sites pushing investment scams/schemes) so I am not comfortable sharing a link
ReplyDeleteYou are one thorough guy!
ReplyDeleteWhen you consider that optimal means:
optimal |ˈäptəməl| adjective
best or most favorable; optimum: seeking the optimal solution.
Obama is NOT optimal!
Also, Binders and Big Bird may suggest that Obama's recent spillages may have been brought to us by the Letter B.
Honestly, I do not get how blind people choose to be!
Karen
Idaho