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The Obama supporters at the Jewish Council on Education and Research (JCER) have their story and they are sticking to it. One would think that during the Aseres Y'mei Tshuva (10 days of repentance between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur), when kapora (atonement) is the order of the day, that an apology would be in order to Generals Dayan and Halevy. But an apology has not been forthcoming. Instead, we have denial and justification - ah classical Clintonian liberalism at its best. Mechila (forgiveness) is not required when you believe yourself to be morally superior by rite and privilege from...

Howard Fineman has no knowledge of history. In fact, it would not surprise me if we should find out some day that, in his original draft of this absurd comparison of Lincoln to Obama, he even spelled Lincoln's name wrong. It is just that obvious that Fineman knows nothing of what he speaks. You see, Howard Fineman has decided that Barack Obama is somehow just like Abraham Lincoln. This is hero worship at its worst without being weighed down by any facts. It's so bad that one wonders if Fineman had a Matthewsian "thrill up his leg" when writing...

You just can't trust these lefties to tell the truth. Having watched the technically well made video, one is left with the impression that all security and military people in the Israeli military and intelligence have strong positive feelings for Obama. While some actually do, others do not. Not one contrary voice is heard on this video. Indeed some of them seem to have a positive impression of Obama, basically because Obama endorses no pre-condition talks with Iran.

My radio partner Brian Ward of Fraters Libertas noted an appalling instance of historical ignorance in the Minneapolis public schools, and added his thoughts on the current epidemic of amnesia: When asked what historical figure they'd most like to study this year, an astounding 22 of the 35 students in Ms. Ellingham's eighth-grade history class at Susan B. Anthony middle school in Minneapolis answered, "Yoko Ono" and/or "John Lennon." I weep for the future. The great historian David McCullough was on C-SPAN this past week, looking like a beaten man while describing the crushing level of historical ignorance among...

"This Is A War Of Destiny Between Infidelity And Islam." (Text Of Bin Laden's Audio Message To Muslims In Iraq, Posted On Jihadist Websites, 12/28/04) "Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all!" Islam Is Not a Religion of Pacifists (1942)-- Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini In 1996 and then again in 1998 Osama bin Laden issued two fatawa -- that Muslims should "kill civilians and military personnel from the United States and allied countries until they withdraw military forces from...

Clear thinking people know two things about the recent incursion of Russian troops and armor into Georgia: 1. It was a setup. Russia pre-positioned troops and supplies and readied a battle plan weeks or months before they struck. In no way could the massive Russian invasion have been an ad hoc response to Georgian actions. The Russians set the trap, and then manufactured incidents to draw in the Georgians. 2. There will be other such attempts on the part of Russia to regain control of former members of the old Soviet Union, either by direct force or by subversion. Georgia...

Fox radio news has issued a bulletin claiming Obama's relationship with U of I Professor William Ayers, founder of a socialist radical group known as The Weathermen was "Tenuous". The report heard over Chicago's WIND was repeating the New York Times claim probably and picked up through AP. The Obama's campaign reply to Palin charge that relationship between Ayers and Obama were "pals" was their relationbship was "tenuous". Reliable sources however have reported that not only did Ayers fund raise and assist Obama in his bid for Illinois state senator. But also sat on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge board which...

Currently playing at the metroplex is “Flash of Genius,” the story Robert Kearns, who invented the car intermittent windshield wiper. Kearns’ invention was stolen by Ford Motor Company, which launched a long fight by Kearns to not only be paid for his invention, but to be given credit for it as well. There is a similar story, that of my dad, Robert Sherman. My dad invented and patented the portable, in-room climate control device – one that cooled or heated, humidified or dehumidified, and filtered the air. He filed for a patent on February 13, 1945, and on January 6,...

Governor Sarah Palin at the Vice-Presidential debate. Photo from Foxnews.com. Any questions about Governor Palin's ability to be in the big time spot light were put to rest last night. Gov. Palin succeeded in turning the tables on the main stream media's assault on her qualifications. Moderator Gwen Ifill, with wary eyes on her for not disclosing to the debate commission her forthcoming Obama book conflict of interest, behaved herself. more

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, I have called your office, the office of Senator John Cornyn and Senator John McCain. I am a lifelong Republican, a McCain Victory 08 Blogger and have my own blog and Internet talk radio program. After your vote last night, I will never support you for elected office, I will instead support any other Republican opposing you who disagrees with what you did. You voted for a huge piece of pork last night that is totally unnecessary. We need to repeal Sarbanes Oxley, Mark-to-Market rules, cut capital gains and immediately investigate and prosecute anyone involved in...

This morning, Good Morning America had a segment they called “Faces of the Credit Crunch”. The segment featured several ‘average Americans’ and the trials they have faced since the recent economic downturn. It went something like this:

Twenty-one skidoo! Legislators work feverishly to solve Jazz Age scandal. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that Congress was prepared to consider some type of action to investigate the Teapot Dome scandal eventually. The Teapot Dome refers to an oil field in Wyoming that once served as the U.S. Navy's oil reserve in the 1920s. The tract of land became the epicenter of a scandal for the Warren G. Harding administration. According to Pelosi, Congress is sorting out the tangled mess of graft and croneyism. "We gotta make real quick like and investigate this razzmatazz of...

Shadows enveloped the castle as evening fell. Each night, as the night before, and the night before that, the occupants of this dark place arose from their daily slumber to convene in the "Place of Meeting", where they would feast upon their ill-gotten gain… the blood of blameless turnips. You see; what flesh without soul desires more than anything is to bleed the turnip until there is nothing left to bleed. However, their conversation this night was more solemn than any assembled could remember. "Our chief bwood suppwy is in twubble. Fannie Mae and Fweddie Mac are vewwy cwose to...

"Just Say No!" to the Bailout John McCain! Posted by John Barnhart on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:11:01 AM Before reading this, I want it understood, this is not the official position of www.letsgetthisright.com or anyone else, this is MY PERSONAL OPINION and does not represent my position as a staffer of www.letsgetthisright.com American's need to stand up and tell John McCain to "Just Say No!" If one reads just the title of the bill that was voted down yesterday it has absolutely nothing to do with the government’s attempted bail out to the tune of $700 Billion dollars. For...

Though he hasn’t yet been elected president, the Democratic National Committee has called for the minting of coins with presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama’s image on them. Traditionally, no living person has ever appeared on U.S. money of any kind. The proposed break with precedent is being labeled “educational.” “Many people in this country don’t know who is president,” DNC chairman Howard Dean said. “By having the president’s face and name on our coins we will have a daily instruction on who is ruling this nation.”

No longer Fair and Balanced. Fox News allow Ferro to lie on the record.

Richard Fernandez of Belmont Club raises an interesting point. Just as the academic fads that rose to spectacular heights during the end of the last decade are now in decline, it could very well be that the kind of faddish Marxism/radicalism represented by Bill Ayers and Barack Obama are the peak of the wave that is already receding. The conventional wisdom is that Obama is the man of the future. It’s argued that he represents what the younger generation desires. But what if, on the contrary, Obama actually represented the last gasp of the past? When Thomas Sowell writes about...

This is the video that is sweeping the internet. It is a John McCain promotion that also explains the causes of the housing bubble and the mortgage crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o

There would not have been any massive housing bubble leading to disaster if Democrats did not pass legislation requiring banks to give mortgages to people who had no way to pay them back or no intention of paying them back Please remember the Community Redevelopment Act, a minority lending bill first pushed and created by Jimmy Carter and revved up by President Clinton by appointing his cronies to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with orders to instruct banks to issue many more of these mortgages under threat of fines if they did not do so.

Shiek: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad investigates American assets Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented his case that the world is better off without American influence at the United Nations. The following is a transcript: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The Americans have bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, not just from us, from our fathers and from our fathers' fathers. Raul, Cuban delegate: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.Mahmoud: Yes. Raul: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers. Mahmoud: All right, Raul. Don't labor the point. And what have they ever given us in return? Ghana delegate: Eradicated polio?

It just doesn't get any clearer or simpler than this. Gov. Palin has made one of the strongest pro-Israel statements of any sitting political figure in the US today. After starting with a somewhat cliche but still relevant comment of "preventing another Holocaust" as a justification to befriend Israel (language probably from an advisor) Gov. Palin then went on to make a value statement usually left presumed in comments made by "pro-Israel" US politicians. more

…Psst. If I let you in on a little secret, you promise not to tell? Pinkie swear! Alright. I have never been to a political meeting in my life. OK. Now that’s out of the bag, I’ll let you in on another one. Thursday, September 25, 2008 I plan to attend my first Democrat party meeting… and I’m takin’ popcorn and candy. I’m not sure what to expect, but I figure it’ll be pretty cool. I think Whoopie Goldberg is the keynote speaker (I’m told she’s some Jewish chick from the Bronx). She’ll probably drone on about fiscal responsibility and...

How The West Abolished Slavery by: Lance Nation, September 25, 2008 In the opening remarks of a recent Cato Institute event, David Boaz, the executive vice-president of the Cato Institute, asked an important question, “How is it that slavery went unchallenged for thousands of years, but disappeared in a single century?” Answering this question was James “Jim” Powell, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Taking from his new book, Greatest Emancipation: How the West Abolished Slavery, Jim Powell explained the importance Thomas Clarkson played in ending the slave trade. “[A British citizen in the 18th Century], Clarkson originally believed...

I have had a long standing suspicion that the problems with our strategy in Iraq were not the fault of George Bush. Bush is not a micro-manager. His willingness to accept compromise solutions (take the current increasingly flawed economic bill) is the hallmark of his administration. His administration has been marked by getting along with congress in its spending priorities and with the largest entitlement increase in history; a sop to Liberals. The only thing that he has been unwilling to cave on is the war in Iraq. He has fought congress and some in his own party to win....

Is the Constitution Libertarian? by: Irene Warren, September 24, 2008 In honor of the 221st Constitutional Day, guest speaker Randy Barnett gave the Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture at the Cato Institute in an effort to set the record straight about whether the Constitution is libertarian. Randy Barnett, a professor of legal theory at Georgetown University Law Center, explained that the Constitution is a governing document which governs those who are in power and who govern others. However, he explained that the Constitution also defines the limit of powers on those who govern us. “As it turns out, this is...

The IRS & the Constitution by: Irene Warren, September 24, 2008 Sept. 17, 2008, marked the 221st Anniversary of the United States Constitution, a time when many reflect on America’s heritage and freedoms. However, one organization is exercising one of its First Amendment rights by filing a People’s Petition for Redress concerning the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment this year, an action to restore order within the U.S. Constitution. We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc. is a 501(c)( 3) organization, established November 24, 1997. They filed a People’s Petition for Redress claiming that the United States government has...

In this climatic of times when fingers are pointing in every which way and the ability to know whom is trustworthy and whom is not is not easily attainable, words such as the "rich people don't 'deserve' their money" may sound tantalizingly good, but it is wrought with dangerous ramifications. When politicians say that the rich don't need the extra money, the response ought to be, "government doesn't need it either." Placing taxes on the uber-rich and the corporations will just transfer their wealth to the coffers of others in Washington D.C. The promise may be that the taxed amount...

Actress Laura Linney demonstrated for all the world to see last night that she has no idea what she’s talking about. During her acceptance speech at the Emmy awards show, Linney, a Democratic donor who gave to Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign earlier this year, called America’s Founding Fathers “the great community organizers that helped form our country.” Linney, who played Abigail Adams in the TV mini-series, “John Adams,” took aim at critics of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama who have mocked the work he did in Chicago as a community organizer. “I just have the most tremendous respect for...

Yes, Obama opposed the War in Iraq - from the safety of the Illinois Senate. Obama had the judgment then to not support the war? Wouldabeen, shouldabeen. Obama can say all he wants to about how the war should not have been waged, but he is living in the past. That was then, this is now. We are there and we must win. Obama had poor judgment in opposing the Surge, and instead of crediting the US military for the success of the surge, he gave credit to others in Iraq. No surge, no victory. Obama - for the longest...

We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers Knowing how to inspire and [5] lead others is an essential manly attribute. In Shakespeare’s Henry V, King Henry exemplifies manliness in action as he rallies his army against the highly skilled French knights. In his “Saint Crispin’s Day” speech, Henry V speaks of glory, honor, and brotherhood- all ideals that inspire even the most despairing and downtrodden of men. Read this fictional, and yet powerful speech when you’re feeling unmotivated and depressed. It will stir you to focus on the legacy you are building and will pass on to your...

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, now a lobbyist for a Russian-German energy consortium dominated by Gazprom, the Russian state-owned energy monopoly, recommends a “more conciliatory relationship with our Russian neighbors.” Schröder characterized recent aggressive actions carried out by Russia—invading Georgia and threatening to cut off gas supplies to Western Europe—as “no cause for alarm.” “Europe should accept that Russia must defend its security interests,” Schröder said. As a show of good faith, Schroder suggested that Germany and Russia could divide Poland between them. “There is historical precedent for this as a means of keeping the peace between our two great...

Did You Really Know the Red Bear? by: Jesse Masai, September 23, 2008 If you thought you knew enough about Old Russia, then you have not watched The Soviet Story. The 90-minute film details Soviet Russia’s links with Nazi Germany and its horrendous legacy in Central and Eastern Europe. It tells the story of how the Soviet regime helped Adolf Hitler instigate the Holocaust as well as Russia’s slaughter of its own people on an industrial scale. Latvian ambassador to the United States Andrejes Pildegovics told the audience at the Heritage Foundation that the film brings to the fore some...

Palin vs. Obama The race unfortunately has been framed the last two weeks by Democrats as one of Obama versus Palin. That will stop as Obama realizes he loses should it continue. Nevertheless, the comparison of the respective experiences of a McCain and Obama is so much in favor of the former, that it requires no discussion. So I turn to Palin, given the charges that she is unfit and clueless. Is Palin Tough? I have been asked by many why I have such confidence in a rookie Alaskan governor, given the rigors of the campaign to follow. (Many Republican...

PRESIDENT OBAMA Our New First Lady Our Presidents's Financial Associate Our President's Spiritual Mentor------------------------------------------------------- A note from Radarsite: On this coming November 4th there is a real possibility that we could lose our country. If we allow this dangerous and inscrutable candidate to actually become President of the United States of America the ramifications are unfathomable. The degree to which this fine country of ours could change forever is infinite. We are at a proverbial crossroads, and the decisions we make this November will effect the lives of countless unborn Americans. I firmly believe that if Barack Hussein Obama wins...

A while ago I readan article about McCain accusing Obama of playing the race card. Well, first of all, he very much DOES play the race card. He is always talking about how the republicans will, or have commented on his being black. Yet he never, ever, ever, ever points to an example of someone actually saying anything about the color of his skin. For a party that claims to be so enlightened that they don't even consider race to be a distinguishing factor, they sure as hell seem to focus on it. THEY are the ones constantly bringing it...

GyG: Next To Last Newsletter, Marine Richard Keech…. By Gunny G | September 22, 2008 GyG: I received this e-mail from Richards cousin, Joan Page Keech…. ~~~~~ "jpagespann@aol.com" Sunday, September 21, 2008 This is my next to last Richard Keech Newsletter. I am too filled with emotion to make any comments of my own. So here is an e-mail I received recently from Richard's daughter, Nancy and a copy of a letter to his dad from his son, Steven, a letter so beautiful and honest that it portrays Richard as I have never been able to. Hello Joan, ....My dad...

Washington Post Writer Philip Kennicott sees all the worst in America at the reopening of the famous Gettysburg Cyclorama. Talk about a skewed look at history. On September 20, the Washington Post's Philip Kennicott unleashed a tirade against everything Civil War in a story that was supposed to be about the re-opening of the revamped Cyclorama painting in the America's quintessential Civil War town, Gettysburg, PA. Not only did Kennicott denigrate in every way possible the over 100-year-old painting in the round of the battle of Gettysburg -- it's a mere "relic" that doesn't live up to its hype he...

It is in times of turmoil and strife that true manliness is shown. A life without adversity makes a man weak, dull, and effeminate. In his essay, On Providence, the Roman philosopher Seneca discuses the importance of adversity in shaping a man’s life. According to Seneca, it is only through adversity that the Great Man can be created. Theodore Roosevelt understood this principle. It was the basis of his philosophy of the strenuous life. My generation has grown up in a time of unprecedented peace and affluence. Consequently, we’ve become wussified man-children. If we really want to know what we’re...

THE NAKED CITY BETRAYS ITS HERITAGE: THE END OF YANKEE STADIUM The old and gritty ”Naked City” television series invariably closed with, “There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.” That naked city, of course, was and still is New York City, the city that never sleeps, the crown jewel of the Empire State, but it’s a very different and very tarnished jewel today. The following is another story about the Naked City. It’s now a Manhattan city predominantly populated by... We’ve heard a great deal about change this election year and change...

The drumbeat. It's always there.

Once again, that ugly “I-word,” impeachment, is rearing its ugly little head from leftists. This time towards Alaska’s governor Sarah Palin. Since her surprise announcement as Vice Presidential candidate, have we not been inundated with reasons to throw her off the ticket? Have we not been told by such luminaries as Hollywood liberals and virtually every Obama follower, how inexperienced she is? The looney left is already talking about it, here and here. Of course, one call is for a “grassroots effort” at her impeachment as governor over the Tasergate non-scandal witch hunt. It seems everywhere we turn today, we...

In 2005, Senator McCain recognized the dangers posed by the reckless operation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and co-sponsored a bill to reform both agencies. The bill was killed in Committee due to the maneuvering of Democratic Senator Chris Dodd.

http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=1212Mike Kernell, a longtime Tennessee state assemblyman from Memphis and a technology enthusiast, is concerned about future elections because the new machines are harder to get a look at. ”We used to be able to check the machines and see if they’d been tampered with,” he said. ”It is now almost impossible.” Mr. Kernell wonders whether he will have to hire a computer programmer in his next race to make sure the machines are working smoothly and haven’t been tampered with. ”We’ve hit a brick wall,” he said.

Every time Joe opens his mouth he provides conservatives an opportunity to expose Obama and Biden for the closet socialists they are. Today, Biden told ABC's Kate Snow in response to a question about whether people making more than $250,000 would have to pay more in taxes with a President Obama: "You got it," Biden replied. "It's time to be patriotic, Kate. Time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help America out of the rut, and the way to do that is they're still gonna pay less taxes than they did under Reagan." First,...

Palindrones by: Malcolm A. Kline, September 18, 2008 Nutty professors tend to get even nuttier during presidential election campaigns. “It has been years since groups such as the Montana Militia, the Posse Comitatus and the Sagebrush Rebels, and individuals such as Terry Nichols and Ted Kaczynski have made us wonder why so many ‘angry white men’ populated our rural regions,” historian Catherine McNicol Stock informs us in The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Many of us have forgotten the threat once posed by domestic terrorists and instead have turned our attention to foreign terrorists.” “But we should never forget that in the late...

Original Intent for All by: Irene Warren, September 17, 2008 Although conservatives generally embrace the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, while liberals see it as a living document, one legal scholar points out that a liberal read of the document constrains both left and right, while an interpretive one lends itself to exploitation by such political factions. “When liberated from the original meaning of the Constitution, both left and right became free to use the courts, both to pursue their political agendas and to obstruct the political agendas of their opponents,” said Randy Barnett, a professor at Georgetown University...

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg recently asked Republican presidential candidate John McCain if he was going to make her a slave again if he becomes President and appoint constitutionalist judges to the Supreme Court? Does Whoopi not know her history, in which the Constitution has been amended since the Founding Fathers wrote it or is her ignorance so profound, that she chooses to not acknowledge the truth? So I wrote this little email to talk about the Republican Party and slavery in the United States. Ms. Goldberg, I have a few facts that you might want to know when it...

The timing couldn’t be more apropos. Just last week, the Potomac home of Eunice and Sargent Shriver, the last of the Kennedy family estates in the Washington D.C. area, went on sale. Yet, as the country says goodbye to a last vestige of a Democratic Camelot which once inspired and gave hope to millions of Americans, the country ironically finds itself witnessing the birth of a Republican version of Camelot, one that is simultaneously sending shockwaves of hope, identification and derision through the body politic. Sarah Palin, a one-time PTA mom, and her family are so unlike anything else...

The New York Times reports that the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg now accept that their father was a spy for the Soviet Union based on the belated admission of a confederate, Morton Sobel, age 91, that he had lied for more than a half-century when he said they were innocent of a conspiracy to give government military secrets to the USSR. The sons' desire to vindicate their parents spurred their political radicalism in the 1960s and 70s and led them to establish the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a charity for the children of leftist activists, which CRC described...

Obama has received large amounts of campaign contributions from Lehman Brothers. In fact, Obama hasn't been in the U.S. Senate very long, but he has still managed to be right at the top when it comes to receiving campaign contributions from them. It seems that he has done his part - by doing nothing other than greedily taking in the campaign cash from them - to help in this financial mess caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Yet, somehow, it's Bush's fault. Obama is always innocent and so very perfect. He never does nothing wrong, does he? He never...