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Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 pm last night after delaying the release for hours to put it into a format which people cannot “search” on their home computers. Instead of publishing the bill as a regular internet document -- which people can search by “key words” and otherwise, the Dems took hours to convert the final bill from the regular searchable format into “pdf” files, which can be read but not searched. Three of the four .pdf files had no text embedded, just images of the text, which did not permit text...

Yes, gentle reader, I absolutely believe in the importance of religion in an individual’s life. While most wars have been started using a deity as the excuse, much good has come from religion. The sciences first appeared as a way to enhance religion, architecture gave us some imposing historical icons in the form of impressive temples that survived for thousands of years and still fill us with awe. Mathematics and astronomy started out as means to understand the heavens and thereby the gods. And so on… I am a deeply religious Orthodox Jew and I appreciate the value of religion,...

Dr. Paul L. Williams Pres. Obama Invites Hamas Terrorists to America February 7, 2009 Bos Smith and Michael Travis contributed to the writing of this article. By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza. The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4. President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration...

Palestinian Muslims war crimes and anti Israel bias & Jihadists-appeasement among "human rights" NGO groups Hamas war crimes? Obviously (b'tzelem). So blame the victim http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3327751/hamas-war-crimes-obviously-so-blame-the-victim.thtmlIt’s because the war crimes by Hamas are too obvious. 'No need to probe Hamas because its war crimes are so blatant' Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687815&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullNew Gaza study: Extreme NGO anti-Israel bias Ynetnews http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3667108,00.html

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog_post/relief_for_gaza/ THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 4:11 pm Relief for Gaza President Obama signed a memorandum today directing more than $20 million for “urgent refugee and migration needs” in Gaza. You can read the full text of the memorandum below. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 2, 2009 January 27, 2009 Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related to Gaza By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and...

The Ramallah-based Arab Fatah faction in the Palestinian Authority is openly rejecting the freeing of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in an exchange deal being negotiated with the Gaza-based Hamas faction, saying the agreement will signal the end of an era in the relationship between Fatah and Israel. As part of the agreement, Israel will free 1,000 Arab prisoners, including 25 convicted murderers in exchange for Shalit. Currently serving five life sentences for the brutal murder of five civilians, Fatah terror mastermind Marwan Barghouti is one of the convicts who is slated for release. If the deal is made, the...

GAZA CITY — Hamas has demanded a guarantee from Israel that it would not attack the Islamic regime in the Gaza Strip. ShareThis Hamas sources said a five-member delegation that completed negotiations in Cairo has insisted that any Israeli ceasefire include a guarantee backed by the international community that Israel would not topple the Islamic regime. The sources said this has been the main obstacle to a ceasefire agreement, Middle East Newsline reported. "They [Egypt] have a duty to provide guarantees that bind the Zionist entity, and the Egyptians have to give us answers to our inquiries," Hamas spokesman Fawzi...

Below please find the segment on Iran from President Obama's press conference last night. Several aspects of the statement are troubling, as is the new administration's entire approach to Iran, a nation that has killed Americans for over 25 years, sponsored Hezbollah, HAMAS and Al Qaeda and has repeatedly threatened America and our allies. We are particularly troubled by Obama's choice of the language "financing" and "funding" terrorist organizations. Something tells us that isn't an accident. Words are chosen carefully when ever a president speaks publicly on foreign affairs as the audience is not just the American people, but the...

HAMAS, the terrorist organisation that masquerades as the Government of Gaza, was the deciding factor in Israel's election yesterday. A majority of people who went to the polls voted for parties who want to take Hamas on. Likud, the party of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, came a close second with 27 seats being surprisingly, if marginally, outperformed by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's Kadima party with 28. But with the support of religious and nationalist parties, Mr Netanyahu has a good chance of a majority in the 120-member parliament.

President Obama, by executive order, is intentionally importing Hamas terrorists into America.

Initially dismayed at the phenomenon, we have by now grown used to seeing pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas demonstrators behave like Holocaust-era Nazis. These haters goose-step, Nazi-style, and shoot out their arms as they deliver the Hitlerian sieg heil salute. They also chant and scream such charming slogans as "Jews to the ovens," "Hitler did not kill enough of you" and "Jews to the gas chambers." This is rank Jew-hatred; that much is clear. But we are also faced with a major paradox. These same "activists" routinely flash signs accusing Israel of being a "Nazi" state. To them, Gaza is "Auschwitz" and...

LONDON (JTA) -- Amnesty International issued a report detailing Hamas violence against Palestinians during Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip. In its report, the human rights organization states that at least two dozen men were shot dead by Hamas gunmen, and many more were kneecapped or otherwise tortured during and after Israel’s military operation. It also confirms media reports that some victims had been executed in hospitals where they were being treated for wounds. Amnesty International sent a fact-finding team to the Gaza Strip once the cease-fire was in force. Responding to the report, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said,...

I've been thinking about Ears recent overture to Palistinians and his policy of allowing them into the U.S. Rest assured, members of Hamas will also slink in under the radar and move into neighborhoods across the U.S. You may not know if your new middle eastern neighbor is a member of Hamas, but if they have a Persian cat that looks like this, it could certainly be and indication..

The mug shot on the opening pages of FR. Who is that and what's the story? I apologize for not knowing.

As a result of attending the recent Bill Ayers indrocination lecture forced on your campus I had a chance to talk to many of you complaining of open harassment by the professors and staff of the college to force you to think and act like a liberal under threat.

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WASHINGTON – The "War on Terror" is losing the war of words. The catchphrase burned into the American lexicon hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is fading away, slowly if not deliberately being replaced by a new administration bent on repairing the U.S. image among Muslim nations. Since taking office less than two weeks ago, President Barack Obama has talked broadly of the "enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism." Another time it was an "ongoing struggle." He has pledged to "go after" extremists and "win this fight." There even was an oblique reference to a "twilight struggle" as...

Cardinal Newman Society Joins Melanie Morgan and Other Groups Objecting To Appearance Keep shining the light on these people and their network of supporters and presidential friends. http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/02/02/news/nation/doc4986f5bbeb34e628595834.txt

Rahm the Enforcer 12/28/08 In Washington, where big personalities create even bigger legends, Democrat Rahm Emanuel has achieved mythic status. He throws cells phones. He once sent a dead fish to a pollster who displeased him. At a dinner to celebrate Bill Clinton’s 1992 election, Emanuel repeatedly stabbed the table with a steak knife, shouting the names of his political enemies. Journalists have trouble quoting him, because his routine utterances are replete with profanity.“Rahm is a little intense,” Barack Obama once said.As even Emanuel concedes, “I wake up some mornings hating me, too.”Emanuel’s political intensity has a darker side. His...

I continue to be quite perplexed by a few things that are surely related: Where is Bill Ayers? Where is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? They seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth. Why? How? No two figures relating to Barack Obama have been talked about as much as Ayers and Wright. That being the case, why aren’t these two figures talking? Why is no one talking to them, or demanding to talk to them? Have Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright been silenced? If so, who has silenced them, and how?