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* To watch the Epicenter Conference in Jerusalem on-line, please click here. U.S. Christians 'morally' support IsraelBy Etgar LefkovitzThe Jerusalem PostApril 10, 2008 More than 80 percent of American Christians say they have a "moral and biblical obligation" to support the State of Israel, and half say Jerusalem should remain its undivided capital, according to a survey released on Thursday. While evangelical Christians are the strongest supporters of the Jewish state, strong pro-Israel convictions cut across all key Christian denominations in the US, according to the poll carried out on behalf of the Washington-based Joshua Fund, an evangelical organization....

In our last installment of Ducks Cant Fly we talked about a few things that Chinese people think they know but are absolutely ridiculous. Like the fact that ducks cant fly. In this installment we I will talk about some study habits and thinks Chinese students think they know. 1. You can not study or read while you are eating. One day during class at a major university in Xi'an my students ask me how they can get better at English. I suggested reading their English books and only speaking English with each other at lunch. This met with unanimous...

In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to "political enlightenment," threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama. Rashid Khalidi today is a professor at Columbia University and is a close associate of Barack Obama. Free Republic member No Quarter reported more on this relationship: Khalidi has direct ties to Obama. These are not imagined. Before getting his job at Columbia University Rashid Khalidi was a Middle East professor at the University of Chicago, where he befriended none other than US presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama. In 2000 Khalidi held a successful fundraiser...

Shanghai Daily Today the Chinese government gave a stern warning to the U.S. congress. Saying that the resolution in Congress was a "flagrantly distorted the history and reality of Tibet" Ok guys, I am really starting to get pissed off now. Who the hell do they think they are warning us for what we do in our congress. If the U.S. government doesnt grow a pair very soon then we should just bow down and become part of china.

[Obama friend and associate, William/Bill Ayers, from his own red-communist-star-headed website, calls out Hannity and 'others' to debate communism vs capitalism] April 6, 2008: Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win. We begin...

WEST COAST SPOILER ALERT Immediately after the conclusion of the elimination show, around 10pm in the eve, this Blog post will go up with the name of which of the remaining 8 would-be Idols got sent packing, along with a review of the performance show aired Tuesday, 4/8/08. The review will be written BEFORE the elimination so I’ll probably, indeed will LIKELY be wrong with my predictions of who will be eliminated plus the bottom three as I ascertain. But I’ll risk it that my prognostication skills can be measured by yon readers. All with pics and video you'll find...

"Review of statements and video surveillance vindicated students accused of assaulting a 13-year-old student at Athens Middle School, said Athens Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Fred Hayes. The female student will be charged by Athens District Police for making a false report, he said."'It's disappointing that we have an issue like this going on,' he said. 'It's certainly disappointing when a student lies, anytime.' "The incident began as part of a history class assignment on Friday. She and the other students were asked to create 'protest signs' dealing with current and past topics. 'If you love your nation, stop illegal...

In answer to a question about border security, Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) responded that deporting 12 million illegal aliens is not “realistic.” “We are not going to send them home,” Obama promised. Obama suggested that if each American family could just take in one or more of them, the problem would be solved. “Surely, there are many households in need of a maid or gardener,” Obama declared. “Michelle and I are willing to take at least one of each. All I ask is that others open their hearts and their doors out of a spirit of generosity, lest we be...

Hosted at the official Barack Obama campaign web site, this blog post has been public since March 1, 2008: IKEY G-KHAN GALACTICCA’s Support Senator Barack Obama For US President Blog: Jews Cannot Afford Not To Support Obama. However, if Jews betray Obama and he loses, Africans worldwide would consider it a betrayal to the whole African people and will never forgive world Jewry. In retaliation, (eye for eye, remember!) Africa would consider expelling all Jews from Africa who have been mining African Gold and Diamond and enriching themselves for many centuries. It was African gold and diamond that built international...

Obama’s Moderators Rush to Sanitize Campaign Site in Wake of Hate Speech Exposures We have written frequently that the first backward step in the presence of the opponent is usually the prelude to total collapse. Some time on April 9, the Obama campaign took the ominous backward step that shows that IsraPundit, Grizzly Groundswell, Atlas Shrugs, Little Green Footballs, Free Republic, The Husaria, and other patriotic blogs have inflicted massive damage on Obama’s Presidential ambitions, and that an all-out push is now in order.“Obama Campaign Blog Consistent with Jeremiah Wright’s Hate Speech” summarizes blog entries at my.barackobama.com that contain various...

One of Obama's early mentors in the [Saul] Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to an Ryan Lizza of The New Republic, about Obama: "He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot...

Everyone figured this would happen at the games. Sketchy officiating that always favors China or its "friends" (cough, cough) or at least goes against certain blocs of countries, star athletes with sudden bouts of intestinal instability or findings of doping that also knock out star athletes. Speaking of doping, it seems China has taken the preemptive measure of knocking out the Greek weightlifting team. Wouldn't the Russian, US or German teams be obvious targets? Greece has an up and coming track and field team, but weightlifting has been a consistent award winner for Greece and the entire team has been...

It's just a few days past the fifth anniversary of one of the most magnificent accomplishments of combat arms ever in the history of the US military. Yet I could not find one mention of it anywheres in the media, focused as they were on the antics of Hillary, Obama, and the rest of the Dems failing in their attempts to pose one semi-intelligent question to Gen. Petreus, or shedding crocodile tears over the 4000+ American heroes who have made the supremee sacrifice in Iraq. I have excerpted for you below a few paragraphs from the great book by David...

The poster advertising New York University’s “Academic Freedom in the Age of Permanent Warfare” conference featured a scolding Statue of Liberty pointing an accusatory finger and stating: “YOU! Stop Asking Questions. You’re Either With US or You’re With the TERRORISTS!” The speakers and attendees gathered around the pastry-laden table at NYU’s new Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center last week didn't appear to be oppressed or under attack. But once they wiped the sugar from their mouths and stood up to speak, they assured the audience that they were, in fact, victims in an “age of permanent warfare.” According to keynote...

"I am confident that Barack Obama is more sympathetic to the position of ending the occupation than either of the other candidates," said Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow for the American Task Force on Palestine, referring to the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that began after the 1967 war. More than his rivals for the White House, Ibish said, Obama sees a "moral imperative" in resolving the conflict and is most likely to apply pressure to both sides to make concessions.

In the highly-publicized Roman v. Roman Texas frozen embryo case, Augusta Roman and her then-husband Randy Roman had tried for several years to have a child (and had one miscarriage) before undergoing infertility treatments. The day before the embryos were to be implanted, Randy told her that he was troubled by certain aspects of their relationship and wanted to wait to implant the embryos until they had resolved their problems. They went to counseling for six months and later divorced.Augusta, 47, still wants to have the children, and Randy has refused. While undergoing the infertility treatments they had both signed...

[NOTE: this is the ORIGINAL youtube Obama ad, not the poor quality copy that is circulating the internet. HumanEvents.com just today (4/10/08) reposted the copy. The original comes directly from the Obama camp] Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs February 29, 2008 :: News A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense. The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows: Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I...

Obama either has the worst memory in the world or he's a pathological liar. You decide. The drooling lapdog liberal press certainly isn't calling him on it.

Seeing how I live in China and one of the main things I can do to kill the boredom is watch movies I have started a movie review section. However, this is China so the movies I buy are all pirated. Do I feel like a thief, hmm No not really. Do I feel a little guilty at all. NOPE not one bit. To tell the truth I enjoy the 5 rmb(75 cent) move purchase. So on to the first review. DVD Title: "The Golden Compass" Director: Chris Weitz Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards

While many Democrats for political reasons are calling upon President Bush to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Peking many DUmmies as well as other Democrats really think the U.S.A. should be BANNED from the Olympics altogether. All those millions of Chinese who were starved to death by Mao during the Great Leap Forward? No big deal according to the DUmmies when compared to the massive crimes of the U.S.A. as you can see in this mea culpa THREAD titled, "Should the U.S. be banned from The Olympics?" How much you want to bet that this DUmmie...