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J Street: Israel Should 'Talk With its Enemies' by Hana Levi Julian(IsraelNN.com) 25 Iyar 5768, May 30, '08 A new American Jewish lobby group put its left foot forward this week during an interview with a US-based weekly, with its executive director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, claiming that most Jews support "an end to the occupation and a Palestinian state." Ben-Ami's group, a new lobby organization dubbed "J Street" made its debut a scant month ago, with its name a "hip" way of placing a finger on the pulse in downtown Washington, where J Street does not exist, and where K Street...

It is clear these profs were very naive. Such unusual stock and option buying before a deal would result in SEC scrutiny. Real insider traders no how to hide their tracks. When Gordon Gekko has Bud Fox in the movie Wall Street tip off the financial media to a coming takeover, “Blue horse shoe loves anacot steel”, it’s to create buying from others, to provide cover for Gekko’s own buying. If the SEC questions him, his reply can be, “Hey, I bought because of the news item in the paper and the fact that volume picked up in the stock.”...

5 foods it's cheaper to grow If grocery prices have you thinking about cutting costs with a garden, you may be on the right track. But be careful what you plant; a garden could raise your food costs. Whether you save by gardening depends largely on where you live, what you grow and how well you resist slick gadgets and miracle solutions. If you're looking to save money rather than to start a hobby, here are five garden crops likely to give you the best return: What about tomatoes? They require moderate care and vigilance, and in short-season climates, you...

The Volokh conspiracy is a blog with a focus on things legal. Eugene Volokh is a law professor at UCLA. And as cases involving sex are litigated, he and his cohorts comment on them, frequently citing the law and linking to the actual decisions handed down. Eugene appears to be of a Libertarian bent and favors homosexual marriage. This is not too surprising since I believe, but can’t prove, that most academics do. To take a position otherwise would appear to be discriminatory and is certainly not in keeping with the evolution of our “living constitution.” In this context, it...

These are the results of the latest poll.

Michael A. Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute lays out a convincing case in this month’s Far Eastern Economic Review that Beijing may be successfully integrating economic reforms with their authoritarian system and becoming a “mature facist state“. If his assertion proves to be true, it may put the lie to the neoconservative theorem that where goods flow freely across borders, peace is the result. Nonetheless, the short history of classical fascism suggests that it is only a matter of time before China will pursue confrontation with the West. That is built into the dna of all such regimes. Sooner...

This is why Obama should have laughed off Rev Wright. Hillary would have. She would have just snorted "That's a minister for you, always preaching hellfire and damnation. Of course I'm not responsible for anything a minister says!" But Obama didn't do that. He accepted the Republican frame that he was tied at the hip to the preacher in his church. He took it all seriously. So now here we go again -- this time with a white guy, a Father Michael Pfleger, who belted out a mean-spirited, ugly, gratituous anti-Hillary skreed last Sunday at good old Trinity United: "....

You know what happens to those who cross the mafia, right? They get whacked, rubbed out, erased and so on. Well with the transsexual mafia, you wind up at the bottom of the river swimming with the fishes in a pair of cement...

...the message from the Democratic Party is clear to Clinton Supporters – SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, AND UNITE. But has the DNC lit the fuse of their own implosion? Presidential Race: In a year that political pundits across the board anticipated the Democrats cruising to executive branch victory, the most recent national polls show John McCain ahead of Obama by 1 to 5 points (Rasmussen Data released yesterday gives McCain 5 point advantage). The Obama campaign continues to propagate that a McCain presidency would be a third Bush term, but...

Are the Dems offering the American people a "Snow Job?" I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though… (Dreams From My Father, paperback, page 93) http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/ByAlpha.asp?strTerm=B, “Blow” = “Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin." However, Obama's statement "not smack" rules out the latter, leaving either pot or cocaine. The context suggests that Obama was taking the white powder up his nose. Right. At the same age when our next President was at the U.S. Naval Academy and learning...

We've talked of this on the air, maybe you heard it. But National Review puts it into the printed page (here) and I thank them. As you may know, Obama's "community organizing" was as a trainer with 'ACORN,' a faaaaaaar left, radical group which purports to help the poor, and I'm sure does, sometimes, but also acts as a conduit for far left politics and policies. It was through ACORN and the boards on which he served (which funneled money to ACORN) that he met Weather Underground buddy Bill Ayers. As a 5th Listener to the show responded when we...

Not content with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama has other ministers at Trinity United Church who deliver racist rants as sermons to a cheering congregation. I will let others take issue with Father Michael Pfleger. At this point it matters little who the cast of characters are who spout racist, anti-Semitic hatred of America and its people. What is most disturbing is the audience reaction. I say “audience” because the people listening to these “sermons” are in no way a church congregation; they are an audience listening to a speaker they heartily agree with. They cry out, their stand...

Well, that was fast. I would have thought that the law would wend its leisurely way for at least weeks if not months; that the children might see their parents again for their college graduations or weddings. But like a bolt of lighting the Texas Supremes ruled that the children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch have to be returned to their parents … now. SAN ANTONIO - In a crushing blow to the state's massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect's ranch, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children...

Watch the VIDEO of this Moonbat priest deliver a guest "sermon" at Barack Obama's Trinity United Church a couple of months ago and one word comes to mind: FOOL! I put "sermon" in quotes because his rabid rant had NOTHING to do with religion and EVERYTHING to do with Loony Left politics. And what's with that incredibly phony accent he uses? Most people would be embarrassed as hell to be such an obvious phony but this turkey seems to revel in it. And the most frightening part of the whole thing here is that guy, Father Michael Pfleger, is...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that paper money illegally discriminates against the blind and ordered an immediate ban on its use. “Government services must be equally accessible to all Americans,” the Court wrote. “Since paper money is inaccessible to blind, it must be made inaccessible to everyone.” The Court rejected the demand that it was responsible for identifying a substitute for the now illegal currency, but suggested, unofficially, that “we might try bartering. Goods-for-goods exchange allows for tactile identification of the items in trade. This might pass muster in any future litigation of...

The global warmers are becoming increasingly desperate to prop up their failing prophesy in every way possible. Behaving just as Leon Festinger predicted in When Prophecies Fail. As the earth shows no net warming in a decade and cooling into its 7th year, as new models suggest cooling may continue because of natural ocean cycles, as the sun stays quiet now 12 years since the last solar minimum, usually a signal of cooling, as more and more peer review calls into question the importance of CO2 and of the the accuracy of the models and the entire greenhouse theory because...

During a recent FNC television report from Iraq, the reporter doing the story commented that the Iraqi people don’t yet trust their government. Just goes to show you how smart the Iraqis are. There’s an old joke in America about “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” How many times have our professional politicians broken the promises they made during a campaign? More times than they’ve kept them, I’ll wager. The American Revolution was predicated on a distrust of our English rulers. Our Constitution was designed to limit the size and scope of our government. Those powers...

I ran across an article in the Army Times regarding the issuing of giving Purple Hearts to individuals suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) sustained during combat. This appears to be the origin of much debate… It seems to be that many members of the military want to continue distributing the award based on "singularly meritorious act of fidelity service" and that "a wound which necessitates treatment by a medical officer and which is received in action with an enemy, may, in the judgment of the commander authorized to make the award, be construed as resulting from a singularly...

Here is the 2008 Presidential Electoral Projection Map and 50-Day State Poll Average Chart for Thursday, May 29, 2008 . . . Barack Obama continues to lead John McCain in the Electoral Vote race 237-236, with 65 votes rated as a "tossup." This is the eighth straight day he has led by that margin. Several state polls rolled off of the 50-Day averages today. This has resulted in some movement in several state averages, but nothing large enough to tip a state into a different category. Here are the states with changed averages . . . The Electoral Map we...

At the perspicacious solicitation of another Freeper, I decided to get off of my lard butt and either find out if a more enterprising Freeper than myself has already gotten a Tampa Bay (FL) Freeper group going or, failing that, seeing how much trouble I may be getting myself into. (Yeah, I know, drag-on sentence.)Ideally, if there already exist such a group, I and my anonymous friend could slot ourselves into the esteemed crowd. Failing that, lets see how many like-minded that there may be.