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The Wall Street Journal recently posted that Mitt Romney is emerging as the leading candidate to be Secretary of State in the Trump administration. Obviously we all know Romney is the poster child for GOPe, and that for whatever reason he threw his debates against Obama in 2012. Personally, I would like to see him lead a task force to eliminate vast numbers of Federal regulations, but it is not up to me. In this thread I am concerned with Foreign Policy and nothing else. Where can we expect Romney to differ from what we expect from President Trump on...

I watched the 1951 movie, "I was a Communist for the FBI" for free on YouTube. It was distributed by Warner Brothers in 1951 and nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary. I urge everyone to watch it. The parallels to the manipulation taking place today are stunning. It is obvious that today's agitators are taking cues from the same playbook. I especially appreciated the section in which black steelworkers in Pittsburgh were manipulated into a wildcat strike and riots so that the Party could raise money for its own purposes. At one point they joked about raising hundreds of...

Cruz killed his political career tonight. He became personally embittered about Donald Trump and found himself temperamentally unable to endorse Trump for President. By doing this, he strengthened Hillary's campaign and the potential for the destruction of America. Cruz didn't have to do this. He could have stayed true to his convictions, as misguided as they are, and still endorsed Trump. As Cruz noted, the Republican Party was established in order to abolish slavery and free black people in America. Abraham Lincoln was our first President. People may be unaware of this, but midway through the Civil War the Grand...

There has been a lot of confusion here on Free Republic about Donald Trump's use of the word "Palestine" in his AIPAC speech. Some people are very disturbed and others don't understand why it is an issue. The issue is that the Arabs have taken the name Palestine to signify a new nation for Arabs. Some Israeli leftists talk about two nations, Israel and Palestine, existing side by side. Radicals in the US and Arab nationalists in the Middle East talk about a new country called Palestine replacing Israel. When a speaker talks about peace between Israel and Palestine, there...

What is the political back-story to the Pacific Free Trade Agreement? I was not following this story, and I see that it is tearing Congressional Democrats away from Obama. Specifically: 1. Why is the Pacific Free Trade Agreement such a high priority for Obama's Second Term? 2. Why did so many Democrats oppose Obama on this bill? 3. Why did so many Republicans support Obama on this bill?

New details have emerged about the booby-trapped clinic explosion that killed three IDF Maglan unit soldiers in Gaza earlier this week - Sergeant First Class Matan Gottlieb, 21, from Rishon LeZion; Sergeant First Class Omar Chai, 21, from Savion; and Sergeant First Class Guy Algranati, 20, of Tel Aviv, hy"d. Over eighty kilograms of explosives were built into the UN-funded hospital's walls themselves, it was cleared for publication Thursday - revealing that the clinic itself was built to mask, and perform, potential acts of terror on the IDF. Moreover, the clinic was built over tens of terror tunnels, according to...

.... The assertion that Israel has no regard for the lives of Gazan citizens is utterly false. Israel continues to supply electricity and water to Gaza even during this unfortunate conflict. Since the beginning of the current conflict, 1248 trucks entered Gaza from Israel, 4.44 million liters of diesel were delivered for the power station, and 48 infrastructural repairs were carried out. On July 27, 170 trucks were scheduled to enter but the crossing was forced to close at 14:00 because of Hamas activity in the area. The 94 trucks that entered delivered, among other thing, 1165 tons of food,...

We all have read about Hillary's legal defense of the accused child rapist and her callous interview about the case. As I saw yet another article about it today, I realized that year in which the rapist died, 1992, was the year in which Bill Clinton was running for his first term as President and conservatives' attention was drawn to the number and nature of deaths of those people who could have said things to compromise his campaign. Does anyone know how this rapist died in 1992? Was there anything mysterious or untoward about his death?

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Several articles have been posted about the Iran nuclear agreement reached in Geneva by the so-called P5+1. I have seen nothing about implementation. Does this agreement require the advice and consent of the Senate with approval of 2/3 of those present?

Merry Christmas to all, from your Jewish friends and from the State of Israel.

I missed this before, but found it on Legal Insurrection. This is the video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wishes to the Christian community of Israel and abroad that it have a Merry Christmas.

(Crain's) — Federal regulators hit an Oak Park community bank for failing to comply with the federal Community Reinvestment Act, a highly unusual censure. Community Bank of Oak Park River Forest, drew a rating of “substantial non-compliance” with the law that requires banks to lend and invest in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. That's the worst CRA rating possible and very rare. Over the past 12 months, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has rated only two other banks nationwide so harshly, agency records show. Over the past ten years, just 14 of more than 7,500 banks nationwide have been rated substantially...

Here is an open letter sent today by the rabbi of a Chicago-based modern Orthodox synagogue. Dear Friends and Friends of Israel, Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured in Jerusalem and with their families after the cowardly bombing earlier today near the central bus station. We are also following closely the missile attacks in Ashkelon and Beer Sheva. I can only speak for myself in that "I wish I were there." I wish I were in Jerusalem to walk its holy streets and show solidarity with everyone who lives in the capital of the Jewish State. I wish...

Here is how one Israeli reacted to the massacre of the Fogel family in Itamar, Israel. This is an excerpt from a blog. The full note is below: Every day, Rami Levi comes by the shiva house to the Fogel family and fills the cupboards and refrigerator himself with food for the family and guests. Today, one of the relatives thanked him for this incredible kindness and his response brought me to tears,"You will get used to my face," he told this family in mourning, "I have committed myself that every week I will deliver food and stock your home...

Assume that President Obama is an ideologue who believes that the function of government is to redistribute the wealth and to concentrate power. With the great awakening of 2009-2010, he now is being asked not only to abandon his redistributive socialist agenda (as Mitch McConnell said, President Obama's legislative agenda is dead), but he also will have to dismantle other progressive programs, possibly dating back to the New Deal under President Franklin Roosevelt. President Obama has threatened to veto the Republican budget unless it advances his agenda. Let's posit that the Republicans in Congress will not agree to do that....

I just heard on WLS radio in Chicago that the Illinois Court of Appeals (the second-highest court in the state) overturned the recommendation of the electoral panel and ruled that Rahm Emanuel may NOT be on the ballot for Mayor. They ruled that he did not meet the statutory residence requirement nor did he meet any of the statutory exceptions. Wow.

ednesday, September 01, 2010 By Debbie Maimon, Yated The nation’s most prestigious authority in legal and judicial ethics has issued a scathing indictment of Judge Linda Reade’s conduct in the Rubashkin case. In a written legal opinion addressed to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Professor Mark Harrison, one of the key architects of the Code of Judicial Conduct - the country’s standard judicial ethics guidebook - asserts that Judge Reade repeatedly violated the Code’s provisions. Harrison’s affidavit accompanies a new motion, filed this week by Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin’s lawyers, for a stay [postponement] of the September 7 deadline for...

The Missouri referendum on Proposition C garnered 938.782 votes in total, including 667,680 in opposition to ObamaCare and 271,102 in its favor, for a lopsided victory of 71.7% to 28.9%. By contrast, only 898.784 votes were cast in the four primary elections for senator. We have seen in the past how referenda can drive voters to the polls. Many believe that President Bush's victory over Sen. Kerry in Ohio in 2004 is directly attributable to the referendum on same-sex marriage that was a hot-button issue after the Massachusetts court held that there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. In...