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Since we have just finished celebrating Pesach and our exodus from Egypt over 3,300 years ago, I thought it might be interesting to look at our impact on the world through the eyes of those who we have impacted! Here are some thoughts for your consideration: "Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world." -- Winston Churchill-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting...

Federal authorities confirmed yesterday that they are investigating prominent Republican donor Thomas W. Noe, who was President Bush’s re-election chairman in northwestern Ohio and has given tens of thousands to GOP candidates. U.S. Attorney Gregory A. White in Cleveland said the investigation of Noe, of Maumee, is related to campaign contributions. He declined to elaborate. "We are publicly acknowledging there is an investigation," White said. "It is ongoing." He said the investigation has been proceeding "for several months" but that there’s no date for completing it. Sources said a federal search warrant of Noe’s River Road home was executed last...

In political circles, it is common knowledge that Democrats at all levels rely on generous financial support from plaintiffs’ lawyers. Indeed, during the last election, the American Association of Trial Lawyers (ATLA) gave more than $2.1 million to Democrats. And contributions to Democrats at all levels from individual members of the plaintiffs’ bar probably totaled more than $100 million. So when ATLA recently threatened to postpone and curtail its fundraising efforts for Democrats, it sent a clear and powerful signal: ATLA is scared to death. What has the nation’s leading assemblage of ambulance chasers quaking in their wing tips? It’s...

Though many hopelessly clamor for unity in America, most also blindly take part in the politics of division and don’t even know it… The truth is, we not only accept divisive principles and policies today, we celebrate them… Division permeates everything in American culture today and oddly enough it is done in the name of unity. A good example is the fact that nothing in American culture is as openly celebrated today as this word “diversity”. Above all things, freedom, liberty, prosperity, security…we celebrate “diversity”… In other words, it is now of utmost importance to celebrate those things which divide...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - The Federal Election Commission voted Thursday to raise the limits for political contributions in the 2006 election, only the second time since the Watergate reforms of the 1970's that the numbers have been changed. Donors can now give $2,100 to presidential and Congressional candidates in each election, up from $2,000, and $26,700 to national political parties each year, up from $25,000. The modifications were required by the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law of 2002, which called for the commission to tie contribution limits to inflation every two years. "I like to call it election law for math...

Congressional Democrats could use a spoonful of sugar this week to help swallow their medicine. With tort reform on top of the Bush administration's to-do list, a new poll suggests Americans are solidly in favor of capping jury awards against the health-care industry. The poll, done by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, came the week after Presdient Bush gave speeches in Illinois to focus attention on the need for medical-malpractice reform. While only a quarter of those polled said lawsuits were their top health-care policy concern, 63 percent said they would support a law...

As the death toll rises above 125,000 with countless injured, widowed and orphaned there has been a rush of aid and supplies to millions of the tsunami’s victims. Assistance came from a variety of “unlikely” sources, such as President Bush and large corporations, much to the chagrin of the liberal media and Hollywood elite. The network news bureaus and largely liberal entertainment industry have remained eerily silent regarding this devastating global crisis. Indeed, at this time of year most of the entertainers go on winter holiday to the slopes or sunny beaches. To date, they have ignored the crisis rather...

2004 Political Contributions

Kweisi Mfume recently announced his departure as NAACP President, and not a moment too soon. His tenure has been a disaster for the storied civil rights organization, driving it deeper into liberal irrelevance. But that doesn't mean it still shouldn't be defended against the current IRS probe of its tax-exempt status. Back in October the NAACP was informed that it may have violated a law that prohibits charities, churches and other nonprofits from engaging in partisan activities. Under Mr. Mfume and chairman Julian Bond, the group has accused President Bush of being at war with black America; compared Republicans to...

[SUBSTITUTE RED FOR BLUE AND WE'RE GOLDEN] Our goal here is to provide you information on who gave what to what political party this last election cycle. There are many factors which will eventually pertain to the "Blue-approved" label, however with buying season upon us, we quickly wanted to give people SOMETHING to go off of. Political donations and their effects are but one of many factors we will look at when a company is taken into consideration. We understand that there are Blue-contributors which have less than savory business practices, and we will be focusing on "the big picture"...

AUSTIN - Travis County prosecutors Thursday dropped a felony indictment accusing a California corporation of making illegal campaign contributions in 2002 in exchange for the company agreeing to testify against other defendants in the investigation of Texans for a Republican Majority. The agreement ends the prosecution of Diversified Collection Services Inc., a company that specializes in assisting federal and state government agencies in recovery of delinquent and defaulted debt. The company gave $50,000 in corporate cash to Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee, in 2002 to help the GOP take control of the Texas House. Corporate contributions...

WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's legal expense fund accepted improper contributions from two registered lobbyists in 2001 and this week returned the checks, totaling $3,500, fund trustee Brent Perry said Tuesday. House rules prohibit lobbyists from making contributions to a member's legal defense fund. The Tom DeLay Legal Expense Trust has raised more than $900,000 since its creation in 2000, said Perry, a Houston attorney. The reimbursement was prompted by Public Citizen, a Washington-based watchdog group, which combed through DeLay's fund and identified the improper contributions. Asked why it took the fund so long to return the checks,...

BERKELEY, Calif. - At the birthplace of the free speech movement, campus radicals have a new target: the faculty that came of age in the 60's. They say their professors have been preaching multiculturalism and diversity while creating a political monoculture on campus. Conservatism is becoming more visible at the University of California here, where students put out a feisty magazine called The California Patriot and have made the Berkeley Republicans one of the largest groups on campus. But here, as at schools nationwide, the professors seem to be moving in the other direction, as evidenced by their campaign contributions...

A review of tax returns can be revealing in terms of character

Under oath, in a videotaped deposition obtained by WorldNetDaily, Sen. John Kerry's chief Iranian-American fund-raiser repudiated the presidential candidate's policy of accommodation toward Tehran, declaring the Islamic regime should not be trusted with nuclear materials. As WorldNetDaily previously reported exclusively, Hassan Nemazee, 54, a New York investment banker and former board member of a pro-Tehran lobby, delivered a one-hour deposition earlier this month in New York City in a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Aryo Pirouznia, leader of the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran. WorldNetDaily has now obtained a copy of that videotape and is making it...

Make a contribution to the Democratic Party today and it will be matched dollar for dollar by the Countdown to Victory Matching Fund . Dear Donna, On Monday, I wrote to you about how your support is changing the dynamics of this election in a very tangible way. Your response to last week's e-mails gave us the resources to go for it in Colorado and we have already started expanding operations there. As Bill Clinton told you yesterday, a group of Democratic Party supporters is excited about the impact you are having and has established a special $5,370,000 Countdown to...

COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAY Money trail behind Kerry's Iran stance Candidate has financial ties to backers of mullah regime -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 3, 2004 10:25 p.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kerry's call for providing Iran with the nuclear fuel it seeks, even while the regime is believed to be only months away from developing nuclear weapons, is being linked to his campaign contributions from backers of the mullah government in Tehran. During last Thursday's nationally televised debate between the Democratic presidential candidate and President Bush, Kerry insisted as president he would provide Tehran with the...

A group of Kenyans living in America have been blocked from campaigning for Democratic Party Senate candidate Barack Obama. Efforts by the Kenyans to raise funds and set up a website link were all blocked by Obama's advisors. There is speculations that the Democratic Party advisors have been uneasy about a group of Kenyans engaging actively in the Obama campaigns. There have been fears that the Republican Party might use that to claim that Obama received money from illegal migrants. In March, Obama made his primary win historic by winning more than 52 per cent of the vote in a...

He who pays the fiddler calls the tune, so they say. And, if anyone thinks it's any different in Washington, they probably have their head stuck someplace it doesn't belong. Most of us would call what lawmakers get bribes. They don't, though. They call the donations -- the ones accounted for on the record -- "campaign contributions." They call their paid vacation trips -- family and all -- "fact finding tours." Then, of course, there are all the paid golfing outings, ski trips, sporting events, and whatnot, most of which are thousands of miles away from their state. Those are...

September 25, 2004CAMPAIGN FINANCENew Pet Cause for the Very Rich: Swaying the ElectionBy GLEN JUSTICE ASHINGTON, Sept. 24 - For years, Susie Tompkins Buell, the multimillionaire co-founder of Esprit clothing, dipped into her personal fortune to support Democrats. She gave tens of thousands to candidates, and hundreds of thousands to the party. But this year, she added a zero to her check. After hearing a presentation from an advocacy group about its plans to topple President Bush, she agreed to donate far more than she had planned: $1 million. "It was rather impulsive, but when you are passionate, that's...