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Well, it's done. Whether Romney won or lost on his own merits or not is immaterial. Obama won, and he did it with the help of 70% of my fellow Jews. I want to remind those idiots of the example of the Judenrat of the Warsaw Ghetto, the SonderKommando of Auschwitz. Jews helped other Jews die with no fuss or muss for their killers. They did so to save their own skins. Perhaps the stakes were not quite life and death last night. That remains to be seen. But what does remain is this: 70% of American Jews actually voted...

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents The federal government spent $3.5 trillion during President Obama's first year in office. This far exceeds the spending for any other first-year president. President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term...

What is clear is that Barack Obama will now be my President as well as the President of all those who voted for him. I will pray for him and respect his office. I will also do all that I can to influence him and his administration concerning the truth of this fundamental human right to life. I will also do something else. I will join with others in building a new movement which recognizes the failures of both major political parties and seeks to build a new alliance of Americans. This alliance will insist upon the primacy of the...

Tom Glennon I Got Nowhere Else to Go 2008-11-02 So, what can I expect from an Obama Presidency, a Reid Senate, and a Pelosi House? The elimination of the Bush tax cuts will immediately raise my income taxes by 24 percent. This increase will impact our household income, based on my wife’s salary, and my retirement pension. The Obama tax plan will increase the number of working people who don’t pay income taxes from 35 percent to almost 45 percent. The promised 25 percent cut in defense spending will put our nation at risk. Energy costs will skyrocket with the...