A conservative Reagan democrat passionate about preserving our unique freedoms and democracy.

It is a case of confused identity; it too is really a case of essential honesty. Hamas in Gaza recently swapped one Israeli for 1000 plus convicted Hamas and PLO murderers and felons. Gilad Shalit, young Israeli border guard, naive and innocent, probably never killed a bird, a cat never mind taken a human life. The 1000 released convicts, however, were significant for the amount of mass murderers, killers of women, children, even babies, that were released.  Read more…

1) FLAT TAX:

• 6% for all earning less than $40,000 per year (amazingly over 46% of Americans currently pay no income tax whatsoever).
• 12% for all earnings thereabove, no exceptions. Read more…

Article 22 of the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam states:

1. Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari’a. Read more…

God created the universe. Fine. Largely logical and eminently reasonable.

Man however invented words, which by definition exist only in the subjective recesses of human existence; every meaning, all implications, therefore, are relative. Read more…

Last year it was Israel’s intransigence – building apartments in greater Jerusalem and in their settlements in the West Bank – that was to blame for the lack of Mid-East peace. This year, it is all about Israel’s refusal to accept “1967 borders,” originally an armistice line Read more…

Egypt was weak and Mubarak was weaker. Egypt – or, rather, Egypt’s government and army – relied on 3 billion dollars of US aid per year, and was allied with the relatively unaggressive but super wealthy Saudi Arabia and associated Arab Emirates. So when ambiguous protests germinated, with a sprinkling of democrats and liberals, Obama and the State Department saw a golden opportunity Read more…

Turkey claimed the moral high ground last year in actively supporting the Mavi Marmara flotilla aimed to break Israel’s “siege” of Gaza. Truth be told the siege was in fact shared with Egypt and relates primarily to armaments, rockets and related war-faring materials Read more…

17 MARCH 2011 – Presentation by Leslie Sacks

Welcome everyone. Welcome to Los Angeles. Welcome to the Women’s Voices Now first Film Festival. Let me start by addressing my wife, my incomparable wife Gina, whose life support has sustained me and without whom this unique project would not have been born, to my sister and brother and family whose contributions were and remain material. Read more…

Recall the seemingly absurd rationale (among others) given by president George W. Bush for invading Iraq: to bring freedom and democracy to the Arab Middle East. Satirists had a field day, while the bulk of the West’s intellectual and political classes mocked George junior with no respite. Read more…

Obama’s pledge, when running for president, was to focus on human rights not war, on democracy, not special interests. In Israel’s case, at the UN, he has come up sorely wanting.

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