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America

Obama’s Risky Ploy – Iran

March 15, 2012

There are now many self-evident and destabilizing developments: 1) Obama feels more comfortable with Turkey’s Erdogan, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, perhaps even with the Iranian leadership, than with Netanyahu. He likely believes Netanyahu is the least rational, the least predictable in the arena.

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Syria – A Minefield

February 28, 2012
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Senator Clinton’s vocal (though not military or financial) support as well as the White House’s ambivalent backing for the Free Syria Coalition, now after 7,000 deaths and a year of violent revolution, may come back to haunt us. 

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Nation of Immigrants

January 20, 2012
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America is nothing if not a nation of immigrants.  They are out lifeblood, our essential energy.  We have a perfect right, nay an obligation to secure our border. 

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Political Correctness – Our Titanic

December 28, 2011
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Pandering will sink us, will weaken our foundations and our unique culture; a culture of tolerance yet of logic, of equality but also of independence. It is our behavior (and not our thoughts) that should be the real issue.  How we treat each other, whether we abuse or respect each other, whether we acknowledge all [...]

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Economics 101 for the Current Congress

December 18, 2011
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For those who subscribe to small business and independent entrepreneurs (the “fishing rod” idea) and not big government (the “fish” idea) as the catalyst for economic recovery and job creation, I have a few game changing suggestions that will also save America hundreds of billions in tax collections, in accounting costs, reduction of fraud, and [...]

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Victim?

November 27, 2011
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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. [...]

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Politics Schmolitics: Ten New Laws Worth Fighting For

September 23, 2011

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.

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The Cat is finally out of the bag

June 27, 2011
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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

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The Elephant in the Room

March 19, 2011
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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.

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Obama’s White House – A Policy of Discrimination

February 3, 2011

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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