December 4, 2008
The new White House Staff seems odd.There's, so far:Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Ronald Klain, Larry Summers, Paul Volcker, Tim Geithner and Peter Orszag. Okay, maybe it's that I'm Jewish, but wouldn't you agree with me that Obama is basically assuring a minyan, a ten-member prayer quorum?(Kippah...
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Writing at USA Today, Rod Dreher confirms something that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, namely that social conservatives and Christian voters are an essential element of the Republican base and that the McCain/Palin ticket lost for reasons having little to do with deep demographic changes misi...
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The latest polls of Republican and all voters indicate that the conservative Republican base favors candidates voters in general do not think too highly of. For instance, 24.4% Republican voters want Governor Sarah Palin to be the Republican candidate for president in 2012. Only 13.4% of all vote...
go to article »November 28, 2008
Well, Michael Schaffer of The New Republic has a few things to say about you:...the president-elect, according to his more fervent campaign-season detractors, has a raft of unforgivable faults: He's a socialist, a Muslim, an actual love-child of Malcolm X. His birth certificate was missing, his book...
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Seth Hettena has done some interesting research into Clarion Fund’s 990 report. He’s discovered that a number of the group’s board members have longstanding and deep ties in partisan Republican circles: Peter Feaman, a Florida trial lawyer. He’s also the author of Wake Up Ameri...
go to article »November 26, 2008
Richard Silverstein, a Jewish blogger in the US, writes about how 40 mosques and synagogues in the US conducted a joint programme on Islamophobia and anti-Semitism this weekend. “The goal of this national project sponsored by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding is to combat ethnic tension ...
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Barack Obama hasn’t even taken office yet, so It’s ridiculous to consider the 2012 presidential race. But Gallup’s new poll identifies the right’s current candidates of choice for the nomination and the results are interesting because they fail to support Kathleen Parke...
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Now this might be a bit funny but yesterday I had a strange dream. I actually dreamt of this. The dream goes like this. I just arrived to Florida at my sister’s house and I was away for some years. The large TV set was on and the news was showing. Then it was the weather forecast for the US and su...
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Spiritual leaders of New York’s African-American Muslim communities lashed out at extremist terrorist organization Al Qaeda on Friday after the organization had released a tape on which the group’s number two can be heard using racial slurs against president-elect Barack Obama. In the ta...
go to article »November 25, 2008
The website Politico came out yesterday (fittingly, a Sunday) with an article noting that President-elect Obama has yet to attend church - any church - since he won the election. His two predecessors did manage to do that as they waited to take office - George W. even headed to services while the 20...
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