March 31, 2008
Congress to vote on Jewish refugees today

Peggy Shapiro

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The U.S. Congress is poised to expand the issue of refugees to acknowledge, “Jews living in Arab countries suffered human rights violations and were made refugees.” On February 27, 2008, in a unanimous bi-partisan decision, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved H.Res 185, recognizing the plight and flight of over 850,000 Jews from Arab countries. The legislation, co-sponsored by House of Representatives by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Rep. Michael Ferguson (R-NJ), and Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY). states in part that “any resolutions relating to the issue of Middle East refugees, and which include a reference to the required resolution of the Palestinian refugee issue, must also include a similarly explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish, Christian, and other refugees from Arab countries.”

On March 31, 2008, the House Resolution 185 is going for a full and final vote in the House of Representatives. The resolution urges the international community to treat all refugees in the Middle East, North Africa and the Persian Gulf equally and opens the public dialogue to include Jewish refugees who until now have been forgotten.

The rest of the article.

March 31, 2008
Superdelegates another Dysfunctional Liberal Fix
By J.R. Dunn

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The most striking thing about the Democrat’s superdelegate fiasco is how typical it is of liberalism. If modern liberalism — the style of liberalism that has existed since FDR’s New Deal — is characterized by anything, it’s the fixation on addressing “problems” with massive, grotesque, Rube Goldberg schemes that simply don’t work.

(One result of this setup is that it makes the reactionary, authoritarian GOP far more democratic than the Democrats themselves, but who would ever bring that up?)

the article from American Thinker

There’s a Shakespearean phrase for the Democratic Party’s dilemma: “Hoist with his own petard” — that is, being blown up with your own landmine.

“Gisele Bundchen says she’s perfectly happy with them all (currencies), denying reports that the Brazilian supermodel is shunning the weak U.S. dollar in favor of European currency.”

But can anyone explain how designers could possibly think that even a supermodel could look good in this?

She looks like she is auditioning for an Oompa Loompa in a John Waters version of Willy Wonka.

1945 to 2008: A Lesson From Dresden

by Eliav Bar-Hai, INN
posted on Israpundit- see recommended sites

the article in full

HKO summary

It is a mistake to call our conflict a war on terror. It is a war against nations that support terror against European and Western Democracies including Israel. It is an existential war and it can ONLY be won with military means; there is no political solution. The road to WW II was paved with political solutions.

The attacks on largely civilian targets like Dresden came after the military conflict was largely won. The attacks were designed to break the will of the populace and end the war quicker.

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This phenomenal carnage was not “collateral damage” (a euphemism for inadvertent killing of civilians), but targeted mass annihilation of civilian populations for its morale-weakening contribution to a military effort. The ultimate political goal of the above military effort was to destroy Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan – two nations whose organized national purpose, supported by their civilian populations, was willful imperialism by force and large-scale killing.

Second, the Allies in World War II ultimately realized – in contrast to another modern mantra: “There is no military solution – only a political solution” – that existential wars have only military solutions, which dictate the political reshuffling that follows. In the wake of the “political solutions” early on in Hitler’s methodical push to take over Europe, which strengthened Germany with Austria, the Sudetenland and Czechoslavakia, and Japan with southeast Asia, the Allies belatedly focused on military victory.