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Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Dore Gold explains on MSNBC that the United States and Israel are strong strategic allies. He says that Israel must clarify its policy goals, and specifically that Israel must maintain defensible borders and a united Jerusalem. Click here to watch the full interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ofALCCvm8#t=1m2s - Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

At the height of America’s worst postwar recession, in September 2008, a computer glitch caused the Georgia Department of Labor to issue 46,373 duplicate unemployment check deposits, a financial error that initially cost more than $12 million. Almost two years later, the state has yet to recoup all the money, according to a report from the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts. The Labor Department says it is still trying to recover $115,000.

Will more boots really seal the border? Immigration reform has a long history of unintended consequences: More than two decades of increased enforcement since the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 has done little to reduce the number of illegal immigrants. In fact, its seems to have increased their numbers. Meanwhile, the question of jobs, which are the true driver of legal and illegal immigration, has been largely neglected. With increasing border enforcement, workers who used to shuttle between jobs in California or Texas and home in Zacatecas or Michoacán simply began to stay put and...

The Early Years Born Irish, in a family of eight, my early childhood was fulfilled and happy. My father was a colonel in the Irish Army until he retired when I was about nine. As a family, we loved to play, sing, and act, all within a military camp in Dublin. We were a typical Irish Roman Catholic family. My father sometimes knelt down to pray at his bedside in a solemn manner. My mother would talk to Jesus while sewing, washing dishes, or even smoking a cigarette. Most evenings we would kneel in the living room to say the...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton started a South Asia tour on Sunday aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan and pushing neighboring nations to work together in the fight against al-Qaida and Taliban extremists. Clinton landed in Islamabad where she will underscore the need for Afghan-Pakistani cooperation in winning the war but also announce plans to beef up U.S. development assistance to Pakistan, which is rife with anti-American sentiment. In talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Sunday and military and civilian officials on Monday, Clinton...

I met a little boy the other day. He shook my hand with a good firm grip, while looking me right in the eye. He seemed to have a confidence born of recent experience. Just seven years old, his name is Aidan. Aidan stood out in the crowd, because he was so small—and because of the seeming unfairness that he’d even have to be where he was when I met him. A funeral home. He’ll surely remember the whirlwind of recent events in his life for all of his days on earth. The image of his mother weeping—grandmother, too—in fact,...

Pray For the Peace Of Jerusalem The Book of PsalmsPsalm 29 A Psalm of David. 1. Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. 2. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. 3. The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters. 4. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 5. The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD...

What God requires…He provides Posted on July 17, 2010 by billrandles For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for therein the righteousness of God is revealed…Romans 1:16 The book of Romans is unique among the epistles in that it isn’t polemic, that is it isn’t trying to refute any error. Romans is therefore a clear rendering of the Gospel of salvation . Paul calls it the “Gospel of God” , and takes us from the bankruptcy of Jew and Gentile to the glorification of man and creation, all realised by the gospel. Paul begins with the declaration...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16

The Antennae Galaxies in Collision Credit: NASA, ESA & B. Whitmore (STScI) et al.; Image processing: Davide De Martin Explanation: Two galaxies are squaring off in Corvus and here are the latest pictures. But when two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not. That's because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small amount of that space. During the slow, hundred million year collision, one galaxy can still rip the other apart gravitationally, and dust and gas common to both galaxies does collide. In this clash of the titans,...

here was so much material this week, it was almost impossible to choose, but here it is: "Immigration," "Green Beans!" "NASA's Wings Clipped," and "The Summer of our (racist?) Discontent" Immigration The suit against Arizona -- designed by that diabolical genius, Attorney General Eric Holder, to stir up the base and get them to actually turn out for the midterms, thereby possibly saving the president's bacon -- has flopped. Nine states have joined the suit on Arizona's side. Public opinion polls show large and increasing public support for Arizona, and the more people study the government's suit, the weaker it...

Whaaatt? All of that brilliance spewing forth from Michael Moore is not original? Of course not; the Left never has any original ideas. Everything oozing out of them is recycled twaddle from the happy Halcyon Stalin Days and again during the 1960’s drug haze. The same burned out bunch of morons have repurposed themselves and taken over the government. Thus, it’s no surprise that Big Journalism is reporting that Moore liberated an entire story from the Knoxville News Sentinel including video without bothering himself to credit the actual source. "The article’s original author, the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Frank Munger, alerted...

The national presidency of the League of United Latin American Citizens passed Saturday from one San Antonio woman to another in what was touted as a historic election at the group's annual convention in New Mexico. Margaret Moran succeeds Rosa Rosales as head of the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization, beating two opponents in polling of representatives from 700 local councils who gathered at the Albuquerque Convention Center. [. . .] “Margaret is not a politician,” the group's website says. “She is an activist who is ready to lead as National President because she has qualifications you can see...

The Obama administration is getting kudos for its quick action in the Russian spy case. Ten Russian spies were apprehended, allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of failing to register as agents of a foreign government, and put on a plane for Moscow. We Americans like it when we see the FBI rounding up potentially hostile intelligence agents. It was all over, it seems, over one hot summer weekend. Like the movie Jaws, the threat appeared suddenly and just as suddenly passed. Or did it? At least one of those four prisoners released from Russian prisons--Igor Sutyagin--has vigorously...

Remember "jobs, jobs, jobs"? The mantra was everywhere six, seven, eight months ago. After spending more than $800 billion on an economic stimulus program, Obama leads a nation where unemployment flirts with double digits, almost 7 million people have been unemployed in the last year for six months and millions more are underemployed or have stopped seeking work. Little surprise, his political vital signs echo the economic indicators. Obama understands the fix he's in. Speaking Friday, he said, "The main thing that keeps me up at night right now is we lost 8 million jobs. Only a few days earlier,...

If a job not worth doing is going to be done anyway, better for it to be done well than badly. So the Transportation Security Administration deserves credit for its Secure Flight program, aimed at curbing mistakes on its no-fly list. The American Civil Liberties Union, likewise, warrants praise for suing on behalf of travelers who were wrongly snared. But there is a better option that would eliminate this problem, as well as others: Get rid of the no-fly list entirely. For that matter, get rid of the requirement that passengers provide government-approved identification just to go from one place...

Right wing tries smear tactic on Obama Having failed to convince us that President Barack Obama is a secret Muslim, a secret Kenyan and a secret pal of terrorists, his opponents now want us to believe he is a secret pal of the New Black Panther Party. Who? In case you're wondering, the New Black Panthers have no connection to the original Black Panther Party of the 1960s. Led by lawyer-activist Malik Zulu Shabazz, the New Black Panther Party has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League for promoting black supremacist and...

Violent clashes have broken out between riot police and members of the English Defence League protesting against a planned mosque in Dudley, West Midlands. About 2,000 members of the EDL descended on Dudley town centre on Saturday afternoon. Some of the protesters broke out of a pen in a car park, breaking down metal fences and throwing the metal brackets at officers, who were armed with riot shields and batons.

Meg Ryan’s decision not to grace the Jerusalem Film Festival with her presence this month had a double effect: It registered her disapproval toward the Israelis for thwarting Hamas’ efforts to kill them, and secured her position in the ever-growing club of self-satisfied Western artists making asses of themselves. And I would wager nobody is laughing harder than black-hooded anti-Semites worldwide. Ryan reneged on her commitment to appear at the festival last May after Israeli Commandos were ambushed on a sham “Freedom Flotilla” ship by Turkish terrorists concealing mayhem under a thin veil of phony altruism. Ryan’s action signaled her...

HAVANA — At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in a sliver of shade nearby and two more smoke and chat on the curb. President Raul Castro has startled the nation lately by saying about one in five Cuban workers may be redundant. At the work site on Obispo street, those numbers run in reverse. It's a common sight in communist Cuba. Here, nearly everyone works for the state and official unemployment is minuscule, but pay is so...