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Sympathy among U.S. voters for Israel in its war with militant group Hamas plunged among young voters, with more than half now expressing more sympathy for the Palestinians, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. The nationwide poll released Thursday found 54 percent of those surveyed said their sympathies lie more with Israelis while 24 percent said their sympathies lie more with Palestinians. Overall sympathy for Israelis is down 7 percentage points from the last Quinnipiac University poll taken Oct. 17, when 61 percent said they sympathize with Israelis and 13 percent said the Palestinians.

Former President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday expressed sympathy for President Joe Biden upon learning that he fell after delivering the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy. “He actually fell down? Well I hope he wasn’t hurt. I hope he wasn’t hurt,” Trump said after being told. He then recalled his own concerns of falling after the delivering a commencement speech at the West Point in 2021.

Col. Matt Langer was inspired by another trooper who marked a fatal crash with an annual call. WYOMING, Minnesota — Sure as a sunrise, the envelope arrives each year in the mailbox of Bruce and Sharon Pearson. “We have received 15 and this year will be the 16th," Sharon Pearson says. “That card has always arrived by the 9th of December. Sharon Pearson remembers tearing up as she read the first one. The note had arrived on the anniversary of their 14-year-old daughter Hannah’s death in a traffic accident.

Venezuela’s End Game: Pope and Bishops Take Different Paths WASHINGTON — During a Jan. 28 inflight press conference on his return from World Youth Day in Panama, Pope Francis was asked to offer explicit support to Venezuelan protesters calling for their country’s embattled President Nicolás Maduro to step down. But the Pope replied that taking sides in the escalating confrontation between the Maduro regime and its opponents “would be a pastoral imprudence” and do “damage.” “I suffer for what is happening in Venezuela right now,” said Francis, who repeated his call for a “just and peaceful solution.” The Holy Father’s...

My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you!

“Jesus of the Scars” by Edward Shillito If we have never sought, we seek Thee now;Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars;We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow,We must have Thee, O Jesus of the Scars. The heavens frighten us; they are too calm;In all the universe we have no place.Our wounds are hurting us; where is the balm?Lord Jesus, by Thy Scars, we claim Thy grace. If, when the doors are shut, Thou drawest near,Only reveal those hands, that side of Thine;We know to-day what wounds are, have no fear,Show us Thy Scars, we know...

Donald Trump, speaking in North Carolina, just praised deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a killer of terrorists, noting that Hussein “didn’t read them the rights” before executing them. “Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? He was a bad guy. Really bad guy,” Trump begins. “But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn’t read them the rights, they didn’t talk. They were a terrorists - it was over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.” Hussein was labelled a major sponsor of terrorism by the American government for decades, a status...

Has anyone seen the new TV series, "Tyrant"? It has to do with terrorism and tyranny and tells it from the perspective of the terrosrist's perspective. It portrays the Muslims speaking English while wearing their hijabs and other Muslim attire. I get the feeling that the show was produced to make the Muslims appear more "American" friendly and suspect its a veiled attempt to introduce their lifestyle to Americans to familiarize them with their culture incrementalism style. It would take an idiot to not understand the implications and intentions therein.

When it comes to human failings, I always try to be understanding. In fact, readers of my Saturday advice column in the Mail will know that it’s my stock-in-trade. But there are times, I’m afraid, when sympathy fails me and I am left nursing a deep anger which needs putting into words. Sometimes, even those words fail me. How else to respond to this week’s story of well-educated girls — brought up in decent homes with every privilege — choosing to sell their bodies for a fast buck, not caring how many footballers use them in one week?

Liberals are not insane, as many conservatives believe. Most liberals (I am not speaking here of the political or intellectual class) are ordinary human beings pursuing everyday human lives -- just like the rest of us. Here is a brief summary of why most liberals are liberal and what we can do to help at least some of them understand conservative thought: Enter text here. 1) Indoctrination, not education Polls consistently find that over 70% of college professors identify themselves as liberal. The percentage of liberal faculty members is even higher if one removes responses from those teaching the "hard"...

Chelsea went missing from her San Diego area home. Her father found her car near a running trail. In addition to being a college-bound honor student who maintained a 4.2 grade-point average despite carrying four advanced-placement classes, as well as being an accomplished musician, Chelsea was also a long-distance runner. Sheriff’s deputies and civilian volunteers searched the park where the running trail is located, as well as diving into a nearby lake. According to reports, her underwear was found near the trail. But five days after Chelsea vanished, her body was found in a shallow grave near the lake. Chelsea’s...

THE dread pirate of the high seas shuffled into the court room, standing all of 5-foot-2 and 90 pounds soaking wet. He looked more like an urchin seeking adoption by Madonna than a swashbuckling Somali pirate seeking an American fortune. Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, who laughed like a ninny when brought to New York on Monday in handcuffs, sat at the defendant's table, uncuffed. And he proceeded to dig his head into a bandaged hand, sobbing and sniffling like a little girl. SOMALI PIRATE CRIES IN COURT His shoulders trembled and he swatted at his dribbling nose, like a child facing...

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This is an AP story so it can't be excerpted here. Basically it sounds like Obama is pulling a "Survivor" ploy here to gain sympathy. She may indeed be gravely ill but why on earth would he want something like that in the media?

A soldier sees and feels a wider variety of sights and emotions in a year than most people will experience in a lifetime. ... In my short time in the military I have experienced more suffering than I could have imagined before joining up. I have held the hand of a dying Marine who had only one last wish: that someone would be with him and hold his hand as he passed on. So I sat there with a strange man, holding his hand, not saying a word, until he died. ... I have watched grown men cry, and cried...

On the 4th Anniversary of the tragic terrorist attacks in New York, Washington D.C and Pensylvania, I'd like to express my deepest sympathies with the victims of september 11th and the American people. I am also aware that the Mullahs government in Iran has been acting improperly since 1979 and I am also aware that the Mullahs are not the true representatives of those of us who seek freedom, democracy and secularism in Iran so let me speak on behalf of those Iranians who really like the USA and would like to see better relations with American people and the...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John Roberts showed sympathy for the idea of permitting prayer in public schools in 1985, according to a memo released on Monday, writing that a ruling to the contrary "seems indefensible" under the Constitution. As a young lawyer working in the Reagan administration, Roberts wrote he would have no objection if the Justice Department wanted to express support for a constitutional amendment permitting prayer. Referring to a Supreme Court ruling issued earlier that year that struck down an Alabama school prayer law, he said, "The conclusion ... that the Constitution prohibits such a moment of...

Received word this morning that my brother, Orvil L. Robinson, of San Antonio, Texas died yesterday afternoon after fighting a long battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Jane (Hodges) Robinson, two children, Cheryl Moran of San Antonio and Jeff Robinson of California, and several grandchildren. He was retired from the U.S. Weather Bureau. He was a US Navy veteran. Served as a meteorologist aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge in the '50s. He was a good and decent, loving man who will be greatly missed by his family and all who knew him.

The Lord's Work What men want in doing the Lord's work is (1) Courage, (2) Enthusiasm, (3) Perseverance, (4) Sympathy. 1. Courage. - The man who is afraid, who holds down his head like a bulrush, is not the worker whom God will bless; but God gives courage to him whom He means to use. I have been all along with young men, and a great portion of my work these fifteen years has been among them, and I find that they generally fail for want of courage. There is any quantity of young men in Edinburgh just now...

In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry defended terrorist Shiite imam Moqtada al-Sadr as a "legitimate voice" in Iraq, despite that fact that he's led an uprising that has killed nearly 20 American GIs in the last two days. Speaking of al-Sadr's newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, "They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq." In the next breath, however, the White House hopeful caught himself and quickly changed direction, adding, "Well, let me...