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July 2012

RUMBLE OVER OBAMACARE ON THE GLAZOV GANG

Rumble Over ObamaCare — on The Glazov Gang
by Frontpagemag.com
Leftist activist Brandelynn Turner confronts Dwight Schultz and Rob Nelson on the U.S. health care system — and mayhem breaks out.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/war-breaks-out-over-scott-walker-on-the-glazov-gang-1/

BILL GERTZ: OBAMA LOST IN SPACE

Administration approves controversial export license allowing sensitive space technology transfer to China http://freebeacon.com/obamas-lost-in-space/ The Obama administration recently notified Congress that it has agreed to license exports of sensitive U.S. space technology to China from a U.S. company that was fined in the past for illegally supplying space support that improved Chinese ballistic missiles.The State Department’s […]

LAWRENCE SOLOMON: THE LOST TRIBE OF OBAMA

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/07/13/lawrence-solomon-the-lost-tribe-of-obama/
Rants against the rich, anti-Israeli ideology turn off funds

Jews provide an estimated 50% to 60% of the entire funding of the Democratic Party, making them vital to President Barack Obama’s prospects for re-election. But many Jews are now questioning their commitment to Obama, not least when it comes to pulling out their chequebooks. Some Jews are disappointed with Obama, others angry at him, still others downright fearful, leading to dry holes in Obama’s prospecting for funds and gushers of cash for Republican challenger Mitt Romney. According to a poll published last fall, only 64% of Jews who had donated to Obama’s 2008 campaign planned to support him again.

How could Obama have lost so many of his Jewish supporters, a group that gave him almost 80% of their vote in 2008? Obama blames Republicans for spreading bigotry, such as the claim Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim, and counters that he’s as good as it gets for Jews. Obama reportedly told a group of rabbis visiting the White House in May that all of his Chicago friends were Jewish, that he’s well read on Judaism, and that he “probably knows about Judaism more than any other president.” Burnishing this image of himself, Obama doubtless appreciates a New York magazine cover story, titled The First Jewish President, that illustrated Obama in a skull cap.

But the estrangement of Jewish Democrats from Obama has nothing to do with his Muslim name and everything to do with how Jews now perceive him and his policies. This “Jewish president,” so confident of his knowledge of Jews, badly misread the Jewish community. His misreading could cost him the money he needs to win re-election.

Obama certainly is steeped in a Jewish milieu. The men most responsible for engineering his political strategies and running his campaigns — David Plouffe and David Axelrod — are both savvy Jews, as are most of his top economic advisors and his current and former chief of staff. J Street, the George Soros funded “pro-Israel” advocacy group, has Obama’s ear, having visited the White House numerous times since he became president, as has Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union. But Obama’s familiarity with Jews extends well beyond this contemporary crew.

AIDAN CLAY: FLIGHT OF CHRISTIANS FROM MID-EAST REACHES SYRIA

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3186/syria-christians “Christians are being ethnically cleansed throughout the Middle East.” — Ken Blackwell, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. A mass exodus of Christians, including a group evacuated from the besieged city of Homs, have been fleeing Syrian cities for safety. Caught in the middle of a showdown between opposition forces and the Syrian army, many […]