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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Ross Mackenzie :: Townhall.com Columnist
On Gaza, Gitmo, Kafisi, Moderates, the 'Wise Latina,' Etc.
by Ross Mackenzie
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Brief comments on a variety of topics currently in the news....

With the Obama administration springing Guantanamo-housed terrorists and e.g. funding Hamas-dominated Gaza to the tune of $900 million (etc.), how far we have come from George Bush's admonition: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."

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Bankrupt California has gone hat-in-hand to the White House, where the president said in effect, Not today, buddy, but maybe tomorrow -- and averted his eyes. 'Sfunny. What's good for the nation's gargantuan banks is not good enough for a (now) decidedly Democratic gargantuan state? Has Obama consulted his economic advisers? They might tell him that with the world's eighth-largest economy, and a state boasting more population than any other, California is too big to fail. As was, for instance, General Motors.

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Is the stock market these days a bull or a bear? A Wall Street Journal news story tries to help: "Historical data and the still struggling economy seem to point to...a cyclical bull market in a secular bear market." All clear?

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If you listen to the Obama media, the president has seduced Israel's new, second-time-around prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, into accepting a Palestinian state. Maybe. A tough hombre, Netanyahu now supports a two-state plan -- with conditions: The new country (1) would have to recognize Israel as "the nation state of the Jewish people." Further (2) the Palestinian state would possess no military and (3) Israel would control its air space. (4) Israel would accept no Palestinian "refugees," (5) Israelis would maintain the right to settle in the West Bank, and (6) Jerusalem would remain undivided and under Israeli control.

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Palestinians told Netanyahu to take his two-state overture and stuff it. Said Khaled Meshal last month, chief dialectician of the Hamas terrorists crushing Gaza: "There is only one enemy in the region, and that is Israel."

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Ponder this one. Self-styled "moderates" often say that rather than departing what they deem a wayward organization in a huff, it is better to remain in the group and help reform it from within. Yet (a) many have left a Republican Party they deem usurped by social conservatives and the religious right. And (b) many have left, for greener ecclesiastical pastures or lush fairways, mainline Protestant churches no longer satisfying their religious, emotional, or intellectual needs. It's all enough to make one wonder, regarding supposedly stay-the-course moderates: Who's in a huff?

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Appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, is defending her membership in a women-only club -- the Belizean Grove. This despite prohibitions against federal judges joining groups discriminating on the basis of gender. Judge Sotomayor says that though her club denies membership to men, it allows men at some of its events. There was a time -- long ago and far away -- when men nominated for higher judgeships were ripped as perverse Neanderthals for their memberships in all-male clubs. But in this New Age of double standards, the "wise Latina" (Judge Sotomayor's words) has a more mature view. Continued...
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Ross Mackenzie lives with his wife and Labrador retriever in the woods west of Richmond, Virginia. They have two grown sons, both Naval officers.

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Reply # 1
Date: Jun 25, 2009 - 6:10 PM EST
CA decidedly Democratic?
I'm not so sure about this.

They voted no new taxes even though they knew it would mean losing funding for a number of entitlements. And, they shot down the gay marriage amendment.

I think the large number of Hispanics in California have traditionally voted for Democrats because the media told them this was the party that would represent their interests.

Hispanics are largely Catholic, pro family, hard working and conservative in their thinking on most things.

I think Hispanics are beginning to realize they have been duped by the media into backing Democrats.

It has got to be difficult, coming to a foreign country, dealing with a language barrier, and then trying to decipher who is genuinely on your side in politics. It's hard enough for those of us born here to know who to trust.

I think Hispanics are starting to wise up. If our Republican representatives would get off their butts and articulate a clear message to Hispanics telling them why it is REPUBLICANS who really represent them, the GOP could own the Hispanic vote.
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Date: Jun 25, 2009 - 11:37 AM EST
No human being would accept ....
...Lon, the destruction of his home country and the murder of all of its inhabitants. Preventing that outcome is sufficient reason for Netanyahu to lie, cheat, steal and be prepared - if necessary to protect his people - to kill all the Arabs and Muslims who attempt to kill his folk. If that is "something that no human being would accept", then none of our leaders have ever been human, starting with the first colonial leader to led an attack on the Indians and including President Truman, who ordered the atom bombing of two Japanese cities (as well as the fire-bombing to rubble with matching deaths of civilians of six or eight more) to end World War 2 on terms that were favorable to the U.S. Survival sometimes is a "kill or be killed" kind of proposition, out in the real world, away from the fantasies of academic thought, political evasions and news reporters' ignorance. I know you won't accept that as true and will deride me for saying so; that doesn't make what I said any less true.
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