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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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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


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President Obama said that without adoption of his economic "stimulus" bill, unemployment would reach 9 percent -- and never mind that most of the stimulus won't kick in until 2011. Congress dutifully passed the measure, and unemployment has reached 9.4 percent. Could that be why Obama is pressing his Cabinet secretaries to accelerate their stimulus spending?

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Forbes reports on tracking by Eric Singer, a fund manager who compares stock performance when Congress is in session with performance when Congress is adjourned or in recess. According to Singer's data, in the 44 years ended December 31, the S&P 500 was up an average annual .3 percent on the 7,244 days Congress was in session -- and up a stunning 16.1 percent on the 3,821 days it was not. Give Singer a cigar, and send those congressional swells on permanent vacations.

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Oh, and Gitmo? Obama evidently has succumbed to an onslaught by Senate NIMBYs -- Not in My Back Yarders -- who insist terrorists housed at Guantanamo are as radioactive as the nuclear waste rejected for Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The Senators insist Gitmo's 240 jihadists are unwelcome in their state penitentiaries. Having enlisted no cooperating states, Obama is shopping the terrorists to cooperating countries. In this hour of euphemization, what Obamaphiles during the grim Bush II years termed "rendition" of terrorists in foreign prisons -- they now call "repatriation."

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If Obama lands any of Gitmo's jihadists in Kuwait (liberated by the U.S. in the first Gulf War), they might tap to the delightful beat of Kuwaiti dissident Abdullah al-Nafisi. Recently on a recruiting tour, Nafisi brought supporters up to speed on al-Qaeda's efforts to breach the U.S.-Mexico border -- with:

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"Four pounds of anthrax -- in a suitcase this big -- carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the U.S., are guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour if it is properly spread in population centers there. What a horrifying idea. 9/11 will be small change in comparison. Am I right? There is no need for airplanes, conspiracies, timings, and so on. One person, with the courage to carry 4 pounds of anthrax, will go to the White House lawn and will spread this 'confetti' all over them, and then we'll do these cries of joy. It will turn into a real celebration."

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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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