Congratulations, in producing an article about Germany, in contrast to almost everything else on townhall.com, that is almost totally neutral and accurate!

Communists have not in general been champions of the Bill of Rights.

Start with Philip Morris and go from there.

America has gone soft. The Founding Fathers would have never suspended the Bill of Rights at home or in Guantanamo for a causality rate under a thousandth of a percent per year. I suspect they would have seen this as the price of liberty. In contrast, many corporations in America kill orders of magnitude more people per year without demands for restrictions on fundamental rights.

The pendulum swings and as expected privatization is being reversed or stopped here in Europe. In France control of water distribution, after more than a decade of higher prices and reduced maintenance and investment, is being returned to the public sector in city after city. In Germany the negative impact on service, prices, and technical excellence caused by preparing the public train system for the stock market has been realized. A mixed system now exists where numerous private companies run trains on the public network on those routes abandoned by the state system. These experiments have led many to believe that accepting bureaucratic inefficiency is often better than allowing private companies to neglect infrastructure.

My comment did not deny that she was popular. It is extremely unusual for people party in the streets when a political leader of two decades past dies.

For those who are interested in diplomacy (of the kind not seen in American Politics) the speeches of Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband before the Commons are masterful.

How polarizing she was for the nation is demonstrated by the fact that this week "Ding Dong the witch is dead" was the most popular music download in England.

"He has and is supporting the Muslim in everything he does..." tells me you didn't see the press conferences or even excerpts from them.

In the press conference just held, Obama did not condemn the Israeli settlement activity (as he did during his last visit), thereby dashing hopes that many Palestinians had for him as a mediator. It appears now that the only hope for the Palestinians are sanctions and boycotts. Israel's Lebensraum policy looses her more support internationally every day. When you live in a non-viable state you actively have to work to reduce tensions with your neighbors - military power is of little help when the life line is 25 times longer than during the Berlin-Blockade and the cold-war imperative is missing.

Instead of studying the crimes against humanity between 1933 and 1945 at Yad Vashem, he should spend his time thinking of those committed between 1947 and 2013 by the Holocaust survivors and their decedents.