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Obama’s policies restrain allies, encourage terrorists

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The term “quisling” refers to anyone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force. The word originates from the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling, who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime during WWII. That era also produced appeasers, such as as former British Prime Minister Arthur Neville […]

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USA

Reserve IDF officers tell Americans their experiences

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Currently touring the United States are two young reserve officers of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) who can refute the propaganda often spouted by Israel’s enemies with first-hand facts. Using their first names only, for security reasons, Ashager, who grew up in Yavne, Israel, and Eyal, who represents the 8th

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Donald H. Harrison

Boehner: Congress has ‘every right’ to invite Bibi

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison House Speaker John Boehner says that Congress had “every right” to invite Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session. “I wanted the prime minister to come here,” Boehner told an interviewer on Fox News Sunday.  “There’s a serious threat facing the world, and radical Islamic terrorists

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Donald H. Harrison

Humoring the headlines: February 16, 2015

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Canada’s Sun News Network, often referred to as Fox News North, is closing down its operations.  One media analyst explained that since Canada encompasses part of the Arctic Circle, the country doesn’t need any further polarization. * Rand Paul admitted that he is not really a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, but

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

No Oscar for Shirley MacLaine’s theology

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Shirley MacLaine is a better actress than she is a philosopher or theologian. Jewish groups are justifiably upset with some comments she penned in her new memoir, “What If… A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know For Sure.” The quote that is

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Confident of licking cancer, Emerald to run again

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Confident of her recovery from breast cancer, for which she currently is undergoing radiation five days a week, City Councilwoman Marti Emerald says she plans to run in 2016 for another four-year term in part because she wants to protect the children of the 9th District against

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

NJDC: New U.S. Defense Sec’y ‘stalwart friend’ of Israel

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison The U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Ashton Carter by a 93-5 vote to be U.S. Secretary of Defense, replacing Chuck Hagel, means that Israel will have another friend in the Obama administration, according to a statement by Greg Rosenbaum, board chair of the National Jewish Democratic Council. “Knowing Ashton Carter from

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Humoring the headlines: February 12, 2015

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Paleontologists have discovered evidence that dinosaurs ate hallucinogenic ergot.   Humans continue to consume strains of the same psychedelic fungus.  This explains why creationists believe humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs. * The University of California Students Association passed a resolution for the UC system to divest itself from

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire