Isaiah 52: 3-6—For thus says Yahweh, “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.” For thus says Adonai Yahweh, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. Now therefore, what do I have here,” declares Yahweh, “seeing that My people have been taken away without cause?” Again Yahweh declares, “Those who rule over them howl, and My name is continually blasphemed all day long. Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’”

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Isaiah 52: 3-6—For thus says Yahweh, “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.”  For thus says Adonai Yahweh, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.  Now therefore, what do I have here,” declares Yahweh, “seeing that My people have been taken away without cause?” Again Yahweh declares, “Those who rule over them howl, and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.  Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’”

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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Wouldn’t it be convenient if the Jews never existed? If they had no claims whatsoever to the Land of Israel? If every piece of their history was exposed as a lie? If they silently, painlessly, just disappeared?

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Text of a speech at the Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Ottawa Canada, November 9, 2010

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The following report contains the main Fatwas published in October 2010 on the “Minabr Al-Tawhid wal-Jihad” website, belonging to the Salafi ideologist Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi.  The surfers’ questions are answered by the “Website’s Sharia Committee” comprised of several prominent Salafi Sheikhs.

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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly caught a raft of grief from the Politically Correct robots of the entertainment and liberal communities for pointing out that the civilized world has a “Muslim problem.”

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“Careful, this is going to get bad for everyone,” he (Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal) quoted Obama as saying. Standing nearby, according to Jindal, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was throwing around F-bombs while chewing out the governor’s chief of staff: “If you have a problem, pick up the f—ing phone.” When Jindal later expressed worries that a White House-imposed moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would drive up joblessness in his state, Jindal claims Obama was more concerned about standing in the polls. “The human element seemed invisible to the White House,” Jindal said in his book.

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IN the aftermath of the Great Democratic Shellacking of 2010, one election night subplot quickly receded into the footnotes: the drubbing received by very wealthy Americans, most of them Republican, who tried to buy Senate seats and governor’s mansions. Americans don’t hate rich people. They admire and often idolize success. But Californians took a hearty dislike to Meg Whitman, who sacrificed $143 million of her eBay fortune — not to mention her undocumented former housekeeper — to a gubernatorial race she lost by double digits. Connecticut voters K.O.’d the World Wrestling groin-kicker, Linda McMahon, and West Virginians did likewise to the limestone-and-steel magnate John Raese, the senatorial hopeful who told an interviewer without apparent irony, “I made my money the old-fashioned way — I inherited it.”

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Reading the headlines these days, I can’t help but repeat this truism: If you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 floors you can think you’re flying. It’s the sudden stop at the end that tells you you’re not. It’s striking to me how many leaders and nations are behaving today as though they think they can fly — and ignoring that sudden stop at the end that’s sure to come.

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An old friend of mine here fights terrorists, but not the way you’re thinking. She could barely defeat a truculent child in hand-to-hand combat, and if she ever picked up an AK-47 — well, you’d pray it was unloaded.

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James Clapper Jr., the relatively new director of national intelligence, is trying to claim the authority that the independent Sept. 11 commission said was essential to protecting the United States. Speaking at a conference this month, he disclosed a “conceptual agreement” with Defense Secretary Robert Gates to take over $53 billion of the $80 billion annual intelligence budget that has long been the Pentagon’s domain.

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Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals while getting pounded by other world leaders for failing U.S. policies and lagging growth.

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President Obama has promised to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan in July 2011. But Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai has said his government won’t be ready to take over the main burden of defending the country againstTaliban insurgents until 2014 — a date U.S. officials are also increasingly talking about.

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Republicans may think that their midterm triumph bodes ill for President Obama‘s reelection hopes, but such beliefs are not borne out by history. The incumbent president’s party typically does poorly in a midterm election. This time, however, there was an ominous hint of a potential problem for Obama. In his concession speech, the media thought that Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold may have been referring to a presidential bid when he said, “It’s on to 2012!” Although Feingold’s spokesman rejected that interpretation, a primary challenger would be the absolute worst sign for Obama for 2012.

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When our forefathers threw off their Whigs and became Republicans, they could hardly have imagined that one of their party’s biggest stars would call herself a “Mama Grizzly.” These are heady days for the GOP, which recaptured the U.S. House this month.

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I was happy to see President Barack Obama continue his outreach to the world’s Muslims during his Asia trip last week. It’s important for Muslims overseas to hear that Americans are waging war against terrorists, not Muslims, even though some Americans have a hard time telling the difference.

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The extraordinary power and wealth that China has accumulated in just 30 years are evident in its pulsating streets, giant shopping malls and ostentatious military maneuvers. But less-visible insecurities linger from its recent chaotic past and drive this country’s politics. China’s strengths, and its weaknesses, should be measured with care.

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What Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have given America is the equivalent of a cold shower after a night of heavy drinking. It’s sober-up time.

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When traveling abroad, I increasingly hear foreigners speculating that the United States is a country in decline, with a weakened political and economic system. That view of a blunted America is likely to grow after the midterm election results, unless politicians find a way to work together and make decisions.

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General Motors, an appendage of the government, which owns 61 percent of it, is spending some of your money, dear reader, on full-page newspaper ads praising a government brainstorm – the Volt, Chevrolet’s highly anticipated and prematurely celebrated (sort of) electric car. Although the situation is murky – GM and its government masters probably prefer it that way – it is unclear in what sense GM has any money that is truly its own. And the Volt is not quite an electric car, or not the sort GM deliberately misled Americans into expecting.

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Not yet two weeks after the voters delivered a clarion cry for change in Washington, we’re already back to business as usual.

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The global economy’s prospects hinge on one key factor: policymakers’ ability to avoid protectionism. If they are able to avoid erecting barriers to trade, investment and immigration, then prospects will be bright. If not, the fragile global recovery will come undone.

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When a private sector organization loses resources and has to downsize, it has to make painful decisions on reshuffling their management to account for fewer positions, usually requiring a few demotions or outright exits.  Not so in the House Democratic caucus.  When faced with the conundrum of fitting four existing leadership members into three positions, Nancy Pelosi struggled hard for a solution — until she remembered her Democratic agenda of public-sector management and decided to just expand leadership to accommodate the odd man out.

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With dozens of freshman Republicans heading to Washington DC in the next few days, advice will be in large supply as they prepare for the transition from campaigning to governing.  Tea Party activists sent them to the Beltway with clear mandates on spending, debt, and checking the growth of government, but Americans have seen what often happens when Mr. and Mrs. Smith go to Washington.   A curious case of Congressitis sets in, where suddenly the potential power of their office overwhelms the sensibilities that got them elected in the first place.

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A heated war of words has broken out between two conservative groups over conflicting GOP freshmen orientation events scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Leaders of the Tea Party Patriots, a Georgia-based grassroots organization, are accusing an amorphous band of Republican establishment figures of colluding with the conservative Claremont Institute to set up an event that will both compete against their own Tea Party-led orientation, and indoctrinate new members into “the ways of DC.” Claremont Institute officials flatly deny the allegation, asserting that they merely agreed to sponsor an existing conference organized by incoming Republican freshmen on behalf of their colleagues.

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Last Tuesday, voters throughout the country sent a clear and unmistakable message: the economy is the top issue and they stand with job creators. While this would seem like its good news for just about everyone, there is one constituency who is operating at a deficit, and that’s union bosses.

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Are “Tea Party” Republicans gearing up to fail just like the Democrats did?

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On November 2, the American people sent a resounding message to Washington D.C. that the era of reckless spending must stop

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President Obama, visiting Indonesia, noted that the world’s largest Muslim country is a model of tolerance and moderation. But here at home, controversies over the so-called ground zero mosque and the Florida pastor who threatened to burn the Quran have spurred a new exchange of recriminations: Muslims tolerate extremism; non-Muslims suffer from Islamophobia.

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After watching his party take a beating in the midterm elections, Obama wasn’t able to secure even a symbolic victory on a trip that was expected to give him plenty of opportunities to claim a win.

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President Obama asserted Friday that the punishment his party took in midterm elections has not damaged his ability to advance U.S. interests overseas, saying his Asia trip has shown that many countries still want to work with the United States.

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Iraq averted a new political crisis Saturday when the head of the main Sunni-backed bloc ended a walkout and returned to parliament, paving the way for the formation of a new government.

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When Johanna Sigurdardottir campaigned to be prime minister of Iceland last year, she vowed to bring an end to the “age of testosterone.”

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Right in time to spur awkward theological discussions with extended family members, the American Humanist Association and other related groups are preparing to launch a holiday advertising blitz aimed at drawing stark distinctions between believers and their less devout brethren. The AHA campaign, in particular, highlights some of the more violent and sexist passages of the Bible and Quran and contrasts them with quotes from Albert Einstein, Katherine Hepburn and others. The ads strike a much different tone than last year’s “Be Good For Goodness Sake” campaign that papered buses and trains across major U.S. metro cities.

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President Obama arrived in Tokyo today, exactly one year to the day of his first official trip to Japan as commander-in-chief. He is here to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Yokohama, but his itinerary includes a brief “personal” excursion to the Great Buddha, a 44-foot tall bronze statue in Kamakura, which Mr. Obama first visited as a boy with his mother. While it is safe to say that the seven-and-a-half centuries old Buddha has changed very little since last November, or even since Mr. Obama’s childhood encounter, the state of his host nation has shifted significantly.

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President Barack Obama left Asia with a greater foothold in the emerging nations that could help shape the American economy for years. But his failure to deliver on his own high expectations on key economic issues served notice that the global stage is not nearly his for the taking.

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The New York Times editorial page has been persistent in publishing alarmist editorials on climate change.  The latest one appearing shortly before the November elections accused politicians of being in “denial” about climate change.  What nonsense!  Climate is changing all the time; it has been doing it for millions of years — without any human intervention.  And politicians are simply trying to stay in step with the public.

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A new article in the LA Times says that the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is enlisting the help of 700 scientists to fight back against a new congress that is viewed as a bunch of backwoods global warming deniers who are standing in the way of greenhouse gas regulations and laws required to same humanity from itself.

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President Obama continues to advertise the $814 billion stimulus and its green energy subsidy programs in particular as unqualified successes. But a remarkable memo from Mr. Obama’s own advisers tells the real story, neatly illustrating what happens when his anticarbon agenda meets the political allocation of capital.

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72% of African-American births in the United States are out-of-wedlock.

A recent report said that 72% of African-American births in the United States are out-of-wedlock.  That compares with 17% for Asians, 29% for whites, 53% for Hispanics, and 66% for Native Americans.  For the US population as a whole, the out-of-wedlock birth rate is a staggering 41%.

Our country is in serious trouble as these statistics make clear, but our problem is magnified in the African-American population to the point that a young black child in the US today whose father and mother are married is a glaring anomaly.  No country can survive much less thrive when people take childbearing and childrearing so casually.  Saying that we have become a hedonistic society is an understatement, and something needs to be done about it right away.

Hedonism and greed contributed greatly to the “dot com” bubble and the housing bubble.  They are also driving federal, state, and local government debt and deficit problems as more and more people expect governments at all levels to give them something for nothing.  I contend that hedonism is the root cause of our obesity crisis as well.  These things can’t continue.  We have to put an end to them before they put an end to us.

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Natural Healthcare Store carries skin care, hair care, and oral care products.  Be sure to check out the Dead Sea products imported from Israel and support the Israeli economy with your purchases.  Natural Healthcare Store carries makeup, deodorant, and detoxification products.  It also carries supplements, weight loss products, and loose leaf tea.  Rounding out its product mix, Natural Healthcare Store carries natural household cleaning products.

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