tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-56081 2012-01-27T17:18:00-05:00 "In Hebrew his favorite expression was en davar (Never mind); and they say it was with these words on his lips that he died, five years later, at Tel-Hai. There was a complete philosophy contained in this en davar : do not exaggerate; do not see danger where none exists; do not regard a man who does his duty as a hero -- for history is long, the Jewish people everlasting, and truth is sacred, but everything else, trouble and care and pain and death, en davar." -- Jabotinsky on Trumpeldor, in The Story of Jewish Legion. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2016761336937970b 2012-01-27T17:18:00-05:00 2012-01-27T17:41:47-05:00

photograph © Cincy Lieberman

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/shabbat-shalom.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20168e632f432970c 2012-01-27T14:54:47-05:00 2012-01-27T14:58:48-05:00

rightscoop: .... This quote from Levin probably sums up his point about Newt more than anything else: “Newt Gingrich, if he does nothing else, did more for the conservative movement and to stop the liberal Democrats in the House of Representatives than virtually everybody today who is criticizing him!” He also plays the full audio in context, of the so-called Reagan-bashing that Newt did back in 1988, that absolutely disproves the idea that Newt was bashing Reagan at all. Listen to the full segment. It is excellent...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/mark-levin-defends-newt.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20168e62ec197970c 2012-01-27T11:59:27-05:00 2012-01-27T11:59:28-05:00

Sorry I'm so late... I was window-shopping online for Littlest Grandboy's birthday. Time flies when you're having fun - remembering how wondrous the world is when you're three. I completely forgot I had left this in "drafts," neglecting to actually post it. ========================== Last night's debate was not as dreadful as the previous one, but almost. As we have come to expect, dhimmedia disappoints. Wolf Blitzer is a political yenta (gossip) and apparently thinks his function is to throw gasoline wherever there might be a fire. Meanwhile, the Establishment (yes, Virginia, there is a Ruling Class - see Codevilla) wanted...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/dhimmedia-disappoints.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20168e62411d6970c 2012-01-26T17:18:29-05:00 2012-01-26T17:20:35-05:00

NPR News Blog: To Shrink Budget, Pentagon Proposes Cutting 100,000 Ground Troops CNN Blog: Panetta said he hopes all of Congress support "this vision of the future ... Now for the flashback. This was uploaded to YouTube July 9, 2008:

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/obama-guts-the-military.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20163002cf96e970d 2012-01-26T16:32:27-05:00 2012-01-26T16:45:23-05:00

Yeshiva Son notes that ... romney is saying that obama is "in over his head" - gingrich realizes that he is a saul alinsky radical. gingrich gets it when he talks about obama, when he talks about the media, when he talks about iran and the palestinians and most every other major issue. (links added) As for the "saul alinsky radical" business, it's even worse than that. See Daniel Pipes, October 21, 2008: Obama Would Fail Security Clearance: .... That Obama's biography touches so frequently on such unsavory organizations as CAIR and the Nation of Islam should give pause. How...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/newt-gets-it.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2016761203c3d970b 2012-01-26T14:01:57-05:00 2012-01-26T14:05:59-05:00

Dan Friedman sends these two links along, noting their "sheer coincidence." Muslim Brotherhood repeats: No talks with Israel Spokesman says dialogue with Jewish state ‘not up for discussion.’ Obama set to speed up aid to Egypt-official Obama considers redirecting aid to Egypt

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/dan-friedman-sends-these-two-links-along-noting-their-sheer-coincidence-muslim-brotherhood-repeats-no-talks-w.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20167611f21fc970b 2012-01-26T12:24:31-05:00 2012-01-26T12:29:16-05:00

I was still fuming over the Republican-approved $400,000 feasibility study on a 200-mile trail between San Francisco and Yosemite National Park to commemorate the Buffalo Soldiers (((Where do they think they're going to get the money? I thought they understood that the country is BROKE!))) -- and then I saw this: 36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes. Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American --...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/furiouser-and-furiouser.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20167611e3a19970b 2012-01-26T11:04:19-05:00 2012-01-26T14:41:35-05:00

Never borrow what you cannot repay. Never borrow for a luxury if you cannot afford the necessities. Prioritize your borrowing. Reserve some borrowing capacity for emergencies. $15 trillion dollars in stacked $100 bills ~ staceylandrum.com David Horowitz at RedState: Our national debt stands at $15.2 trillion, and is growing by roughly $6 billion per day. We have tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Unfunded liabilities amount to $114.5 trillion - shown here in stacked $100-bills . [According to the US Debt Clock, unfunded national liabilities amount to over a MILLION DOLLARS PER TAXPAYER. See...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/are-you-kidding-me.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20167611df371970b 2012-01-26T10:35:12-05:00 2012-01-26T10:36:35-05:00

Don Surber: .... As with all his other speeches, this one did not sing. He is a boring lecturer who cannot quote great works like Kennedy or King because it is unlikely he has read any. But he did unveil his slogan for his re-election campaign. Let’s see if readers can spot it: “An economy built to last, where hard work pays off, and responsibility is rewarded.” “Tonight, I want to speak about how we move forward, and lay out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last – an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/ditto-don-surbers-prayer.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20168e61f35c2970c 2012-01-26T10:20:39-05:00 2012-01-26T10:22:37-05:00

Brilliant piece of satire by Daniel Greenfield: State of Disunion We know that the state of the union is good no matter how many Americans are out of work, how many families are counting every penny, how many industries are falling off a cliff and how high the national debt gets. We know it's good so long as another politician takes a victory lap up to the podium and tells us that it's all good because he's here. Iraq? Nothing to worry about. We just brought all the troops home. Sure it's breaking up into a civil war, but you...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/americas-back.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20168e61efb2e970c 2012-01-26T09:59:18-05:00 2012-01-26T15:40:17-05:00

Thursday, January 26, 2012: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's job performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) at least somewhat disapprove. 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 (see trends). That’s the president’s best rating in a month and comes at a time when the number who say the country is moving in the right direction has reached...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/speech-bump.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20168e61eca16970c 2012-01-26T09:35:08-05:00 2012-01-26T09:43:46-05:00

TONIGHT: 8pm ET on CNN Location: University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL Sponsor: CNN, CNN en Español, The Hispanic Leadership Network and The Republican Party of Florida Participants: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, Paul Live Stream ======================================================================= Here's a bit of today's Morning Jolt, to keep our interest from flagging[?]: .... On Wednesday, Jonah observed: Elliot Abram's piece on Newt's attacks on Reagan is an interesting read. While it does muddy Gingrich's claims that he was sort of Reagan's junior partner, I'm not sure everyone will see it as an all-out indictment. As Josh Treviño writes on twitter: "I'll take '80s...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/i-dont-know-if-i-can-face-another-enemedia-debate.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20163001e57e0970d 2012-01-25T16:54:11-05:00 2012-01-25T16:55:11-05:00

Put aside, just for a few minutes, the fact that Ron Paul has got the Israel-poorpalistinian thing wrong. I'm not asking you to vote for him, just to listen to six minutes of this speech from April 24, 2002 -- on the floor of the House. That would be TEN years ago.

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/this-is-mind-boggling.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e201676111df94970b 2012-01-25T14:58:07-05:00 2012-01-25T16:58:06-05:00

Last year after the State of the Union address, I posted: "Funny, Obama didn't mention Economic Freedom." That was probably because the U.S. had fallen to No. 9, with a score of 77.8 out of 100. ( In 2007 we were No. 4, with a score of 82.0. ) This year he didn't mention it either... and we've fallen to 10th place (76.3). .... Although the foundations of economic freedom remain strong, recent government interventions have eroded limits on government, and public spending by all levels of government now exceeds one-third of total domestic output. The regulatory burden on business...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/economic-freedom-slip-slip-slippin-away.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20168e60fee6f970c 2012-01-25T10:35:43-05:00 2012-01-25T10:37:56-05:00

Glenn Kessler may have been a nightmare over the years, especially when it came to the poorpalistinians, but from what I can tell he's not doing a bad job as "fact-checker" for the Washington Post. In fact (the pun was unintentional), he's doing a better job of it now than he was just last summer. Here's one bit from his Fact checking Obama's 2012 SOTU speech: Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home.” [Kessler:] This is fanciful...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/glenn-kessler-may-have-been-a-nightmare-over-the-years-especially-when-it-came-to-the-poorpalistinians-but-what-i-can-tell.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2016300182560970d 2012-01-25T08:15:12-05:00 2012-01-25T08:25:53-05:00

Individuals should be free to decide what to produce and consume, and their decisions should be made within a predictable policy framework based on the rule of law. John B. Taylor: Economics for the Long Run

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/q.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20167610cbdd5970b 2012-01-25T07:30:29-05:00 2012-01-25T07:43:37-05:00

"This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy..."

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/jaws-drop-as-obama-steals-line-from-sarah-palin.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2016761063527970b 2012-01-24T19:58:42-05:00 2012-01-24T19:58:42-05:00

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2012/01/pre-speech-chuckle.html