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JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL HYPOCRISY WHEN IT COMES TO ISRAEL….JOHN KERRY MADE A “CAREFULLY WORDED” STATEMENT ON THIS IN MARCH :”the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry did not fail to recognize that Sri Lanka is in fact “on the path toward lasting peace and prosperity following decades of civil war and instability”. AND HILLARY CLINTON IN 2012 AS SEC. OF STATE…URGED SRI LANKA TO “CREDIBLY INVESTIGATE CHARGES”…..BUT JUST MENTION ISRAELI “SETTLEMENTS” AND THEY GO BALLISTIC…..RSK
SRI Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse says he’s ready to defend his country against allegations of war crimes raised at this week’s commonwealth summit, saying it had “nothing to hide”.

Tony Abbott and other commonwealth leaders are under pressure to raise concerns about Sri Lanka’s human rights record at the Colombo summit, which is already being boycotted by leaders from Canada, India and Mauritius.

But, speaking on the eve of the 53-member group’s summit, Mr Rajapakse said: “We are very open, we have nothing to hide.”

Mr Rajapakse said he was ready to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss allegations that up to 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians were killed by Sri Lankan forces in the closing stages of the civil war in the island’s north.

“I will be meeting him and we will see what, I will also have to ask some questions,” he said.

Mr Rajapakse, who was elected president of the former British colony in 2005, mounted a stout defence of his administration’s handling of allegations of rights abuses.

The Obama administration has little interest in world leadership. http://www.nationalreview.com/node/363895/print The United States has ridden — and tamed — the wild global tiger since the end of World War II. The frantic ride has been dangerous, to us, but a boon to humanity. At the same time, America’s leadership role has been misrepresented and misunderstood […]

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/363907/obamacare-schadenfreudarama-jonah-goldberg It feels pretty good to watch the whole thing fail. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the unraveling of Obamacare. First, the obligatory caveats. It is no laughing matter that millions of Americans’ lives have been thrown into anxious chaos as they lose their […]

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IN SPITE OF THE PANIC MAYBE THE GOP WILL GIVE SENATORS TED CRUZ AND MIKE LEE A LITTLE PRAISE…..THEY STARTED THE PUSH BACK….RSK

The White House scrambled Wednesday to find solutions for the glaring failures in Obamacare as rebellious congressional Democrats pressured the administration over their increasing political predicament.

In a closed-door meeting at the Capitol, House Democrats blasted administration officials over their handling of the Obamacare rollout, and the White House’s failure to address Mr. Obama’s broken promise to Americans that they could keep their health insurance plans.

Top Senate Democrats, meanwhile, were giving more support to a legislative proposal that would allow people to keep their insurance plans. The White House said the proposal from Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, has more merit than a House Republican plan scheduled for a vote Friday.

Presidential aides wouldn’t commit to a specific fix.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/numbers-arent-adding-up-for-obamacare/print/ The Obama administration did its best to inflate the number of ObamaCare enrollees yesterday, but it’s clear even the administration’s most vigorous efforts have fallen painfully short. The initial announcement made at 3:30 p.m. EST revealed that 106,185 people nationwide had “selected” an ObamaCare health insurance plan. The word “selected” is critical here, because the administration was forced […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/if-you-like-your-food-you-can-keep-your-food/print/ Food prices have been steadily rising under Obama. The price of a pound of potatoes has gone up by a third, the price of a gallon of milk has increased by a fifth and the price of a 5lb bag of flour has gone up by a dollar. Bacon was at $3.60 a lb […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/think-obamacare-is-bad-now-it-gets-worse-next-year?f=puball ‘Substandard” and “cut-rate” is what President Obama calls the health plans that millions of Americans have lost, even though they wanted to keep them. Backpedaling on his promise that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” Obama is now telling Americans another whopper: The insurance they can get on ObamaCare exchanges is […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/iran-general-no-doubt-israel-and-america-will-be-attacked Even before the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the 5+1 world powers ended in Geneva early Sunday with no deal, an Iranian general lashed out at America Saturday and warned both the U.S. and Israel that they will be attacked. According to Fars News Agency, the regime’s outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Massoud […]

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303289904579195993572716498?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond The White House recently whispered out the back door that President Obama would not appear in Pennsylvania next Tuesday at the ceremonies for the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The political betting had been that this was a big-speech venue whose glow Mr. Obama would not want to miss. The higher-road expectation […]

Emerging Details Give Heirs Who Thought Works Were Lost Long-Awaited Evidence

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Martha Hinrichsen got a call last week she thought she’d never receive: Within a vast trove of recovered wartime art, German authorities had found a drawing records show belonged to her Jewish grandfather.

Now the 65-year-old retired music publisher is one of many heirs of Holocaust victims who are digging through yellowed files and painful family histories to research potential claims to the cache of Nazi-confiscated art.

“Who would ever think I’d need to go back through all this?” Ms. Hinrichsen said of the onionskin invoices and letters that make up 75 trunkloads of family archives she keeps in a storage locker two miles from her home in Southbury, Conn.

Since 1945, she said her family had worked steadily to successfully reclaim their ornate, three-story home in Leipzig as well as their music-publishing business, which were confiscated by the Nazis during the war from her Jewish grandfather, Henri Hinrichsen. But the case of his still-missing art had grown cold until a friend told her she had read about the lost drawing, by 19th-century German artist Carl Spitzweg.

As details have emerged in the past week about the roughly 1,400-piece collection found in a Munich apartment, descendants of collectors and ordinary citizens who lost art during World War II were stunned to hear that pieces they thought were forever gone still existed. Some, who have been fighting for decades to reclaim art lost to the Nazis, now have the concrete evidence that they’ve been waiting for.