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What a sickening spectacle the GOP has become kicking Governor Mitt Romney around instead of focusing on their own problems. Let us revisit the primaries:

Rick Perry: He actually had ideas and a record and a tax reform plan. He was admittedly a klutzy debater, and the attacks from Michele Bachmann on mandatory vaccinations, and the others dumping on him because he gave the children of illegal immigrants the ability to get a college education. Now, they are all whining about “compassionate” treatment of illegals.

Jon Huntsman, whose fluency in Chinese and his snippy one liners impressed no one but himself .

Rick Santorum” No charm, no charisma and his claim of being a “winner” was made risible by the fact that he was defeated as Senator in a landslide election.

Ron Paul: Forget I mentioned him.

Newt Gingrich: Whose personal life story and struggle with his zipper makes Petraeus look like a choir boy. He is smart but smarmy.

Michele Bachmann: Great in Congress, whiny and annoying and squinting and no traction as candidate for the White House.

Herman Cain: Oh well….9-9-9 and that’s all.

Romney won and ran an honorable campaign.

Iran smuggling missiles to Gaza via Sudan
CNN
Monday, November 19, 2012
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Iran smuggling missiles to Gaza via Sudan
United States, Israeli and Egyptian officials have long suspected that Iran is using Sudan to smuggle weapons and equipment to Hamas. Then the weapons start a long road trip across the Egyptian border and up through the Sinai Peninsula to Gaza. Read more…
Hillary heads to Mideast to mediate Gaza conflict
CBS News
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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Hillary heads to Mideast to mediate Gaza conflict
President Obama is sending Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East in hopes that she can help mediate an end to the bloody conflict between Israel and Gaza. Read more…
Lawmakers give Egypt choice: Hamas or U.S. aid
Roll Call
Monday, November 19, 2012
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Lawmakers give Egypt choice: Hamas or U.S. aid
As Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip continues with no let-up in sight, lawmakers are focusing their attention on Egypt, warning that country’s new president to rein in the militant group Hamas or risk U.S. aid. Read more…

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Syrian fighters reject West for Islamist rule
BBC
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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Islamist rebel groups in the Syrian city of Aleppo say they reject the new Western-backed opposition coalition. Read more…

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/kerrys-the-wrong-man-for-the-pentagon/article/2513883 In its 65-year history, the Defense Department has been led by people of various political stripes. But never has the nomination of any Secretary of Defense been a direct insult to the men and women who served our nation in uniform. That will no longer be true if, as is rumored, President Obama nominates […]

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2086/it_s_hamas_stupid resident Obama’s strong vocal support for Israel’s right to self-defense in the wake of its aerial bombardment of weapons sites in Gaza reflects an apparent, and welcome, evolution in Obama’s thinking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that contrasts sharply with his initial approach toward the Jewish State. To his credit, the President resisted the traditional […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/who-was-it-that-denied-enhanced-security-and-why?f=puball

QUESTION: This question actually comes from a brain trust of my friends at Global Telecom Supply (ph) in Minneola yesterday.

OBAMA: Ah.

QUESTION: We were sitting around, talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware of reports that the State Department refused extra security for our embassy in Benghazi, Libya, prior to the attacks that killed four Americans. Who was it that denied enhanced security and why?

U.S. Presidential Debate, October 16, 2012

In the second Presidential debate, the September 11, 2012 killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya in Benghazi was the one foreign policy question that made it into the Townhall-style debate. This led to much analysis of the exchange between President Obama and Governor Romney regarding whether the President had referred to the attack as “an act of terror” in the Rose Garden a day after the attack, and what that really meant. The main point Romney was trying to make was that the Obama Administration had for two weeks incorrectly blamed an “anti-Muslim” film made in California for prompting the attack, rather than acknowledging the fact that it was a premeditated assault by Islamists. Later, the moderator, Candy Crowley, who, during the debate, had ruled in favor of President Obama’s claim that he had indeed called the attack premeditated terrorism, admitted she had made a mistake herself: “you’re totally correct that they (the Obama Administration) spent two weeks telling us this was about a tape… He (Romney) was right in the main, I just think he picked the wrong word,” by focusing on whether President Obama specifically said “acts of terror.”

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-world-israel-and-the-blame-game?f=puball The headlines are horrific, no one wants to read about any deaths, much less that of children. According to the BBC, At least 26 people were reported to have been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardments on Sunday. Of those, at least 14 were women and children, Gaza health officials said. This brought the […]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bam_hides_terror_truth_NR1M639HvJ4ZhJcywstHAI Until Friday, there were two possible explanations for why the White House failed to immediately call the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism. One was incompetence, the other was worse. Now there is only one, and it is the worse one. Based on the persuasive testimony of ex-CIA boss David Petraeus, it is clear […]

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/333696 Supporters of President Obama have dubbed those who question administration statements about Libya as either partisans or conspiracy theorists, on the premise that the administration had no reason to dissimulate. But in fact, it had plenty of political reasons not to be candid, as the following questions make clear. Why was the administration hesitant […]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-rain-of-rockets-how-hamas-terror-works-along-the-border-a-868215.html Hamas is firing rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip each day, bringing normal life to a halt for Israelis living near the border. Each time the sirens wail, residents are forced to flee into shelters. Many feel that any kind of retaliation is justified if it helps ease their fears. Life slowly comes […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/janice-fiamengo/deadly-delusions/print/ In the work of David Horowitz, personal history and political analysis are often conjoined. Horowitz’s memoir Radical Son told how as a Marxist intellectual and activist, he came to reject the revolutionary violence of progressivist ideology along with the utopian longings and commitments that inspired it. In works such as Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts […]