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Category Archives: Barack Obama
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Dennis Prager’s Nightmare
On his radio show Monday, Dennis Prager said: “I have a nightmare for this country — anything that physically harmed this president. It is my nightmare. I can not think of a single worse thing, short of a nuclear terrorist … Continue reading →
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Yisroel Pensack: Couple Not On Guest List Attended State Dinner Tuesday at White House
The Washington Post reports: A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia appear to have crashed the White House’s state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with no invitation to mingle with the likes of Vice President Biden … Continue reading →
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Tagged "The Real Housewives of Washington", Arun K. Singh, aspiring reality-TV stars, bitter family feud, Ed Donovan, Facebook, guest list, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, michelle obama, Northern Virginia, photos, polo-playing socialites, President Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Secret Service, South Lawn, state dinner, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Vice President Biden, VIPs, washington post, white house, winery
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Will The United States Survive Barack Obama?
I see that Barack Obama bowed to the dictator of China. That makes me feel proud. Dennis Prager said on his radio show today: "The sense of worry that many Americans have right now about the United States is the … Continue reading →
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Black America’s Attachment To Barack Obama
Dennis Prager did his radio show today from Zambia. He notes that a new poll shows that only 19% of Americans believe Obama that healthcare reform won’t add to the federal budget deficit. "The man is so far left that … Continue reading →
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Yisroel Pensack: Was Colin Powell Equally Wrong About WMD in Iraq and Islam in America?
I think that’s a fair question in light of yesterday’s murderous shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, which authorities have attributed to Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who reportedly was about to be deployed to Iraq or … Continue reading →
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Tagged army, Colin Powell, Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, Meet the Press, muslim, Palestinian, psychiatrist, senator john mccain, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, WMD
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Nimrod Was A Charismatic Black Man Who Said ‘Yes, We Can!’
I heard an interesting dvar Torah the other day about the parsha of Noach. The speaker pointed out that Nimrod united the world through his brilliant oratory. He was deserving of a Nobel peace prize. He wanted to create socialist … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, dvar torah, mighty ruler, morning sermon, nobel peace prize, parsha noach, son of noah
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‘The Obama Presidency Has Been A Disaster’
Dennis Prager said that this week. Charles Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post: About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of … Continue reading →
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Arguing About Obama
David Suissa writes: My friend Yossi Klein Halevi, a political analyst and author who lives in Jerusalem, elaborated on this view. “One reason for our difficulty to manage civil discourse, especially in Israel, is because our issues really are life … Continue reading →
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One Man Who Deserved The Nobel Peace Prize
I broke the news to a liberal friend this morning. She responded: "For what?" I laughed. "For what did he win the Nobel Prize?" she said. "Was it Afghanistan? Iraq? I don’t get it." Bridget Johnson writes: "Was there ANYONE … Continue reading →
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Tagged afghanistan iraq, assassination plots, nobel peace prize, nobel prize, nobel prizes, tyrannical rule
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