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What They Are Saying, Oct. 8, 2008

Some Church Leaders Clearly Chose Not to Sit and 'Feast With the Beast' The director of the United Methodist committee at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, Mark D. Tooley , writes in The Weekly Standard ( www.weeklystandard.com ) on Oct. 2 about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dinner pals: "In a fourth encounter over two years, American church officials shared an Iftar...

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Read All About It

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Robert Leiter

Just about a year ago, Jeff Bezos, the man who made Amazon a household name, unveiled his effort at cornering the ever-hopeful e-book market; his nifty reading device, called the Kindle, was unveiled with lots of pomp and circumstance and, according to critics and public alike, it lived up to the hype. One of the first journalists to get a...

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Government 'Gifts' Are Not Free

Dependence on congressional earmarks hurts America and Israel in the long run

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Jonathan S. Tobin

Americans have reacted to the collapse of Wall Street and the subsequent massive federal bailout with a mixture of numb incomprehension and resentment. Wall Street is rightly excoriated for its failures and misdeeds. So, too, is the Bush administration which, as with everything else that was amiss in the last eight years, was unprepared to deal with the crisis. And,...

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Let the Sukkah Bring Shelter to the Strangers Among Us

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Gideon Aronoff

As we engage in our time of collective Jewish reflection and take stock of the past year, one issue of social justice jumps ahead of other strong competitors: For most Jewish Americans, 5768 was the year immigration came of age. The luxury of musing about our grandparents and great-grandparents who arrived in this country with nothing but their hopes and...

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D.C. Earmarks Can Actually Include Some Glatt Kosher 'Pork'

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Douglas M. Bloomfield

While Sen. John McCain was using the first presidential debate with Sen. Barack Obama to threaten to veto any legislation crossing his desk containing earmarks if he's elected president, his colleagues on Capitol Hill, in both parties and both chambers, were putting the final touches on a $630-billion spending bill that included 2,321 separate earmarks worth $6.6 billion. It was...