By Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder  
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Why is anti-Semitism so popular and pleasurable as a persistent behavior pattern all over the world? People who care about the fate of the Jews are always searching for subtle, indefinable reasons to explain the intensity of anti- Jewish hostility and hate. The simple truth is that the answer is far from mysterious.
As a matter of fact, the answer is so obvious that you'd have to brainless not to see it. Everyone knows that whatever the crime committed against any Jew, the only price you'll pay will be the price of the ride to the crime scene and back. Instead of blaming the criminals, the Jews will get involved in an orgy of self-blame and guilt. And after blaming themselves, they'll start blaming each other. Somebody will be screaming, "It's your own fault! Why would you be walking in front of a Muslim mosque at 2 a.m.," and the other one will argue, "Why would I think they would recognize that I am Jewish," and another voice yells, "At least you could've been smart enough to wear sneakers!" Then somebody says, "Let's report this to the police," while somebody else is ...   more »

by Andrei Chang
Hong Kong (UPI) Sep 21, 2007
In the event of conflict in the Taiwan Strait, if the United States were to send an aircraft carrier to the scene, it would likely remain in an area 800-1,000 kilometers from the spot of engagement. This is what happened in 1999 when China sent a series of air sorties over the island and the United States sent two aircraft carriers to the area as a warning. This distance poses very complicated and difficult challenges for detecting, positioning and tracking the target when aiming to strike the aircraft carrier with ballistic missiles.
China's DF-21 and DF-15 ballistic missiles use inertia plus gyroscope guidance at the middle course, and as a result the flight trajectories are quite inflexible. Even if new optical and radar image guidance technologies are applied at the terminal course, it is still extremely difficult to quickly adjust the direction when attacking a moving target.
Suppose a DF-21M middle-range ballistic missile were to attack a U.S. aircraft carrier from a distance of 1,000 kilometers at an average speed of 7 Mach, or flying at a speed of 2,380 meters per second -- the whole course would take approximately seven ...   more »

Chuck Baldwin
As a conservative Baptist pastor for more than thirty years and a former executive director for the Moral Majority, my roots in the Religious Right run pretty deep. However, over the last several years, I have become a consistent critic of the Religious Right, as faithful readers of this column already know.
The main objection I have with the Religious Right is they have (for the most part) given President George W. Bush (and the Republican Party in general) a complete and total pass. Over the past nearly seven years now, Bush and GOP leaders have betrayed most every principle that I ever understood the Religious Right to stand for. Yet, our national Christian leaders (and local pastors throughout America) have been content to look the other way and say nothing. Or worse yet, they have actually defended Bush's liberal, big-spending, anti-freedom, and unconstitutional ways. In a nutshell, for a seat at the king's table, the Religious Right sold out its principles.
Another criticism I have with our national Christian leaders is the seeming shallowness they display. About the only thing a Republican politician has to do to curry favor with our illustrious conservative Christian leaders is to ...   more »

By Gailon Totheroh
CBNNews.com - VANCOUVER - Millions of kids have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly called ADHD or ADD.
But questions about the diagnosis and using drugs to fight behavior problems remain.
Vancouver, Canada is the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics and where hockey rules the day for twins Scott and Spencer McHaffie. They excel at the national sport, and keep up their skills with summer practice.
But when it comes to the classroom, they get a failing grade. It was a struggle that started in pre-school. Doctors diagnosed them with ADHD at age six.
"I was struggling pretty much," Spencer said. "I didn't really get it, the strategies."
Jim, the twins' dad, said, "My wife was pulling her hair out. It was so hard. The house was always messy, they were tearing the house apart. They were very active."
"I was dealing with principals, teachers, doctors, counselors," their mom Aggie said.
She said she didn't even want to answer the phone.
"Every single day, there was a message on the machine, 'Hi, Mrs. McHaffie, it's Mrs. So-and-so, can you give me a call?' And I just dreaded it," she said.
About five percent of ...   more »

 As Jews around the world gathered in synagogues last Friday night to mark the start of Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — someone was apparently busy fashioning a massive swastika into several acres of a cornfield in Washington Township, N.J.
The swastika was spotted by a New Jersey State Police helicopter during a routine maintenance mission.
Local residents told the Star Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.J., that they were unaware of the reviled symbol of hate.
Click here to read full story in the Star-Ledger.
"I saw helicopters, and they were circling," Debbie Tamasi told the newspaper. "I had no idea."
The Anti-Defamation League said the swastika "shows the persistence of anti-Semitism and hate."
"At a time when Jews around the world and in New Jersey are celebrating the High Holidays, we are confronted with this ugly symbol of hatred against Jews," the organization's New Jersey regional director, Etzion Neuer, told the newspaper. "Obviously, those responsible for this act were determined to deliver a message of hate on a massive scale.
Washington Township Police Chief Martin Masseroni said his department is investigating.
"We're doing everything we can to see if we can find out who did this," he ...   more »

BY SHARON SALYER
EVERETT, Wash. -- Cindi Reedes heard doctors tell her the same frightening words three times in eight days: Her teenage daughter's chances of survival were slim. It would take a near-miracle to save her from the aggressive infection ravaging her body.
The only cause doctors could guess at was the tongue piercing 18-year-old Lacey Filosa got without her mother knowing about it.
For weeks, Lacey wavered at the edge of death, kept in a drug-induced coma to give her struggling body every chance to heal. A tube kept her breathing. Operations to cut out the infection were needed nearly every day.
At her daughter's bedside, Reedes did everything a mother could to let Lacey know she was there. Doctors told her to talk to Lacey as if she were awake.
"My son and I would rub lotion on her feet," Reedes said. "I'd take her hand and say, 'We're here. Come on! Pull through this!'" Sometimes, in response, her daughter would squeeze her mother's hand.
No one can say with certainty what triggered the infection.
Doctors suspect it was linked to a tongue piercing Filosa had gotten in Everett, a type of piercing popular with young adults. ...   more »

Resolution calls for end of NAFTA superhighway, abandonment of integration with Canada, Mexico
By Jerome R. Corsi
Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va. (Photo: University of Virginia)
A House resolution urging President Bush "not to go forward with the North American Union or the NAFTA Superhighway system" is – according to its sponsor Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., in an exclusive WND interview – "also a message to both the executive branch and the legislative branch."
As WND previously reported, on Jan. 22 Goode introduced H.C.R. 40, titled "Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada."
The bill has been referred to the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
WND asked Goode if the president was risking electoral success for the Republican Party in 2008 with his insistence on pushing for North American integration via the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP.
"Yes," Goode answered. "You won't hear the leadership in the Republic Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate ...   more »

By Eric Leijenaar, BosNewsLife Senior Special Correspondent
 The regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il persecutes Christians, Open Doors says.  SEOUL/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- At least one million North Koreans, many of them Christians, are believed to be held in North Korea's concentration camps, more than previously thought, investigators revealed Monday, September 24.   
Netherlands-based Open Doors International, a respected rights group investigating reports of persecution of Christians, told BosNewsLife that the concentration camps include eight punishment camps for political prisoners and 30 forced labor camps.    "It's possible that the number of prisoners are well over one million," said the Open Doors' North Korea director who identified himself only as 'Brother Simon' amid security concerns. Many camps are so huge that they can't be spotted on satellite images," he explained. "The camps are complete villages."
He refused to say how the Open Doors investigation had been conducted in the isolated nation, citing concerns about the safety of those involved in the research. "Many lives could be lost," he said. The Open Doors revelations come after previous reports of alleged atrocities in the camps, including in a remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China.
LARGEST ...   more »

by Judy Lash Balint
Sukkot of every size and description can be seen on balconies, rooftops and in courtyards. Every kosher restaurant in town has one and boasts bigger and better holiday specials to entice customers.You know it's Sukkot in Jerusalem because...
1. You can't get on a bus without being poked in the rear a dozen times with someone's stray lulav.
2. The sweet smell of etrogim in Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda (Yehuda Market) is overpowering. Huge crowds descend on the alleyway just outside the market to vie for the best lulav and etrog.
3. An enterprising bookstore is offering "Machzor rentals" for tourists who inadvertently left their holiday prayer books at home.
4. You've never seen such gaudy sukkah decorations in your life -- unless you've been to Woolworth's on Christmas eve. Kiosks manned by bearded Haredim in Meah Shearim are selling gold, green and red tinsel hangings.
5. Huge piles of s'chach (palm fronds for the roof of the sukkah) cover major city squares, and citizens are invited to take as much as they need for free.
6. Hotels report almost 100 percent occupancy, as Israelis join foreign tourists in celebrating the week-long holiday.
7. Sukkot of every ...   more »

Muslim intimidation could make 'land of Jesus' barren in 15 years
The once vibrant Christian communities of Bethlehem and Nazareth, with roots in the "land of Jesus" going back to first century Israel, are rapidly declining in the face of a systematic campaign of persecution conducted by the same Muslim terrorists intent on driving the Jews into the sea.
Beatings, sham legal proceedings, property seizures, dismissal and replacement of elected Christian leaders, accusations of selling property to Jews and intimidation by gunmen with links to the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have so reduced Christian populations in the cities of Jesus' birth and boyhood one community leader predicts all Christians will be gone within 15 years.  
In "Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!" author and WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein chronicles his meetings and interviews with leaders of terror groups and Islamist organizations long accused of intimidation and violence against Mideast Christians.
'No more Christians in Bethlehem'
For part of one chapter, Klein travels to Bethlehem to meet with the city's Christians and with its terrorist leaders.
Bethlehem consisted of upwards of 80 percent ...   more »