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from the must-read RBO : Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat who campaigned for President Obama in 2008, yesterday slammed the U.S. leader’s recent treatment of Israel as “outrageous” and “hostile,” declaring he is “close” to “getting off the Obama train.” Koch’s sentiments are significant. The former politician has long been an indicator of American Jewish sentiment regarding U.S. presidents and Israel. His statements may serve as a signal that some American Jews are moving away from the Obama administration. Koch was speaking in a radio interview with WND senior reporter Aaron Klein, who hosts an investigative program on New York’s WABC 770 AM. The former mayor took issue with the Obama administration’s diplomatic row with Israel last month after a Jerusalem municipality announced the construction of 1,600 new homes in the neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, an already existing Jerusalem Jewish community. That announcement came during a visit to the region by Vice President Joe Biden...

from Sugar & Spice I was reading an article in the newspaper today about the trial of the Missouri woman accused of contributing to the suicide of a 13 year old girl after she and her daughter and an assistant tormented the girl over a period of time . I thought to myself, "damn, it's a good thing I'm not a depressed 13 year old girl, or some folks who visit my blog would find themselves on the wrong side of the law," because the things that have been uttered here at this blog and others to folks who refuse to get in line behind the Obama pied piper parade are pretty amazing and not in a good way. This MySpace suicide case has been in the news a lot over the past week with the trial going on and I've been keeping track of it if for no other reason than everytime I open the newspaper each day, there's an update. Earlier, I decided to do a Google search to see if I could find a definition of sorts about the Federal description of Cyber Bullying, when I foun...

Why Leaders Make a Mistake, Can't Fix it and Won't Admit it. A world leader can make a huge mistake such as leading their nation to an unjust war, then, after the reasons for the war are shown to be invalid, not be able to bring themselves to admit that the mistake that the war was wrong or be “big enough” to reverse policy and stop the war. Instead, they continue to maintain that the war was right all along, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They defend their error, fail to reverse course, and allow many more to die needlessly. This happens often in history. One thinks of Napoleon’s foolish invasion of Russia. Hitler did the same a century later. One thinks of Vietnam. One thinks of Iraq. Psychiatrists call it "narcissistic rage in leaders". It is direct evidence of a leader's fundamental psychological weakness--a damaged and fragile self-concept. But it can also lead to the destruction of individuals, groups, organizations, and even entire nations. ...