Tuesday Tid-Bits
Here’s one way to handle the downturn in the housing market.
It’s not a matter of center-right, moderate, or far-right. It is a matter of beliefs:
The Republican Party will not be revived by compromising core principles. If limited government, free markets, personal freedom, American exceptionalism and traditional values are principles republicans can no longer stand up and fight for there can be no resurgence of the party – no resuscitation. The epitaph has already been written.
This is one man who it appears will not be pushed into any corner by any person at any time when it comes to the security of his nation.
So it was that as Israel got ready to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath on Friday, Netanyahu sent up a smoke signal that the White House should have no trouble deciphering. In a briefing with reporters from Russian-language newspapers, he said that Israel would never withdraw from the Golan Heights, which it took after defeating Syria during the 1967 Six Day War.
“Remaining on the Golan will ensure Israel has a strategic advantage in cases of military conflict with Syria,” Netanyahu said, according to several Russian-oriented Israeli Web sites, which published the comments on Friday.
Howard Kurtz cites a few more reasons for the decline of print media.
The only comment I will offer on this story is that prayers and condolences should be offered to those who lost loved ones as they would be in any circumstance where there was a tragic loss of life.



