Isaiah 50: 3-5—“I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering. Yahweh God has given Me the tongue of disciples, that I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. Yahweh God has opened My ear; and I was not disobedient nor did I turn back.”

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Isaiah 50: 3-5—“I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.  Yahweh God has given Me the tongue of disciples, that I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.  He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.  Yahweh God has opened My ear; and I was not disobedient nor did I turn back.”

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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4: 6)

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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” (Anonymous)

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Dan Seals might be one of the proud, the few, the democrats that will be defying Republican zeitgeist. He might be winning close elections in a district that was held in Republican hands for many years. The race in IL-10, heavily Jewish, suburbanite, abandoned by a representative turned Senate candidate (Mark Kirk), is tight, but forecasters seem to suggest Seals the Democrat had good chance of ending it in Washington after three failed previous attempts (here’s one positive forecast, and another one, and one less decisive).

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Before the polls close today, Illinois voters need to be reminded that they alone could throw a monkey wrench into any Democratic thought of imposing their hideous fantasies on an unwilling country during a lame-duck Congress.

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In the history of badly timed book titles, Los Angeles Times reporters Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten hold a distinguished place. The publication of “One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century” in 2006 was followed quickly by two national elections in which Democrats gained 15 Senate seats, 54 House seats and the White House. In 2008 Barack Obama became the first Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson to win an outright majority of the popular vote. He took seven states that had twice voted for George W. Bush, including two (Indiana and Virginia) that had not gone Democratic since 1964.

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Yemen authorities on Sunday released a 23-year-old engineering student who had been arrested a day earlier for her alleged connection to al-Qaida and the foiled plot to mail packages of concealed explosives into the U.S., according to her lawyer.

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U.S. efforts to weaken the Qaida branch in Yemen have collided with that nation’s political reality as President Ali Abdullah Saleh needs foreign support to defeat militants but cannot appear to appease Western interests in a country where distrust of America runs deep.

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It’s always risky to appear onstage with a comedian. Not only are funny guys funny, but they’re also aggressive.

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The day of reckoning is upon us. It’s our choice — maybe a last chance. We either put up or shut up. If we can’t take the House, the country is screwed. America can only take so much debt, high taxes, country-imploding entitlements and lost jobs.

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Yet I give you thanks, Mr. Obama. No other president in my lifetime has energized an American public to the point where people who never dreamed of participating in anything resembling politics, have marched in the streets, showed up at town hall meetings and familiarized themselves with a Constitution they too long took for granted.

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While much of the political world has been obsessing over the troubles of Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, or the sparring over Rand Paul and “Aqua-Buddha” in Kentucky, or the controversies surrounding Sharron Angle in Nevada, another Republican newcomer has been running a quiet, direct, and devastatingly effective campaign. Here in Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, a businessman who has never before run for public office, appears poised to pick up a Senate seat for Republicans, defeating Democratic legend Russell Feingold and becoming the first GOP senator elected from the state since 1986.

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What special interest is spending the most money to influence the 2010 election? The answer isn’t the US Chamber of Commerce, notwithstanding President Obama’s recent attacks on the Chamber’s campaign contributions. Nor is it the Karl Rove-backed network of pro-Republican campaign organizations, including American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, that have also been assailed by the White House and the focus of critical media attention.

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During the Tuesday evening deluge, pay particular attention to these stories.

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is all that remains of President Barack Obama’s original economic team. Budget Director Peter Orszag and Christina Romer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, are long gone, and Lawrence Summers, chairman of the National Economic Council, plans to be back at Harvard in January.

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There is the party of hope and there is the party of memory, and often enough they are the same party just a couple of years removed. For the bright hopes of election season inevitably give way to the harsh realities of exercising power — for good or ill. Then the party in power is weighed in the balance, and its performance compared with its promises.

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As you would expect from a political whoop de do whipped up by comedian Jon Stewart, some members of the crowd at the “Rally to Restore Sanity” last weekend were in on the joke. They held up signs reading “I have a sign” and “Hyperbole is literally killing America.” However, there was plenty more unintentional irony. Signs attacking Bush and making accusations of racism were too numerous to count. One man even walked around the crowd wearing a business suit and a sandwich board reading: “HIRE ME. ASK FOR A RESUME. YES I AM VOTING FOR OBAMA IN 2012.”

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It takes a powerful collective repugnance to propel a national political rebuke.

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Will the government outlaw your 401(k) plan? It seems like an absurd possibility, yet earlier this month two Democratic senators, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a hearing on Capitol Hill exploring the possibility of doing exactly that.

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Ask the people of Harry Reid’s hometown what they think about their neighbor and senator, and they’ll give pretty much the same answer as the rest of Nevadans.  They’re divided.  But ask a little more and it appears they might be leaning, ever so slightly, toward dumping the man who has represented them in Congress since 1983, and replacing him with Republican challenger Sharron Angle.  Their sentiments — closely split, maybe a little more Angle than Reid — mirror the polls of the last few weeks.  If Nevadans take those feelings to the voting booth on Election Day, they will hand Democrats the biggest single loss in what appears to be a terrible election season.

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Tehran’s influence buyers are on a shopping spree in Kabul. The New York Times only scratched the surface in last week’s report that Iranian officials have delivered bags of cash worth millions of dollars to President Hamid Karzai’s chief of staff, Umar Daudzai. Karzai confirmed that story but dismissed concerns about corruption, saying the money was spent on “various expenses and helping people.” But NEWSWEEK has learned that the practice goes far beyond Karzai’s office. In fact, Iranians almost routinely give cash to Afghan officials, parliamentarians, politicians, and religious leaders to promote Tehran’s agenda.

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The agenda for President Obama’s trip to India this week will be far weightier than it might appear. Most of his three-day visit will be devoted to ceremonial tourism and talks to business groups. There will be an address to Parliament but barely a morning of face-to-face working sessions with the political leadership. But it’s all a very delicate courtship dance. “It’s going to take time to build a proper relationship with India,” says a senior defense official, asking not to be named when discussing sensitive issues. “There isn’t going to be some overnight conversion.”

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The Iranian intelligence officials, none of whom would be named discussing a highly sensitive matter, confirmed a Nation magazine report asserting that Fattal, Bauer, and Sarah Shourd were kidnapped, in July 2009, by Heyva Taab, a local crime boss and ex-commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. According to ex-officials, the Guards allegedly used to pay Taab for delivering the bodies of Kurdish guerillas. Taab would kill innocent Kurds along the Iran-Iraq border, dress them as guerillas, and hand them over. He is currently in jail in Iran for killing an Iranian official and his nephew.

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If you think I’m exaggerating about the current administration’s cluelessness toward the Middle East just read the State Department daily press conference transcripts. Even journalists covering these events are often shocked by what they hear.

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Gets it. The Washington Post: “Egypt’s backsliding is not Mr. Obama’s fault. But Mr. Mubarak’s actions reflect a common calculation across the Middle East: that this U.S. president, unlike his predecessor, is not particularly interested in democratic change. Mr. Obama has exhibited passion on the subject of Israel’s West Bank settlements; he and his top aides have publicly pressured, and sometimes castigated, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. If the president is similarly troubled by Mr. Mubarak’s defiance, he has yet to show it.”

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This is the kind of thing that really characterizes the situation in the Middle East. Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group even more radical than Hamas, held a rally in Gaza City which drew an estimated 100,000 people out of a population of approximately two million.

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This is a story that benefitted from the weekend; much of Friday’s rush to judgment was wrong. First reports had the printer cartridge as a fake causing several experts to claim it was a “dry run” for later bombs; the addressees were synagogues and Jewish organizations in Chicago, which some experts said might have something to do with President Obama, although what is unclear; and the suspect was a 22-year-old female Yemeni engineering student.

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During a meeting with the Egyptian press in Cairo at the beginning of August, Mahmud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, and the man on whom the United States and Europe have placed all of their hopes for peace, revealed what was at the back of his mind with regard to the Jews and the nature of the regime he plans to set up in the future State of Palestine. The official demands of the Palestinians for a settlement are known: Israel’s agreement in advance to withdraw to the borders of 1967, a freeze of construction in the territories including Jerusalem, the division of this city, including the Old City, which must become part of the Palestinian Authority, the solution of the problem of the “refugees” in conformance with Arab demands and Resolution 194 of the General Assembly of the U.N.).

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Brazil being Brazil, a land where the next campaign begins the nanosecond the last one ends, speculation is already rife following the election of Dilma Rousseff. Complicating the picture is the fact that in Brazil there is no such thing as an ex-president. Though the national Constitution limits presidents to two consecutive mandates, nothing stops a pol bitten by destiny from sitting it out for four years or so and then trying again. And again, and again.

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Germany’s steady stream of good economic news — last week, it announced that unemployment dropped below the 3 million mark for the first time since 1992 — has been of oddly little help to Chancellor Angela Merkel. Since last year’s decisive reelection victory, Merkel has been beset by a number of political setbacks — infighting with junior coalition partners, taking the wrong side in a regional railway dispute that sparked nationwide protests, and backing EU bailout efforts despite resistance from German voters.

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It’s easy to see why some policymakers hope favourable exchange rates could put America’s economy back on track. Amid growing fears of a Japanese-style malaise, the other options are either off the table or likely to be ineffective. Political gridlock and soaring debt have stymied an effective second stimulus, and monetary policy has not reignited investment. But weakening the dollar to boost exports is a risky strategy – it could result in exchange rate volatility and protectionism; worse, it invites a response from competitors. In this fragile global economic environment, a currency war will make everybody a loser.

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LAST week our country averted a disaster. Good work by American and foreign intelligence officials pinpointed explosives hidden in packages shipped in Yemen and bound on airplanes for the United States. But we cannot rely on getting such timely, accurate intelligence — it often is simply unavailable — and the episode highlighted a number of problems with our system for screening inbound air cargo.

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After the midterm elections, Barack Obama will get a chance to follow a long line of American presidents who have had setbacks at home. He will go abroad. His long-delayed Asian trip this week – India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan – is by chance perfectly timed. Asian powers are showing a striking – and growing – interest in American power.

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If you play with fire, you’re going to get burned.

There’s an old saying that is typically true.  If you play with fire, you’re going to get burned.  People of Turkey, listen up.  Your apparent love affair with Islamofascist-leaning politicians has a predictable downside.

On Sunday, a likely suicide bomber attacked innocent civilians in Istanbul’s central Taksim Square injuring at least 15 people.  (See Suspected suicide bomber injured 15 in Istanbul for details.)  You can expect more of the same unless you change course.  The people you are courting are hate-filled zealots, and they attack indiscriminately.  Giving them a safe haven is inviting disaster.

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