During Monday's speech to AIPAC, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Hamas for renaming "a square after a terrorist who murdered innocent Israelis."
As the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) pointed out, however, it was the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas, who named a square after a terrorist who murdered innocent Israelis. In fact, Itamar Marcus from PMW noted the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi the PA venerated was responsible for killing 37 Israelis, the worst terror attack against Israel in its modern history.
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On Monday, March 22, 2010, Pat Robertson turned 80 years of age. Count ‘em 80! Amazing, and he’s still “pressing on,” with no intention of retiring. Retirement ain’t in the Bible.
This past weekend here at CBN we celebrated that event and 50 years of this work that includes, The 700 Club, Regent University, Operation Blessing, etc., which has now spread to over 200 nations throughout the earth.
Want to keep track of the amendments the GOP is proposing to health care as the Senate debates reconciliation?
Here you go.
You may have heard, Sen. Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, introduced a bill yesterday to fully repeal the health care law President Obama signed yesterday. He was joined by 12 other Republicans, Senators Graham, Bennett, Bond, Chambliss, Crapo, Ensign, Hutchinson, inhofe, LeMieux, Risch, Roberts and Vitter.
This afternoon, the President will sign the executive order banning federal funding for abortion. It's the deal he struck with pro-life Democrats that sealed the deal for him to pass his health care bill.
You know what it won't be like? Yesterday.
There will be no TV cameras. No Joe Biden. No pep rally with hundreds of members of Congress. No 20+ pens. Nope, none of that.
The executive order will be signed at 2:30pm in the Oval Office. The President will be joined by several members of Congress, including:
Vice President has a lunch date with newly elected Massachusetts Senator, Republican Scott Brown. Sorry, folks. That's all I've got. No cameras are allowed in there either.
Last night Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down with President Obama for a meeting at the White House. You'll just have to trust me on this because there is not even a picture of the event. The White House didn't allow any press in to cover the meeting, did not release an official photo or a readout themselves, and officials are remining tight-lipped about how things went. It's rather strange to have two leaders meet and have no photos or press briefings to show for it. For the record, by the way, the Israeli government didn't release a photo or a statement, either.
Here's what the President is up to today:
9:00am The President meets with Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar (this was rescheduled from yesterday)
9:35am The President and The Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
10:15am The President meets with Senator Dodd and Representative Frank to discuss financial reform
2:30pm The President signs an executive order reaffirming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka health care bill)'s consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion
At this week's AIPAC meeting in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared "Jerusalem is not a settlement, it's our capitol." The status of Jerusalem and whether Israel can build apartments in its own capitol has dominated the debate between the two countries since Vice President Joe Biden's visit here two weeks ago.
The number three Republican in the House of Representatives today told reporters, "I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the Jewish state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem."
Pence is a strong supporter of Israel and his remarks came just before a bipartisan meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It's spring break and time for a week long recess. A trip to the beach is just what we need. So we begin packing: Cool sunglasses, check. Suntan lotion, check. Flip-flops, check. Beach towel, check. We’ve got everything that’s appropriate for fun in the sun or do we?