At New York Times : PLANO, Tex. — A crowd of well-wishers and autograph-seekers surrounded Rick Santorum at an event hall here this week. The place was packed; dozens of men, women and children stranded outside stood in the cold just to catch a glimpse of him. People approached him with tears in their eyes. They gave him cowboy hats, personal notes, quilts sewn for his seriously ill 3-year-old daughter and envelopes with checks inside. His campaign had raised $1 million online in 24 hours. Earlier, at a nearby hotel, he had to apologize to those hoping to have their pictures taken with him, explaining that he had a television show to get ready for. But as Mr. Santorum made his way through the crowd, he was asked if anything felt new. “No, no,” he said. “The same old, the same old.” Of course, that was hard to believe: This was the Santorum campaign, post-trifecta. On Tuesday night, Mr. Santorum stunned the political world by winning the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and a nonbinding primary in Missouri, reviving his flagging candidacy. On Wednesday and Thursday, at a series of campaign stops in the suburbs north of Dallas and in Oklahoma, Mr. Santorum took advantage of a burst of momentum and campaign donations that have followed his three victories. Though overtaking Mitt Romney, the Republican front-runner, is still a formidable challenge, Mr. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, has become as much of a political rock star as he has ever been in his life. Continue reading . PREVIOUSLY : ” Donors Turn to Santorum ‘Super PAC’ After Upset Victories .”
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Santorum Adjusting to Star Treatment on Trail
I always chuckle a little when I receive the wonderful emails from students thanking me for my instruction and leadership at the college. The progressives can’t stand my teaching excellence. They’ve long attacked me as unworthy of the classroom ( Kevin Robbins
From Charles C. Johnson, at The Tablet , ” Thatcher and the Jews “: When asked about her most meaningful accomplishment, Margaret Thatcher, now embodied by Meryl Streep in the biopic Iron Lady, did not typically mention serving in the British government, defeating the Argentine invasion of the Falkans, taming runaway inflation, or toppling the Soviet Union. The woman who reshaped British politics and served as prime minister from 1979 to 1990 often said that her greatest accomplishment was helping save a young Austrian girl from the Nazis. In 1938, Edith Muhlbauer, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, wrote to Muriel Roberts, Edith’s pen pal and the future prime minister’s older sister, asking if the Roberts family might help her escape Hitler’s Austria. The Nazis had begun rounding up the first of Vienna’s Jews after the Anschluss, and Edith and her family worried she might be next. Alfred Roberts, Margaret and Muriel’s father, was a small-town grocer; the family had neither the time nor the money to take Edith in. So Margaret, then 12, and Muriel, 17, set about raising funds and persuading the local Rotary club to help. Edith stayed with more than a dozen Rotary families, including the Robertses, for the next two years, until she could move to join relatives in South America. Edith bunked in Margaret’s room, and she left an impression. “She was 17, tall, beautiful, evidently from a well-to-do family,” Thatcher later wrote in her memoir. But most important, “[s]he told us what it was like to live as a Jew under an anti-Semitic regime. One thing Edith reported particularly stuck in my mind: The Jews, she said, were being made to scrub the streets.” For Thatcher, who believed in meaningful work, this was as much a waste as it was an outrage. Had the Roberts family not intervened, Edith recalled years later, “I would have stayed in Vienna and they would have killed me.” Thatcher never forgot the lesson: “Never hesitate to do whatever you can, for you may save a life,” she told audiences in 1995 after Edith had been located, alive and well, in Brazil. Continue reading .
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Margaret Thatcher and the Jews
I love this video. Via Legal Insurrection , ” New Year’s Greetings from the IDF .” I was joking to William at LI that the IDF video was also a Rule 5 for the gals and guys. And that reminded me that Dana Pico’s launching a babe blogging initiative: ” Our venture into Rule 5 blogging .”
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Sixty-Three Years and Counting: Israeli Defense Forces Wish You a Happy New Year
I saw this at Theo’s earlier, and now at SDA, ” Military Wives Choir: Wherever You Are “: And see Melanie Phillips, ” Military Wives’ single tunes into our highest ideals .”
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My Love Will Keep You Safe
I saw this at Theo’s earlier, and now at SDA, ” Military Wives Choir: Wherever You Are “: And see Melanie Phillips, ” Military Wives’ single tunes into our highest ideals .”
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My Love Will Keep You Safe
From the Prime Minister of Israel:
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Merry Christmas from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
As measured by public opinion survey data, at Gallup, ” Christianity Remains Dominant Religion in the United States “: PRINCETON, NJ — This Christmas season, 78% of American adults identify with some form of Christian religion. Less than 2% are Jewish, less than 1% are Muslim, and 15% do not have a religious identity. This means that 95% of all Americans who have a religious identity are Christians. Well, yeah. But you wouldn’t know it by the way the radical progressives and their atheist allies have demonized those who openly profess their faith. See previously: ” The War on Christmas .”
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America Remains Predominantly Christian Nation
