Foxman's ADL: Liability to Jews and to Israel

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Wednesday August 22, 2007 · 10:26 AM PDT

2007/08/22 · 10:26

Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

Adolf Hitler argued that, because the world did not remember or care what the Turks did to the Armenians, it would not remember or care what the Nazis did to the Poles either--and, by implication, to Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and everyone else they wanted to exterminate. The world's amnesia regarding the Armenian genocide was among the root causes of the Holocaust. The Anti-Defamation League's recent attempt to downplay or cover up any genocide, let alone the Armenian genocide, is therefore so reprehensible as to defy belief. This action has also provided convenient ammunition for Israel-haters and outright white nationalist anti-Semites.

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Sunday August 19, 2007 · 1:25 PM PDT

2007/08/19 · 13:25

Royal Royal Philips Electronics was a major sponsor of the Live Earth Concert. Phillips is also promoting a ban on incandescent light bulbs under color of improving energy efficiency.

We were recently delighted to find full-spectrum CFLs at a nearby store, and they promised to pay for themselves several times over. We bought a couple, with plans to buy more if they worked out.

Unfortunately, they didn't. Their "full-spectrum" light is not as good as the light we get from ordinary incandescent bulbs. We cannot use these CFLs for reading or computer work, although they are adequate for incidental lighting (and we will continue to buy them for that purpose). This underscores our original suspicion: if Philips and other manufacturers were up to the job of making a CFL whose light is as good as that of an incandescent bulb, Philips would not need to agitate for Congress to ban competing products. CFLs would displace incandescent bulbs the way incandescent bulbs displaced the gas lamp.

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Thursday August 16, 2007 · 10:20 PM PDT

2007/08/16 · 22:20

This April, all the major Democratic Presidential candidates appeared at Al Sharpton's National Action Network. Al Sharpton's Web site has pictures of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards posing with Sharpton, and all three candidates endorsed and praised Sharpton. This will not affect the Democratic primaries, but it could have major ramifications in the November election.

Next year's Democratic nominee will not be running against "W," or even anyone closely associated with "W." It looks like John McCain is pretty much out of the running, while Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have few ties to the Bush Administration. As matters stand now, however, the Republican can effectively run against Al Sharpton. Sharpton's history could easily make him an albatross (Sharptontross?) around the Democratic candidate's neck, and drag him or her down to defeat.

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