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January 3, 2009
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Around Texas
 

CPS Final Report: Most Children from FLDS Ranch Were Abused or Neglected

A Texas Child Protective Services investigation has found that of the 439 children removed from the Yearning for Zion ranch in West Texas earlier this year, 275 were abused or neglected.

 

Agency Officials Conclude Raid on Ranch Was Justified

State child welfare officials on Tuesday defended their controversial raid on a West Texas polygamist compound, saying a dozen girls living on the ranch had been forced into underage marriages and that seven had given birth.

 

Texas Dems on Verge of Leadership

by The Dallas Morning News Editorial Staff

With incumbent Rep. Linda Harper-Brown of Irving finally winning her disputed race, Republicans will control the Texas House for a fourth consecutive regular session, albeit by just two seats.

 

National News
 

RNC Draft Rips Bush's Bailouts

Republican Party officials say they will try next month to pass a resolution accusing President Bush and congressional Republican leaders of embracing "socialism," underscoring deep dissension within the party at the end of Mr. Bush's administration.

 

Unions Clash with Cost-Cutting State Legislators

Unions invested heavily in the 2008 election in Colorado, and it paid off: The labor movement defeated three anti-labor initiatives, including a right-to-work measure, and helped Democrats increase their edge in Congress and the Legislature.

 

'Magic Negro' Flap Might Help Saltsman

The controversy surrounding a comedy CD distributed by Republican National Committee chairman candidate Chip Saltsman has not torpedoed his bid and might have inadvertently helped it.

 

Commentaries
   

"Comforter In Chief"

by Gary Bauer

Today's Washington Times carries an incredible front page story about the unheralded efforts of President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President Cheney and Mrs. Cheney to comfort the families of fallen soldiers in the war against Islamofascism and to express their appreciation to those who have been wounded.

 

Guilty

by Gary Bauer

A New Jersey jury yesterday found five immigrants guilty of conspiring to murder U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Dix. A sixth man in on the plot had already plead guilty. Thus all of the "Fort Dix Six" have been convicted of, or confessed to, plotting to commit mass murder and acts of terrorism on U.S. soil. Prosecutors in the case said the men planned to kill "as many American soldiers as possible."

 

Israel Fights Back

by Gary Bauer

For months, Hamas thugs in Gaza have fired missiles and mortars into southern Israel, subjecting hundreds of thousands of Israelis to a campaign of 24-hour terror. This was done in clear violation of an Egyptian-negotiated cease-fire to which Hamas had agreed. As usual, the world's reaction to this outrage was a collective "yawn." The United Nations was silent. Major newspapers seldom reported the daily attacks.

 

Earth to Europe, Russia: Hamas Must Be Crushed, Not Coddled

by Joel Rosenberg

The Gaza war rages on with no immediate end in sight. Indeed, Israeli sources tell me a ground operation into Gaza is not yet definite, but is likely. Israel has rightfully rejected a French-proposed 48 hour cease-fire, saying the Gaza operation will continue until Israel's goal of shutting down the terrorist rocket threat is accomplished.

 

 
 
 
 
U.S. - Israel Collision Course
 

DickMorris
 

Dick Morris

With the election of Barack Obama, the United States has moved dramatically to the left in its foreign policy at just the time that Israel, which seems likely to return Bibi Netanyahu to office in early February, is moving to the right. A collision is almost inevitable.

Caroline Glick, the highly astute conservative columnist for the Jerusalem Post, writes that the "international community" believes that Obama "will move quickly to place massive pressure on the next Israeli government to withdraw from Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in the interests of advancing a 'peace process' with the Palestinians and the Syrians." She notes that "people who have been in close contact with Obama's foreign policy transition team have privately acknowledged that the widespread belief that Obama will move swiftly to put the screws on Israel is fully justified. According to one source who has spent a great deal of time with the transition team since last month's U.S. elections, Obama's people are 'scope-locked' on Israel."

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