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1. Jewish Leaders Turning to GOP

With the Democratic Party increasingly perceived as more pro-Palestinian than supportive of Israel, several leaders in the Jewish community are backing Republicans.

The Hill reports the defections have Democrats in the Senate in a tizzy, trying to re-assure Jewish donors that they're more pro-Israel than they act.

Though Jews comprise little more than 2 percent of Americans, they are concentrated in areas such as Florida and Ohio, which are battleground states.

Before Mc-Cain-Feingold, the mother of all campaign legislation fiascoes, as much as 70 percent of the Democratic Party's donations came from Jewish contributors.

Since the 2000 election - and Sept. 11 - Jewish support for Republicans has been climbing.

And Sen. John Kerry has not done his party any favors with antagonistic remarks about Israel's security fence protecting it from West Bank suicide bombers.

Some significant defectors from the Democrats include: American Jewish Congress president Jack Rosen, a former big donor to the Democrats, has contributed $100,000 to Republicans since George W. Bush was inaugurated.

And California's Ronald and Dawn Arnall, who previously handed over nearly $1.5 million to Democrats, have surpassed Pioneers and Rangers by raising $1 million for W, besides plunking down $1 million of their own dough to the Republican National Committee.

"Democrats do not speak with a unified voice on Israel anymore," said Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives.

"The Democrats want to re-inject the United States in to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a neutral arbiter and neutral voice."

2. 'Terrorist' Seeks to Head Sierra Club

The man who may become the new leader of the Sierra Club doesn't care if you think he's a terrorist.

Paul Watson has spent the last forty years sinking fishing boats, destroying whale processing facilities and ramming whaling ships.

After co-founding the extremist Greenpeace in 1972, Watson left the group because they weren't radical enough.

"They were into this passive protest, Quaker kind of thing," Watson told Men's Journal.

So he went on to establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a "vigilante band of high seas pirates," and now flies flags of the skull and crossbones on his ships.

He now calls Greenpeace the "Avon ladies of the environmental movement."

In 1986, Watson opened the sea valves of two commercial whaling ships with a monkey wrench in Reykjavik, Iceland, flooding them and causing them to sink. That was after he took sledgehammers to one of the city's whale meat companies, prompting Iceland's minister of justice to expel him from the country.

"People can call me a terrorist, I don't care," says Watson.

Last year he got himself elected to the Sierra's board of directors and is trying to take control of the board and its $100 million budget.

Lawrence Downing, a former president of Sierra Club, warns, "If Paul Watson is successful with this takeover the club as we know it will no longer exist. It will become just another fringe group."

We thought it already was - and Watson's current board position proves the point.

3. Cavuto Nails Kerry

Three cheers for Fox News Channel's business ace Neil Cavuto.

He's one of the few business journalists this year that has had the brains and backbone to expose the Democrats' hysterical distortions about the U.S. economy.

If you missed Kerry's appearance on Cavuto's program this past week, the Massachusetts Democrat will no doubt be happy.

Kerry tried to turn the show into one of his smug lectures, but Cavuto kept asking those pesky questions.

Peskiest question of all: Why does Kerry keep attacking the 5.7 percent unemployment rate when Bill Clinton was bragging about a similar rate when he began running for re-election in 1994?

The long-faced candidate looked like a moose caught in the headlights. He muttered something about that mean ol' Republicans and the Bush administration's "lack of response" to those unemployed.

Poor Kerry. Despite all his attempts to talk down America's economy, jobless claims this week hit their lowest level in more than three years.

If the good news keeps continuing, so will the demand for Botox in certain Democrat circles.

4. U.S. Senator Tells al-Qaeda/Iraq Link

A U.S. senator this week told NewsMax.com's Washington correspondent Wes Vernon of previously overlooked evidence linking al-Qaeda and Iraq.

Testimony going back to months before the war in Iraq shows that the Bush administration had reliable intelligence of the link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.

That would tend to throw cold water on some of the news reports on the stormy hearings of the 9/11 commission that suggest there was no link between the bloody dictator and the terrorists who later plotted the 9/11 attacks.

Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith told senators in October 2002 that the administration had "solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Iraq and al-Qaeda going back a decade."

Under questioning by Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. and Carl Levin, D-Mich., Feith added that credible information indicated that Iraq and al-Qaeda had discussed havens and reciprocal non-aggression.

It was also brought out at the Senate hearing that since the War on Terror began following 9/11, solid evidence had emerged of the presence in Iraq of al-Qaeda members, including some who have been in Baghdad.

It was learned too that al-Qaeda leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire capabilities for weapons of mass destruction.

The reporting also stated that Iraq had provided training to al-Qaeda members in poisons, gases and the making conventional bombs.

The testimony takes on added significance now in light of election-year carping against the wartime president, especially with the implications or outright claims that there was no link between Saddam and al-Qaeda.

5. FEC Will Finds 527s 'Legal'

In late March, the RNC asked the Federal Election Commission to dismiss its complaint about the activities of so-called "527s" - political entities outside the McCain Feingold law that can take unlimited donations without disclosing their donors.

The Republican's strategy is to take the 527 issue out of the hands of the FEC and put it directly in the hands of the federal courts. The RNC is hoping to get a court order to stop the 527s dead in their tracks.

The FEC is set to act on the RNC's complaint soon.

But a high-ranking member of the FEC recently told NewsMax's Christopher Ruddy that the FEC will not side with the Republicans on this.

The FEC source, close to the Republican appointees on the commission, said the view of one or more of the Republican commissioners is that the 527s are "legal."

The source said that the 527s are a "loophole in McCain Feingold - a loophole the Democrats are driving a Mack truck through."

The Republican source said that Republican Commissioners warned the White House that they would not share the view the 527s were illegal - and that the RNC "should get with it and set up their own 527-friendly organizations just like the Democrats, and compete with them."

But the Republican leadership has rebuffed this advice.

Why?

The FEC source tells Ruddy that the Bush campaign and the RNC want complete control over the funds - and don't want disparate 527s that are not directly controlled by the Bush campaign - waging a parallel campaign.

The Democrats do not seem to be too worried about the lack of control.

The Republicans claim the 527s are already coordinating their activities with the Kerry campaign. The pro-Kerry Media Fund aired TV commercials backing Kerry's economic plan before Kerry released the plan to the public.

Already the 527s have put Kerry on an even par with the Bush campaign, flush with more than $150 million in cash.

Though Kerry ended the primary season the winner, but practically broke - the 527s have been able to spend millions in TV ads attacking Bush and backing Kerry.

Reportedly, the 527s say they will raise $300 million to defeat Bush.

Our unsolicited advice: the Republicans should continue calling the 527s illegal and try to have them outlawed. At the same time the RNC should give their blessing for Republican-backed 527s "because it's the only way we can compete with the billionaires like Soros backing the Democrats."

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