US House getting smarter

Allow me to preface this by saying that this is the 1000th post on this blog (blog started January 4, 2006).The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the US House got smart yesterday: It eliminated $420 million in aid to Saudi Arabia from the foreign aid bill. Why the US was ever sending money to the oil-rich, intolerant Kingdom in the first place is another issue for another day.The money was to be