Recent Interesting Links - Lech Lecha 5773

• CIA was denied a request for help during the Benghazi terror attack
• Hillary isn't to blame, claims Bill - it's really the President's fault, but Hillary wants to take the bullet to save her boss
• President Obama is a bust and his popularity is melting like butter
• Rav Eliezer Melamed on the US Presidential elections
• Avigdor Lieberman merged with Likud to reduce religion's role in government
• Shas and National Union stand to benefit 
• Rabbis and Rebbes who approve of the Shas unity
• Batya says King Sha'ul represents the left and King David represents the right (an interesting idea, but this idea doesn't really go with "בן ימין")
• Rav Amar warns not to get so involved in elections that it causes Bittul Torah, degrading Talmidei Hachamim, and a lack of Bein Adam Lahaveiro
• Amazing story of Hashgaha in Montreal
• Hurricane Sandy mixing with other weather patterns on the US East Coast, which Bloomberg calls "The worst storm in 100 years" - could cause $1b in damage - see Tomer Devorah and my comment there
• And speaking of Mayor Bloomberg, Jewish lawmakers take him to task for comments he made to the Atlantic about "10,000 men in black hats"
• A crazy fan website strongly suggests Rav Amnon Yitzhak Shlit"a is Mashiah.  Story at Kikar, Ynet, Rotter.
• Shirat Devorah asks for whom you are voting for President
• Former Hungarian anti-Semite and current EU Parliament member now fights for Israel
• Also from EoZ, speculation about what happened near Khartoum
• Kol Emunim newsletter (p. 2, right column, bottom) explains how the length of our current Galut caused the difficulty to not be as bad, which is the exact opposite of the Egyptian exile.
• YWN - Mideast Powder Keg Erupting (if nothing else, read the last 3 paragraphs)