A MATTER FOR PRAYER....

NETANYAHU SPEECH RAISES BURDEN FOR OBAMA ON IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS: President Obama's task of selling a potential nuclear agreement with Iran to a skeptical Congress became far harder this week after an impassioned speech by PM Netanyahu of Israel to lawmakers already nervous about the deal. "The president has a very heavy burden of persuasion here," said former Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat and onetime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "That task is made much more difficult when a powerful case is stated against the emerging deal, as the prime minister has done." (NY Times)