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No Wonder Republican Criticism
of Obama Isn’t Working
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National Journal, by Charlie Cook
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Posted By: congaree53- 5/24/2013 6:08:21 PM
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Henny Youngman, the late borscht belt comedian, told hundreds of politically incorrect jokes. One of them was his response when asked, “How’s your wife?” “Compared to what?” he’d say. Many women find the joke tasteless, but it can be a useful framework for thinking about national politics. Americans may not be ecstatic about President Obama and his policies, but compared with the Republicans, they think Obama doesn’t look so bad. This might partly explain why, even with all of the controversies engulfing the Obama administration these days, the president doesn’t appear to be hurt at all, at least as
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Obama ´07: AG´s Job Is
to Tell WH ´Here are the
Limits of Your Power´
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Cybercast News Service, by Joe Schoffstall
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/24/2013 5:42:45 PM
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In 2007, then Senator Barack Obama appeared on CNN´s Larry King Live and called on U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Obama said Gonzales was acting more like the president´s attorney than the people´s attorney and viewed himself as an "enabler of the administration." "Well, I voted against Alberto Gonzales confirmation for precisely the reason we are seeing now. I said this on the floor of the senate, that although he seemed to be a capable attorney, he seemed to conceive his role as being the president´s attorney instead of being the people´s attorney," Obama said.
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Woolwich attack: Cheers for our
heroes... we will not be moved
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Telegraph [UK], by Tom Whitehead
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/24/2013 5:38:45 PM
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Proudly marching through the streets of York with cheers ringing in their ears, the men and women of 2nd Signal Regiment--recently returned from Afghanistan--were greeted by thousands of people lining the streets to welcome them home. In the hours after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby by alleged Islamist terrorists in Woolwich, south-east London, on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence had advised servicemen and women not to go out in uniform--an order that was promptly ignored by soldiers who refused to be cowed and almost immediately rescinded. 300 members of the Armed Forces were cheered by well-wishers who waved
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Mark Levin: "RINO" Issa Didn´t
Investigate IRS Before Because
He "Despises The Tea Party"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/24/2013 5:38:38 PM
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MARK LEVIN: So why didn´t Chairman Issa hold an investigative hearing a year ago? Why didn´t Chairman Camp, all Republicans, hold an investigative hearing a year ago, and all the other tripping over themselves right now? I´ll tell you why. Because the establishment Republicans, the RINO Republicans, despise the Tea Party. They despise the conservative movement. We exist to be managed, to be shuttled to the polling place, to vote for their candidates. The Karl Roves of the world, and all the rest of them. They fight us in the primaries, they fight us at the grassroots.
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Those of us about to fly, we
(don´t) salute you! Obama skips
returning military salute, walks
past uniformed Marine corporal
while boarding his helicopter
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Daily Mail [UK], by David Martosko
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/24/2013 5:33:23 PM
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If an alleged Benghazi cover-up, the IRS tea-party scandal, and claims that his Justice Department is ignoring reporters´ First Amendment Rights weren´t already the stuff of headaches for President Barack Obama, now he´s facing a mini-scandal with the U.S. Marines. While boarding Marine One, the presidential helicopter, on Friday, Obama walked past a saluting Marine corporal and strode up the boarding stairs without returning the salute. The breach of military protocol--the president of the United States serves as the military commander-in-chief--did not go unnoticed by the press corps. Covering Obama´s departure for the White House in-town press pool. the Houston
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Bystanders in their own fate
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Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/24/2013 5:32:34 PM
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On Wednesday, Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, a man who had served Queen and country honorably in the hell of Helmand Province in Afghanistan, emerged from his barracks on Wellington Street, named after the Duke thereof, in southeast London. Minutes later, he was hacked to death in broad daylight and in full view of onlookers by two men with machetes who crowed "Allahu Akbar!" as they dumped his carcass in the middle of the street like so much roadkill. As grotesque as this act of savagery was, the aftermath was even more unsettling
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Obama´s Commerce Secretary
Didn´t Report $80 Million
in Income
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by William Bigelow
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/24/2013 5:15:05 PM
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Barack Obama’s close friend and major fundraiser, Penny Pritzker, who has been nominated to be the new Secretary of Commerce, didn’t include more than $80 million in income in financial disclosures she filed last week. Pritzker, who is a billionaire, supposedly “inadvertently omitted” this tiny part of her fortune. Her lawyer, Robert Rizzi, wrote the Commerce Department on May 21 that the money was not included in the May 15 filings that were reviewed by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics “because of a clerical error and through no fault of Ms. Pritzker.”
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Liberal Schlub Lies to
Insult Fox Viewers
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/24/2013 5:11:46 PM
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RUSH: Here´s Mike in Greenville, North Carolina. Great to have you, sir, on Open Line Friday. Hi. CALLER: Thank you, sir. I really appreciate it, Mr. Limbaugh. It´s a pleasure to be on your show, and let me do two things. First of all, I´m saying from the good people of North Carolina to you, good health. And you can be forgiven for confusing an F-4 with an F-104, as far as I´m concerned. RUSH: I appreciate that, sir. Thank you for your understanding and your tolerance.
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Revealed: Obama Donor Sat in
on IG Interviews with
IRS Employees
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/24/2013 5:00:33 PM
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On Wednesday, House hearings on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) political targeting of conservative groups uncovered a startling revelation about the interview process used to construct the Inspector General’s report: Obama donor-turned-IRS director of tax exempt organizations Holly Paz sat in on 36 of 41 interviews with IRS employees. “Why was Holly Paz... in almost all of the interviews you conducted?” asked Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC). “Why would you have someone from the IRS in those meetings? Is that proper protocol?”
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Biden appears on ´Jeopardy´
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USA Today, by David Jackson
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Posted By: scottyboy- 5/24/2013 4:57:28 PM
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Vice President Biden hit the game show circuit this week, appearing Thursday on Jeopardy. Under the quiz show´s time-honored format, Biden provided the answers for questions about the first vice president to serve (John Adams), the first vice president to resign (John C. Calhoun), the first veep to ascend to the presidency (John Tyler), and the fact that the veep´s official residence is at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Biden also provided the clue for a Daily Double: "The vice president is a member of the board of regents of this, ´America´s attic.´" The question: "What is the Smithsonian?"
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Michelle Obama, ´Scandal´
and the Godfather of Soul
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CNN, by Steve Brusk
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Posted By: scottyboy- 5/24/2013 4:51:15 PM
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First lady Michelle Obama hung out with a "big time star" and jammed to the Godfather of Soul, but brought a serious message to students at a once-troubled Washington elementary school Friday.(snip)The first lady toured a pre-K classroom and a fifth grade arts class during her visit. In the pre-K class, she joined the four and five-year-olds in a game where they dance, and freeze in positions shown on flash cards when the music stops. She spent about 15 minutes in the class, dancing to James Brown´s "Gonna Have Funky Good Time".
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You Can´t Convince Me the Code
Pink Heckler Wasn´t a Setup
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/24/2013 4:50:30 PM
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RUSH: It´s Open Line Friday. The greatest career risk taken in modern American big, major American media, turning the content of the program over to rank amateurs. Compared to me, highly trained broadcast specialist. And that´s when we go to the photocopies. On Friday, whatever you want to talk about is hunky-dory, so have at it. Whatever: question, comment, a brief sentence and a hang-up. If you want to call in protest, if you want to pretend you´re Code Pink. You know, how about that?
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The IRS Suppressed the Romney Vote
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/24/2013 4:43:11 PM
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RUSH: If you´re just really hankering to write some e-mails to people about your true thoughts of the IRS, this is the day to do it. They´re furloughed. This is May 24th, the IRS is furloughed today because of the sequester, and then of course Monday is Memorial Day, they´re not working. You might have an entire weekend where you can unload. Plus Lois Lerner, in the, whatever it was, three or four years, it´s now scrolled out of my vision, Lois Lerner was paid something like $780,000 over four years, or three
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Documents: Lois Lerner
Was Directly Involved
in Targeting Program
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Townhall, by Guy Benson
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Posted By: scottyboy- 5/24/2013 4:29:51 PM
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Not to fear, America -- she´s been placed on "administrative leave," a terribly severe form of discipline that´s effectively tantamount to paid vacation. (snip)Lerner, the director of the IRS exempt organizations office in Washington, D.C., signed cover letters to 15 conservative organizations currently represented by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) between in March and April of 2012. The letters, such as this one sent to the Ohio Liberty Council on March 16, 2012, informed the groups applying for tax-exempt status that the IRS was “unable to make a final determination on your exempt status
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Immigrants torch primary
schools as Stockholm smoulders
from five days of rioting
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Daily Mail (UK), by Sara Malm
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/24/2013 4:16:49 PM
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Schools and police stations were burning in Stockholm as violent riots continued for a fifth consecutive night. Emergency services were called to 70 separate incidents, including two torched primary schools, burning shops and a destroyed library building also housing a local police unit. Despite police claiming that the situation is beginning to calm down, critics say the riots were unavoidable after years of widening social gaps in a country which has the highest proportion of foreign-born citizens in Scandinavia.
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House committee wants to hear from anyone targeted by the IRS
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The Washington Examiner, by David M. Drucker
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Posted By: ChgoBob- 5/24/2013 4:10:18 PM
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Claims of political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service are flooding into the House Ways and Means Committee, bolstered by evidence that includes secretly recorded conversations with IRS officials. Ways and Means has created a website inviting Americans who believe they were targeted to share their stories, and among the information being forwarded to committee investigators are surreptitious recordings of interviews with the IRS
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Lawyer who helped prosecute
Gov. Ryan tapped for U.S.
attorney´s post
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Chicago Tribune, by Todd Lighty
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/24/2013 3:58:38 PM
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The lawyer picked Thursday to succeed Patrick Fitzgerald as Chicago´s U.S. attorney is a former federal prosecutor best known for taking on corrupt politicians and powerful institutions such as the University of Notre Dame. Zachary Fardon would take over an office that has made its mark nationally by putting crooked government officials behind bars but increasingly faces pressure to do more to help in the fight against Chicago´s violent street gangs. "Zachary Fardon will be unwavering in his commitment to justice, and I am confident he will serve the people of Illinois with excellence," President Barack Obama said
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Diabetes warning over use of
statins: People who take the
drugs are at increased risk
of developing condition
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Daily Mail [UK], by Jenny Hope
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/24/2013 3:51:42 PM
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People taking statins face an increased risk of developing diabetes, warn researchers. They found a 10 percent extra risk linked to taking simvastatin--the most commonly prescribed anti-cholesterol drug--which rose to 22 percent for those taking atorvastatin. Previous research into a suspected link with statins found a 9 percent rise in the chance of patients developing diabetes, but the new study looked at specific brands of drug. [Snip] Researchers identified 471,250 patients with no history of diabetes and who were newly treated with a statin, just over half were women and all were at least 66 years old. Statin therapy
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Dems accuse GOP of ´making
up scandals out of thin air´
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Cameron Joseph
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/24/2013 3:42:27 PM
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The Democratic National Committee is accusing the GOP of "making up so-called ´scandals´ out of thin air." In an email to supporters, DNC Spokesman Brad Woodhouse writes that Republicans´ accusations of scandal aren´t legitimate — a claim that´s sure to draw howls from the right."Getting in President Obama´s way has been the top priority for Republicans in Congress since day one. But now they´ve gone too far. They´ve been caught red-handed making up so-called ´scandals´ out of thin air to stir up false rumors of vast ´cover-ups´ happening in the White House," Woodhouse writes. "Did they find a single shred
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Fired for word ´negro´:
Bronx teacher claims
misunderstanding, not racial slur
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United Press International, by Gabrielle Levy
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/24/2013 3:27:16 PM
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A Bronx teacher fired after a student complained about her use of a racial slur says the whole thing is just a ridiculous case of meaning lost -- literally -- in translation. Petrona Smith, 65, was a non-tenured teacher at the bilingual school PS 211 until March 2012, when she was fired after a student complained of being called "negro" and "a failure." But Smith, who is black and a native of the West Indies, said the student misunderstood her meaning: she was using the word "negro," the word for the color black in Spanish
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Ex-Idol star Josh Gracin
loves politics - but is
forbidden from discussing it
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/24/2013 3:23:29 PM
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Country singer Josh Gracin was in Washington on Thursday night to perform at the Ninth Annual Night of Heroes Gala, and as badly as he may have wanted to, he wasn’t allowed talk politics in an interview with The Hill.“I’m very political, almost to where I get in trouble with my record label not to post anything [on Facebook],” the former American Idol finalist said. Gracin’s handler quickly stepped in, nodding to the recording device in my hand and helpfully reminding him that he was on the record.
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How Prosecutors Fought to
Keep Rosen’s Warrant Secret
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The New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/24/2013 3:15:27 PM
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The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret, arguing to a federal judge that the government might need to monitor the account for a lengthy period of time. The new details are revealed in a court filing detailing a back and forth between the Justice Department and the federal judges who oversaw the request to search a Gmail account belonging to Rosen, a reporter for Fox News. A 2009 article Rosen had written about North Korea sparked an investigation; Ronald C. Machen, Jr., the U.S. Attorney who is prosecuting Stephen Jin-Woo Kim,
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Noted Ecomonist Urges
Abandoning State Tax System
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Union-Tribune [San Diego], by Jonathan Horn
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 5/24/2013 3:15:00 PM
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California should abandon its current tax system and charge everyone the same rate. That’s the proposal made by famed economist Arthur Laffer in a report released Thursday that is highly critical of California’s business climate. Laffer,(Snip) said in an interview that moving to a flat tax rate of about 6.5 percent would reduce complexity over the tax system and free up money for businesses to invest. He also said the rate would be revenue-neutral at full employment, meaning the state would collect the same revenue as it does under the current system. Otherwise, under our current progressive system
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See You in the Funny Papers
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Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto
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Posted By: DaddyO- 5/24/2013 3:09:22 PM
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The vice provost of California State University, Northridge, retires today. Ordinarily that would be unworthy of a national newspaper´s notice, but Cynthia Rawitch was a formative figure in your humble columnist´s professional and intellectual development. (snip) Her time as publisher was busy and marked with a lawsuit regarding free speech. Former student James Taranto, now editor of OpinionJournal.com and a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board, sued for being suspended after he printed a cartoon on the paper´s opinion page.
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Jackson says comments were
about abortion’s ‘moral dilemma’
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Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Alex Pappas
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/24/2013 3:05:25 PM
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As Democrats and the media continue to hammer Virginia lieutenant governor hopeful E.W. Jackson for his past comments on social issues, the Christian minister says he is battling what he calls the “mainstream media’s caricature” of him. In an email sent to The Daily Caller this week, the running mate to Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli said “every one of those comments has a context and were spoken in my role as a minister, not as a candidate.” In particular, the black Republican took issue with the media’s outrage over his comments on abortion.
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The End of the Perpetual War
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New York Times, by Editorial Board
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/24/2013 3:05:20 PM
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President Obama’s speech on Thursday was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America. For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual warfare that began nearly 12 years ago is unsustainable for a democracy and must come to an end in the not-too-distant future. “Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue,” Mr. Obama said in the speech at the National Defense University. “But this war, like all wars, must end. That’s what history advises.
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