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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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How Obamacare Is Being Used to
Create a Permanent Democratic Majority
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 10:16:21 PM
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To a remarkable degree, liberalism has been institutionalized as an official ideology, funded by your tax dollars. This editorial in Investors Business Daily explains, in shocking detail, how Obamacare is being used to fund Democratic Party operatives and drive Democratic Party enrollment: The Obama administration granted a whopping $910 million to California to set up its insurance exchange. That money is not for bandages, surgery, nurses and doctors to care for the sick. …Shockingly, the $910 million is slated for bureaucracy, including rich compensation packages for exchange employees ($360,000 a year for the executive director) and contracts for
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Kaiser: Faith in Obamacare
plummets to just 35%
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 10:02:16 PM
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The popularity of Obamacare has crashed to its lowest level in nearly two years, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Kaiser´s monthly tracking poll found that just 35 percent have a favorable view of the health reform being put into place Jan. 1 while 43 percent view it unfavorably. The favorability rating of Obamacare has been worse only once, in October 2011, when it fell to 34 percent. Not only is the June poll bad news for the president as his administration struggles to have the health reform program ready for people to begin signing up
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An ObamaCare Board
Answerable to No One
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Wall Street Journal, by David Rivkin and Elizabeth Foley
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/19/2013 9:55:12 PM
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Signs of ObamaCare´s failings mount daily, including soaring insurance costs, looming provider shortages and inadequate insurance exchanges. Yet the law´s most disturbing feature may be the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB, sometimes called a "death panel," threatens both the Medicare program and the Constitution´s separation of powers. At a time when many Americans have been unsettled by abuses at the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department, the introduction of a powerful and largely unaccountable board into health care merits special scrutiny. For a vivid illustration of the extent to which life-and-death medical decisions have already been usurped by government bureaucrats,
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We´re all potential suspects and
should be treated as such, apparently
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Washington Examiner, by Ashe Schow
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 9:49:10 PM
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Americans are already wary of the federal government having collected their phone records, but now we have Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., setting up a slippery slope of more and more data collection. Earlier today, a Washington Examiner editorial warned that "if phone records are useful now in stopping terrorist attacks, how long before politicians and bureaucrats decide archiving the entire phone call would be even more useful? How long before the limitations and safeguards now in place are set aside?" Within a few hours, King provided an illustration of precisely what the Examiner editors fear. Responding to a
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The Truth Behind the Spying
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: Drive- 6/19/2013 9:46:47 PM
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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 were preventable had there been communication between the intelligence agencies. The Patriot Act was supposed to break down that wall and make it easier for agencies to consolidate information about potential terrorist activity. It also expanded the Treasury´s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities. In 2011, President Obama signed a four-year extension of three key provisions in the Act that allowed roving wiretaps, searches of business records, and conducting surveillance of "lone wolves"--individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities not linked to groups.
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Right rips Rubio as Republican
immigration votes slip away
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Alexander Bolton
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 9:42:52 PM
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is feeling the heat as potential GOP allies are now turning against his immigration reform bill. Republican colleagues who were previously viewed as possible “yes” votes are keeping their distance from the 1,075-page measure. On Wednesday, conservative activists ripped Rubio and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — both sponsors of the bipartisan immigration measure — at a Capitol Hill rally. The crowd, which was protesting the bill’s effort to put millions of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship, booed at the mention of Rubio’s name during the six-hour event.
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Big Brother alert: Cameras in the
cable box to monitor TV viewers
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Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 9:37:45 PM
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It hardly gets more Orwellian than this. New technology would allow cable companies to peer directly into television watchers´ homes and monitor viewing habits and reactions to product advertisements. The technology would come via the cable box, and at least one lawmaker on Capitol Hill is standing in opposition. Mass. Democratic Rep. Michael Capuano has introduced a bill, the We Are Watching You Act, to prohibit the technology on boxes and collection of information absent consumer permission. The bill would also require companies that do use the data to show
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Noam Chomsky: Obama Is ‘Running
Biggest Terrorist Operation That Exists’
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 9:24:14 PM
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Continuing his streak of fiercely criticizing President Obama’s foreign policy and civil liberties record, pre-eminent left-wing scholar Noam Chomsky told GRITtv that this administration is “dedicated to increasing terrorism” throughout the world via its own “terrorist” drone strikes in foreign lands. Speaking with GRITtv host Laura Flanders about the National Security Agency snooping scandal, Chomsky remarked that “the Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism; it’s doing it all over the world.” He continued: “Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history:
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Man Accused Of Threatening
To Murder, Burn Sen. Cruz
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 9:15:59 PM
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HOUSTON — A Houston man is accused of threatening to kidnap, murder and burn U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his father and also to “blow up” the sun if he wasn’t paid $3 million. Nick Gates was being held Tuesday in the Harris County jail on a $10,000 bond. He’s charged with making a terroristic threat. Investigators allege threatening phone calls made June 5 to Cruz’s offices in Austin and San Antonio were traced back to Gates. Court documents show the 37-year-old admitted to FBI agents he made the calls and that
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$509K Federal Safe-Sex Study Will
Text ´Gay-Lingo´ to Meth Addicts
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Cybercast News Service, by Ryan Kierman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 9:09:04 PM
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A $509,840 grant by the National Institutes of Health will pay for a study that will send text messages in "gay lingo" to methamphetamine addicts to try to persuade them to use fewer drugs and more condoms. The study began in February. Lead researcher Dr. Cathy Reback of the Baltimore-based Friends Research Institute, Inc., told CNSNews.com how she and her team of health educators will spend the next four years and over half a million dollars encouraging gay meth addicts to cut down on unprotected sex by periodically sending them “gay-specific” text messages.
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Michael Hastings’ Chilling Final Story
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PJ Media, by Bryan Preston
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 6/19/2013 8:52:34 PM
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Journalist Michael Hastings was killed early Tuesday morning in a bizarre car incident in Los Angeles. Hastings, 33, was best known for writing the Rolling Stone story that ended in Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s resignation as head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Hastings’ final story, “Why Democrats Love to Spy on Americans,” was a searing take on the NSA snooping scandal, which Hastings described as “North Korea-esque.” Hastings pulled no punches as he linked the NSA scandal to the Department of Justice’s spying on reporters and the IRS abuse scandal. Hastings built a case that the same Democrats who turned Bush-era
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James Gandolfini dead at 51:
´Sopranos´ star suffers
massive heart attack in Italy
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New York Daily News, by Don Kaplan, Daniel Beekman
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Posted By: mitzi- 6/19/2013 8:01:51 PM
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James Gandolfini, the New Jersey-bred actor who delighted audiences as mob boss Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos” has died following a massive heart attack in Italy, a source told the Daily News. “Everyone is in tears,” the source close to the 51-year-old TV tough guy said. A press-shy celeb who got his start as a character actor and became famous relatively late in his career — thanks to his breakout role on “The Sopranos,” Gandolfini has largely avoided the spotlight since the last season of the beloved show aired in 2007.
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Scrapping equipment key
to Afghan drawdown
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Washington Post, by Ernesto Londoño
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Posted By: Drive- 6/19/2013 7:26:23 PM
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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds worth of vehicles and other military equipment as it rushes to wind down its role in the Afghanistan war by the end of 2014. The massive disposal effort, which U.S. military officials call unprecedented, has unfolded largely out of sight amid an ongoing debate inside the Pentagon about what to do with the heaps of equipment that won’t be returning home.
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Apology issued for naming of Boston bomber as
a victim of gun violence at Concord rally
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New Hampshire Union Leader, by Tim Buckland
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Posted By: Screwgun- 6/19/2013 7:24:01 PM
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CONCORD - The organizers of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign on Wednesday apologized for including Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev among a list of shooting victims´ names that were read during a demonstration in Concord on Tuesday. The apology came after several groups, including the New Hampshire Republican Party, blasted the Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign for including his name.
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Police: Death Threat
Prompted By Pork Dinner
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Smoking Gun, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 6/19/2013 7:21:34 PM
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A Pennsylvania man allegedly threatened to kill his mother because he believed she tried to “poison” him by serving pork, “which was against his Muslim religion," investigators report. Joshua Lee Coffey, 25, confronted his mother Sherri last week in the family’s home in St. Marys, a central Pennsylvania city. Coffey accused his mother of “attempting to poison him,” noting that “the meat he was given to eat was pork, which was against his Muslim religion," according to a probable cause affidavit.
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Flexibility: Obama Gives Away
America´s Nuclear Arsenal
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/19/2013 6:57:00 PM
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Disarmament: President Obama has proposed targeting cuts in deployed atomic weapons of up to a third below levels achieved in a 2010 treaty with Russia. He wants a world without nuclear arms — specifically ours. Only a shameless politician could invoke the name of President Kennedy in Berlin to announce the nuclear disarmament of America. When Kennedy proclaimed "Ich bin ein Berliner" in June 1963, it was a statement of solidarity with the free people of West Berlin and a pledge of resistance to the tyranny that surrounded it. It was not an act of
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Barack Obama has given the Taliban
the upper hand in Afghanistan
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Telegraph [UK], by Con Coughlin
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/19/2013 6:55:41 PM
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Barack Obama’s attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban look to be dead in the water before they have even started. [Snip] One moment Mr Karzai is being hailed as the saviour of the West, the only Afghan leader who can be trusted to take the fight to the Taliban. The next he is being denounced as a corrupt and weak politician who is only interested in his own self-advancement. On this occasion, however, Mr Karzai’s temper tantrum, and suspension of talks with the US within hours of Obama’s announcement, appears to be fully justified.
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In Afghanistan, Obama
Repeating Big Vietnam Mistake
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/19/2013 6:52:10 PM
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War On Terror: President Obama is practically engineering a silent coup against flawed Afghan President Hamid Karzai, with whom we replaced the Taliban in 2001. He´s copying America´s worst mistake of the Vietnam War. A perfect comparison it may not be, but disturbing similarities exist between the Obama administration´s unfolding abandonment of Afghanistan´s corrupt President Karzai and the Kennedy administration´s betrayal of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem 50 years ago. Karzai on Wednesday backed out of impending talks with the Taliban after the U.S. announced its diplomats will negotiate directly with the country´s bloodthirsty former rulers.
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Wind farms: Ceausescu
would have loved ‘em
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Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/19/2013 6:50:34 PM
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Wind farms are like one of those frustratingly unripened boils: you know that you shouldn´t keep squeezing but they´re so noxious and irritating and hideous that you just can´t resist. If you´ve got the same problem, then I heartily recommend you read this brilliant essay on the subject by Russell Taylor. I love his dismissal of people who claim to find wind turbines beautiful: "…a sentiment I find as credible as a Soviet peasant admiring the Tiger tank that had just squashed his grandmother." But what really grabbed me was his analysis at the end of wind turbines´ totemic
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Obama Rhetoric Matches
That Of Old Soviet Leaders
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Svetlana Kunin
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/19/2013 6:48:45 PM
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President Obama insists his policies are driven by a "common sense" approach. He also speaks in terms of "we the people" and "the government is us." Such declarations are reminiscent of old Soviet posters displayed for all to see: "ALL POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE" and "PEOPLE AND COMMUNIST PARTY ARE ONE." But the real power in the USSR was in the hands of Communist Party leaders. They, in the name of the people, defined foes of centralized government as "enemies of the people." Similarly, Obama´s Department of Homeland Security has defined right-wing extremists as "those that are mainly anti-government,
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Kerry calls Karzai to defuse
tension over Taliban
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BBC News [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/19/2013 6:40:24 PM
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken by phone to Afghan President Hamid Karzai to try to defuse tensions, an Afghan spokesman has told the BBC. [Snip] The Taliban premises in Qatar opened on Tuesday, on the same day that Nato handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to the Afghan government for the first time since the Taliban were ousted in 2001.Mr Karzai said in a statement on Wednesday that the office was "totally contradictory to the guarantees that were made by the USA to Afghanistan". His officials said he objected to a Taliban flag flying
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Markey’s State of Residence Questioned
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Washington Free Beacon, by Lachlan Markay
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Posted By: LadyVet- 6/19/2013 6:31:58 PM
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A conservative group is challenging Democrat Ed Markey’s Massachusetts residency less than a week before he faces a special election for a U.S. Senate seat in that state. Markey, currently a member of the House of Representatives, should legally be considered a resident of Maryland, America Rising PAC stated in a Tuesday complaint filed with the Maryland state comptroller. The group also claims Markey violated Maryland law by failing to file Maryland tax returns despite living primarily in that state.
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Journalist Michael Hastings dies;
autopsy results will take weeks
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Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Blankstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 6:19:12 PM
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Los Angeles County coroner´s officials said Wednesday the body recovered from a fiery, single-car crash in Hollywood that apparently killed journalist Michael Hastings will likely undergo an autopsy Thursday. But an official cause of death and closure of the case is not likely for four to six weeks or perhaps longer, they said. Coroner´s officials are hoping the results will answer why the accident happened. Officials were attempting to match dental records to help make a positive identification. The death of the 33-year-old Hastings was announced Tuesday by his employer, BuzzFeed,
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Paula Deen admits in deposition using
N-word, telling racist jokes, reports says
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: Hobbiest- 6/19/2013 6:03:40 PM
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Celebrity chef Paula Deen admitted in a recorded deposition to telling racist jokes, using the N-word, and planning a slavery-themed wedding, according to multiple reports. The May 17 deposition where she made the alleged admissions is part of a $1.2 million lawsuit brought by Lisa Jackson, the former manager of a Savannah, Georgia, restaurant run by Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers. Jackson alleges in the suit that Deen used the N-word at the restaurant and that Hiers sexually harassed her. According to the reports, in the deposition, Deen replied “Yes, of course,”
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Obama Falls Flat in Berlin
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/19/2013 5:26:32 PM
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RUSH: I´ll get to Obama and Germany. There were two things he did in Germany. He had a press conference with Merkel and he had a speech, the Brandenburg Gate. If you remember, in 2008 Obama went over to Germany and he requested at that time to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, and the Germans, boy, they were under a lot of pressure because back then Obama was The Messiah. He was making a tour of Europe on his messianic pilgrimage as part of his campaign. He requested to
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