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Obama Built This Forgery
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American Thinker, by Nick Chase
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Posted By: onashi- 5/19/2013 9:06:01 AM
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I don´t normally display lawn signs or bumper stickers during political campaigns; I usually keep my voting preferences to myself. (That´s the point of secret ballots, right?) But the November 2012 elections got me charged up to the point where I felt the urge to do something public, and since my friends already knew how I felt, I didn´t think I would be divulging any secrets by doing so.
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Live and Let Fry
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USA Today, by Windsor Mann
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Posted By: pezanne- 5/19/2013 8:58:00 AM
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Second only to IRS, the scariest letters in the American political idiom are FDA. When the government is not taxing us to death, it is proscribing the things we love most -- food, drugs and indoor tanning supplies.
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Reactionaries in New York
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Time, by Joe Klein
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/19/2013 8:27:40 AM
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The Democratic candidates for mayor in New York are campaigning to win the support of the teachers union. They threaten to return the city to the horrors of the David Dinkins era. Back at the turn of the 1990s, New York City was a mess. Crime was rampant. The schools were dreadful. Children in foster care were brutalized because–as the head of the Child Welfare Agency said–”oversight is racist.” The mayor was an incompetent. And, above all, the city was run for the benefit of its employees rather than its citizens. What followed was 20 years of governance
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The Stasi IRS?
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American Thinker, by Fay Voshell
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 8:23:06 AM
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It´s often been said the Internal Revenue Service is the most feared bureaucracy in the United States. Little wonder. As the agency openly proclaims on their own website, concerning what actions they might take if your taxes are unpaid: We could seize and sell property that you hold (such as your car, boat, or house), or we could levy property that is yours but is held by someone else (such as your wages, retirement accounts, dividends, bank accounts, licenses, rental income, accounts receivables, the cash loan value of your life insurance, or commissions).
This site has now reached its quota of posts for the day.
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We´re living in an Ayn Rand economy
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Salon, by Paul Buchheit
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Posted By: randyspencer49- 5/19/2013 8:15:20 AM
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Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” fantasizes a world in which anti-government citizens reject taxes and regulations, and “stop the motor” by withdrawing themselves from the system of production. In a perverse twist on the writer’s theme the prediction is coming true. But instead of productive people rejecting taxes, rejected taxes are shutting down productive people.
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Scandal is not Enough
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American Thinker, by Steve McCann
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 8:13:28 AM
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The scandal eruption currently surrounding the Obama regime was inevitable. The only question was when and what would finally break through the wall erected around the White House by the media. It has long been obvious to conservatives in America that Barack Obama and his fellow travelers are devoid of any honor or integrity and have been immersed in not only socialist/ Marxist philosophy but the belief that they are preordained to govern the masses. Therefore there is but one enemy -- their political opposition, who must be defeated at any cost and by any means possible, ethical or otherwise.
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Hope and Fear:
Obama into 2014
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American Thinker, by Eileen F. Toplansky
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 8:08:16 AM
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In the days before the 1905 Russian Revolution, there was great discontent with the Tsar´s dictatorship. The revolution was a "wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included terrorism, worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies." These cataclysmic changes evoked a number of reactions. Isaac Leib Peretz, one of the luminaries of Yiddish literature, wrote a small essay entitled "Hope and Fear," wherein he asserted the following. I worry. As victors.
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Pin the fail on the donkey
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New York Post, by John Podhoretz
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/19/2013 7:59:37 AM
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The Obama administration’s sudden plunge into scandal territory has two aspects — the actual and the political. The first, and most important, has to do with what actually happened. Why did the administration promulgate a false account of the terror attack on Benghazi? Why did the Internal Revenue Service target conservative groups for special scrutiny? Why did the Justice Department act in an unprecedented fashion toward The Associated Press for publishing details of a foiled terror plot the White House was planning to discuss openly the next day?
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Amgen Tour of Califrnia:
Konig hangs on for Stage 7 win
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Zarin- 5/19/2013 7:04:54 AM
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Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic won the seventh stage of the Tour of California in a mountaintop finish Saturday, and American Tejay van Garderen finished third to keep the overall lead for the third straight day. Koenig, riding for the German team NetApp-Endura team, quickly moved ahead of Janier Acevedo of Colombia with about 400 yards left and completed the 91.4-mile stage from Livermore to Mount Diablo in 3 hours, 54 minutes, 17 seconds. Acevedo, the Jamis-Hagens Berman rider who won the second stage
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Immigration reform no sure bet
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Politico, by Seung Min Kim & Jake Sherman
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/19/2013 6:29:04 AM
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After years of false starts, Washington finally appears to be on the path to rewriting the nation’s immigration laws. The Senate Gang of Eight bill is holding its own in committee and is expected to hit the Senate floor in June. And in the House this week, members of a bipartisan group agreed “in principle” on a big bill to be revealed in June. But in this case, looks are deceiving. There are still major hurdles before immigration reform can reach President Barack Obama’s desk. The biggest one is the GOP-controlled House. Right now, the Senate bill has no chance
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All the Lonely People
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 6:24:58 AM
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OVER the last decade, the United States has become a less violent country in every way save one. As Americans commit fewer and fewer crimes against other people’s lives and property, they have become more likely to inflict fatal violence on themselves. In the 1990s, the suicide rate dipped with the crime rate. But since 2000, it has risen, and jumped particularly sharply among the middle-aged. The suicide rate for Americans 35 to 54 increased nearly 30 percent between 1999 and 2010; for men in their 50s, it rose nearly 50 percent. More Americans now die of suicide
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´Catching Fire´ dampened
but not drowned at Cannes
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Associated Press, by Jake Colye
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Posted By: Zarin- 5/19/2013 6:23:44 AM
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Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for "Hunger Games: Catching Fire," but heavy rain nevertheless dampened the film´s lavish Cannes party. Stars of the "Hunger Games" sequel, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Sam Clafin, arrived Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. "Catching Fire," perhaps more than any other film not actually screening at Cannes, is seeking to use the festival´s global platform to promote the highly anticipated sequel. Digital flame billboards have constantly burned by the Majestic Barriere hotel. The cast posed for photographers Saturday. And in the evening, Lionsgate held a lavish soiree beside the beach
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Obama adminstration talking
points scrubbed jihadists from
Cairo as well as Benghazi
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 6:13:07 AM
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In the days after the Benhazi attack, the State Department scurried to cover up its failure to heed warnings of such attacks while the White House scurried to cover up the fact that that attacks were the work of al Qaeda-linked terrorists of the sort President Obama supposedly had largely vanquished. The final Benghazi “talking points” and Susan Rice’s talk show appearances represent the product of this scurrying. To help advance the narrative that the Benghazi attacks were spontaneous, and thus (a) not to have been anticipated and (b) not linked to al Qaeda,
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Governor Bobby Jindal calls
for IRS officials to be jailed
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/19/2013 6:10:07 AM
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has delivered some harsh criticisms to President Barack Obama over recent controversies surrounding his administration in a speech. [Snip] CNN says Jindal addressed the IRS’ extra scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, saying those involved in the targeting should ´go to jail´. ´Anyone who participated in this targeting of Americans for their political beliefs, anyone who knew about it, anyone who simply looked the other way, and anyone under whose watch this occurred needs to be fired,´ Jindal said, noting that ordinary citizens who fail to pay taxes could face jail time.
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Toronto Mayor: That Wasn´t Me
Smoking Crack In That Video
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Reuters, by Julie Gordon & Cameron French
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 6:08:26 AM
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TORONTO - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, a target of criticism for his often unconventional conduct, on Friday denied media allegations that he had been caught on video smoking crack cocaine. "Absolutely not true," Ford told reporters gathered outside his west Toronto house, before driving off in his SUV. Reporters for the Toronto Star and Gawker Media said late on Thursday they had watched a cellphone video that appears to show Ford smoking crack, although both news outlets said they had declined to pay the $100,000 price asked by the tipsters,
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Revealed: Obama administration knew
about investigation into claims that
IRS was harassing tea party groups
since June 2012 as ousted head of
the agency insists it was not illegal
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Daily Mail [UK], by David Martosko & Associated Press
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/19/2013 6:04:22 AM
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Obama administration officials were made aware in June 2012 about an investigation into complaints from conservative tea party groups that they were being harassed, and they knew the probe was ongoing at the height of the presidential race, a Treasury inspector general revealed Friday. J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, testified alongside ousted IRS head Steven Miller, who did little to subdue Republican outrage during hours of intense congressional questioning. Both defiant and apologetic, Miller acknowledged agency mistakes in targeting tea party groups for special scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, but he insisted that
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Revenge, ego and the
corruption of Wikipedia
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Salon, by Andrew Leonard
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Posted By: MissMolly- 5/19/2013 6:02:51 AM
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In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded Southern writer with a taste for the Gothic and absurd. Qworty cut paragraphs that included quotes from Hannah’s work. He removed 20 links to interviews, obituaries and reminiscences concerning Hannah. He cut out a list of literary prizes Hannah had won. Two edits stand out. Qworty excised the phrase “and was regarded as a good mentor” from a sentence that started:
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Navy dolphins discover rare
old torpedo off Calif.
coast near Coronado
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Los Angeles Times, by Tony Perry
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 5:54:00 AM
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SAN DIEGO — In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day. But don´t look for the primary discoverers to get a promotion or an invitation to meet the admirals at the Pentagon - although they might get an extra fish for dinner or maybe a pat on the snout. The so-called Howell torpedo was discovered by bottlenose dolphins being trained by the Navy to find undersea objects, including mines,
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AP Impact: Myanmar sanctions
list languishes
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Associated Press, by Erika Kinetz & Matthew Pennington
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Posted By: Zarin- 5/19/2013 5:52:51 AM
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If you´re American and want to do business in Myanmar, there´s a list of people and companies you have to steer clear of by law. But it leaves off a former minister´s son U.S. officials suspected of brokering arms deals with North Korea, and high-rolling relatives of the man who led the repressive military government for 19 years. The Obama administration didn´t add anyone to the U.S. government´s Myanmar sanctions list over 3 1/2 years, despite recommendations from the U.S. Embassy in Yangon to blacklist hundreds of top officials and their business cronies
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It´s not Obama´s fault... It´s Bush´s!
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 5:50:40 AM
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It must be George W. Bush’s fault. Everything else is. The moonbats’ verdict is in. Barack Obama couldn’t possibly have done all those terrible things the vast right-wing conspiracy is accusing him of. And they’re not scandals, either. Obama’s troubles are merely “controversies” or, to use Dear Leader’s own phrase, a sideshow. Scandals only happen to Republicans, just like Deval Patrick didn’t go on a junket to Ireland. It was a “trade mission.” Democrats never make mistakes either — “mistakes were made,” in the passive voice.
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Zogby: Scandals cost Obama liberals,
majority -- ´Are locusts next?´
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: MissMolly- 5/19/2013 5:45:04 AM
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama´s scandal-filled disaster week has cost him his majority support and sapped enthusiasm for his second term. "As Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth might have said, this was ´weekus horribilis´ for President Obama. Three fires in the form of three scandals to put out in one week. Are locusts next? While Obama has tried to get ahead of each -- Benghazi, the Associated Press, and the IRS vs. the Tea Party -- the time to get ahead of these things is, well, ahead of them.
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The Biggest Obama Scandals
Are Proven and Ignored
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Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf
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Posted By: MissMolly- 5/19/2013 5:41:48 AM
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Prompted by Peggy Noonan´s claim in The Wall Street Journal that "we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate," Andrew Sullivan steps forward to defend Pres. Obama´s honor. "Can she actually believe this?," he asks incredulously. "Has this president broken the law, lied under oath, or authorized war crimes? Has he traded arms for hostages with Iran? Has he knowingly sent his cabinet out to tell lies about his sex life? Has he sat by idly as an American city was destroyed by a hurricane?
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At least someone in the
MSM covers Benghazi
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 5:33:33 AM
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Jay Carney insists Benghazi, Libya, is not a scandal, but then he doesn’t admit to having misled the media about the origin of the attacks. The administration now tells CBS News, “We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots. It’s actually closer to us being idiots.” It would be nice if the source specified what part(s) of the administration were idiotic and why it’s “closer” but not all attributable to incompetence. The problem with claiming incompetence is two-fold. First, it raises the question as to where the president was on Sept. 11, 2012,
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Connect dots to Obama
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New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 5:23:22 AM
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The standard police warning about con men applies to politicians, as well: When they tell you something that sounds too good to be true, it usually is. So it goes with the White House claim that it knew nothing — nothing! — about the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service. Of course the White House knew. And we already have the first piece of evidence. The Friday hearing on what amounted to political profiling of anti-Obama groups took a huge step toward demolishing White House efforts to distance itself from the scandal. The agency’s inspector general testified
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At Cincinnati IRS office, surprise
over claims of partisan villainy
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Washington Post, by Lisa Rein & Dan Zak
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/19/2013 5:17:34 AM
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CINCINNATI — The fog of scandal hangs over a boxy, modernist, 10-story building that looks like a monument to paperwork. Shrubs and chain smokers flank its front entrance here on Main Street, in the heart of downtown. Every day, 2,000 employees go to work at various federal agencies in this John F. Kennedy-era structure, whose chief tenant is the Internal Revenue Service — which is having just about the worst week an agency can have. Up on the fourth floor — with its gray linoleum, low ceilings and fluorescent lights, file carts heaped with manila envelopes, its keypad-coded doors labeled 4-022
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The Cannes Jewelry
Heist: Who Did It?
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Daily Beast, by Dana Kennedy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 5:12:45 AM
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Clutching umbrellas and shivering, Hollywood heavyweights like Nicole Kidman, Harvey Weinstein, Colin Firth, Rooney Mara, Sofia Coppola, and Emma Watson braved the rain and unseasonable cold Thursday night at A-list parties ranging from a rooftop soiree sponsored by Bulgari to a beachside bash held by Calvin Klein at the far end of the Croisette. While a black-leather-clad Kidman worried about her pin-straight hair frizzing up in the rain at Klein’s Women in Film party, neither she nor anyone else at the swanky event on the Plage d’Ecrin had an inkling that one of the biggest jewelry heists in Cannes
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