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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Obama Took Three Years
to Find Nominees
for Civil Liberties Board
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National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 6:21:26 AM
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Obama to Charlie Rose, yesterday: I’ve stood up a privacy and civil liberties oversight board made up of independent citizens, including some fierce civil libertarians. I’ll be meeting with them and what I want to do is to set up and structure a national conversation not only about these two programs but also about the general problem of these big data sets because this is not going to be restricted to government entities. The board Obama is referring to was created in 2004. Nominations and confirmation delays prevented the board from being particularly effective,
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Barack’s Brave New World Blarney
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American Spectator, by George Neumayr
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 6:14:17 AM
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Obama never fails to enlist children in his secularist crusades, whether at home or abroad. Last week he trotted out two nine-year-old girls to introduce him at a White House event celebrating “LGBT Pride Month.” “We could not be prouder of Zea and Luna for the introduction,” he said. “Zea and Luna are here with their moms, and also I think with Grandma and Grandpa — correct? And so feel free to congratulate them afterwards for their outstanding introduction.” Zea and Luna proved useful to Obama not only as props for LGBT rights but also as mouthpieces for his gun-control agenda:
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CBO Analysis Confirms:
Gang of Eight Bill is a Disaster
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: MissMolly- 6/19/2013 6:11:09 AM
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The Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal today, and spinning is in full swing. The fact is, however, that the basic facts can’t be spun: the bill is a disaster. As with Obamacare, the Gang structured its bill to make it “score” artificially well from a budget perspective. They did this by delaying the newly legalized immigrants’ eligibility for most federal welfare benefits for ten years, which takes those benefits outside of the ten-year window that is scored by the CBO. But that cosmetic shift did little to conceal the plan’s baleful effects.
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GOP staffer claims to live
on food stamps without problems,
suggests cutting more
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Daily Caller, by Caroline May
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 6:06:37 AM
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With dozens of Democratic lawmakers struggling to live on a food stamp budget to protest GOP cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a Republican staffer says he is living on a SNAP budget without problems. Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman’s communications director and agriculture policy advisor, Donny Ferguson, says he has been able to eat well on $27.58 for a week, less than the $31.50 House Democrats have limited themselves to for their “SNAP Challenge.” “I wanted to personally experience the effects of the proposed cuts to food stamps. I didn’t plan ahead or buy strategically,
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The “Apolitical” Fantasy and the IRS
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Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 5:56:47 AM
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The ongoing saga of Edward Snowden has at least been moving in the right direction for President Obama. Snowden may once have tried to position himself as a whistleblower, but he has since devolved into ingratiating himself with authoritarian regimes by plying them with American national security secrets. While Pete is correct that the NSA story seems to be hurting voters’ opinion of Obama’s trustworthiness, Americans are by now realizing that they would be foolish to go the other extreme and place that trust in Snowden. It is also (understandably) distracting the public’s attention from the scandals that preceded it,
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‘Pretty please’ foreign policy
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 5:46:48 AM
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In two contexts the Obama administration has revealed its complete confusion about high-stakes negotiations and the interrelation of soft and hard power. In Syria, after dragging his feet for two years, trying to fudge over his own “red line” and coming up with a half-hearted move to give small arms to the rebels, President Obama discovers that he can’t budge Russia, which has backed Bashar al-Assad to the hilt. The Post reports that at the Group of 8 summit: Obama has demanded that Assad relinquish power as part of any negotiated peace settlement, a condition Putin rejects.
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One of US FBI’s most wanted
nabbed at Mexico beach resort
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 5:44:15 AM
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CANCUN, Mexico — Mexican authorities have arrested a former university professor who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in the resort city of Playa del Carmen. Prosecutor Gaspar Armando Garcia Torres said Walter Lee Williams, 64, is wanted on charges of sexual exploitation of children and traveling abroad for Garcia said Williams was captured late Tuesday while drinking coffee near a park in the Caribbean beach town. “This person is wanted by the FBI because he is linked to the sexual exploitation of children,” Garcia told reporters. He said it wasn’t clear how long Williams
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PAC says Ed Markey´s
taxes an ugly state of affairs
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Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld
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Posted By: MissMolly- 6/19/2013 5:40:28 AM
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Another Republican Super PAC is jumping into the increasingly nasty Massachusetts Senate battle, going after Democrat Ed Markey’s biggest weakness — his $1.3 million Maryland home. The America Rising PAC, recently founded by Mitt Romney’s former presidential campaign manager, is planning to deliver a letter today to Maryland’s comptroller urging the state to investigate why Markey has never paid state income taxes there despite living in the upscale Chevy Chase suburb for two decades, the Herald has learned. Markey’s residency status has been dogging him throughout his career, ever since the Herald reported in the early 1990s
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Jan Brewer’s Obamacare Deception
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Weekly Standard, by Jeffrey H. Anderson
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 5:31:29 AM
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At least for now (although a statewide referendum may be pending), Arizona governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, has succeeded in her efforts to implement a key part of Obamacare in her state. Brewer has very aggressively — and entirely voluntarily — spearheaded the charge to implement Obamacare’s massive Medicaid expansion on her watch. She now claims, however, that she’s not really implementing Obamacare — or at least not any significant portion of it. In a recent interview reported by the Associated Press, Brewer said, “This business that this is Obamacare is a little bit interesting.”
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The Other Weiner
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New York Post, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 5:27:18 AM
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If Anthony Weiner hadn’t decided to run for mayor, we might never have learned about the cushy deal Hillary Clinton’s State Department arranged for his wife. But that deal has now caught the attention of Sen. Chuck Grassley. And the Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican has sent State a letter asking 18 specific questions about how and why Huma Abedin was allowed to work simultaneously for Foggy Bottom and private clients. Abedin was serving as Secretary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff when in June 2012 she returned from maternity leave and became a “special government employee.”
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Pentagon Shoots Down
Kerry’s Syria Airstrike Plan
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Bloomberg, by Jeffrey Goldberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 5:22:47 AM
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Twenty years ago, in a debate over the war in Bosnia, Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, issued a challenge to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell. Albright wanted the U.S. to confront an aggressive Serbia; Powell and the Pentagon were hesitant. Albright grew frustrated: “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Albright asked. Powell later said that he thought Albright was going to give him an aneurysm. Flash-forward to this past Wednesday. At a principals meeting
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Michelle Obama´s Black Reparation Junket
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American Thinker, by Mary Evans
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Posted By: DW626- 6/19/2013 5:22:21 AM
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Michelle Obama has been capitalizing on her status as a descendant of slaves. Her latest junket to Ireland shows she is definitely enjoying the 21st-century benefits of the transatlantic slave trade her radical friends in Chicago refer to as "genocide" by white Americans. According to the First Couple´s pals, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Rahm Emanuel, and Dr. Conrad W. Worrill of Northeastern University, white Americans should monetarily compensate black Americans for past slavery.
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Nostalgia Act: The Great Sarah
Palin Revival Tour of 2013
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Daily Beast, by Nick Gillespie
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Posted By: MissMolly- 6/19/2013 5:14:17 AM
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Are you ready for the great Sarah Palin Revival of 2013? The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate is back from her exile at Fox News and, like the former child star played by Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, the self-described Mama Grizzly is ready for a big comeback. But to be blunt, she seems more like a relic of a bygone, little-missed era in showbiz-cum-politics. Indeed, she no more represents a viable future for the GOP than her 76-year-old “angry bird” running mate, John McCain. To give her full credit,
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The last telegram ever
is about to be sent
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The Week, by Harold Maass
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Posted By: MissMolly- 6/19/2013 5:04:46 AM
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O n July 14, someone somewhere in India will tap out what is being called the world´s last telegram. India´s state-owned telecom company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, has been holding out as other countries around the world retire their antiquated telegraph services. Now, after delaying the move for two years, the business operating what is considered to be the world´s last telegraph service is finally ready to pull the plug, saying telegrams are no longer commercially viable in the age of digital communications. India´s telegram service had been upgraded in recent years — clerks now type up messages on computers
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Living in Fear: Welcome
to Fascist America
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PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 4:58:40 AM
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Back in the ’80s when, on a couple of occasions, I visited the Soviet Union, I always wondered what was it really like to live in that godforsaken place. But it didn’t much matter. For all the creepy spying that was going on, I realized I’d be out of there in a week or two. Now I know what it was like. It’s come home. I live in fear. I don’t want to admit it, but it’s true. Every phone call I make, every email I send, every text I message, every article I write including this one,
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G8: Barack Obama looks like
a president going through the motions
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Telegraph [UK], by Alex Spillius
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 4:58:06 AM
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Listening to Barack Obama give his speech in Belfast on Monday, it was hard not to stifle a yawn. I kept waiting for the part when he would say something interesting, but, about three quarters of the way through, realised it wasn’t going to come. Judging from television pictures some of his young audience felt the same, after the initial rush of euphoria of receiving the rock star president in their midst had passed. This is not surprising, for we had already heard this number about the inspirational role of the Northern Ireland peace process and the Emerald Isle’s
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Senator: IRS to Pay $70M
in Employee Bonuses
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Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 4:49:49 AM
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WASHINGTON-- The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees´ union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office. The directive was written by Danny Werfel, a former budget official who has since been appointed acting IRS commissioner.
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Karzai Suspends Talks With
US Over Taliban Move
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Associated Press, by Amir Shah
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 4:46:19 AM
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he has suspended talks with the U.S. on a new security deal to protest the way the Americans are reaching out to the Taliban in efforts to find a political solution to the war. Karzai says he has suspended negotiations with the U.S. on what troops will remain in the country after 2014. He says he did this "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." The Afghan president´s statement was released by his office
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Hagel approves plan allowing
women to join Navy SEALS,
Army Rangers
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Carlo Munoz
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 4:37:24 AM
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Women will have the chance to join the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers and other specialized combat outfits beginning in 2016 under plans approved Tuesday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Female candidates will also be able to join front-line Army and Marine Corps infantry units as part of the department’s decision. “The days of the ‘Rambo’ are over,” Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick, head of force development for Special Operations Command, said Tuesday during a briefing announcing the changes. Tuesday’s announcement builds on former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta’s decision in January to end the military’s long-standing ban
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TWA Flight 800 investigators break silence
in new documentary, claim original
conclusion about cause of crash is wrong
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FOX News, by Staff
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Posted By: smcchk- 6/19/2013 12:41:02 AM
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A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago. However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down. Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded
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Thamesmead murder: Man
charged with killing Colin Greenway
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This Is Local London [U.K.], by Robert Fisk
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Posted By: PageTurner- 6/19/2013 12:13:13 AM
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A 51-YEAR-OLD man is due in court today accused of the murder of Colin Greenway in Thamesmead. Mr Greenway, 56, was pronounced dead in his ground floor flat in Abbotts Close at around 2pm on Saturday afternoon (June 15). Police arrested Daha Mohammed, also of Abbotts Close, nearby and yesterday charged him with the murder. He will appear at Bexley Magistrates’ Court this morning.
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Disabled man had throat slit
in ´brutal attack´ in Abbotts
Close, Thamesmead: Murder
probe underway
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This Is Local London [U.K.], by Robert Fisk
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Posted By: PageTurner- 6/19/2013 12:10:55 AM
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A MURDER investigation has been launched after a disabled man had his throat slit in a ‘brutal attack’ in his Thamesmead home. The victim, who has been named as 56-year-old Colin Greenway, was pronounced dead in his ground floor flat in Abbotts Close at around 2pm yesterday (June 15). Some neighbours reportedly saw two men going over the gate at the side of his property into the back garden about an hour before Mr Greenway´s body was discovered by the emergency services. Forensics officers are at the scene of the murder this afternoon and have removed one of the doors
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Would you be caught wearing
these? The ´hairy leg´ stockings
designed to help women ward
off unwanted male attention
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Daily Mail [UK], by Sadie Whitelocks
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/19/2013 12:08:44 AM
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It might seem like the androgynous fashion trend taken too far, but a Chinese company’s new ‘hairy leg’ hosiery hopes to help women ward off unwanted male attention. A photograph posted to the Shanghai-based website ChinaSMACK shows a model from the waist down wearing the on-trend stockings. A caption below touts them as the perfect ´summertime anti-pervert´ device and ´essential for young girls going out’. It does not state where shoppers can find the garment and internet searches prove fruitless. The image of the tights has triggered hundreds of responses from amused and horrified viewers. ‘Damn, so disgusting!’ commented one.
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