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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Obama schedule for Wednesday,
June 19
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United Press International, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 11:50:10 PM
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WASHINGTON- President Obama´s schedule Wednesday included meetings in Germany with U.S. Embassy personnel and German dignitaries, the White House said. The daily schedule indicated Obama would: -- Meet, with first lady Michelle Obama, with U.S. Embassy personnel at the Ritz-Carlton, Berlin,-- Visit the Schloss Bellevue where he would sign a guest book and meet with German President Joachim Gauck.- Visit the German Chancellery for a meeting and joint news conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel before having a working lunch with Merkel in the afternoon.(Snip) -- Depart Germany for Washington.
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Why Democrats Love
To Spy On Americans
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BuzzFeed, by Michael Hastings
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Posted By: earlybird- 6/19/2013 11:25:48 PM
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For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the last 48 hours has delivered news of the worst kind — a flood of new information that has washed away any lingering doubts about where President Obama and his party stand on civil liberties, full stop. Glenn Greenwald’s exposure of the NSA’s massive domestic spy program has revealed the entire caste of current Democratic leaders as a gang of civil liberty opportunists, whose true passion, it seems, was in trolling George W. Bush for eight years on matters of national security. “Everyone should just calm down,” Senator Harry Reid said yesterday, inhaling slowly.
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Michael Hastings conspiracy
theories: Web goes wild after NSA,
CIA reporter killed in crash
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New York Daily News, by Beth Stebner
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Posted By: earlybird- 6/19/2013 11:22:33 PM
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News of reporter and writer Michael Hastings´ death at the age of only 33 has shaken the journalism community across the nation, as well as fans of the writer´s hard-hitting reporting.(Snip)conspiracy theorists are speculating that there is more than meets the eye over Hasting´s demise. Twitter, Facebook, and sharing site Reddit were abuzz Wednesday, with some users commenting that it was suspicious that Hastings, who famously brought down U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal in a Rolling Stone cover story, died while in the middle of covering several hot-button topics like monitoring by the National Security Agency and the CIA.
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Tea partyers rally at Capitol,
blame White House for IRS mess
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Washington Times, by David Sherfinski
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 6/19/2013 11:18:24 PM
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Thousands of activists rallied outside the Capitol on Wednesday to protest the IRS targeting of conservative and tea party groups, with many of the event’s speakers laying the blame for the fiasco squarely at the White House. The “Audit the IRS” rally, organized by the Tea Party Patriots organization in response to the agency’s improper scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, drew members and leaders of tea party groups across the country, radio personality Glenn Beck and the Senate’s tea party trio: Republicans Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas
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GAO sees problem meeting
health law deadlines
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Washington Times, by Tom Howell Jr.
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 6/19/2013 11:15:53 PM
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The government’s chief auditor on Wednesday said President Obama’s health care overhaul is in danger of missing key October deadlines, raising concerns it could be the nightmare that Republicans and even some Democratic lawmakers have feared of late. In one study released Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office offered a mixed review of the Obama administration efforts to make sure the “exchanges” — insurance markets where individuals and businesses can shop for health plans — will be open for enrollment
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Protected class: Colo.
school weighs discrimination
defense for conservatives
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Washington Times, by Valerie Richardson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 6/19/2013 11:14:12 PM
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DENVER — College campuses are known for proudly proclaiming their refusal to tolerate discrimination against any minority group, but try telling that to a conservative. Few would disagree that conservative professors are an endangered species on campus, which is why the University of Colorado Board of Regents is scheduled to consider Thursday a resolution that would prohibit discrimination based on “political affiliation or political philosophy.” Regent James Geddes said the proposed policy change is aimed at bringing more diversity of intellectual thought
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NBC´s Todd Excuses Obama´s
Poor Speech Performance:
Crowd Too Small, ´It Was Hot´
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Newsbusters, by Kyle Drennen
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 10:55:41 PM
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Appearing on MSNBC´s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Wednesday, NBC´s chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd came up with a long list of excuses for President Obama´s poor speech performance in Berlin: "I want to give you a little context here....there was an attempt to shrink the crowd size....Maybe they would have gotten 25, 30, 40,000 people....President Obama feeds off a crowd very well." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Todd then grasped at other reasons for the lackluster event: "...you had that very distracting glass and you could just see that the President
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Friend of a friend
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PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez
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Posted By: Hazymac- 6/19/2013 10:44:32 PM
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Facebook told me two things today. The first is that I am a friend of a friend (FOAF) of Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister. The second and more important tiding is a link to the New York Daily News: "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." Tony Soprano has bought the farm. Of course Gandolfini only played Tony Soprano. He was never Soprano himself. And while I never had the opportunity
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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: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 10:43:27 PM
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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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National Review Hammers Gang
of Eight for Promoting Amnesty
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Warner Todd Huston
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 10:40:14 PM
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In a new editorial, the folks at National Review came out strongly against the immigration plan being sponsored by the "Gang of Eight," a group of Senators that includes Marco Rubio (R-FL), calling the bill "Rubio´s Folly." National Review urges Senator Rubio to vote against the bill he has helped craft. It slams the proposed legislation as, "an amnesty-first, enforcement-maybe program drawn up mainly to reflect the priorities of 11 million citizens of other countries rather than the concerns of more than 300 million citizens of the United States." The editors point out that many of the
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Bipartisan bill would
soften ObamaCare mandate
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Sam Baker
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 10:35:33 PM
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A pair of centrist senators introduced a bill Wednesday to soften the employer mandate in President Obama´s healthcare law. The healthcare law requires employers to offer coverage to employees who work more than 30 hours per week. Some employers have said they will reduce workers´ hours to avoid the mandate. Sens. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) proposed a bill to move the threshold to 40 hours per week, saying the employer mandate should match the traditional definition of a full-time worker. "What we´ve tried to do is be reflective of the businesses we work with,"
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Cruz: Reid ‘starting to get nervous’
about passing immigration bill
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Daniel Strauss
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 10:34:19 PM
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was “starting to get nervous” about passing immigration reform, suggesting that opponents of the bill were gaining momentum. "I certainly wouldn´t presume to speak for Harry Reid, but I think he´s starting to get nervous," Cruz said in an interview with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.The Senate this week is debating the Gang of Eight’s bipartisan immigration reform proposal. Reid (D-Nev.) is hoping to pass the measure before the July recess. Cruz suggested that Reid hoped to move the bill quickly to avoid scrutiny
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Another likely Rubio whopper
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/19/2013 10:22:07 PM
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Marco Rubio made another one of his seemingly endless appearances on Sean Hannity’s program to advocate amnesty legislation. Rubio told Hannity that he has opposed amendments by Republican Senators to improve the legislation’s enforcement provisions because a new enforcement provision will be proposed tomorrow that is tougher and more effective than what has been proposed so far. Rand Paul’s amendment, which Rubio voted against, would have given Congress, not the Department of Homeland Security, the ultimate authority to determine if the border is effectively secure. It would also have included enhanced security measures, such as requiring a
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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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