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Monday, December 31, 2012

 









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HAPPY NEW YEAR LDOTTERS ALL! Come on in...
Welcome to our annual Ldotter New Year's Eve virtual party.
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Latest Senate committee report on Benghazi
terrorist attack faults State Department

Released yesterday. Do not confuse with prior
"scathing" report earlier this month from State Dept.
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NBC reporter raises Hillary Clinton questions
NBC has questions about her story. NBC !!!???
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Graham changes mind:
‘I think we’re going over the cliff’

If Lindsey says we are going....hang on.
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Troubled Past for Suspect in Fatal Subway Push
Certifiable woman did not shove victim
onto subway tracks with a gun.
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As ‘fiscal cliff’ looms, Republicans have no
political incentive to make deal with Obama

Let the blame game begin.
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Party! Party! All Ldotters Welcome to
our Virtual New Year's party

Log on around 8:00 tonight and join the staff for a year end
celebration. All subjects allowed as Igor
dismantles the LDot Spam tree. Virtual drinks on us.
Bring a virtual pot luck treat and relax with like minded friends.
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Must Reads for Sunday, December 30, 2012
Yesterday's Must-Reads for those who missed.
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Ldotter Note: Don't Forget to Visit TheConnection
The Place Where Eagles Gather.
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Must Read Archive [Last 60 Days]

  

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New State Department scandal:
Whistleblower accuses consul general
of trysts with subordinates and hookers

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New York Post, by KATE BRIQUELET    Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 10:53:38 AM     Post Reply
In the latest black eye for the scandal-ridden State Department, a whistleblower claims she was run out of the foreign service after complaining about a consul general’s alleged office trysts with subordinates and hookers.Kerry Howard says she was bullied, harassed and forced to resign after she exposed US Consul General Donald Moore’s alleged security-threatening shenanigans in the Naples, Italy, office. As the post’s community-liaison officer, Howard was charged with keeping workplace peace and advising higher-ups on the state of morale, but when she revealed allegations about her boss, State Department officials swept it under the rug,

   

 

  


 
Who is he? Obama keeps allies,
enemies guessing in second term

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The Hill, by Justin Sink    Original Article
Posted By: ketchuplover- 6/17/2013 6:31:12 AM     Post Reply
Five months into his second term, allies and enemies are as confounded as ever about who President Obama really is. Is he the dyed-in-the-wool liberal that his biggest supporters and critics suggest? Or is he a pragmatic, even cynical, politician who cares more for his popularity than taking risks for his ideological goals or living up to his rhetoric? Even in the short period since his reelection, Obama has provided evidence to support conflicting interpretations. His efforts to pass immigration reform, the unsuccessful push for stricter gun controls and tax hikes on high earners buttress the case for Obama-as-ideologue.

Jeb Bush labels conservative
critics ‘the chirpers’

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Washington Post, by Aaron Blake    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/17/2013 1:22:30 PM     Post Reply
Jeb Bush says he’s not worried that his work toward comprehensive immigration reform and his ties to the GOP establishment will alienate conservatives and negatively impact a potential 2016 presidential campaign, referring to critics as “the chirpers.” “If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record,” the former Florida governor said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody. “And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.” Bush (R) pointed to his conservative

Barbara Walters Defends Maher
Calling Trig Palin Retarded:
‘I Don´t Think He Intended
it to be Mean-Spirited’

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Newsbusters, by John Nolte    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 6/17/2013 5:19:02 PM     Post Reply
As NewsBusters reported last week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called out vulgarian comedian Bill Maher for referring to her Down Syndrome son Trig as "retarded." On ABC´s The View Monday, co-host Barbara Walters astonishingly defended Maher saying, "I don´t think he intended it to be mean-spirited" (video follows with transcript and commentary): WHOOPI GOLDBERG: At a recent standup show in Las Vegas, comedian Bill Maher apparently called Sarah Palin’s five-year-old developmentally-challenged son Trig retarded. And Sarah blasted him on Twitter as a bully. Is that, is it, is he a bully? Is he a bad, what is he?

Melendez warns without
legal status ´there will
never be road to
White House for GOP´

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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 6/16/2013 2:41:41 PM     Post Reply
Gang of Eight member Bob Menendez advised Republicans to accept legalization status for current illegal immigrants if they ever want to see another president from their party. “I would tell my Republican colleagues — both in the House and the Senate — that the road to the White House comes through a road with a pathway to legalization,” the New Jersey senator said on State of the Union this morning. “Without it, there’ll never be a road to the White House for the Republican party.” Menendez also warned of triggers on border security

Rubio Aide: ‘There Are American
Workers Who, For Lack of a
Better Term, Can’t Cut It’

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National Review Online, by Rich Lowry    Original Article
Posted By: trapper- 6/16/2013 11:18:45 PM     Post Reply
Politico’s Playbook has an excerpt from a new Ryan Lizza piece from the New Yorker that is not yet online. It contains a passage on the back-and-forth between labor and the Chamber that has a quote from a Rubio staffer that is going to raise eyebrows, to say the least: “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly.” Here is the entire context:

   

 

  


 
Threats made to figures at center
of IRS controversy: sources

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Reuters, by Patrick Temple-West and Karl Plume    Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 6:48:57 AM     Post Reply
A current and a former top tax official have been physically threatened in recent weeks as the scandal over Internal Revenue Service targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has gathered steam, people familiar with their situation say.Ousted IRS acting commissioner, Steven Miller, has received such threats, according to a source familiar with his situation. The source declined to elaborate on the nature or the source of the threats.

Shootings leave 7 dead,
at least 30 injured during chaotic
Father´s Day weekend in Chicago

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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 6/16/2013 6:51:07 PM     Post Reply
A series of shootings this weekend has Chicagoans on edge. A total of 11 separate shootings since Friday night have resulted in seven deaths and at least 30 injuries in the Windy City. The victims range in age from 16-years old to 40-years-old, according to multiple media reports. The last of the shooting deaths came early Sunday morning when police chased a man down a dark alley on the crime-ridden West Side. The suspect jumped out of the window of a moving car the officers were attempting to pull over, he fell down fleeing

Iran to send 4,000 troops to
support President Assad in
Syria as British Armed Forces
play war games on border

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Daily Mail [UK], by Suzannah Hills    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/16/2013 11:08:12 PM     Post Reply
Iran is preparing to send 4,000 troops in to Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the wake of America´s announcement it will be providing ´military aid´ to the country´s Muslim rebels. President Barack Obama made the pledge earlier this week after the U.S. claimed it found ´conclusive evidence´ Assad´s regime has used chemical weapons against the rebel forces--which includes the most extreme Sunni Islamists--and has called for Britain and France to back the move. While Britain hasn´t made a guarantee either way as yet, more than 350 Royal Marines are being sent to Jordan

Why the IRS IG
Stopped with an Audit

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National Review Online, by Gerald Walpin    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 6/16/2013 5:11:15 AM     Post Reply
Among all the unanswered questions about the IRS’s illegal targeting of conservative organizations, one is most crucial: Who ordered this extreme scrutiny? Amazingly, IRS inspector general J. Russell George, responsible for the investigation asking those questions about the IRS, has testified that he did not obtain that information. Details of that testimony are interesting. Representative Tom Graves (R., Ga.) asked, “Have you asked the individuals who ordered them to use this extra scrutiny to punish, or penalize, or postpone, or deny?” George turns around to confer with his assistant. Just the fact that the inspector general

Marco Rubio doesn´t
know if ´he´s getting
played´ by Democrats

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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 6/17/2013 6:42:44 AM     Post Reply
Is Marco Rubio, R-Fla., getting played by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.? During his interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl this morning, Rubio didn’t even seem to understand what that meant. “Are you being played by the Democrats?” asked Karl. “Is Chuck Schumer playing you?” “I don’t — I quite frankly, I don’t even know what that means,” Rubio replied. “Is he using you?” Karl continued. “Is he using you to try to accomplish something that the Democrats want and is not — not a conservative bill?” Rubio responded that immigration reform was a bi-partisan issue that “all Americans

   

 



 
Nigella Lawson ´attacked´ by husband:
See shocking pictures of Charles
Saatchi repeatedly squeezing TV
chef´s throat

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Daily Mirror, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 6/16/2013 3:05:32 PM     Post Reply
Her eyes are transfixed as she struggles to prise away the powerful hand squeezing around her throat. Glamorous TV cook Nigella Lawson looks stunned to be ­attacked by her art collector husband Charles Saatchi during a vicious row at their ­favourite London restaurant. Fellow diners and passers-by at Scott’s in Mayfair were shocked to see the ­advertising ­multimillionaire reduce his celebrity wife to tears. Saatchi launched a tirade of angry words. Four times he grasped her around the neck with Nigella, 53, looking powerless and petrified. At first he used only his left hand, then both.

   

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