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Obama's China Policy Is a Massive Failure
RealClearWorld, by Aaron Friedberg
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Posted By:cebuyer, 10/22/2012 7:50:58 AM
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 10/22/2012 8:16:08 AM (No. 8951813)
Leftists cannot relate to their domestic political opponents but invariably think they are going to make friends with foreigners whose interests are not those of America. They should try their faith in talking, negotiation, mutual good will and compromise at home, with fellow Americans, before they seek to win friends and influence leaders abroad. Foreigners, of course, lead Leftists on by telling them whatever they think they want to hear and causing them to believe that an important breakthrough is always about to happen. Domestic political opponents, on the other hand, tell them the blunt truth about their differences and disagreements, which enrages Leftists and makes them hate them more than any foreign adversary.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lylacat, 10/22/2012 9:20:49 AM (No. 8951983)
ALL of 0bama's policies have been a massive failure. He has printed 11 Trillion Dollars out of thin air. He has put so many regulations on small businesses that have destroyed thousands of jobs. Most of his favored Green companies have gone bankrupt and taken the taxpayer's money. Failure, Dismal Failure.
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What´s in Kim Jong-un´s Head?
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RealClearWorld, by Greg Sheridan
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Posted By: cebuyer- 4/4/2013 11:21:09 AM
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THE Korean Peninsula is closer to military conflict than at any time since 1994. Beyond his wild rhetoric threatening nuclear war, the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, has taken two of the most extreme actions open to him. He has decided to re-start his five megawatt nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. And he has banned South Koreans from entering the joint industrial zone in Kaesong which is responsible for much of the hard currency Pyongyang gets.Meanwhile, he is provoking tough reactions in Washington and Seoul. US Secretary of State John Kerry declared the US will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea.
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Europe´s New Export: Jihadists
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Real Clear World, by Soeren Kern
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Posted By: cebuyer- 3/23/2013 11:10:23 AM
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More than 1,000 Muslims from across Europe are currently active as Islamic jihadists, or holy warriors, in Syria, which has replaced Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia as the main destination for militant Islamists seeking to obtain immediate combat experience with little or no official scrutiny. As the number of European jihadists in Syria grows, European officials are beginning to express concerns about the threat these "enemies within" will pose when they return to Europe. In Britain, for example, Foreign Secretary William Hague recently said, "Syria is now the number one destination
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The Countries Arming the World
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RealClearWorld, by Staff
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Posted By: cebuyer- 3/19/2013 11:56:12 AM
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The famed Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz observed that war is the continuation of politics by other means. He could just as easily have referred to arms sales. The global arms trade is brisk. For the sellers, it´s a means to curry favor with strategic partners and to fatten the bottom lines of domestic arms merchants. For the buyers, it provides access to top-shelf technology that´s unobtainable through domestic production. These are the countries leading the pack.
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Why France Is Ripe for
its Own Hugo Chavez
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RealClearWorld, by Fabio Fiallo
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Posted By: cebuyer- 3/18/2013 9:38:28 AM
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As a connoisseur of revolutionary processes, Leon Trotsky asserted that a revolution seems impossible until it becomes inevitable. As a matter of fact, this is what happened in Venezuela in 1998, when Hugo Chávez assumed power after winning a presidential election.Until then, Venezuela was living in what could be called a "soft democracy." People used to go periodically to the ballots, choosing largely between the two leading, traditional parties.
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Five Most Pro-American Countries
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RealClearWorld, by Staff
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Posted By: cebuyer- 3/13/2013 1:23:01 PM
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While President Obama came to office promising to restore the world´s image of America, the polling firm Gallup has found a steady decline in the world´s view of American leadership. Today, America´s median approval stands at 41 percent, down from 49 percent during President Obama´s first year in office. Nonetheless, global views on U.S. leadership have rebounded since 2008, and several countries in particular have expressed strong approval for U.S. leadership, according to Gallup. These are the five most pro-American countries.
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Will North Korea Restart
the Korean War?
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RealClearWorld, by George Friedman
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Posted By: cebuyer- 3/12/2013 9:14:09 AM
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On Jan. 29, I wrote a piece that described North Korea´s strategy as a combination of ferocious, weak and crazy. In the weeks since then, three events have exemplified each facet of that strategy. Pyongyang showed its ferocity Feb. 12, when it detonated a nuclear device underground. The country's only significant ally, China, voted against Pyongyang in the U.N. Security Council on March 7, demonstrating North Korea's weakness.
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Five Things Americans Fear the Most
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Real Clear World, by Greg Scoblete
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Posted By: cebuyer- 2/18/2013 11:39:02 AM
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What do Americans fear most? When it comes to America´s international security interests, the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs are deemed most threatening, according to a new survey from Gallup. Americans were giving a list of nine developments and asked to rank them from more to less critical. Here are the top five threats Americans say are most critical: 1. The nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea (tied for first) - 2. International terrorism - 3. Islamic fundamentalism - 4. The economic power of China - 5. The military power of China
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Does China Want to Take
Over the Indian Ocean?
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RealClearWorld, by Robert Kaplan
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Posted By: cebuyer- 2/15/2013 11:36:31 AM
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The New York Times recently reported that China apparently has agreed to take over the operations of a $200 million port it built for Pakistan in Gwadar, on the Indian Ocean close to the Iranian border and close to the entrance to the Persian Gulf. We´ll see if this actually happens. If it does, it will be geopolitically significant. To a greater degree than other Indian Ocean ports that China has either built, helped finance or upgraded, Gwadar is plagued by considerable security problems, as I found out during a visit there in 2008. It is in a remote region of Pakistan affected by Baloch separatism. And Baloch leaders I interviewed specifically threatened the building of a Chinese pipeline from Gwadar.
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The World George H.W. Bush Built
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RealClearWorld, by Robert Kaplan
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Posted By: cebuyer- 2/8/2013 7:47:50 AM
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Former President George H.W. Bush is aged and ailing. So it is precisely now that we need to voice our appreciation for him -- one of America´s greatest one-term presidents, along with James K. Polk. Polk practically doubled the size of the continental United States between 1845 and 1849, becoming the individual embodiment of Manifest Destiny.
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Rise of Radical
Muslim Groups in Libya
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RealClearWorld, by Daniel Wagner & Giorgio Cafiero
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Posted By: cebuyer- 1/23/2013 10:03:13 AM
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The majority of territory outside Tripoli has fallen under the control of armed militias that have refused to disarm. Violent campaigns along tribal and ideological lines have been waged by Libyans determined to settle old scores and influence the ongoing political transition. Libya´s armed Islamists are well positioned to shape the course of events.
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Venezuela´s Next Battle
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RealClearWorld, by Fabio Fiallo
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Posted By: cebuyer- 1/15/2013 8:55:38 AM
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With Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez unable to attend the inauguration ceremony marking his sixth term of office, attention quickly shifted to whether the relevant constitutional clause granting presidential powers to the president of the National Assembly -- in this case Diosdado Cabello -- would be honored within 90 days. In a fanciful interpretation of the constitution, however, the Supreme Court decided otherwise. It granted Mr. Chavez the right to an indefinite absence and charged Vice President Nicolas Maduro with the task of governing Venezuela on Mr. Chavez´s behalf.
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Welcome to a Diminished America
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Real Clear World, by Kenneth Weisbrode
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Posted By: cebuyer- 1/2/2013 2:46:22 PM
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Governance in the United States is at a standoff. The crisis over the federal budget has led many people around the world to wonder if Americans haven´t lost their minds. Ultimately, as Winston Churchill infamously observed, they may be counted on to do the right thing after exhausting all other options. But this hardly is sound policy with every new vote in Congress. Maybe the latest crisis is symptomatic of a deeper and even more serious problem. The future of the United States - and the American experiment - seems bleak. The optimism for which Americans are known comes less readily.
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Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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The most shocking news
you won´t see in the MSM today
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/9/2013 11:49:09 AM
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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Obama says he´s ´determined
as ever´ for gun bill
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Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 10:27:49 PM
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
Call from Obama - report
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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White House: Planned GOP
gun filibuster cowardly
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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´Mickey Mouse Club´ star
Annette Funicello dies at 70
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Special ops veterans’ group
calls for select probe of
Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
they can back gun control in person
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping,
Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused
of raping adopted children
will face trial
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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