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Florida officials order partial
recount in tight House race between
Rep. West and Democratic challenger Murphy

Fox News, by Staff

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 11/11/2012 5:41:42 AM

Election officials in St. Lucie County will recount early votes cast in the hotly contested race for Florida´s 18th district´s House seat between Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West and his challenger, Democrat Patrick Murphy. The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board announced late Saturday it had set an “emergency meeting” to start at 7 a.m. Sunday at its headquarters, to “recount all ballots cast during early voting.” The number of early ballots is estimated by officials to be roughly 37,000. West, who has refused to concede the race, is currently trailing Murphy by 2,442 votes,

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: rational, 11/11/2012 5:48:52 AM     (No. 9006523)

Go Get em Mr. West
Godspeed.

We will run and not grow weary
For our God will be our strength
And we will fly like the eagle
We will rise again!!


Reply 2 - Posted by: javaboy, 11/11/2012 6:25:33 AM     (No. 9006546)

fta: "Late on Election Night, Congressman West led by 1,700 votes," West for Congress said in a statement. "Following the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections’ decision to recount thousands of early ballots after a technical glitch, the margin shifted by 4,000."

Reminds me of the Al Franken "win" last time. Makes one wonder how many of the close losses followed the same pattern.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: frenesi1, 11/11/2012 6:25:39 AM     (No. 9006547)

voter fraud is rampant in Florida.


Reply 4 - Posted by: escaped commieny, 11/11/2012 6:38:54 AM     (No. 9006555)

Our True The Vote was handcuffed by Holder´s suit, after a successful start, the election clerks were told to halt. All we can do it turn in the anomalies, and it was the clerk´s responsibility to pursue


Reply 5 - Posted by: LOL Thomas, 11/11/2012 6:50:06 AM     (No. 9006563)

Download this PDF (below) of St. Lucie County’s vote data to see with your own eyes the massive fraud in EVERY one of that county’s voting districts.

For example, at the Harbor Ridge Clubhouse polling place:
850 registered voters
1,550 cards cast
182.35% turnout

Read ’em all!

http://www.slcelections.com/Pdf%20Docs/2012%20General/GEMS%20SOVC%20REPORT.pdf

Hat tip to the LDotter yesterday whose Michael Savage Facebook page reference led to that St. Lucie County data trove.

I believe Mitt Romney did NOT lose votes in St. Lucie County, Florida . . . I believe Obama CREATED votes there and nationwide.


Reply 6 - Posted by: antiquegolf, 11/11/2012 7:10:49 AM     (No. 9006587)

I´m on a "smart phone" so I´ll have to look at PDF file later . Voting rights include safeguards to guarantee the integrity of elections. Without voter ID laws, the end of inane motor voter laws and contols on early voting, it is over. The USA is reeling into banana republic ststus .


Reply 7 - Posted by: Kitty Myers, 11/11/2012 7:14:39 AM     (No. 9006590)

#5 That kind of more-votes-than-voters fraud happened in other places, not to mention the last-minute-surge fraud. Go to youtube and watch "Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections".


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Blackeagle, 11/11/2012 7:24:37 AM     (No. 9006600)

The officials should also impound all car trunks.


Reply 9 - Posted by: gerty, 11/11/2012 7:28:30 AM     (No. 9006606)

Of course Obama did not ´participate´ in the first debate.

Of course Obama played hoops on election day instead of campaigning.

Of course Obama doesn´t have to answer questions.

When every thing is FIXED for him, Obama does not have to do any of the above!!


Reply 10 - Posted by: Namma, 11/11/2012 7:30:27 AM     (No. 9006607)

Mia LOve up[ by 10 points in exit polls..lost...

The gov. of Washington won by counting "late" votes...but our military´s votes were one day late and not allowed to be counted..most votes were for Romney..

someone try to convince me that the senior citizens in Fla voted for obama and his murdering obamacare that exculdes seniors from health care...uh huh..
not only was Romeny the winner of this election, many other Repbulicans were also..
question is what can be done about it...


Reply 11 - Posted by: Freeloader, 11/11/2012 7:32:12 AM     (No. 9006611)

America would be a much safer land today in our Congress had a couple of hundred more ex-paratrooper types with Representative West´s determination and courage!

"Strike-Hold" and "All The Way, Sir!"


Reply 12 - Posted by: escaped commieny, 11/11/2012 7:37:42 AM     (No. 9006619)

#10, An African American, Female, Mormon loses in Utah for one reason, she is a star quality Republican.(but no voter fraud /s)yeah right


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: chance_232, 11/11/2012 7:54:41 AM     (No. 9006644)

Re #5

I just looked at the PDF file. This is WORSE than the Al Franken election. If election fraud is this blatant, what are we to do?

The democrats have figured out that they wont be seriously challenged and the Fed wont do a thing. And..... the Government is NOT AFRAID of the electorate.


Reply 14 - Posted by: dittohead, 11/11/2012 7:55:25 AM     (No. 9006647)

#9 - you just described PBO´s entire life - everything has always been fixed for him and he´s never had to do anything but vote "present".


Reply 15 - Posted by: Maybeth, 11/11/2012 7:59:44 AM     (No. 9006652)

Strange reaction from the left here.
... One would think that Murphy would WANT the recount, just to show everyone he won the election fairly. Odd that Democrats should fight it.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Envirodude, 11/11/2012 8:16:50 AM     (No. 9006680)

Per a buddy of mine that lives there. He is a staunch tea party member. The ballot was two pages long and each page was recorded as a separate vote. Made sense to him.

Mystery solved?



Reply 17 - Posted by: radrelic, 11/11/2012 8:45:59 AM     (No. 9006733)

Do we need to send money or other help to Alan West? it is high time someone did contest elections from the right side of the campaign.

In Ohio the state legislature has interview a programmer who made a program that could switch votes on the electronic voter machines. Is there a paper paaath in these precincts in Florida/

Some voters in Florida and Ohio said they voted for Romney and the machine printed obama. Might have been used error but should be investigated in lieu of the Ohio legislature findings.

The GOP have long taken the dems chee\ating rather than disillusion the public as in the JFK Daley Chicagoway provided votes that Nixon would not fight.

We the GOP public can take more fight and we can say, everybody does it.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: LZK, 11/11/2012 8:52:06 AM     (No. 9006745)

I´m praying for you Rep. West....

LZK


Reply 19 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 11/11/2012 8:52:06 AM     (No. 9006744)

Massive, blatant voter fraud all over the country and not a peep out of the government or either of the political parties?

It doesn´t take an Einstein to figure that one out...


Reply 20 - Posted by: notestofingers, 11/11/2012 8:59:28 AM     (No. 9006758)

Allen West was a speaker at yesterday´s Muster at the Seal Museum here in Fort Pierce.As he passed the stands people stood up , applauded and cheered.It should have been his day to celebrate his re-election. He was forceful and upbeat but you could feel the tension in crowd.
There is something very wrong here.


Reply 21 - Posted by: radrelic, 11/11/2012 9:04:39 AM     (No. 9006768)

Mia Love in Utah would not have been voter fraud unless in some metro areas. Utah haas voter ID laws.

it could have been closet racism as people defined in the first obama win exit polls. people saying one thing in racism.

If it was voter fraud in Utah it was in some top election official throwing it or reporting it falsely. Too bad Mia didn´t demand recount. Matheson is anati-gun and the rurals hate him.

he campaign ad lies against Mia were that she would raise taxes. And he knows to dog whistle to the conservative "independents". the least politically engaged demographic in the nation on the right side of the aisle IMO--Politics are contentious and contention is of the devil so me not being partisan but independent makes me above it all" Yikes! Can´t fix dumb-on-purpose/

Anyway to the "independents´ Matheson, son of a popular governor, dog whistles that he is "conservative, independent, and working for Utah" (as he continually votes democrat liberal most of the time and they being used to supporting leaders never check his votes-that might be too contentious?

When Khrushchev said Americans were gullible,in his "We will bury you" talk, he knew our open heartedness. And if he had politically analyzed the Utahns? LOL.

Utah is not immune to fraud and cheating at some higher levels and democrats are in Salt Lake City where metro power lies. Who knows and who will ever know unless some lower level person finds out and blows the whistle as in the Olympics scandal. Someone righteously indignant person as in truth will out? Truth will out if someone isn´t bought even in most conservative state in the union, where neither national candidate bothers to waste ad money.



Reply 22 - Posted by: Malia2012, 11/11/2012 9:06:25 AM     (No. 9006773)

What #5 and #9 said. Bless Rep. West! Thank Heaven there is at least ONE Republican willing to stand up and fight the corrupt obama-administration´s-blatant Election thievery. . I have never felt so helpless about what to do in such a terrible situation. WHERE are the Republicans? God help this Country!


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: curious1, 11/11/2012 9:18:09 AM     (No. 9006796)

#16, then a) why aren´t the numbers almost 2:1 instead of 1.4:1 in St. Lucie County and b) why are lots of FL counties around .5:1 or .6:1????? The numbers don´t support such a meme.


Reply 24 - Posted by: uno_thatguy, 11/11/2012 9:19:48 AM     (No. 9006803)

Without a hand count, there is no way that I know to verify if the machines are not shedding or flipping votes. Remember, it´s who counts the vote.

This a simple script that could be put into the counting machines to do whatever the programmer desires or is instructed to do.

Rep. West needs to demand a hand count.


Reply 25 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 11/11/2012 9:21:53 AM     (No. 9006811)

Yesterday, I came up with an idea how the millions who think Obama´s winning is fraudulent can show their displeasure:

On Inauguration day (Jan.20th), fly your American flag but drape black material around it. Or put your empty chair in the yard or on the front porch with a small American flag plus drape black material around it. Get pictures to news outlets. We really need to reinforce that America died with Obama´s re-election. If the Republicans/Conservatives win any battles in Congress, we can have a massive victory celebration. We must show how Americans feel - that we are not behind Obama. This might wear him and the dRats down a bit so that we can build momentum going into 2014 like we did before 2010.

How sad that today is Veteran´s Day. Where is Barry? Will he honor the Vets? If Barry does speak to an assembled group of veterans, I hope they turn their backs on him ala John Kerry in 2004.


Reply 26 - Posted by: Mobyclik, 11/11/2012 9:24:09 AM     (No. 9006817)

Honestly, what´s the point of a recount? Absolutely everyone here KNOWS the sleazy rats are just going to trapse out to the car trunk and get the needed rat votes. Or have one of the computer types ´find´ the number needed. Welcome to the new Amerika.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Envirodude, 11/11/2012 9:38:35 AM     (No. 9006848)

24. The turnout was 141%. Divide by two As my friend doesn´t live in other counties, I don´t know. But you have to remember that government I did this and to expect anything less is optimistic.


Reply 28 - Posted by: Lust For Justice, 11/11/2012 9:39:25 AM     (No. 9006849)

Massive, orchestrated,organized vote FRAUD perpetrated on the citizens of the United States. Brought to you by the Well Oiled Chicago Voting Machine from the days of Capone...
Yeah, uh...they thought the Titanic couldn´t sink either.


Reply 29 - Posted by: enuf8, 11/11/2012 9:45:03 AM     (No. 9006859)

There is a movement to help in requesting recounts in several states as they say ´the numbers just don´t add up´. Help is requested.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd559.htm

URGENT: ELECTION FRAUD VOLUNTEERS NEEDED IN WI, OH, PA, VA, FL


Reply 30 - Posted by: saurkrut, 11/11/2012 9:55:51 AM     (No. 9006874)

Here in Minnesota, there have been two elections that have been decided by recounts. Frankens was one and the other was the current govenor Dayton. In both, the republican candidate had the lead on the initial count by slight margins. After the recount the democrat won. Funny how that works. And Minnesota´s voters turned down a voter ID referendum during the most recent election.


Reply 31 - Posted by: GOPSecretary, 11/11/2012 10:00:02 AM     (No. 9006884)

It was no surprise to me to learn that 3 million people vote twice. Once in their northeast liberal homes and once again when they arrive at their winter homes in Florida.
I have spoken to some of these people and they think it´s funny. Haha,they are putting something over on someone.
There is NO database to discover these people and punish them and until we get serious, this will continue.
I wish someone like Mr. West would tackle this problem.


Reply 32 - Posted by: shurnuff, 11/11/2012 10:04:20 AM     (No. 9006899)

Am I the only one who finds it not believable that the news media - who constantly touted the huge turnouts for early voting and absentee votes and even after all that, voters had to stand in line for three and four hours to cast their votes, and yet the vote was less than 2008? That is not possible...

Considered the huge crowds Romney was drawing and how well he did in the debates, my guess is that Romney votes were destroyed by the thousands. That´s my theory and I´m sticking to it. (Remember the one poll location where people were not allowed to put their own votes through the scanner? That one poll worker at the time had at least 70 finished ballots piled up beside her?)


Reply 33 - Posted by: rocket scientist, 11/11/2012 10:06:55 AM     (No. 9006905)

I think the ´RATS have perpetrated a massive voter fraud on the entire nation to re-elect Øbama. We should look at Rep. West´s recount demand in Florida as a test case. We all know tha ´RATS cheat to win elections. They thought West would just "go away" after the election fraud but he is standing firm. I bet he will win in an honest recount.


Reply 34 - Posted by: Rumblehog, 11/11/2012 10:12:10 AM     (No. 9006919)

Every conservative group in the land needs to deploy to St. Lucie to prevent Col. West from being "Al Frankened" by the Soros Party. It´s far from over and another election could be called for should fraud be uncovered. Now, I ask you, what are the chances of election fraud being involved when Dems are in a tight race??


Reply 35 - Posted by: shurnuff, 11/11/2012 10:13:11 AM     (No. 9006925)

There should also be a way to crosscheck all the voting registrations of the "snowbirds" and others who maintain multiple homes in different states.


Reply 36 - Posted by: Mustang, 11/11/2012 10:25:50 AM     (No. 9006949)

I think it will be a long time before you see a conservative win an election except in flyover states that do not matter. I live in okla. by the way. I am upset that the values I have no longer apply in this country.


Reply 37 - Posted by: michellewsc2, 11/11/2012 10:27:45 AM     (No. 9006951)

Give ´em hell Rep West...at least someone in the GOP has some backbone


Reply 38 - Posted by: judy, 11/11/2012 11:04:42 AM     (No. 9007045)

Florida is beyond help, they are more corrupt than Chicago. I will boycott all blue states.


Reply 39 - Posted by: cobieone, 11/11/2012 11:12:28 AM     (No. 9007072)

#33, you are definitely NOT the only one. I said from the beginning, before we even had a nominee, that Zero would get considerably less votes than in 2008 and our nominee, if we united behind him, would get considerably more than McCain. There is no way I believe Romney received LESS votes than McCain! Impossible.


Reply 40 - Posted by: Eheu Fugaces, 11/11/2012 11:30:30 AM     (No. 9007101)

St. Lucie county, the county next to ours, is a Democrat stronghold, especially since the mass immigration from the Greater New York area into Port St. Lucie by machine Democrats from from places like New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester, etc. It has apparently become as incompetently corrupt as that other Democrat stronghold, Palm Beach County, home of the Hanging Chad, and the bungled ballot box stuffing which led to Al Gore´s unexpected defeat instead of his pre-planned victory.

Fight on, fight hard, Colonel West!


Reply 41 - Posted by: maryc, 11/11/2012 11:35:43 AM     (No. 9007114)

Congressman West had 100% agreement from his bipartisan committee in Congress. He´s too good and too dangerous to the left. Thus the concentration on helping the drunk clueless liberal running against him. Let´s see if they just lose the military vote altogether in the recount .


Reply 42 - Posted by: bluefindad, 11/11/2012 12:12:55 PM     (No. 9007193)

We have an electorate that is too stupid to understand that anyone who objects to voter ID is advocating fraud.

We have an electorate that is too stupid to understand that early voting and ´motor voter´ accommodations are put in place solely to support fraud.

If voting is so unimportant to you that you cannot make arrangements to show up at the polls on the appointed day with proper ID (or properly apply for a verifiable, absentee ballot), you probably shouldn´t vote.


Reply 43 - Posted by: RancherJack, 11/11/2012 12:20:18 PM     (No. 9007215)

If only Romney had made the process prove he lost rather than graciously lying down and giving in.

Nice guys do finish last.


Reply 44 - Posted by: hamrman, 11/11/2012 12:33:04 PM     (No. 9007235)

GREAT...maybe this is one that can stop them from stealing!!!


Reply 45 - Posted by: M-79, 11/11/2012 12:49:31 PM     (No. 9007274)

Disheartened sums it up. The conservatives who were working overtime for the Romney campaign have to be just sick. We give all this effort and time and Romney lays down and lets the rats steal the election. At the time we needed leadership from Romney he tosses in the towel. Rep West is a perfect example of the type of politician we need if conservatives want to win any elections in the future.
Amazing, the only demographic Obama couldn´t control their vote or change their ballots was the military overseas. So he defunded their voting programs and didn´t have to worry about them.


Reply 46 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 11/11/2012 1:26:03 PM     (No. 9007329)

Why do we bother with the hassle of having elections?

Why don’t we just give our country’s biased, bought & paid for media a pass? Why don’t we just ignore the rampant voter fraud that exists during virtually every one of our political seasons? Why don’t we allow certain prominent, influential people, who have a great deal of firsthand experience with controlled substances although having no formal training in Pharmacology, to make our decisions for us?

Life could be so much simpler.


Reply 47 - Posted by: OhMy, 11/11/2012 1:53:54 PM     (No. 9007372)

The computer programmer testimony in the link is common knowledge among tech people. I would have assumed that both parties have tech people to scrutinize the source code for the computers and safeguards to make sure that this code is the code running during the election. I would suggest that the computer report the checksum of its code every time it runs and the original checksum of the scrutinized and compiled code be widely published in newspapers and on every machine. People with smartphones could snap a photo of this evidence. I would think measures such as these should be a minimum if there is no paper trail where the voter can check his paper vote on the spot when he votes!


Reply 48 - Posted by: M Stuart, 11/11/2012 2:45:05 PM     (No. 9007447)

GOD bless Allen West!

Candy Crowley still smothers the CNN chair in spite of her blatant cheating for the 0bamessiah. Chris Matthews still slimes the MSNBC chair after saying that a devastating storm Sandy was a good thing since it helped the 0bamessiah.

I´m still hearing sanctimonious Ron Paul supporters saying how they showed that they were needed and they brushed off the Republican party because they CHEATED RON PAUL! They are pleased with themselves.



Reply 49 - Posted by: Speedypetey, 11/11/2012 3:22:38 PM     (No. 9007516)

If it is true that 141% of the eligible voters in St. Lucie county voted then vote over after comparing the voter rolls to the residents. Jail those that were not residents along with Patrick Murphy on conspiracy to commit fraud. Where are the state police? We know the FBI are up skirt.


Reply 50 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua, 11/11/2012 7:43:39 PM     (No. 9007954)

First have to prove that West won the election, and the next hurdle is something actually being done about it. Good luck to West.

Can they check the presidential vote in that congressional district for descrepancies?

Republican turnout was lower than 2008 and 2004? I never read anywhere that the Republican party has lost membership. Has it? Has all the blame Bush garbage caused Republican voters to switch parties? I know of former Republican voters that left the Republican party because of the Bush era.

Romney would need 64 additional electoral votes to win the election. You would need to prove voter fraud in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, and Colorado to the tune of 500000 to 600000 votes total. Its possible, but has to be proven. Not sure there is enough voter fraud to flip the entire lection. Would need voter recounts in all four states looking for fraud. Early voting could be fraudulent. Are the states using computerized voting? Look for flipping of Romney votes or Romney votes being dropped. Hope there is a paper trail to compare against the electronic vote.

Regardless, the lib media controled the narrative, and should be held responsible. They hid stories, ambushed Romney during debates, and flat out lied.


Reply 51 - Posted by: DustDevil31, 11/11/2012 7:50:57 PM     (No. 9007960)

We are a banana republic and our elections are rigged. It is enough to make you go vigilante.


Reply 52 - Posted by: DustDevil31, 11/11/2012 7:53:17 PM     (No. 9007962)

OBTW, I am preparing for Obama´s third term. he won´t go away.


Reply 53 - Posted by: Razorgirl, 11/11/2012 8:32:24 PM     (No. 9008010)

Message to Rep. West: should you not get the majority after the recount, I would like to request you move your family to Arkansas to establish residency so in two years you can run for Senator against Mark Pryor. He must be "blanched" in the next election. Please come. We would treat you right.


Reply 54 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 11/12/2012 12:17:30 AM     (No. 9008211)

How is it that West lost and Alan Grayson is going back to DC to torment us ?



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Pryor was elected in 2002 and re-elected six years later, while Landrieu was first elected to the Senate in 1996 and was re-elected in both 2002 and 2008. Landrieu has had the closer races, winning with only 52.1 percent in 2008, 51.7 percent in 2002 and 50.2 percent in 1996 against a series of challengers who have ranged from weak to not bad. Pryor, the son of a former governor and senator, was first elected to the Senate with almost 54 percent, when he defeated a sitting Republican senator.

Gun-rights testimony from
a communism survivor: “You
don’t know what freedom is,
because you’ve never lost it”
Hot Air, by Erika Johnsen    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 3:14:37 PM     Post Reply
I am always amazed — amazed — when anyone has the gall to dismiss, even laugh off, the suggestion that the right to keep and bear arms is a smart and necessary provision for a free society. Human history (not to mention current events!) is too chock-full of examples of nefarious regimes violently abusing and controlling their people, and the freedoms enjoyed by American citizens are the exception, not the rule. During a committee hearing of the Oregon state senate in considering their own state package of gun-control legislation last week, one testifier reminded the assembled lawmakers of one

Suffering from ´tattoo regret´
CNN, by Dr. Anthony Youn    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 3:11:15 PM     Post Reply
A few years ago I interviewed a handyman to do some work on my house. I noticed a teardrop tattoo at the top of his left cheek. Prior to hiring him, I searched online for what this design signified. My mouth dropped when I found out. A teardrop tattoo can mean he murdered someone. So I hired someone else. Plastic surgeons and dermatologists are seeing more and more people who want their tattoos removed, often because they worry that the tattoos could cause problems with employment. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS),



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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye    Original Article
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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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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson    Original Article
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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.

Obama says he´s ´determined
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Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler    Original Article
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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

White House: Planned GOP
gun filibuster cowardly

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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer    Original Article
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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.”

´Mickey Mouse Club´ star
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan    Original Article
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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

Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia    Original Article
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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

Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
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Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
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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

Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines    Original Article
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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.

Gay Connecticut couple accused
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will face trial

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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM     Post Reply
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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Investor´s Business Daily, by Rep, Dana Rohrbacher    Original Article
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More than six months since Ambassador Christopher Stevens was assassinated by terrorists in Benghazi, the Obama administration is still trying to keep a lid on information about the attack. Congress and the American people need to know what happened the night of Sept. 11, 2012. Who did the killing and what was their motive? Why wasn´t help sent? And why did the administration lie about who was responsible? Members of Congress have asked hundreds of questions at hearings conducted by several investigative committees, but many of the most significant have been left unanswered. Information detailing what happened before, during and
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Joe Scarborough: Republicans
that filibuster gun control ´put
rapists´ rights over parents´ rights´

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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor    Original Article
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On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough voiced his agreement with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS questioned those Republicans who are threatening a filibuster on pending gun control legislation. Scarborough said such a filibuster would be an example of the GOP putting “rapists’ rights ahead over parents’ rights.” “[I] tell you what, Richard Haass, I saw John McCain there,” Scarborough said. “And I’m hopeful. Because, you know, there are a lot of guys out there in the Senate and they are going out because it’s a free shot.

The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher
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Wall Street Journal, by Paul Johnson    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 8:21:53 PM     Post Reply
Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around—decisively—the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries. "Thatcherism" was the most popular and successful way of running a country in the last quarter of the 20th century and into the 21st. Her origins were humble. Born Oct. 13, 1925, she was the daughter of a grocer in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham. Alfred Roberts was no ordinary shopkeeper.


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