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Reid takes Social
Security off the table
Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/14/2012 1:57:28 PM
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| Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will not allow changes in Social Security to be part of the negotiations to avoid a federal budget fiscal cliff, further narrowing the opportunities for savings that could be tapped to close the deficit. Republicans have insisted that big entitlement programs such as Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid be part of the end-of-year negotiations to head off tax-rate increases and the $110 billion in automatic spending cuts. But Mr. Reid said Democrats have already made changes to Medicare as part of President Obama´s health law,
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What a surprise. s/o They won´t be happy until they completely bankrupt this country. It just sickens and enrages me.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cleanhousein2012, 11/14/2012 2:03:33 PM (No. 9014236)
Unfortunately, instead of the house passing a continuing resolution for military, and shutting down the government instead of agreeing to raising the spending cap, and holding firm on no new taxes, they´ll cave. And then complain they had no choice or it would be used as a political weapon. If only there was one spine among them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RosietheObserver, 11/14/2012 2:15:46 PM (No. 9014262)
Whatever they do, it will be used against them. If and when disaster happens, it will be blamed on the Republicans.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KTWO, 11/14/2012 2:21:32 PM (No. 9014271)
The Dems have the Senate and WH. That allows them to whipsaw Boehner.
When some deal seems possible between Boehner and the WH Reid can block it.
When the House and Senate can agree the WH can object.
And don´t forget McConnell and the hapless GOP Senators will, in the right circumstance, be able to block some item or another too.
In paper the House has great powers. In practice they don´t. Obama has scornfully run the country for two years w/o the House. When pressed he will just issue orders. Who can stop him?
Deadlock, gridlock, stalemate. Call it what you wish, the system doesn´t work for the nation. It works for the powerful in Washington.
It is just theater there. Let the good times roll on.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 11/14/2012 2:31:29 PM (No. 9014292)
Can kick road
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rosewater, 11/14/2012 2:31:32 PM (No. 9014293)
Way too many people, especially the young, believe the propaganda put out by the press, democrats, and the entertainment industry. Until the GOP starts fighting back hard against this Nazi-like crap the GOP will lose more and more.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 11/14/2012 2:42:33 PM (No. 9014323)
Hey Dems, you passed it, live with it! GOP, what is there to negotiate? The Dems want higher taxes and cuts to Military and Entitlements and have already passed the laws. Stay out of the process. Let the White House and the Senate write any proposed laws.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RUReadyY3K, 11/14/2012 2:46:43 PM (No. 9014335)
Let current tax rates expire and spending cuts be implemented (fiscal cliff). Then require further real spending cuts to raise debt limit. Finally, require further real spending cuts to implement new tax cuts when everyone starts screaming about their taxes. Box in the Demorats and require additional spending reductions to do anything they want.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Periwinkel, 11/14/2012 2:49:44 PM (No. 9014345)
FTA: "But Mr. Reid said Democrats have already made changes to Medicare as part of President Obama´s health law.."
They sure as hell have! $716 billion cut out of medicare in Obamacare.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mr. Know-It-All, 11/14/2012 2:58:42 PM (No. 9014368)
Very true #2. So they should just sit back and give the socialists every penny they ask for. On fiscal issues just tell the socialists "its all yours, sink or swim on your own". The socialists will still attempt to blame them if the economy tanks again (it will) but only the truly brain dead won´t see through it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cartcart, 11/14/2012 4:19:01 PM (No. 9014536)
Harry "Hemmor" Reid is one of the most remarkably sleazy men in the Senate. I cannot imagine what they have on him that makes him so detestable and odious. But, the good people of Nevada are apparently not sick of him yet. I am boycotting Nevada because of this. Truly, he is a hemmorhoid of the highest magnitude.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
retiree, 11/14/2012 4:46:49 PM (No. 9014600)
They made changes alright. Didn´t Obama take 270 Billion away from Medicare for his health plan?
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Sequester: IRS to shut
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Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
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The IRS will shut down entirely for five days this year in order to try to meet its slimmed-down budget under the sequesters, a labor union that represents Treasury Department employees said on Friday. The IRS will close its doors on May 24, June 14, July 5, July 22 and Aug. 30, and employees are being told there could be two other days as well. “On those days all public operations of the IRS will be shut down, leaving taxpayers without access to information and assistance from frontline workers,” the National Treasury Employees Union said.
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TSA Chief: Chechen Women With
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Airport Pat Downs
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in 2010 that his agency’s intrusive pat downs of U.S. air passengers was inspired by two Chechen women who were able to blow up two Russian airliners because "they had explosives in their bras and around their waists." In fact, a November 2005 report by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security specifically stipulated that TSA’s pat down policy had been initiated in response to the in-air bombing of two Russian airliners by Chechen women who smuggled explosives in their clothing.
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Kerry: US ´in a direct
confrontation with evil´
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Julian Pecquet
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 1:17:49 PM
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The bombings in Boston have only strengthened President Obama´s resolve to strengthen international cooperation against terrorism, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday. “For this entire week, we´ve been in a direct confrontation with evil,” Kerry said. “President Obama has made this a critical component of his foreign policy, and obviously this just emphasizes that.” Kerry, a former senator of Massachusetts, made the remarks in a press conference alongside Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade after their bilateral meeting at the State Department. Kerry said cross-border security was a topic of discussion following
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Why the rush on
immigration reform?
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Washington Times, by Editorial
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 1:14:01 PM
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“Behind Closed Doors” was a Grammy-winning country hit for Charlie Rich in the 1970s, describing a good time where no one could see, but it’s a terrible way to write laws, particularly laws as complex and controversial as immigration reform. The nation got its first glimpse Wednesday at the comprehensive immigration-reform bill cobbled together behind closed doors by the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight.” What’s worse is, SenateJudiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, has already scheduled two hearings for Friday and Monday on the measure, called the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization
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Schumer: Do not ‘jump to conclusions’
about connection between Boston
attacks, immigration
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Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 12:49:40 PM
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WASHINGTON — New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer admonished colleagues not to “try to conflate” the immigration reform bill that the Senate is considering with the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the perpetrators of which have been identified as immigrants. “I’d like to ask that all of us not jump to conclusions regarding the events in Boston or try to conflate those events with this legislation,” Schumer said Friday at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the immigration bill. As the hearing was happening, the Boston metropolitan area was on lockdown, as police attempted to
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Gov. Cuomo Should Have
Stayed Off the Radio Today
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PJ Media, by Bryan Preston
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 12:41:35 PM
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What an idiot. Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have canceled his morning radio appearance today in response to the ongoing manhunt for a suspect involved in Monday’s deadly bombing attack on the Boston Marathon, but another top New York official, Governor Andrew Cuomo, scheduled his own radio interview on The Capitol Pressroom soon after. Mr. Cuomo directly addressed the high-profile situation in the Bay State by employing a phrase he previously used to describe climate change in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: “the new normal.” “It’s a terrible situation in Boston. And, unfortunately, … one gets
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Exclusive: Aunt of suspected bombers
speaks to Sun from Etobicoke home
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Toronto Sun [Canada], by Jenny Yuen
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 12:32:30 PM
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TORONTO - The Etobicoke aunt of two men tied to the Boston Marathon bombings doesn’t want to believe her nephews are being labeled terrorists. In an exclusive interview with the Toronto Sun Friday morning, Maret Tsarnaev said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother Tamerlan, 26, were being framed. “This is a huge tragedy for the family,” Tsarnaev, 45, said. “My brother’s two boys, they are growing up so fast. My first reaction is, ‘Why the hell would they do this?’ But when I go through all the material, it’s not giving anything … the whole world
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Grassley ties immigrant Boston suspects
to immigration bill at hearing
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Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 12:09:26 PM
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WASHINGTON — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Republican ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, drew a connection between the pending immigration reform and the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the alleged perpetrators of which were confirmed to be Chechen immigrants early Friday morning. At a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on the immigration bill penned by the Gang of Eight, Grassley said in his opening statement that the hearing was particularly important “in light of all that’s happening in Massachusetts right now.” The long-awaited hearing was largely upstaged Friday
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ICE union head Chris Crane ejected
from Gang of 8 press event
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Daily Caller, by Neil Munro
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 12:06:25 PM
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Chris Crane, head of the immigration officers union, was pulled out of a Senate press conference today when he tried to question Sen. Chuck Schumer the during the televised roll-out of the 844-page immigration rewrite. While reporters asked questions, Schumer ignored three requests from Crane, who sought to question him about aspects of the far-reaching law, which promises to tighten enforcement of immigration laws at borders, airports and seaports. “Will you take a question from law enforcement?” Crane asked, repeating the question twice before being removed.
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Chechnya: A History of Horrors
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Fox News, by Chris Stirewalt
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 11:54:41 AM
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“Why don´t you meet Usama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child-killers?” -- Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2004 talking to foreign reporters about U.S. calls for a diplomatic solution to the conflict with the breakaway republic of Chechnya after terrorists from the region killed 380 hostages at a school in
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Obama taking executive action
on guns after Senate vote
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 11:42:50 AM
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Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Obama is turning to actions within his own power to keep people from buying a gun who are prohibited for mental health reasons. Federal law bans certain mentally ill people from purchasing firearms, but not all states are providing data to stop the prohibited sales to the FBI´s background check system. A federal review last year found 17 states contributed fewer than 10 mental health records to the database, meaning many deemed by a judge to be a danger still could have access to guns. The Obama
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Rubio defends immigration bill
ahead of hearing, critics cite
enforcement concerns
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Authors of the newly released Senate immigration bill touted the package Thursday as a "bipartisan breakthrough" in advance of a critical hearing, as opponents began to organize against the bill -- claiming it doesn´t do enough to enforce existing immigration law. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who has put his conservative reputation on the line with his involvement in writing the bill, took to the floor late Thursday afternoon to defend it. Though critics have homed in on the bill´s pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, Rubio said the package would also fix a "broken" legal
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:42:40 AM
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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Obama angrily denounces
gun-rights groups as willful liars
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/17/2013 6:37:42 PM
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President Obama angrily blamed the defeat Wednesday of his centerpiece gun-control proposal on lies spread by the National Rifle Association, calling it “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” “The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Mr. Obama said in the White House rose garden about 90 minutes after the vote. “It came down to politics.” As he spoke, Mr. Obama was surrounded by family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Also with him was former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Suspect 1 dead, search is on
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 4:15:42 AM
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Boston--FOX 25 has confirmed suspect #1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead and the search for suspect #2 is ongoing. FOX 25 has confirmed through sources that suspect #1 is dead and police are searching for suspect #2. Mass. State Police asked Watertown residents not to answer the door unless it is an announced police official. Police in Watertown, Mass., began searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday. Local reports say the suspects threw and
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Boston Marathon bombs: live
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Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 6:52:32 AM
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Latest 11.42 (06.42) The two suspects may be foreign nationals, according to NBC´s Pete Williams. Quote They were legal permanent residents... They were in this country legally, at least a year. They appear to be from Turkey, possibly Chechens from Turkey. That seems to be the nationality here. We´re told they were not students, in their early twenties. One 20, one 21. We don´t have their names yet. The Associated Press has also said the suspects are from Russian region near Chechnya, and had lived in the US at least one year. 11.25 (06.25) A woman in Watertown has snipers
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Senate rejects background checks
on gun purchases in 54-46 vote
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Hill [Washington,DC], by Alexander Bolton
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 4:41:19 PM
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The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Begich (Alaska) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) voted against it. Reid supported the measure but voted against it to preserve his ability to bring the measure up again. GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk
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A growing sense that we´re not
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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A Stirring Send-Off For
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PJ Media, by Mike McNally
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 11:39:38 PM
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After all the controversy – it was too much, and too expensive; it would be marred by protests – this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war prime minister. Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin
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Obama: Gun lobby ´lied´ about
background check bill
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 6:09:57 PM
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Washington — President Barack Obama says the Senate’s opposition to a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers marks a “shameful day” in Washington. He says a minority of senators decided “it wasn’t worth it” to protect the nation’s children. Obama spoke in the Rose Garden shortly after the Senate vote rejecting a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers. (Snip) The president pinned the blame for the measures failure, though five Democrats also opposed the plan. He also said the gun lobby and its allies “willfully lied” about background check bill.
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´My children were set up,´ father claims
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Associated Press *, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 12:34:59 PM
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Two brothers of Chechen origin suspected of staging the Boston marathon bombings, one of whom has been shot dead by police, are innocent of any crime, the Interfax news agency quotes a man identified as their father as saying. ‘‘In my opinion, my children were set up by the secret services because they are practising Muslims,’’ Anzor Tsarnaev told the Interfax news agency on Friday (Snip) On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as ‘‘Islam’’ and he says his personal goal is ‘‘career and money.’’
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Misinformation and Anxiety in
Boston Terrorism Investigation
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PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 10:38:32 PM
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Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday’s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon. The anxiety stemming from the attack and the stream of inaccurate news about it is further freighted, moreover, by the FBI’s confirmation that two letters addressed to top political officials — President Obama and Senator Richard Wicker (R., MS) — tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison. As noted below, a man identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the mailings. Early this afternoon, massive confusion
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