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Roosevelt’s movable feast
sparked outrage in year
of ‘Franksgiving’
Washington Times [DC], by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By:JoniTx, 11/22/2012 4:54:07 PM
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| The year was 1939, and American businesses, still reeling from the previous year’s recession, decided they wanted an extra week of Christmas shopping. The solution? They asked President Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving up a week. Roosevelt complied — and confusion and outrage ensued. Calendar makers were enraged, families ended up celebrating on different days from one another, and some accused the president of embracing communism. Within three years, Congress had had enough and passed legislation officially setting Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday of November.
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Russia Bans Former Top Bush Admin
Officials and Gitmo Commanders
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ABC News, by Kirit Radia
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 2:34:43 PM
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MOSCOW – Russia slapped sanctions on a pair of former top Bush administration officials, two former commanders of the Guantanamo detention center, and 14 other Americans in retaliation for a set of human rights sanctions the Obama administration imposed on a number of Russian citizens on Friday. In a statement, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it was forced to respond to the American “blackmail,” which it warned would harm US-Russia relations. The Kremlin had prepared a list of over 100 American officials in advance of Friday’s announcement, warning its response would be proportionate to the Obama administration’s actions.
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Poland unveils giant
statue of John Paul II
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 12:58:22 PM
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CZESTOCHOWA, Poland — A giant statue of the late Pope John Paul II billed as the world´s tallest has been unveiled in southern Poland. Archbishop Waclaw Depo unveiled the statue of the Polish pontiff Saturday in the southern city of Czestochowa, the home of this predominantly Catholic nation´s most famous pilgrimage site, the Jasna Gora monastery. The white fiberglass figure rises about five stories, or nearly 14 meters (more than 45 feet), on a hill overlooking the city. It was funded by a businessman, Leszek Lyson, in gratitude for what he believes was
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Television Viewer Prompts Rules
Committee To Issue Penalty To Tiger
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 12:18:42 PM
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods was assessed a two-stroke penalty Saturday for his drop in the second round of the Masters, but was not disqualified. Below is the Masters’ statement on the decision: “Yesterday afternoon, the Rules Committee was made aware of a possible Rules violation that involved a drop by Tiger Woods on the 15th hole. “In preparation for his fifth shot, the player dropped his ball in close proximity to where he had played his third shot in apparent conformance with Rule 26. After being prompted by a television viewer, the Rules Committee reviewed a video of the shot
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NASA’s Wallops Island facility
in Va. prepares for the spotlight
with Antares rocket launch
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 12:14:07 PM
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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va — On one of Virginia’s small barrier islands, a NASA facility that operates in relative obscurity outside scientific circles is preparing to be thrust into the spotlight. On Wednesday, Orbital Sciences Corp. plans to conduct the first test launch of its Antares rocket under a NASA program in which private companies deliver supplies to the International Space Station. If all goes as planned, the unmanned rocket’s practice payload will be vaulted into orbit from Wallops Island before burning up in the atmosphere on its return to Earth several months later. The goal of the launch isn’t
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Angry crowd asks for retribution
after South Side killing
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Chicago Tribune, by Rachael Levy & Peter Nickeas
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 12:00:21 PM
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The shooting of a 34-year-old man Friday night pulled a crowd of angry people onto a chilly South Side street where they loudly called for retribution against the man suspected of the killing. About 100 residents of the apartment complex where Kevin Sanders was killed circled the front door of a building where the alleged shooter had holed up. The suspect, who police said had been shot in apparent retaliation, had gone there after the shooting. It´s not clear what set off the violence. Sanders, 34, had been shot about 11:10 p.m. in a courtyard between buildings in
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2 dead, 9 wounded
since Friday evening
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Chicago Tribune, by Rachael Levy & Peter Nickeas
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 11:52:58 AM
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Two men were killed and nine other people wounded in shootings across the city between Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning, from the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side south to the South Chicago neighborhood near Lake Michigan. The 34-year-old man killed in the South Chicago neighborhood late Friday night was pronounced dead at Advocate Trinity Medical Center about midnight after someone shot him just after 11 p.m. in the 8700 block of South Burley Avenue. (Snip) Police said the man they arrested in connection with the shooting, who had also
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Mastermind behind plans to
disrupt Thatcher funeral is Oxford
student whose parents live
in £700,000 house in Tunbridge Wells
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Daily Mail (UK), by Martin Robinson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 11:18:25 AM
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Protesters plan to disrupt Baroness Thatcher’s funeral by turning their backs on the funeral cortege as it passes. Thousands of people are supporting the plot as the eyes of millions of people turn on St Paul’s Cathedral next Wednesday. The architect of the protest is Dominic Francis, 25, whose parents live in a £700,000 home in Royal Tunbridge Wells. Mr Francis, a student at Ruskin College in Oxford, said mourners had brought the disturbance on themselves by holding such a public event. He was urging protests with a ‘heavy heart’ because of the ‘State funding’ of the huge ceremonial event.
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The Obamas´ falling tax rate
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Politico, by Steven Sloan & Kelsey Snell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 11:05:41 AM
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President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, paid the lowest effective tax rate since they moved into the White House by taking advantage of the most popular — and expensive — benefits in the tax code. Tax returns released by the White House on Friday show that the Obamas paid an effective tax rate of 18.4 percent on more than $608,000 in adjusted gross income earned in 2012. Last year, their rate was 20.5 percent. They were able to lower the amount of income on which they were taxed by more than $258,000 by claiming several big-ticket deductions.
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Tiger Woods may be disqualified
at Masters after penalty drop
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 10:28:32 AM
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AUGUSTA, Ga. –Tiger Woods´ penalty drop on the 15th hole of the second round is being reviewed before play began at the Masters Saturday morning, and the four-time champion could possibly be disqualified. An Augusta National spokesman said only that officials were reviewing the video. There was no indication when there would be a decision. Woods´ third shot from 87 yards hit the pin and caromed off the green, down the slope and into the water. Instead of going to the drop area on the other side of the water, Woods chose to take the one-shot penalty
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Everything You Need To Know
About Kermit Gosnell And The
Abortion ‘House Of Horrors’ Trial
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Mediaite, by AJ Delgado
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 10:55:51 PM
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[Editor´s note: This article contains highly disturbing, graphic images. Please proceed with caution.] Who is Dr. Kermit Gosnell? Dr. Kermit Gosnell, age 72, ran an abortion clinic for over 20 years in Philadelphia, now dubbed as the ‘House of Horrors.’ Gosnell allegedly performed illegal, late-term abortions (past the 24-week limit permitted by law), cutting the spinal cords of countless aborted babies. Gosnell also employed unqualified staff, including teenagers and two other “doctors” who were merely medical school graduates without a license. Gosnell allegedly made millions of dollars over his 30-year career and lucrative cash-only abortion practice, as well as
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Neil Cavuto: President Obama’s
2012 Tax Return Looks a Lot
Like the Ones From Mitt Romney
That He Criticized
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 8:20:23 PM
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The First Family’s 2012 tax returns are out today and they show that the Obamas paid an effective federal tax rate of 18.4 percent, almost half of the top tax rate last year. Neil Cavuto reacted on Your World this afternoon as the news broke, pointing out that President Obama slammed Mitt Romney for paying an effective tax rate of 14 percent on his income during the presidential campaign. “Remember what a big deal ‘fatcat Mitt’ supposedly dodging the tax man was then, and ask yourself why the president paying not much more isn’t remotely a big deal now,”
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Why They Won’t Talk
About Kermit Gosnell
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Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/11/2013 11:17:15 PM
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In 2011, the journalist Mara Hvistendahl published Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, detailing the societal effects of sex-selective abortions that target women the world over and resulted in the absence of perhaps more than 100 million girls who by now should have been born. But Hvistendahl soon learned the downside to uncovering what many believe to be a shocking trend in human rights offenses: people will want to do something about it. And so she lashed out, declaring that “anti-abortion activists
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Leaving Blue New York, Boo-Hoo
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: Drive- 4/12/2013 6:44:47 AM
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Only one of my six children has left New York for economic reasons but the strain of living in this expensive nanny state is weighing heavy on my other five and their families. As a native New Yorker, I´ve seen its middle class population decline over the years due to its neglect of blue collar families which is ironic since this is a Democrat city. With the recent arrests of several local politicians for corruption perhaps New Yorkers will pay more attention to those they put in office. Given their past indifference in local elections this is highly unlikely.
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Obamacare Architect: Affordable
Care Act ´Beyond Comprehension´
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 9:51:16 PM
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, said on Tuesday that the healthcare law, set to go into full effect in less than eight months, is “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress” and “is just beyond comprehension.” Rockefeller said he is concerned that early missteps with implementing the healthcare overhaul may cascade into confusion and chaos. The law, said Rockefeller, is “so complicated and if it isn’t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse.” Rockefeller’s consternation echoes comments made earlier this
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From Dehumanizing Word
Games to Gosnell
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National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 6:07:01 AM
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In Philadelphia, at a human abattoir on Lancaster Avenue, is where it ends, not where it starts. It starts with the perversion of language. It starts when the icons of a dissipated culture reduce a baby to a “fetus.” From there, Yeats’s blood-dimmed tide rolls rapidly in. Before long, a baby is not a person but a punishment, as President Barack Obama framed the matter in his familiar off-the-cuff iciness. Of course, to describe newborn children in their boundless possibilities and wonder would be to acknowledge, foremost, their humanity. That is why, instead, abortion enthusiasts must grope for words
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Little Anthony Freemont´s
Twilight Zone is Our Reality
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American Thinker, by Doug Mainwaring
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/12/2013 6:34:43 AM
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Remember little Anthony Freemont, played by cute little Billy Mumy, in one of the "Twilight Zone´s" most famous episodes? In the opening sequence Rod Serling informs us: "A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines -- because they displeased him -- and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages -- just by using his mind. . . . and the people there have to smile. They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield
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Philly Abortion Clinic
Workers Saw Few Options
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Associated Press, by Maryclaire Dale
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 7:28:32 PM
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They say they were just doing what the boss trained them to do. But eight former employees of a run-down West Philadelphia abortion clinic now face prison time for the work they did for Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. And Gosnell, 72, is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive. In testimony at the capital murder trial this past month, an unlicensed doctor and untrained aides described long, chaotic days at the clinic. They said they performed grueling, often gruesome work for little more than minimum wage,
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Boehner: I Don´t Need
GOP to Pass Gun Law...
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 11:51:37 AM
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On Thursday, in the midst of ongoing national debate over prospective gun control and comprehensive immigration legislation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that he didn’t need the approval of a majority of his own party to move forward with legislation. Referring to the so-called Hastert Rule, named after former House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL), which dictated that House leadership not bring up any bill for a vote without the support of a majority of the majority party, Boehner said, “Listen: It was never a rule to begin with.” Then, realizing the gravity of admitting
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The Decline of Obama
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Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 5:13:17 AM
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With President Obama, there’s always a catch. In the 2014 budget he announced last week, Obama proposed a more accurate way of calculating the inflation rate for annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security. It’s a technical change in pursuit of honesty and good government. And if adopted, it would cause benefits to grow more slowly, though almost imperceptibly so. Republican leaders in Congress ought to be delighted since they had “championed”—Obama’s word—the idea in the first place. Then came the catch. The president’s price for adopting this gentle reform was hundreds of billions in new tax increases.
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Jonathan Winters, groundbreaking
comic who influenced
generations, dead at 87
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 1:16:37 PM
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LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died of natural causes and was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.
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Obama has suffering Newtown mom
give his weekly remarks
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 4/13/2013 9:16:36 AM
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Hi. As you’ve probably noticed, I’m not the President. I’m just a citizen. And as a citizen, I’m here at the White House today because I want to make a difference and I hope you will join me. My name is Francine Wheeler. My husband David is with me. We live in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. David and I have two sons. Our older son Nate, soon to be 10 years old, is a fourth grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Our younger son, Ben, age six, was murdered in his first-grade classroom on December 14th.
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WPost reporter explains her
personal Gosnell blackout
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Patheos.com, by "Mollie"
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Posted By: LComStaff- 4/12/2013 9:42:16 AM
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I’ve been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years. And so have many others. If you haven’t read David Shaw’s “Abortion Bias Seeps Into The News,” published in the Los Angeles Times back in 1990, you should. That report also explains why we cover the topic here at GetReligion.But the thing is that I’m getting kind of sick of pointing out egregious bias only to see things not just remain bad but get worse. Just think, in the last year, we saw the media drop any pretense of objectivity and bully the Susan G. Komen Foundation
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