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Blues Cruise
New York Magazine, by Joe Hagan
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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/25/2012 5:09:00 AM
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| The whole thing was white, and broken, that much was clear. A week after the presidential election, when the dreams of Republicans were dashed with President Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney, we were snorkeling in the blue waters of the Caribbean. In the distance was a shipwreck. “You could make out the pieces of it,” said Ralph Reed, the right-wing political operator who had bolstered the Evangelical Christian vote for Romney. “It was deep and murky.” Jonah Goldberg, the National Review contributor and author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left,
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I´ve always wondered why National Review writers would subject themselves to this type of confined mixing with the fans, although it´s hard to resist the temptation to cruise along with them and shmooze.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pineledger, 12/25/2012 6:25:44 AM (No. 9082777)
A very long article -- just read page 1 of 6 and now must go tend to my Chistmas dinner. But will be back.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
turninggrey, 12/25/2012 9:58:07 AM (No. 9082938)
OK, so a liberal sneaks aboard and rubs elbows with conservatives and looks for negatives. Does that not come off as underhanded? Typical liberalism. Yes, the comments are disturbing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Former lurker, 12/25/2012 11:54:01 AM (No. 9083053)
Saw author in the bar one night while on this cruise. He was chatting up an obviously over-served quite elderly couple. Bet they were in his quotes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mitzi, 12/25/2012 12:00:21 PM (No. 9083061)
I have the magazine sitting here. All I did was look at the pictures and read their captions.
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The IRS Ten:
The New Keating Five
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 6:17:39 AM
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So here’s the formula. An independent agency of the U.S. government. United States Senators. A powerful campaign contributor to said United States Senators. A powerful campaign contributor who wants something from said independent agency. Add it all together and what you get is — The Keating Five. And the IRS Ten. Let’s start, by way of illustrating how the game worked, with The Keating Five. There were five of them. Five United States Senators. Two already military heroes before they spent a day in the United States Senate. The other three were garden variety U.S. Senators, lifelong politicians.
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When the ballot box fails:
How Obama sold the public
a false bill of goods
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Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 6:10:57 AM
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One of the most concerning things about recent revelations about the extent of our surveillance state is that nothing revealed was illegal. What is more, to the deciders, this apparently wasn’t all that controversial. I mentioned this Monday, but it bears repeating. By design, the founding fathers pit ambition against ambition, creating an adversarial system where power is divided. Yet despite this power and responsibility, the other players have served as a rubber stamp for the White House. Let’s discuss some of these checks and balances. Obviously, we have three co-equal branches of government — and differing layers of government, too.
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
wrongly slams NYPD on stop & frisk
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New York Daily News, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 6:02:48 AM
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The lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s program of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people came to a close at midnight Wednesday after pending for five years, four months and 12 days. And, suddenly, as the clock ticked down to that final deadline, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder put Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on notice that the Justice Department was going to intervene in the case. In phone calls that stunned both men, Holder said Tuesday that his civil rights lawyers would file papers telling the presiding judge that the feds favored putting the Police Department under
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The Oldest Person Alive
Olympics Are Heating Up
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Atlantic, by Alexander Abad-Santos
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 5:46:20 AM
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The absurd global claim to citizenship of the world´s oldest person took a sad turn on Tuesday as Japan´s 116-year-old Jiroemon Kimura, the oldest living human on Earth (officially) passed away. His death capped a particularly fatal 18 months for the eldest of the planet´s elders, but it provided plenty of fodder for strange local news stories — and the title for oldest person alive now appears to reside with Japan´s Misao Okawa, though she´s got a slew of American supercentenarians, and more men than usual, nipping at her heels. "Kimura, of Kyotango, Japan, was born
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HHS spent $36 million on
meetings for bureaucrats
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 5:37:53 AM
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Coming on the heels of revelations that the IRS spent $50 million on more than 200 employee conferences, it may be inconsequential to find out about $20,000 for a dental conference, $30,000 for a meeting in New Jersey and $1 million for a Head Start gathering. Except perhaps to millions of American taxpayers who grow either more angry or weary every time they hear — as they so frequently do these days — of yet another federal employee conference of dubious value and excessive expense. The outlays for the dental, New Jersey and Head Start conferences were part
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‘Criminals’ hired by State Dept.
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New York Post, by S.A. Miller & Geoff Earle
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 5:16:36 AM
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WASHINGTON — The State Department has hired an alarming number of law-enforcement agents with criminal or checkered backgrounds because of a flawed hiring process, a stunning memo obtained by The Post reveals. The background problems are severe enough that many of the roughly 2,000 agents in State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security can play only limited roles in agency efforts to police bad conduct and prosecute wrongdoers. The problems in the bureau are the latest revelation in an exploding scandal that also involves accusations that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail
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Tea Party on NSA Snooping: We Told
You Not to Trust Big Government!
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Daily Beast, by Michelle Cottle
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 5:12:23 AM
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As if Tea Partiers needed any more evidence that Big Government is out to get them, along come Edward Snowden and operation PRISM. It was bad enough that the tax man had been yanking their chain: Everyone knows the IRS is a bunch of jerks. But the NSA combing through people’s phone calls and emails? That’s a whole different level of sinister. “I read threads all day long by Tea Party people nationwide. I talk to dozens and dozens of people on a daily basis,” says Ken Crow, the Iowa-based editor of the Tea Party Tribune and cofounder of the activist
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5 ways NSA leaker Edward
Snowden´s story isn´t holding up
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The Week, by Peter Weber
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 5:07:09 AM
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E dward Snowden, the 29-year-old IT specialist who leaked a trove of top secret National Security Agency documents, insisted in his coming-out video that he doesn´t want to be the story. If that was really his wish, it hasn´t come true. Fierce debate has erupted over whether he´s a hero or traitor, dangerous or productively disruptive, and the media has even developed a certain (mildly disturbing) fascination with an acrobat who could be Snowden´s apparently abandoned girlfriend. Nobody´s disputing that the documents he leaked — and there are apparently dozens more in activist-journalist Glenn Greenwald´s hopper — are real and revealing.
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State Department Whistleblower,
a Career Foreign Service Officer,
Seeks Congressional Protection
After State Threatens Her Kids
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PJ Media, by Bryan Preston
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 4:59:46 AM
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The State Department whistleblower is Aurelia Fedenisn. She worked in the department’s inspector general’s office until her retirement in December 2012. According to USA Today, she has sought protection as an official whistleblower after the State Department directly threatened her, once at her home. It threatened her with criminal charges when she turned over documents to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) showing evidence that the department had watered down her report, in which she alleged that the department at the highest levels had scuttled eight investigations into a range of criminal wrongdoing. Dallas lawyer Damon Mathias, who represents Fedenisn,
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Former senior NSA official:
Maybe only 30 or 40 agency
officials had access to that
FISA order that leaked
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Hot Air, by Allahpundit
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 4:53:08 AM
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Normally, this is where I’d say there are only two obvious possibilities: Either I’m right that he conspired with someone higher up the chain who fed him these highly sensitive documents or the guy’s some sort of master hacker who managed to slip past NSA’s internal security to lift top-secret stuff off their servers. But I can’t say that in this case because none of us really has any idea how NSA operates. Could the IT guy have had routine access to bombshell surveillance program data? I … don’t think so, but I … guess, maybe? Even the intel guys
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Nascar Mourns Death
of Driver Jason Leffler
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/13/2013 4:39:43 AM
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SWEDESBORO, N.J. — NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after an accident in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway. The 37-year-old Leffler, a two-time winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series who had the nickname "LefTurn" above the driver´s side window on his race cars, was pronounced dead Wednesday night shortly after 9 p.m., New Jersey State Police said. "NASCAR extends its thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to the family of Jason Leffler who passed away earlier this evening," NASCAR said in a statement. "For more than a decade, Jason was a fierce competitor
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If there is a ´media circus,´ blame
the media, not Tim Tebow
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Republican [Springfield, MA], by Ron Chimelis
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/12/2013 5:03:00 PM
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You can tell me Tim Tebow can´t throw a decent spiral, and I will not quibble with you. You can say that teams should not be expected to rewrite their playbooks just so he can play. Much as I like the guy - yeah, buddy, I´m a Tebowite and not afraid to say it - I would hold my tongue. Do not tell me, though, that a good reason for a team to spurn Tebow is the media circus he creates. If that is so, we should recognize that the lion tamers and trapeze artists (not to mention
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Rubio Invokes Bible to
Defend Immigration Bill
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Michael Patrick Leahy
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/12/2013 12:15:36 PM
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On Tuesday Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) cited "Biblical compassion" as a reason to support the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill. Rubio told CBN that he supports the bill because “[o]ur faith has always been about compassion and it compels you to do something. "Now, we have an obligation to be responsible to our country and not do anything that hurts America but also our faith calls us to compassion. If you took compassion or the principle of compassion out of the Bible, it would be in tatters because it’s all over the place.” Mark Tooley, President of the Institute
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Intelligence chief Clapper: I gave
‘least untruthful’ answer on U.S. spying
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Yahoo! News, by Olivier Knox
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Posted By: earlybird- 6/11/2013 11:10:02 PM
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is really struggling to explain why he told Congress in March (see video above) that the National Security Agency does not intentionally collect any kind of data on millions of Americans. His latest take: It´s an unfair question, he said, like "When are you going to stop beating your wife?" And it seems to depend on the meaning of "collect." "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying ´no,´" Clapper told NBC News on Sunday.
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Obama: ‘We Owe´ Young
Illegals a Path to Citizenship
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Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/11/2013 7:39:19 PM
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that America “owes” it to certain illegal aliens to pass legislation providing a “pathway to citizenship.” “We owe it to America to do better,” Obama said in the East Room of the White House. “We owe it to the Dreamers to do better.” Obama then went on to cite several young people in the audience. Obama and supporters of the immigration reform legislation have called people who were taken into the United States illegally by their parents “dreamers.” Democrats previously supported the DREAM Act that would allow illegals who attend college or
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Obama Admin Considers Resettling
Thousands of Syrian Refugees in U.S.
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Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Kerry Picket
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/11/2013 2:54:45 PM
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The Obama administration is considering resettling thousands of refugees who left Syria during the country´s ongoing civil war to multiple towns and cities across the United States, the L.A. Times reports. A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families. (Snip) U.N. refugee officials, along with diplomats and non-governmental relief groups, are scheduled to meet in Geneva this week to discuss potential resettlement plans. Germany has already agreed to take 5,000 refugees.
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Boxer: Santa Monica Shooting
‘Gives Us Wind at Our Back’
for Gun Control
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/11/2013 10:42:06 PM
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Senator Barbara Boxer celebrated the rekindling of talks about gun-control legislation after a shooting at Santa Monica College last Friday. “Every single time something like this happens, I think this does give us wind at our back,” Boxer said on MSNBC over the weekend. On Friday, a gunman opened fire on the school’s campus in the state of California, killing six people, including the gunman. She said she does “worry about” the failure of the legislation after the Sandy Hook shooting last year, but knows that gun-control supporters “never give up.”
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Bill Clinton Wins
Father of the Year
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Washington Free Beacon, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/12/2013 9:03:51 AM
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Former President Bill Clinton was awarded “Father of the Year” this morning at a reception at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. Clinton received the award from the National Father’s Day/Mother’s Day Council. According to the nonprofit’s website, the award is presented to fathers who have achieved professional success while serving as role models to their children. Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, was on hand to present her father with the award and had this to say: “My father has never stopped being an example for me,
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Bush More Popular than Obama
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by John Nolte
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 6/11/2013 9:24:32 PM
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In a Gallup tracking poll released Tuesday, former-President George W. Bush currently stands with a favorability rating of 49%, compared to 46% who see the 43rd president unfavorably. Meanwhile, another Gallup poll shows President Obama with only a 47% approval rating, with 44% disapproving. If you think about it, this makes perfect sense. After all, Obama fooled everyone when he ran as the anti-Bush in 2008. Everyone thought Obama meant he would be less hawkish than his predecessor. But as we have seen, Obama apparently has no problem killing American citizens
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Obama administration under pressure
as US senators demand end to secrecy
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Guardian [UK] & Associated Press, by Spencer Ackerman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/11/2013 10:00:41 PM
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The Obama administration was facing renewed pressure over the secrecy of its surveillance programs, as a group of US senators demanded it reveal how it interprets the laws that underpin them and foreign governments expressed growing concern. A bill, to be introduced in the Senate on Tuesday, would force the US government to disclose the opinions of a secretive surveillance court that determines the scope of the eavesdropping on Americans´ phone records and internet communications. Separately, a leading member of the Senate intelligence committee came close to saying that James Clapper,
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Rand Paul to Illegals: ‘We Will
Find a Place for You;´ Envisions
12 Million ‘New Taxpayers’
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/12/2013 11:20:06 AM
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In his prepared text for a speech he is delivering today at the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) said to illegal aliens who want to live and work in the United States: “[W]e will find a place for you.” Paul also said he envisions today’s illegal aliens becoming additional “taxpayers.” “Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers,” said Paul. Illegal aliens working in the United States
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GOP Rep. Franks says rate of
pregnancies from rape is ´very low´
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Elise Viebeck
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/12/2013 1:38:26 PM
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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that the incidence of pregnancy caused by rape is "very low," prompting criticism from Democrats who said the GOP is waging a "war on women." Franks made the comment during a committee mark-up of his late-term abortion ban bill, which is expected pass the House next week. The Republican lawmaker was arguing against a Democratic amendment allowing rape and incest victims to procure abortions. As written, the bill only exempts women whose lives are in danger. "You know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low," Franks said.
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Natural disasters not odd coincidences
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USA Today, by Robert Redford
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/11/2013 2:17:03 PM
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Like a lot of people, I felt reassured earlier this year when President Obama spoke of the need to combat climate change for the sake of our children. The president demonstrated leadership that night in that State of the Union address by making it clear that he doesn´t see extreme heat waves, powerful storms like Hurricane Sandy, the most severe drought in decades and the worst wildfires ever in some states as just weird coincidences. He demonstrated leadership by calling out Congress, saying if it doesn´t act soon, he will take executive
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Tim Kaine gives speech in Spanish to
voice support for immigration reform
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Washington Post, by Ed O´Keefe
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/11/2013 10:48:56 PM
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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) made history Tuesday, becoming the first senator of the modern era to deliver a Senate floor speech entirely in Spanish as he explained his support for a bipartisan immigration bill up for consideration. Over the course of a 14-minute speech, Kaine said he wanted to use the Spanish-speaking skills he learned working in Honduras in order to explain aspects of the bill to the roughly 40 million Spanish speakers living in the United States. “El senado ha comenzado un debate histórico sobre una reforma migratoria comprensiva,” Kaine said at the start of his remarks.
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