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Budget figures challenge Dem
claims about lack of
funding for embassy security
Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/24/2013 6:19:55 AM
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| Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly cited a supposed lack of funding for embassy security during testimony Wednesday on the Libya terror attack, opening the door for congressional Democrats to suggest stingy Republicans contributed to leaving the post in Benghazi vulnerable. Democratic New York Rep. Eliot Engel claimed Congress "slashed" diplomatic security requests over the past two years. Budget numbers, though, show the overall diplomatic security budget has ballooned over the past decade. While there were modest decreases in funding in recent years -- and Congress has approved less than was requested -- the overall security budget
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/24/2013 6:45:33 AM (No. 9135830)
Letting 4 people die over a lack of funding is absurd.These people get lamer by the day.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jinx, 1/24/2013 6:52:58 AM (No. 9135841)
It was the only way she could figure out to blame the Republicans. Didn´t work.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
uno, 1/24/2013 7:02:18 AM (No. 9135853)
The Hillbag is just trying to shift the blame off to anybody but herself, something she is quite experienced at. Oh yes, she´ll claim "responsibility" in words only because there are no consequences and to get patted on the back, but then look for any excuse to wriggle out from under any real responsibility when the going gets tough. Besides, it was just a few guys out for a walk that decided to kill a few Americans. The Hillbag is beyond belief, and so is Congress for having no teeth!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 1/24/2013 7:16:26 AM (No. 9135863)
Yesterday at the hearings, there was a woman on Hillary´s right in a prayer shawl. Turns out she is Maria Otero Under Secretary for Human Rights (LGBT) and Security (counter-terrorism). Guess what her priorities were in 2012.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/24/2013 8:49:58 AM (No. 9136040)
You mean to say her heinous lied?
Oh, how can that be!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/24/2013 9:07:42 AM (No. 9136072)
Can´t Soros find her a job in his New World Order?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wtm, 1/24/2013 9:25:15 AM (No. 9136115)
Seems that they had enough money available to buy Chevy Volts for the Italy Embassy, and help save the Union jobs here !!!
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lylacat, 1/24/2013 10:21:33 AM (No. 9136245)
Of coure Hillary lied about this, and she lied about many other things. She was emotional, she put on a great show, and she walked away with no accountability. She let four brave Americans die.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rocket-j-squirrel, 1/24/2013 10:30:46 AM (No. 9136282)
I just keep remembering the contempt she and Monica´s boyfriend had for the military, using them for valets and waiters. Of course she´d turn down DoD offers of protection at the high-risk embassies.
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birddog, 1/24/2013 10:33:47 AM (No. 9136292)
My favorite? She was sooo "busy staying in constant contact with the Doctors treating the wounded that she didn´t have time to review the after action reports, familiarize herself with the victims prior correspondence/intelligence reports, keep track of what HER spokesman was saying on FIVE TV News/Talk shows or watch the videos from the live feed drones overhead at the time". I guess micro managing Physicians several times zones away is somewhere in her Job Description...and takes precedence over her "Other" roles.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/24/2013 10:48:55 AM (No. 9136329)
If anyone here remembers when Rush explained how baseline budgets work, they will know that the only thing that get slashed in the government budget is the rate of increase in spending for each dept. Their actual budgets never ever get slashed. It has been at least 15 years since I heard that but I will never forget that lesson.
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Report warned Boston Marathon
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Los Angeles Times, by Brian Bennett & Richard A. Serrano
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 6:29:01 AM
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WASHINGTON — Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that homegrown extremists could use "small-scale bombings" to attack spectators and runners at the event. The 18-page report, similar to others sent to police and first responders before major events in the Boston area, was written by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, which is funded in part by the Department of Homeland Security and helps disseminate intelligence information to local police and first responders.
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Bad Faith and Benghazi
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Tribune Media Services, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 6:14:34 AM
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‘Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?” That was how then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously brushed off the question of when she knew that the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were, in fact, a terrorist assault and not a “protest” of an anti-Islam video that got out of hand. Clinton’s fans, in and out of the press,
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White House, Senate Democrats
seething over blocked EPA vote
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Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:59:35 AM
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Republicans on Thursday boycotted a congressional hearing for President Obama´s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, putting the nomination in doubt and enraging White House officials who dismissed the act as the most blatant case yet of GOP obstructionism. The boycott was a major blow to Gina McCarthy´s chances of winning a filibuster-proof confirmation vote in the Senate, given that, without the Republicans, progressives can´t even get McCarthy through committee. Republicans said they refused to move ahead on McCarthy until the EPA adequately responds to their questions about her,
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Pelosi: Sequestration Preventing Me
from Visiting Troops on Mother´s Day
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:55:08 AM
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"Every year for the past few years, on Mother´s Day, I´ve gone--I´ve taken a delegation--into Afghanistan or Iraq, we´re alternating now, now Afghanistan--for Mother´s Day to say thank you to our moms and, by the way, our grandmothers, who are serving there. Some young grandmothers. But, nonetheless, grandmothers. To also thank all of our troops for what they do to protect America´s families. I won´t be going this particular weekend because we don´t have--you know, under sequestration, we don´t have codels."
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Brother’s poignant embrace
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New York Post, by Lorena Mongelli
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:52:22 AM
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CLEVELAND — The twin brother of kidnap victim Michelle Knight yesterday recalled his shock at seeing her alive for the first time in more than a decade. “When I saw her, she was white as a ghost,” Freddie Knight, 32, told The Post. “But she told me, ‘Come over here and give me a hug. It’s been ages!’ ” “She was happy to see me. It was emotional. She even recognized me — even though it had been 11 years.” Freddie, who is estranged from their mom, Barbara, was the first family member to see Michelle after her escape.
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White House hopes under fire
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Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:37:55 AM
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She weathered Whitewater. She made it past Monica ?Lewinsky. Now Hillary Clinton is hoping to beat the rap on Benghazi and make it to the White House. The Clinton political machine is in full campaign mode already, preparing for 2016 and hoping voters forget by then that she had a key role in the Obama administration’s handling of the terror attack. But that’s becoming more difficult as the GOP appears to be laying the groundwork for tying Clinton to Benghazi and making sure it stays front and center in the next campaign.Some of the testimony from State Department whistleblowers
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The Benghazi patsy
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Politico, by Rich Lowry
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:28:57 AM
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Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws. You won’t find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows that Nakoula wouldn’t be in jail today if he hadn’t produced a video crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad. In the weeks after the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, the Obama administration claimed the terrorist assault had been the outgrowth of a demonstration against the Nakoula video.
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The Humiliation of John Kerry
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PJ Media, by Michael Ledeen
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:18:13 AM
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The secretary of state was back in Washington on Thursday, begging the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to take it easy on the poor Iranians. Enough with the sanctions, he said. Secretary Kerry has joined decades of his predecessors, buying into the latest version of the 30-year old illusion that we can make a deal with the Tehran regime if only we deal properly and humbly with them. He said there was a “window of opportunity” for a couple of months. It doesn’t much matter if he really believes this legend,
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House Armed Service chair
denied access to Benghazi files
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Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:10:03 AM
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One question left mainly unaddressed by yesterday’s hearing on Benghazi — and by others, as well — is the lack of preparation by the Obama administration and the US military for the potential for attack in Benghazi. After all, terrorist attacks had been increasing steadily since the fall of the Qaddafi regime in 2011. Other Western nations had already withdrawn from Benghazi due to the security risks in the region, specifically from the radical Islamist terror networks able to operate freely in eastern Libya because of the removal of Qaddafi. Our own State Department personnel in Libya
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US Ambassador Makes Secret Crossing
Into Syria to Briefly Meet With Rebels
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ABC News, by Luis Martinez
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U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford briefly crossed into northern Syria on Thursday to meet with Syrian opposition leaders. It is Ford’s first visit back to Syria since he left in February, 2012, when the U.S. embassy suspended operations in Damascus as the opposition effort to oust Syrian President Bashar al Assad developed into a full-blown civil war. Since then, Ford has become the Obama administration’s point man on Syria and point of contact with the Syrian opposition. A U.S. official confirmed Ford’s secret visit, which occurred along the Turkey-Syria border. He briefly crossed into Syria
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Ohio man´s ex-relatives
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Associated Press, by Meghan Barr
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 4:52:53 AM
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CLEVELAND -- The man accused of holding three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home terrorized the mother of his children, frequently beating her, playing twisted psychological games and locking her indoors in the years before their relationship disintegrated, her relatives say. Several relatives of Grimilda Figueroa, who left Ariel Castro years ago and died after a long illness last year, painted a nightmarish portrait of Castro´s family life as authorities made public horrifying details of the abuse endured by the imprisoned women. n interviews with The Associated Press on Thursday, the relatives described Castro as a "monster"
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The Forgotten Victim:
Cleveland’s Michelle Knight
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Daily Beast, by Christine Pelisek
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Loud cheers greeted Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus as they arrived at their homes Wednesday afternoon, almost one decade after they were abducted, subjected to prolonged sexual and psychological abuse, and were apparently bound with ropes and chains, in the Cleveland house of horrors. The happy homecoming came on the same day that 52-year-old Ariel Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, and police officers pulled out over 200 items of evidence from Ariel Castro’s home on Seymour Avenue. Castro reportedly only let the women, who he forced to wear disguises,
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White House struggles to respond
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Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/8/2013 11:24:14 PM
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The White House on Wednesday stood by its story that the Obama administration remained unsure exactly who was responsible for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi nearly five days after it occurred even though new revelations show Ansar al-Sharia’s direct involvement. Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya and a self-described whistleblower, testified before a Congressional committee Wednesday that the body of Ambassador J. Christpher Stevens was missing for hours during the attack after being dragged out of the diplomatic post in Benghazi.
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Latino student group says eating
tacos is offensive to Mexicans
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Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Robby Soave
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/9/2013 6:12:54 PM
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Northwestern University continued to stumble over diversity issues this week as Mexican students voiced disagreement with a campuswide letter that advised students not to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by engaging in racially-offensive activities, such as eating tacos and drinking tequila. The letter was sent to students via e-mail, and published in The Daily Northwestern last week. Leaders of Alianza, a Latino student group, and the Associated Student Government called on students to remember that Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico’s victory over France in the Battle of Puebla. It is not a day to throw a sombrero-themed party, they said.
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Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
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Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up
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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Stephen Hawking backs
boycott of Israeli academics
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Associated Press, by Gregory Katz and Aron Heller
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/8/2013 12:08:27 PM
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British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June, citing his belief that he should respect a Palestinian call to boycott contacts with Israeli academics. The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he would not be attending "based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott." University officials said they had "previously understood" that Hawking´s decision was based solely on health concerns — he is 71 and has severe disabilities — but had now been told otherwise by Hawking´s office.
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Fox Analyst Shreds ‘Cowardly,
Duplicitous’ Admin Over Benghazi:
‘Sacrificed American Lives For Politics’
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:47:07 AM
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Ahead of the Benghazi hearings in which three witnesses are set to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade invited Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters to discuss the issue. Peters was unflinching in his criticism of the “cowardly” Obama administration — and the “establishment media” that aids it. “Is this a national security coverup?” Kilmeade asking, explaining that the witness testimony is expected to say the administration was deceitful in its handling of the situation. “The administration, facing the election, went into panic mode, wanted to contain it,”
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Did Beck Cross the Line? Yes.
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Commentary, by Jeffrey S. Tobin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/9/2013 6:28:23 AM
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Fans of Glenn Beck are complaining about what I wrote yesterday about his speech at the National Rifle Association convention, where he used a giant image of Michael Bloomberg photoshopped into what appeared to be an image of Hitler with his arm raised in a Nazi salute and wearing an armband. The Beck crowd now tells me that it wasn’t Hitler’s picture into which the New York mayor was transposed but that of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. They say that means I owe Beck an apology along with the Anti-Defamation League and others who were also outraged by it.
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John McCain Wants to
Blow Up The Cable Industry
As We Know It
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Business Insider, by Jay Yarow
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/9/2013 1:19:00 PM
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John McCain is going to release a bill that would dismantle cable as it´s currently constructed, Brenden Sasso at The Hill reports. The legislation would force cable companies and satellite TV providers to give consumers an option to pick and choose which channels they get. This is called "à la carte programming," and it´s long been a dream of consumers who only want a handful of channels. McCain tried to introduce similar legislation in 2006 and it went nowhere.
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Benghazi Eight Months Later
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National Review Online, by Ted Cruz
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/8/2013 8:09:28 PM
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On September 11, 2012, terrorists attacked our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and murdered four Americans, including our ambassador. Eight months later, we have learned some of what happened, but many questions remain.(Snip)What we do know leads to the inescapable impression that before, during, and after the Benghazi attacks, there was confusion and paralysis at the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House.
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Dem Rep. Cummings Tears Into
GOP Rep. Issa For ‘Politicizing’
Benghazi During Congressional Hearing
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Mediaite, by Matt Wilstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 1:35:17 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings was the first Democratic member of Congress to speak during Wednesday’s hearing on last year’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Cummings did not waste any time before going after Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), for what he believes was the congressman using the Benghazi attack for his own political gain. Cummings began by thanking the witness, former diplomat Gregory Hicks for his service and offering condolences for the loss of his colleagues in the attack. “If I had been in your place,”
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Report: Muslim cleric invited
to pray over fallen SEALs
damns them during service
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Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 5/9/2013 6:23:57 PM
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The families of Navy SEALs killed in an August 2011 shoot-down of a helicopter in Afghanistan spoke at a press conference Thursday morning, citing a number of grievances, including an allegation that the Pentagon invited a Muslim cleric who “disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen.” In addition to blasting the Obama administration for the mission and for an official investigation they deemed a cover-up, the families complained that “military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen
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