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Unnecessary Presidential Roughness
American Spectator, by Daniel J. Flynn
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Posted By:DW626, 2/1/2013 5:51:10 PM
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| Last week’s Winter X Games killed more people than 90-plus years of National Football League play. Should anyone’s conscience really bother them for watching the Ravens play the 49ers on Sunday? Barack Obama labels himself “a big football fan” on the eve of the Super Bowl. But he envisions a kinder, gentler game, one that won’t force us “to examine our consciences quite as much.” Barack Obama told the New Republic, “If I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.” “Of all games I personally like foot ball best,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Alpha91c, 2/1/2013 6:21:45 PM (No. 9153090)
Lord help me. For once I agree with the president. Football is entirely to rough and violent. In HS football, children still suffer broken necks, paralysis, and even death. Not to mention permanent damage to young joints. The physical injury continues into college ball and then into the NFL. Why?? Because the game means big $$$ comeing into schools and the owners of professional clubs.
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texaspast, 2/1/2013 7:20:20 PM (No. 9153160)
Oh good grief. The number of boys injured seriously in football games in high school is many fewer than the number that would be injured if they were out driving around (which they would be) all those hours they spend in practice and games. And the lessons it teaches a boy far outweigh the risks. Been there, done that, know what I´m talking about.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
noproblems, 2/1/2013 7:41:49 PM (No. 9153178)
i am not comfortable being a spectator for a gladiator sport.
no one cares about the thousands of football players with lifelong injuries from playing football.
my son used to play football (QB and linebacker) when he was young but i dont encourage him to play now that the boys are getting as big as mde. no upside to the sport and he plays baseball and basketball
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
tnorling, 2/1/2013 8:31:03 PM (No. 9153226)
If you want to live in a free open society, it allows people to make, what "you" think are bad decisions. Please. Fascism beckons to you and your like.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Cor-vet, 2/1/2013 8:44:41 PM (No. 9153249)
He has a conscience?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone, 2/1/2013 9:35:33 PM (No. 9153311)
Liberals are always out there trying to save people from themselves.
Obama made history this week by coming out in favor of allowing young women to fill direct combat positions in the military, while at about the same time opining that college and professional football are too dangerous for young men to play.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
whiskey, 2/1/2013 11:08:20 PM (No. 9153429)
Football is a sissy game compared to the games played on the south side of Chicago.
The death count is much lower in football.
Does this mean Obama wouldn´t let his son play in Chicago? Isn´t that racist?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
UNCDoc, 2/2/2013 12:04:50 AM (No. 9153466)
#3, How´s the weather up there on that pedestal?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Pinkpanther, 2/2/2013 12:39:28 AM (No. 9153492)
If you want to know how men became feminized read some of the comments here! Let the liberals be for sissifying males and let conservatives stand for personal responsibility. I have 6 sons from 19 down to 19 months (2 girls in between). 4 of the 6 play football from high school down to peewee, the 5th son (and oldest) opted for ice hockey.
Yes, we´ve seen some minor injuries but the discipline and the positive values they learn outweigh the risks. I wonder how many of our military men were football players or participated in a contact sport, I´d venture to say pretty high.
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J-O-B-S
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: DW626- 4/7/2013 5:45:47 AM
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In one of his more well-publicized gaffes, Vice President Biden said of John McCain: "Look, John´s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." Actually, of course, it´s a four-letter word, and it was his job and the president´s to create a climate for job expansion, and they failed. The evidence is now overwhelming: they have created the worst employment climate in decades.
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White and Wrong in Philly
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American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke
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Posted By: DW626- 3/21/2013 6:54:24 AM
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When your article inspires a big-city mayor to refer your case to a "human-relations commission," you know you´ve hit a nerve. And when that article is the recent "Being White in Philly" piece by liberal Robert Huber, you know it doesn´t take much truth to hit that nerve. That´s the scary part. Huber´s article contains mostly tepid examples of whites´ negative experiences with blacks and primarily black neighborhoods, such as a Philadelphia resident whose grill was stolen from her backyard but "blames herself" for not fencing it in. Its tone is basically apologetic, absolving a drug dealer of responsibility
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Boehner Says He
´Absolutely´ Trusts Obama -
We Are in Trouble Now
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American Thinker, by W.A. Beatty
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Posted By: DW626- 3/20/2013 7:14:08 AM
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Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), on March 17, 2013, on ABC´s This Week, said that he "absolutely" trusts Obama. Boehner also said that he and Obama have a good relationship, and that they are "open with each other ... honest with each other." I know it sounds unbelievable, so watch this 22-second video. Where to start? Well, how about these specific examples of Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama not being "absolutely" trustful? I´m sure AT readers can think of others. Obama Reneging on Promises and Telling Out-and-Out Lies:
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Israel has a Government,
Mr. President
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American Thinker, by Shoshana Bryen
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Posted By: DW626- 3/15/2013 5:21:45 AM
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That´s something to remember when you arrive there next week. Israel has a government, elected by its people in a free, fair, open and democratic election. Multiple parties representing widely divergent points of view met a wildly diverse electorate through free media and open debate. This is no stultified two-party affair with a libertarian insurgency. Israel will be the only country you visit in the region, this time or any other, that has a fully democratic system. Do not be swayed by the "apartheid" slander. Citizens of Israel are Jews, Moslems, Christians, and Druze, each with religious and non-religious elements.
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Why Florida Persists in
the Zimmerman Prosecution
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American Thinker, by Jack Cashill
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Posted By: DW626- 3/11/2013 5:59:34 AM
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Prodded by a president with a weakness for racial agitation and enabled by a politically complicit media, the State of Florida persists in a prosecution that can come to no good end. The defendant is neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. The charge is the second-degree murder. The potential outcomes range from major injustice, if Zimmerman is convicted, to mayhem in the streets, if he´s acquitted. And the state plods on as though the angels were on its side. They are not. The witnesses to the February 2012 shooting of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin are proving even more troublesome
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Rand Paul Shifts Political Orbit
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American Thinker, by Jonathon Moseley
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Posted By: DW626- 3/8/2013 6:43:00 AM
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The political world changed its orbit Wednesday as Rand Paul seized the spotlight in his March 6 filibuster. Rand Paul -- not this author´s favorite before -- is probably now the 2016 front-runner for president. But the difference results from fundamental changes in substance. How can one day be that big of a deal? Because Rand Paul demonstrated a reproducible, winning formula. It was as if Ronald Reagan were granted just one day to come back to Earth to remind the Party of Lincoln of "how it´s done." Rand demonstrated a repeatable formula that all Republicans can copy.
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Barack Obama: The Man
Behind the Mask
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American Thinker, by Steve McCann
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Posted By: DW626- 3/4/2013 5:30:13 AM
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Sixty-three months ago Barack Obama officially declared his candidacy for President. Only now are some among the so-called media and ruling elites in America slowly awakening from their self-induced infatuation and beginning to understand who he is. It has become difficult to ignore the overt intimidation, demagoguery and deliberate falsehoods spewed forth by Obama relative to sequestration -- a miniscule cut in the growth of federal spending. However, any cursory examination of his past reveals that these tactics are second nature to the man who currently occupies the Oval Office.
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Who´re you going to Trust:
The Stock Market or
the Media Innumerates?
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: DW626- 3/3/2013 5:27:59 AM
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Years ago, when I used to play poker with some guys, I played a hand in which across the table from me was someone who looked as though he had a straight flush. He kept pumping up the bidding and everyone folded but me. When we finally showed our hands he had nothing. "You don´t know what you´re doing," he yelled. "Any good player would have folded! Why did you stay in?" he shouted angrily. "Because you curled your lip and reacted furiously when I stayed in. Someone with a winning hand would never do that."
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The Bating Game:
Obama Doubles Down
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: DW626- 2/24/2013 3:49:57 AM
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By law, on Friday the executive must begin to cut $85 billion from federal spending. Though, as is his wont, the president is blaming the Republicans for what he claims is a draconian measure. No less a Washington chronicler of events than Bob Woodward of the Washington Post considers that a gross distortion of the truth [T]he automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of [Treasury Secretary nominee Jack] Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors -- probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.
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How the Left Dupes
Conservative Voters
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American Thinker, by J. R. Dunn
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Posted By: DW626- 2/19/2013 6:21:13 AM
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Too little serious conservative analysis of the 2012 presidential campaign has yet appeared. This is understandable. The results of the election were disheartening to the point of shock. The campaign defied all historical precedent, all commonsense interpretation. The Romney ticket should not have lost and did not deserve to lose. The Democrats, fielding the least worthy ticket in the past century -- and that´s saying something -- did not deserve to win. The reasons they did are myriad and complex. But before we get too far down the road, there is one lesson that has to be grasped:
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Doing the Chicago Shakedown,
Starring the Jacksons
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American Thinker, by J. Robert Smith
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Posted By: DW626- 2/18/2013 6:25:21 AM
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No, I´m not talking about Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael (God rest Michael´s tortured soul). I´m talking about the Chicago Jacksons, Jesse Sr. and Jesse Jr. The Jackson 5 in their heyday gave plenty: music, entertainment, and joy to their fans. The Chicago Jacksons are another story. Jesse Sr. (The Right Reverend) and his son (the erstwhile congressman) have done a lot more taking than giving. "Taking" may be too charitable a word. Shaking down and wheedling may be better descriptors for the Chicago Jacksons´ acts.
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A Black Father
in the House
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American Thinker, by Kevin Jackson
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Posted By: DW626- 2/18/2013 5:32:59 AM
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By now you likely have heard that Chris Rock considers Barack Obama America´s father. If that is true, then would somebody call Child Protective Services and find us foster parents! For Chris Rock, America´s true Founding Fathers were disappointingly white. I suspect that whatever the color of America´s Founding Fathers might have been, they would not have approved of having a failure like Obama among their esteemed membership. Thought the Founding Fathers had many flaws, they were smart enough to eliminate the self-indulgent institution of slavery from America´s future.
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Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Christians, here´s why we´re
losing our religion
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Broadcasters worry
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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´Mickey Mouse Club´ star
Annette Funicello dies at 70
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Special ops veterans’ group
calls for select probe of
Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
they can back gun control in person
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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