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Pope Francis says atheists can be good
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Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 5/23/2013 9:43:09 AM
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Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis has said in his latest urging that people of all religions, and none, work together. The leader of the world´s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments in the homily of his morning mass at his residence, a daily event at which he speaks without prepared comments. He told the story of a Catholic who asked a priest if even atheists had been redeemed by Jesus. "Even them, everyone," the pope answered, according to Vatican Radio. "We all have the duty to do good," he said.
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Obama’s Imbroglios
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American Spectator, by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 9:40:38 AM
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WASHINGTON —Where are we now in this morass of Obama Administration scandals? We have the Associated Press imbroglio. We have the Benghazi imbroglio. We have the IRS imbroglio. Well, a synonym for imbroglio is confusion, and in all the above cases replace the word “imbroglio” with the word “confusion” and you will get a hint of where I am going. We have one massive cloud of confusion, and that is exactly what this embattled Administration wants, confusion. They think that if an event can be brought to confusion, at some point the journalists and the general public will
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The Unbearable Lightness
of Being Indebted
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Aspen Times (CO), by Melanie Sturm
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Posted By: AVFD15- 5/23/2013 9:36:43 AM
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“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life,” counseled Faber College’s Dean Wormer in “Animal House.” For the collegiate class of 2013 — until next year the most indebted ever — add “in hock” to that immortal list. Compared with their parents, current graduates are paying four times more in inflation-adjusted terms for their diplomas while suffering substantially inferior job and income prospects. Like “Animal House’s” witless frat brothers, those who believe college is a last hurrah before plunging into adult reality must Think Again. For generations, Americans practiced what Benjamin Franklin preached — “An investment in knowledge pays
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Ted Cruz´s Path From
George W. Bush Adviser to
Immigration Reform Opponent
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National Journal, by Beth Reinhard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 9:26:38 AM
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In 2000, Ted Cruz was known only as a Texas-raised, Harvard-trained domestic policy adviser to the George W. Bush campaign. Bush was a two-term governor from a border state who was determined to fix what he saw as a broken, inhumane immigration system. Cruz helped craft the campaign’s immigration policy, which called for speeding up the application process, increasing the number of work visas, and allowing the relatives of permanent residents to visit the U.S. while their applicants were pending. “Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande,” Bush used to say. Bush, a self-described “compassionate conservative,”
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Official: Dead Boston bombings
suspect involved in 2011 slayings
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CNN, by Susan Candlotti*
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/23/2013 9:23:09 AM
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Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.(Snip)Todashev told investigators the men were killed during a drug ripoff because he and Tsarnaev were afraid they would be able to identify them and tell police what happened, according to a law enforcement source.
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Tornado birth: Mom
endures labor as
twister destroys hospital
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NBC News, by JoNel Alleccia
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/23/2013 9:04:32 AM
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When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child. As the floor shook “like an earthquake” beneath her and ceiling tiles and insulation fell overhead, the 25-year-old huddled with four nurses, braving both the peak contractions of childbirth and the wrath of the worst twister the veteran Oklahoman had ever endured. “We were all just sitting there holding each other’s hands and praying,” Taylor told NBC News.
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Garcetti Mayoral Win In L.A.
Is Sign Public´s Fed Up With Unions
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/23/2013 8:51:17 AM
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Organized Labor: On the surface, the Los Angeles mayor´s race looked like a choice between Coke and Pepsi. But Eric Garcetti´s lopsided win over Wendy Greuel showed a major difference — in the public´s view of unions. City Controller Greuel lost 54%-46% on Tuesday, bested by City Councilman Garcetti, who will become the mayor of America´s second-largest city on July 1. It was an interesting result because the candidates are two peas in a pod. Both are left-wing Democrats with ideas so closely aligned they have been political allies; both grew up in the San Fernando Valley;
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Masked English Defence League
supporters clash with police in
Woolwich near scene of horrific
killing as mosques are attacked
in Home Counties
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Daily Mail [UK], by Rosie Taylor
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/23/2013 8:30:15 AM
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More than 100 members of far-right group the English Defence League gathered near the scene of the suspected terrorist attack last night.[Snip] Riot police holding shields formed a cordon around the area as the EDL members waved flags and chanted ´no surrender to the Muslim scum´, ‘Rule Britannia’ and ‘England’. EDL leader Stephen Lennon--who goes by the name Tommy Robinson--addressed the crowd, saying: ´We have got weak leadership. They have allowed this to happen. People are scared to say the word Muslim. They are scared to offend them. You know what? We are offended. People in this country are angry.
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Texas, Red States Beat Blue
States On Jobs, Growth
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Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline
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Posted By: RustMB- 5/23/2013 8:10:15 AM
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Texas outperformed every other state in the nation on jobs and growth over the past decade, according to the latest annual report on state economic performance released Thursday by the American Legislative Exchange Council. Michigan came in dead last. The rankings are based on state GDP growth, population shifts, and changes in non-farm payroll jobs between 2001 and 2011. The ALEC report also finds that Utah has the best economic outlook this year, and Vermont the worst.
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Why was the Department
of Homeland Security monitoring
Tea Party IRS demonstrations?
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American Thinker, by Sally Zelikovsky
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Posted By: magnante- 5/23/2013 8:09:21 AM
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What´s so interesting about 60 tea partiers protesting the IRS in San Jose, California on Tuesday, May 21st? The fact that this bit of information was conveyed to the protesters by a Department of Homeland Security officer who was also in attendance. What was a DHS agent doing at the San Jose Tea Party protest? (snip) they weren´t just spying on us in San Jose and monitoring us in San Francisco, they were watching us throughout the entire state
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Man Shot by FBI Had Spoken
With Bombing Suspect
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Associated Press, by Kyle Hightower
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/23/2013 7:56:24 AM
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(ORLANDO, Fla.) — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the time.(Snip)Three law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Todashev had lunged at the FBI agent with a knife. However, two of those officials said later in the day it was no longer clear what had happened. The third official had not received any new information.
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Obama Scandal Brush Fires Spread
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USA Today, by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel
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Posted By: RappVol- 5/23/2013 7:44:07 AM
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Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot. CAL: Knowing you as I do, Bob, let me anticipate your reaction to the trifecta of scandals involving the IRS, revelations about Benghazi and the Justice Department´s seizure of the phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors. BOB: Are you moonlighting as a mind reader?
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The nerve of the perv
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New York Daily News, by Editorial
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Posted By: toledo- 5/23/2013 7:39:53 AM
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Enamored of communicating via the Internet at midnight, Anthony Weiner entered the mayor’s race by posting a video that essentially pleads with New Yorkers to take him seriously as a regular guy who cares. No joke. He joins the Democratic field as the most ridiculed and psychoanalyzed political candidate on Earth, one with the brass to believe he can persuade voters to forgive without forgetting and to trust that he has the stability and judgment to lead America’s largest city. In the age of terror. Weiner’s standing in the polls — second behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
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President Obama’s 1979 Prom Photos
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Time, by Adam Sorensen
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/23/2013 7:38:26 AM
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Tucked away in someone else’s shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated ‘do, your arm around a high school squeeze. The President of the United States is no different. These previously unpublished photos, obtained exclusively by TIME from Obama’s schoolmate Kelli Allman (née McCormack), show a 17-year-old Barack Obama on the night of his senior prom. Barry spent in his days at the Punahou School in Hawaii studying, shooting hoops and goofing off with his friends.
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Tensions Brew Inside White
House Over Counsel’s Role
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Buzzfeed, by Evan McMorris-Santoro
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Posted By: drive- 5/23/2013 7:37:02 AM
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WASHINGTON — As they watched President Obama lumber into controversy over mandating contraception coverage last winter, some White House staffers were banging their heads against the wall. The lawyers had done it again. Tensions between operatives and the lawyers hired to protect them from legal trouble are a constant in politics. But as President Obama’s beleaguered aides look for someone to blame in an escalating series of scandals, former political, communications, and policy officials complained to BuzzFeed that one culprit is a balance that has tilted too far toward the lawyer, allowing avoidable controversies to boil over.
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The Mystery Night
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Politico, by Rich Lowry
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Posted By: RappVol- 5/23/2013 7:36:59 AM
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On “Fox News Sunday” last weekend, White House aide Dan Pfeiffer was asked about President Barack Obama’s whereabouts the night of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi. This was the night when we lost our first ambassador in 30 years, and when three other Americans were killed in an attack that lasted all night long at multiple locations within the eastern Libyan city. Since the president is commander in chief, one would think where he was and what he did during such an event would be of obvious public concern.
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Woolwich attack: Help For Heroes
website crashes as thousands
try to donate
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Telegraph [UK], by Ben Farmer
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/23/2013 7:36:53 AM
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The charity said the site had been inundated with traffic after news broke that the victim, believed to be a serving soldier, had been wearing one of its T-shirts. As news of the killing quickly spread on social media, there were calls for people to visit the site to donate, or buy T-shirts or other merchandise as a show of support. The site´s shop quickly crashed and parts were still out of action on Thursday morning. A spokesman said: "Last night with the website, there was clearly a lot of interest." The charity, which raises money to provide better care
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Stratfor Email: Brennan
Behind ´Witch Hunt´ of
Journalists Reporting Leaks
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Breitbart Big Journalism, by Kerry Picket
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 7:34:34 AM
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An obscure November 2012 Wikileaks email dump points to former White House counterterrorism adviser and now-CIA chief John Brennan as the person behind the “witch hunt” of journalists who reported unflattering Obama administration leaks. A little over a week after President Barack Obama’s reelection, Wikileaks released an email dump of global intelligence files from the private intelligence company Stratfor. One particular email, dated September 21, 2010 discussed President Obama’s “Leak Investigations.”
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Obama to address drones,
Gitmo in security speech
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Associated Press, by Lara Jakes & Lolita C. Baldor
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 7:30:29 AM
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the dire threats Americans continue to face , even from fellow citizens. On the eve of the president´s speech at the National Defense University, the Obama administration revealed for the first time that a fourth American citizen had been killed in secretive drone strikes abroad. The killings of three other Americans in counterterror operations since 2009 were known before a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to
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Obama to announce plans
to lift ban on sending
Guantanamo detainees to Yemen
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Fox News & Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 6:55:17 AM
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President Obama will announce Thursday that the White House plans to lift the ban on sending detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, Fox News confirms, a move that could effectively resume efforts to close down the prison. That effort, however, has been stymied because many countries don´t want the detainees or are unwilling or unable to guarantee that once transferred, detainees who may continue to be a threat will not be released. There are currently about 166 prisoners at Guantanamo, and 86 have been approved for transfer as long as security restrictions are met.
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DOJ seized phone records
for Fox News numbers,
reporter´s parents
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 6:50:51 AM
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Newly uncovered court documents reveal the Justice Department seized records of several Fox News phone lines as part of a leak investigation -- even listing a number that, according to one source, matches the home phone number of a reporter´s parents. The seizure was ordered in addition to a court-approved search warrant for Fox News correspondent James Rosen´s personal emails. In the affidavit seeking that warrant, an FBI agent called Rosen a likely criminal "co-conspirator," citing a wartime law called the Espionage Act. Rosen was not charged, but his movements and conversations were tracked.
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Mexico cartel dominates,
torches western state
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Associated Press, by MARK STEVENSON
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Posted By: charliecoconut- 5/23/2013 6:29:34 AM
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The farm state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror. The Knights Templar cartel is extorting protection payments from cattlemen, lime growers and businesses such as butchers, prompting some communities to fight back, taking up arms in vigilante patrols. Lime picker Alejandro Ayala chose to seek help from the law instead. After the cartel forced him out of work by shutting down fruit warehouses, he and several dozen co-workers, escorted by Federal Police
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Art Imitating Life: Benghazi,
Obama, and Kirk Douglas
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American Thinker, by Lloyd Marcus
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/23/2013 6:21:11 AM
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Talk about art imitating life. I landed upon a classic movie while surfing TV channels. Kirk Douglas played a down-on-his-luck news reporter. When I began watching the movie, a man named Leo was trapped in a collapsed cave. Douglas managed to crawl within a few feet of Leo and was chatting with Leo, assuring the scared man that he would be rescued ASAP. But secretly, Douglas had other plans. Keeping Leo trapped for at least seven days could revive Douglas´s career. He had exclusive access to Leo. Writing daily updates could produce tremendous financial rewards;
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Holding AWOL Obama Accountable
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American Spectator, by Betsy McCaughey
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/23/2013 6:20:22 AM
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President Obama offers only weasel words to explain deaths in Libya and IRS abuses. He’s the master of verbal evasion. House Republicans need to replace debate with action to hold the president accountable on these issues. To get to the bottom of why four Americans died in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, House Republicans should issue a formal resolution demanding to know where the president was on the night September 11 and what role he played. Obama needs to be put on the hot seat. Benghazi- For eight months, the White House has maneuvered
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Phoenix police go to
kindergarten graduation of
fallen officer´s daughter
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KTVK News [Phoenix,AZ], by Catherine Holland
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/23/2013 6:16:06 AM
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Hundreds of Phoenix police officers converged on a Valley school Wednesday morning in a show of support for one of their own. The daughter of Officer Daryl Raetz, who was killed in the line of duty over the weekend, graduated from kindergarten today. Because her father couldn´t be there, her Phoenix Police Department family showed up to stand in his stead and celebrate Tatum. "She had 300, 400 parents up here for her this morning," Officer James Holmes said. "It was absolutely amazing. It was bittersweet and it was a bit overwhelming for all of us."
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