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GOP Must Launch Reality Offensive
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Creators Syndicate, by David Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 7:10:52 PM
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How can anyone take President Obama seriously when he tells us our national debt is no big deal? Well, we have to take him seriously, because, unserious thinking or not, he has serious power, including the power to obstruct progress on reducing the debt. I´m not making this up, of course, which is too bad because it illustrates why it is so hard for Republicans to work with this man. He neither views the fiscal world from the same lens nor shares the goal of significant debt reduction. In an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Obama said, "We don't have an immediate crisis in terms
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Vatican defends Pope Francis against Argentia ´dirty war´ allegations
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Washington Post, by Jason Horowitz
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Posted By: Zarin- 3/15/2013 7:06:52 PM
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Rome - The Vatican vigorously defended Pope Francis on Friday by seeking to discredit accusations that he failed to oppose and may even have collaborated with Argentina’s feared military junta during the so-called “dirty war” against left-wing activists. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, departed from his recent good cheer since the pope’s election to excoriate the criticisms in the press. He called the accusations against the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who served as a Jesuit provincial superior and then archbishop of Buenos Aires, stale and the work of
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Mark Kelly´s ´AR-15 Stunt´ Provokes Giffords Photo Leak
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breitbart.com, by AWR Hawkins
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Posted By: drkillj0y- 3/15/2013 7:04:47 PM
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Mark Kelly´s campaign against "assault weapons" such as the AR-15 rifle has sparked a local backlash. On March 13, a Tucson, Arizona radio host published a photograph of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords holding an AR-15 rifle at a gun range. Giffords has since confirmed that the photograph is authentic. James T. Harris, blogging at the website of "101.4 FM The Truth," wrote: What is wrong with this picture? Absolutely nothing, and prior to the aggressive progressive opportunistic fear mongering in the wake of Sandy Hook, this picture would have raised no eyebrows and garnered little public attention. However, in response to the exploitative
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West: Nothing a ‘Liberal Progressive Fears More’ Than a Black Conservative
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Cybercast News Service, by Melanie Hunter
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 6:57:48 PM
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Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington, D.C., Thursday said that there is nothing a “liberal progressive fears more” than a black conservative. “There’s nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government,” West said. Conservatives “understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people,” he said. “I am sick and tired of hearing
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House defeats minimum wage increase
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Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 6:55:44 PM
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The House on Friday rejected a Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10, shooting down one of President Obama’s priorities from his State of the Union speech. The 233-184 defeat also exposed divisions within the Democratic Party. Where Mr. Obama called for a hike from the current $7.25 to $9 an hour, congressional Democrats pushed for a $10.10 rate. But they couldn’t muster unity even within their own ranks. Six Democrats from conservative-leaning districts voted against the wage increase, as did every single Republican who was present. “We need jobs out there.
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Government Steering Americans Toward a Tele-Work, Tele-Shop, Mass-Transit Future
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Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 6:53:52 PM
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The Obama administration envisions a "low-carbon, low-petroleum" future where Americans tele-work, tele-shop, walk, bike and use carpools or mass transit if they must leave the neighborhood at all. A study released Friday says the U.S. has the potential to reduce petroleum use and pollution in the transportation sector by more than 80 percent by 2050. In other words, gasoline-powered cars may go the way of the dinosaur, and many Americans may end up living in planned, mixed-use, "walkable" neighborhoods, built along mass transit lines.
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Mayor complains to Human Rights Commission about "Being White in Philly" article
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Philadelphia Daily News, by Jenice Armstrong
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Posted By: bldrrepub- 3/15/2013 6:24:12 PM
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Controversy over that problematic Philadelphia magazine March cover story called “Being White in Philly” continues to simmer. In the latest development, Mayor Michael Nutter has sent a letter to the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations decrying the “disgusting” tone of the piece and accusing the magazine of having “sunk to a new low... (SNIP) In the piece, based on anonymous interviews, Robert Huber makes the claim that white people are afraid to talk about race for fear of being called racist.
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Red Bull says blackmailers threatening feces in cans
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Hazymac- 3/15/2013 6:22:01 PM
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VIENNA – Energy drink producer Red Bull says it is being blackmailed, with the perpetrators threatening to place cans of its product contaminated with feces on supermarket shelves. The company says the threats started several weeks ago. But Marcus Neher of the Salzburg Public Prosecutor´s office said Friday that "up to now there has only been a claim of contamination," and the company also says that supermarket checks have shown no signs that the product was tampered with. The company sells its energy drink worldwide. In a statement, it says it is "cooperating closely" with police
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Why Canceled White House Tours Are Sinking Obama on the Sequester
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Daily Beast, by David Freedlander
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Posted By: StormCnter- 3/15/2013 6:18:47 PM
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The sequester kicked in two weeks ago. By the time the automatic spending cuts are fully realized, it could cost the country more than 700,000 jobs, shave more than $200 billion off the GDP, and result in longer lines at the airport, fewer inspectors examining the safety of the food supply, fewer agents securing the border. But for now, Washington is consumed with the Obama administration’s decision to cancel tours of the White House. According to a study by the liberal website Think Progress, since March 6 the three cable-news networks have mentioned the canceled tours 33 times as often
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An unstable truce with the Axis of Crazy
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Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 6:16:54 PM
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I greatly enjoy the new Hollywood genre in which dysfunctional American families fly to a foreign city and slaughter large numbers of the inhabitants as a kind of bonding experience. Liam Neeson takes his estranged wife and their teenage daughter for just such a vacation in "Taken 2," in which the spectacular mountain of corpses in Istanbul brings the family back together again and ends with them (spoiler alert) enjoying a chocolate malt back at the soda fountain in California and getting to know the daughter´s new boyfriend. "Don´t shoot this one, Dad," she cautions.
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Ben Affleck could be hanged for war crimes: US intelligence expert
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PressTV [Teheran, Iran], by Dr. Kevin Barrett
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Posted By: Hazymac- 3/15/2013 6:11:18 PM
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Is Argo “just a movie?” Or is it a disguised intelligence operation - maybe even a war crime? These questions may soon be answered in court. Well-known French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre has met with Iranian officials planning a lawsuit against the makers and distributors of the controversial film. Mohammad Lesani, General Secretary of Monday´s Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran, announced, "Argo is made by three film-producing companies in Hollywood...the Islamic Republic of Iran is going to sue all those who have been active in the anti-Iran domain, including directors and producers.”
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Obama cracks a sequester joke
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Washington Post, by Aaron Blake
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Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 5:56:03 PM
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President Obama’s administration is taking heat from Republicans and fact-checkers for over-selling the effects of the sequester.[video] But that didn’t stop Obama from cracking a joke about the whole situation during an appearance in Illinois on Friday. While appearing at the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., Obama was met by a crowd that failed to sit down — apparently because he had not told them to. “I wasn’t sure everybody had chairs there. Please feel free to sit down. I’m sorry,” he said. “Everybody was standing. I thought
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A Kildee Comeuppance? Or More Obama Aloofness?
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Roll Call, by Jonathan Strong
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Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 5:50:02 PM
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Michigan Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee has been in Congress for a little more than two months, and today the leader of the free world gave him a gentle ribbing about just how new he is to Capitol Hill. At a closed-door meeting between President Barack Obama and House Democrats, Kildee introduced himself as a freshman, to which Obama said, “Wow, you’re really classing up the place then.” Kildee then proceeded to ask what one person described as a somewhat “long-winded” question about the importance of creating jobs for his economically distraught district. “I can tell you’re a freshman because
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House Delegation Plans Journey to Rome for Installation of Pope Francis
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National Journal, by Billy House
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 5:38:57 PM
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is going somewhere next week that Speaker John Boehner says he cannot because of congressional work: She will join Vice President Joe Biden to attend the installation of the new Pope in Rome. Boehner declined the invitation to travel with Biden for the inauguration mass on Tuesday of Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis, although he said Friday that the House will be sending its own bipartisan delegation of members. As for himself, the Ohio Republican said in a statement
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US to strengthen missile defence in response to North Korea ´provocations´
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Guardian [UK], by Chris McGreal
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Posted By: earlybird- 3/15/2013 5:36:47 PM
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The US is to strengthen its missile defence shield on the Pacific coast in response to North Korea´s strides in developing nuclear weapons and threats of war, defence secretary Chuck Hagel announced on Friday. Hagel said the US will deploy 14 additional missile interceptors in Alaska to "make clear to the world that the United States stands firm against aggression". The additional interceptors will bring to 44 the total deployed in Alaska and California, although the numbers will not increase for four years and the defensive missiles have proved unreliable in tests.
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UN says US drones violate Pakistan´s sovereignty
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Associated Press, by Sebastian Abbott
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:24:47 PM
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ISLAMABAD -- The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan´s sovereignty. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said the Pakistani government made clear to him that it does not consent to the strikes - a position that has been disputed by U.S. officials. President Barack Obama has stepped up covert CIA drone strikes targeting al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan´s tribal region along the Afghan border since he took office in 2009.
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Romney: Learn from ´My Mistakes´
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:18:51 PM
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Mitt Romney, giving his first speech since he lost his election for president of the United States: "I left the race disappointed that I didn´t win, but, but I also left honored and humbled to have represented the values we believe in, and to speak for so many good and decent people," said Romney. "We´ve lost races before in the past but the setbacks prepared us for larger victories. It´s up to us to make sure we learn from our mistakes, and my mistakes, and that we take advantage of that learning to make sure that
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Denver Broncos safety arrested for allegedly cheating in Vegas craps game
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Associated Press, by Arnie Stapleton
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/15/2013 5:15:20 PM
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LAS VEGAS — Denver Broncos safety Quinton Carter is facing felony charges in Nevada alleging that he cheated at a craps game last weekend at a Las Vegas-area casino, authorities said Thursday. Carter, 24, was arrested late Saturday at the Texas Station casino in North Las Vegas. Security officials reported he was videotaped adding a $5 chip to three bets after the dice already rolled, according to a police report. Carter denied wrongdoing when police arrived. Carter faces three counts of committing a fraudulent act in a gaming establishment, a felony in Nevada
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Obama Will Use Nixon-Era Law to Fight Climate Change
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Bloomberg News, by Mark Drajem
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:07:51 PM
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President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipelines to highways. The result could be significant delays for natural gas- export facilities, ports for coal sales to Asia, and even new forest roads, industry lobbyists warn. “It’s got us very freaked out,” said Ross Eisenberg, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a Washington-based group that represents 11,000 companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and Southern Co. (SO) The standards, which constitute
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Indiana Jones and the Lib Crusade
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:06:09 PM
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RUSH: Back to the phones. Open Line Friday. This is Indiana in Hastings, Nebraska. Indiana... don´t tell me. Let me guess your last name. Can I guess your last name? CALLER: Take a crack at it. RUSH: Jones. CALLER: Yes, sir. Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, you are right. RUSH: No, I do believe it. CALLER: I was born in 1990. My mom said I was the last crusade. RUSH: Well, I understand. Pop culture, big. Anyway, welcome to the program. Great to have you here. So you were born in 1990. So you are 22, 23, somewhere around there? CALLER: Yes, sir. A birthday coming up,
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Oregon Company to Sell Drone Defense Technology to Public
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U.S. News & World Report, by Jason Koebler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:02:09 PM
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Do you want to keep drones out of your backyard? An Oregon company says that it has developed and will soon start selling technology that disables unmanned aircraft. The company, called Domestic Drone Countermeasures, was founded in late February because some of its engineers see unmanned aerial vehicles—which are already being flown by law enforcement in some areas and could see wider commercial integration into American airspace by 2015—as unwanted eyes in the sky. "I was personally concerned and I think there´s a lot of other people worried about this," says Timothy Faucett, a lead engineer on the project.
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Court deals blow to CIA drone secrecy
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Politico, by Josh Gerstein
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:00:07 PM
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For now, the Central Intelligence Agency can still maintain its official silence on whether it uses armed drones. But a new court decision Friday could force the agency to provide some information about what kind of records they have on the subject and spell out why it’s not required to say more about them. In the first judicial blow to secrecy surrounding the Obama Administration’s armed drone program, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously rejected the CIA’s claim that it could refuse to confirm or deny whether it possesses any records
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CPAC Red Meat: Perry, Trump, LaPierre
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 4:57:47 PM
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RUSH: I´ve got a lot of CPAC sound bites here, and a lot of the people that have spoken have really been great. They´ve raised the roof. Now, I mentioned Rick Perry in the opening of the program. Let´s actually listen. He, among other things, made the point. They say conservatism´s dead. Everybody thinks conservatism has gone by the wayside. How do we know? We haven´t nominated any conservatives. McCain wasn´t conservative. Romney wasn´t conservative. Of course, the CPAC audience loved hearing that. So I think we got three bites here from Rick Perry. Here´s the first...
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Caddell Rips the GOP Consultant Class
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 4:52:39 PM
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RUSH: Now, CPAC. I don´t know if you get this same impression, but it seems to me that the Drive-Bys are spending more time covering everything at CPAC this year than they normally do. Now, C-SPAN is there for the most part wall-to-wall every year. But some of these cable networks are also going wall-to-wall with it, too. There is a fascination with what´s happening there, and it´s actually good because there are a lot of really, really great future stars on display, and they´re not holding back.
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Pope´s Childhood Love ´Made Him Become Priest´
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Sky News [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 3/15/2013 4:33:33 PM
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A former child sweetheart of Pope Francis has claimed that he went on to become a catholic priest after she turned down his marriage proposal. Amalia Damonte, 76, grew up in the same Flores neighbourhood of Buenos Aires as Jorge Bergoglio and said that when the Pontiff was 12, he wrote a letter declaring his love. Speaking to Argentinian TV, she said: "He said that if I didn´t say yes, he would have to become a priest. Luckily for him, I said no. (Snip)"He was wonderful. He was a proper guy."
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Sacred mystery: Blockbuster ratings for ‘The Bible’ confound Hollywood
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Washington Times, by Daniel Wattenberg
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 3/15/2013 3:58:46 PM
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Sure, it’s easy to criticize Hollywood, but try to remember that the entertainment industry today is an intellectually demanding environment, fraught with cognitively challenging, even intractable, questions, like, to take one recent example: How can the cable mini-series “The Bible” be such a ratings hit when there is no audience for overtly religious entertainment programming? According to the latest Nielsens, released Tuesday, Sunday night’s telecast of “The Bible,” produced by husband-and-wife team Mark Burnett and Roma Downey for basic cable’s History channel, managed to attract more viewers than anything on broadcast network NBC … during the entire week.
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