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Topic: Change In Senate Vacancy Law
Led To Mass. Special Elections |
Change In Senate Vacancy Law
Led To Mass. Special Elections
Associated Press, by Bob Salsberg
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Posted By:BuckeyeRon, 1/20/2013 1:03:22 PM
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| Boston—It was the summer of 2004 and Massachusetts Democrats were giddy over the possibility of a favorite son, John Kerry, winning the presidency, yet also determined to block Republican Gov. Mitt Romney from picking a member of his own party to fill Kerry’s U.S. Senate seat. What followed may truly have been a law of unintended consequences. In passing a bill to require a special election and deny Romney a partisan appointment, Democrats unwittingly created the mechanism by which a Republican, Scott Brown, would later win one special election and, depending on what happens in coming weeks, perhaps
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/20/2013 1:32:23 PM (No. 9128298)
Governor Patrick is turning over rocks this week looking for the next senator from Massachusetts...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40, 1/20/2013 2:04:24 PM (No. 9128366)
The PIAPS Medusa is available. What she isn´t from Mass? She wasn´t from NY either. Laws have a different applicability to Clintons.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/21/2013 4:23:21 AM (No. 9129294)
Has MA run out of Kennedy´s or fake indians already?
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Nigella Lawson ´attacked´ by husband:
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Daily Mirror, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 6/16/2013 3:05:32 PM
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Her eyes are transfixed as she struggles to prise away the powerful hand squeezing around her throat. Glamorous TV cook Nigella Lawson looks stunned to be attacked by her art collector husband Charles Saatchi during a vicious row at their favourite London restaurant. Fellow diners and passers-by at Scott’s in Mayfair were shocked to see the advertising multimillionaire reduce his celebrity wife to tears. Saatchi launched a tirade of angry words. Four times he grasped her around the neck with Nigella, 53, looking powerless and petrified. At first he used only his left hand, then both.
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U.S., Israeli defense chiefs met
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Xinhua [China], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 6/15/2013 1:53:54 PM
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U.S. and Israeli defence chiefs on Friday reaffirmed cooperation to counter threats from Iran and condemned the alledged use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Israeli counterpart Moshe Yaalon reiterated during a meeting that the two allies "will continue to work together to counter threats posed by Iran and remain prepared for a range of contingencies," said Pentagon spokesman George Little in a statement. Millions of Iranians voted to choose a new president on Friday, with prospects unclear whether the country will continue hardline diplomacy especially with the West on nuclear issues.
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Peace in Syria Unlikely Despite New
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U.S.News & World Report, by Paul D. Shinkman
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 6/15/2013 1:47:41 PM
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The Israeli defense minister said Friday there is no peaceful solution for Syria in sight, just hours after the U.S. announced a newly invigorated policy toward the two-year-old civil war. Minister Moshe Ya´alon, the former chief of staff to the Israeli Defense Forces, said he cannot predict the outcome of the internal conflict that has caused 90,000 deaths in Syria, according to U.N. estimates, despite the White House announcement Thursday that it would begin new military and diplomatic policies in response to the regime´s use of chemical weapons. (Snip) "We can´t see any conclusion in the current situation,
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The Syrian War: Israel and U.S.
Coordinating How to Target
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Time, by Karl Vick*
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 6/15/2013 11:22:28 AM
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52 days after an Israeli general publicly declared that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels, the Obama administration reached the same conclusion, and used the finding to justify announcing it would send small arms to the side of the victims. “I will not say ‘We told you so,’ only, okay, the proof is there, so there’s no more question about it,” says Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, taking with a smile the easy part of the equation now laid before Israel. As for the hard part: “Now, what should be done? It’s not for Israel to say,
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How legalising prostitution has turned
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swamped by Eastern European prostitutes
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Daily Mail [UK], by Steve Nolan
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 6/14/2013 4:49:12 PM
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Documentary-makers in Germany have claimed that legalising prostitution has turned the country´s capital Berlin into ´Europe´s biggest brothel.´ Sex trade laws were radically liberalised by the German government in 2002 but a documentary called Sex - Made In Germany estimates that one million men pay for sex every day. The film was based on two years of research captured using hidden cameras and explores Berlin´s world of ´flat-rate´ brothels where customers pay €49 (£42) for as much sex as they want. (Snip) It is thought that around two thirds of the country´s 400,000 sex workers come from abroad.
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Daily Mail [UK], by Matt Chorley
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The British army has more horses than tanks and must stop opposing spending cuts, a senior Treasury minister said today. (Snip) According to latest figures in Parliament the MoD had more than 500 horses, including 417 on ceremonial duties and 82 held by the Defence Animal Centre for rest or treatment or waiting to be rehomed. Two ponies are kept by the Parachute Regiment as mascots. By contrast, after the strategic defence and security review, the Army´s has only 227 Challenger 2 tanks. Last month it also emerged that the Ministry of Defence has 604 spin doctors
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Pope admits there is a ‘gay lobby’
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 6/11/2013 12:56:16 PM
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Pope Francis has acknowledged the existence of a ´gay lobby´ inside the Vatican´s secretive administration for the first time. Speaking during an audience with Latin American Catholics, the Argentine Pontiff said that there was a ´current of corruption´ in the Roman Curia - the central governing body of the Catholic Church. He also admitted the existence of a long-rumoured ´gay lobby´ in the Curia, and hinted that he might take action over the issue. (Snip) ´There is talk of a ´gay lobby´ and it´s true, it exists,´ he said, in a report on Chilean website Reflexion y
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TWA Flight 800 investigators break silence
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FOX News, by Staff
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Posted By: smcchk- 6/19/2013 12:41:02 AM
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A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago. However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down. Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded
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Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer Says
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Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:06:14 PM
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An attorney whose firm represents two Benghazi whistleblowers said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lied to the Senate when he said there was never a “stand down” order during the Benghazi attack on Sept. 11, 2012. “What was fascinating is that he explained his lie to them,” Joe DiGenova, an attorney representing one of the whistleblowers, told CNSNews.com. “He actually said they were sent to Tripoli. They were needed in Benghazi,” said DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney, now with the Washington firm of DiGenova & Toensing.
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Edward Snowden Is In The
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Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/18/2013 5:34:23 AM
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Amid a steady rise of backlash, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Agency contractor who was the source of a spring of leaks about the agency´s surveillance methods, conducted a live chat on The Guardian´s website Monday morning. Judging from some of the pointed questions he´s been asked and the reaction to newly leaked revelations over the past few days, it´s clear that much of the sympathy and support Snowden had built up for his early exposures is eroding. Many Americans supported his decision to leak information about a pair of National Security Agency surveillance programs, which, he detailed, gathered information
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Barbara Walters Defends Maher
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Newsbusters, by John Nolte
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/17/2013 5:19:02 PM
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As NewsBusters reported last week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called out vulgarian comedian Bill Maher for referring to her Down Syndrome son Trig as "retarded." On ABC´s The View Monday, co-host Barbara Walters astonishingly defended Maher saying, "I don´t think he intended it to be mean-spirited" (video follows with transcript and commentary): WHOOPI GOLDBERG: At a recent standup show in Las Vegas, comedian Bill Maher apparently called Sarah Palin’s five-year-old developmentally-challenged son Trig retarded. And Sarah blasted him on Twitter as a bully. Is that, is it, is he a bully? Is he a bad, what is he?
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Obama: You Can´t Fathom
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/18/2013 5:30:04 PM
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Charlie Rose last night asked President Obama his new Syria policy. The president first objected to it being called a new policy. "I´m not sure you can characterize this as a new policy. This is consistent with the policy that I´ve had throughout," he said. Obama then explained the goal is regional stability, and especially in Syria. "Really, what we´re trying to do is take sides against extremists of all sorts and in favor of people who are in favor of moderation, tolerance, representative government, and over the long-term, stability and prosperity for the people of Syria," said Obama.
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The IRS Immigration Fraud Scandal
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 10:37:24 AM
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Marco Rubio. Paul Ryan. The IRS. Illegal immigration. And fraud to the tune of billions.. Now there’s a combustible mix. Let’s start with the IRS, illegal immigration and fraud. We’ll come back in a minute to Senator Rubio and Congressman Ryan. For those who came in late, a year before the IRS scandals burst onto the scene in early May of 2013, an alert investigative reporter for WTHR-Indianapolis (Channel 13), Bob Segall by name, produced a stunning piece of journalism. Segall’s video report is found here and we will quote from his story for the basics.
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