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Topic: Eastwood: If DC Doesn´t ´Give
a Damn,´ How Can We? |
Eastwood: If DC Doesn´t ´Give
a Damn,´ How Can We?
CNBC, by Becky Quick & Matthew J. Belvedere
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Posted By:Maryland_Patriot, 2/8/2013 10:02:29 AM
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| Hollywood legend and Republican supporter Clint Eastwood told CNBC that Washington gridlock is sending the nation racing towards another contentious debt deadline. "It´s almost like they don´t give a damn," he said, in a "Squawk Box" interview that aired Friday. The Oscar-winning director who´s also known for his tough-guy roles asked rhetorically, "If they don´t give a damn, why did they expect anybody else to?" With the deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" barely in the rearview mirror, President Barack Obama and Republican leaders are on the clock again, scrambling to compromise on a package
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TexaTucky, 2/8/2013 10:26:06 AM (No. 9165501)
I don´t think gridlock is such a bad thing in an era when the opposite of gridlock means a 2700+ page bill nobody has even read can get passed into law.
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Cars, schools torched in fifth night
of Stockholm riots
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 5/24/2013 10:23:11 AM
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At least nine cars were torched and two schools and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm´s immigrant-dominated suburbs early Friday for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters said. The riots, which have shattered Sweden´s image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 percent of the population. Many of the immigrants who have arrived due to the country´s generous refugee policy struggle to learn the language and find employment, despite numerous government programmes.
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RAF jet escorts divert Pakistani
passenger plane
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Guardian [UK], by Sam Jones and Nick Hopkins
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 5/24/2013 10:17:41 AM
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A Pakistan International Airlines plane at the centre of a security alert has landed at Stansted airport after being escorted by RAF fighter jets. The plane, flight number PK709, took off from Lahore with 297 people aboard and had been due to land at Manchester airport at 2pm. However, the Guardian understands that the pilot, concerned about a disruptive passenger who had started shouting, asked to divert to Stansted, London´s third airport, as a precaution. The pilot was then satisfied the incident had been resolved. However, the passenger is likely to be escorted off the plane at Stansted.
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Fighter Jets Scrambled To
Passenger Plane
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Sky News [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 5/24/2013 10:12:26 AM
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RAF fighter jets have escorted a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft from Manchester Airport to Stansted Airport, a Ministry of Defence spokesman has said. Police have confirmed that two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after the plane landed safely at Stansted. According to a security source, early indications are that the aircraft was not the target of a terror attack. There are understood to have been 297 passengers on board, who were travelling from Lahore, and it was due to land at 1.40pm. The aircraft was heading west towards Manchester when it was suddenly re-routed
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Obama ‘Respects Inherent Dignity of
Every Human Life’—When Deciding
Whether to Abort Terrorists
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 5/24/2013 10:07:35 AM
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Giving a speech on counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., today, President Barack Obama explained that when deciding whether to target terrorists with drones—whether or not the terrorists are U.S. citizens—he has set a “high threshold” of respect for human life. “But the high threshold that we have set for taking lethal action applies to all potential terrorist targets, regardless of whether or not they are American citizens,” Obama said. “This threshold respects the inherent dignity of every human life.”
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Boy Scouts Change Membership
Guidelines to Allow Homosexuals
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Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 5/24/2013 10:01:34 AM
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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have reversed their longstanding membership guidelines to allow homosexuals to join the organization. In an email to CNSNews.com, the BSA public affairs office said the vote on the resolution to “remove the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone” was passed with 61.44 percent in favor and 38.56 percent opposed. “For 103 years, the Boy Scouts of America has been a part of the fabric of this nation, with a focus on working together to deliver the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training,”
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Will the West Wake Up?
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Cybercast News Service, by Patrick J. Buchanan
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 5/24/2013 9:57:29 AM
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After a British soldier wearing a Help for Heroes charity T-shirt was run over, stabbed and slashed with machetes and a meat cleaver, and beheaded, the Tory government advised its soldiers that it is probably best not to appear in uniform on the streets of their capital. Both murderers were wounded by police. One was photographed and recorded. His message: "There are many, many (verses) throughout the Quran that says we must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I apologize that women had to witness this today,
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State Dep´t. Publishing All
1.2M Comments on Proposed
Keystone XL Pipeline
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Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones
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In an unprecedented move on Thursday, the U.S. State Department posted on a government website the first 100,000 comments -- out of 1.2 million received -- on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Eventually, it plans to post every one of the comments it has received on the draft of its latest environmental impact statement. "This marks the first time the Department has made all individual comments on a Presidential Permit application available to the public," the State Department said. "The Department decided to post these comments as part
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Eva Longoria graduates with
master´s degree in Chicano studies
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/23/2013 3:03:53 PM
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Eva Longoria is backing up her beauty with a whole lot of brain. The actress graduated with a master´s degree Wednesday. Longoria, 38, took home a real degree (not an honorary one) in Chicano studies from Cal State Northridge, where she physically attended classes for three years, according to TMZ. "Big day today!!! Very excited to graduate for my master´s degree in Chicano studies! You´re never too old or too busy to continue your education!" the actress wrote on her Who Say site Wednesday, sharing loads of pics of her big day, posing with her family, cohorts and diploma.
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Mark Levin Tears Into Obama: ‘Flat-
Out, Bald-Faced Lie’ That He Knew
Nothing About IRS Targeting
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Mediaite, by Josh Feldman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 9:48:28 PM
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Conservative radio host Mark Levin is very skeptical of the idea that President Obama had absolutely no idea about the IRS tea party targeting before the story broke in the news mere weeks ago. Levin declared adamantly that it is a “flat-out, bald-faced lie” that Obama didn’t know beforehand, citing prior reports by a few conservative news outlets picking up on the news well before the 2012 presidential election. Levin said, “I don’t believe for two seconds that Obama wasn’t aware of this.”
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Obama nominates Nuland for
assistant secretary of state
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Politico, by Reid J. Epstein
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 10:08:52 PM
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President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration´s talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State´s top spokesperson, had long been expected to be nominated the post to replace Philip Gordon, who Obama picked to serve as Middle East coordinator for the National Security Council. Nuland´s nomination -- which requires Senate confirmation -- could come under scrutiny from Republicans who see her as playing a central role in shaping
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Anthony Weiner says Houston
psychiatric facility made
him ‘a new man’
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Houston Chronicle, by Nicole Narea
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 10:52:02 PM
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Anthony Weiner’s New York mayoral candidacy was only made more improbable today after he revealed that he visited a Houston psychiatric facility following his resignation from Congress in 2011. Haunted by scandal surrounding his sexually explicit online communications with women, the Democratic former congressman sought treatment for his compulsive behavior from mental health professionals at the Gabbard Center. According to its website, the facility provides “3-day outpatient psychiatric evaluation,” particularly to “professionals who are in personal or professional crises.” While Weiner did not disclose
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Mark Levin: "RINO" Issa Didn´t
Investigate IRS Before Because
He "Despises The Tea Party"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/24/2013 5:38:38 PM
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MARK LEVIN: So why didn´t Chairman Issa hold an investigative hearing a year ago? Why didn´t Chairman Camp, all Republicans, hold an investigative hearing a year ago, and all the other tripping over themselves right now? I´ll tell you why. Because the establishment Republicans, the RINO Republicans, despise the Tea Party. They despise the conservative movement. We exist to be managed, to be shuttled to the polling place, to vote for their candidates. The Karl Roves of the world, and all the rest of them. They fight us in the primaries, they fight us at the grassroots.
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Fox News’s Roger Ailes responds
to Justice Dept. investigation
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Washington Post, by Erik Wemple
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 11:00:19 PM
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Fox News chief Roger Ailes has sent a memo to his subordinates at the leading cable news network. He sent this memo to his staff today in connection with the federal investigation into an alleged leak to Fox News reporter James Rosen, a story that the Washington Post’s Ann E. Marimow broke earlier this week. The memo’s a masterpiece, too. For all those who wonder what it is about Ailes that endears his people to him — and that makes him such a good interviewee for any media reporter lucky enough to get an audience
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Obama Asks Staff to
Start Cc’ing Him on Stuff
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New Yorker, by Andy Borowitz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/24/2013 5:31:36 AM
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WASHINGTON —In a dramatic departure from existing White House procedures, President Obama requested today that his staff start cc’ing him on stuff. “Look, I know a lot of you think I’m really busy and you don’t want to bother me,” the President reportedly told his staff in an Oval Office meeting. “But cc me anyway. It’s good for me to keep up on what’s going on around here.” “It’s not good when I turn on the news and they’re talking about something at the White House and I’m like, whoa, when did that happen?”
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