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Topic: American reformation |
American reformation
Tribune-Review [Pittsburgh PA], by Scott Walker
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Posted By:afortiori, 2/17/2013 11:01:25 AM
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| Wisconsin is known for many things, such as our friendly disposition, impeccable beer and cheeses and, of course, our Green Bay Packers. Since I´ve taken office, we´ve gained national recognition for the proven results of our fiscal and economic reforms. We took a principled stand, confronted our shortcomings and transformed them into real solutions. We´re turning things around and heading in the right direction. Unfortunately, the national outlook isn´t as bright. With growing debt and deficit without a clear solution, the problems we face as a nation are daunting.
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Comments:
What the SOTU should have been.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 2/17/2013 11:49:48 AM (No. 9181562)
Gov. Walker makes sense with every word.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HalfNorsk, 2/17/2013 5:31:48 PM (No. 9181978)
As the Univ of Wisc fight song declares, "On Wisconsin"!
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Where Obama Went Wrong
In The Gun Control Fight
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BuzzFeed, by Evan McMorris-Santoro & Ruby Cramer
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Posted By: afortiori- 4/20/2013 6:03:36 PM
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In one of the toughest defeats of President Obama´s political career, the Senate this week sank a piece of gun control legislation that the White House had been laboring over for months. As the post-mortems of the loss begin, some have questioned if gun control got bogged down with the president´s ongoing struggle to effectively operate the levers of power in Washington. Culprits for the bill´s demise are plenty — from gutless Senate moderates, to inflexible pro-gun conservatives, to a brazen gun lobby that waged an aggressive, and sometimes misleading, campaign to defeat the legislation.
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Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
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RedState.com, by Erick Erickson
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Posted By: afortiori- 4/20/2013 11:26:22 AM
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I remember it so clearly — a memory you can only remember so clearly when it is from sadness. You can’t let it go. I was sitting in the mud by the rear passenger side tire of my old Acura cradling my one year old in the steady, driving rain. I was sobbing doing my best not to fall apart in front of my little girl. But the tears ran. My throat hurt as I tried to suppress the guttural cries I wanted to cry there in the mud.
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With background check proposal,
Toomey’s not just firing off the cuff
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Tribune-Review [Pittsburgh PA], by Eric Heyl
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Posted By: afortiori- 4/15/2013 9:41:37 AM
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Pat Toomey obviously isn´t flummoxed by basic arithmetic. The Republican Pennsylvania senator is proving that as he and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., attempt to modestly modify requirements for criminal background checks on gun purchases. The two senators, both gun-rights advocates, are pushing legislation that would require such checks for all gun show and Internet sales. Toomey is being labeled a Judas in conservative circles for backing what is being described incorrectly as a gun control bill. It is not.
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Why I Didn´t Write About
Gosnell´s Trial--
And Why I Should Have
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Daily Beast, by Megan McArdle
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Posted By: afortiori- 4/13/2013 10:45:59 AM
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Kermit Gosnell, a Pennsylvania abortion doctor, is on trial for a lurid series of lurid crimes at his clinic. I can´t bring myself to describe them, so I´ll let Kirsten Powers do it. Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven´t heard about these sickening accusations? It´s not your fault. Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page.
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Justice Thomas talks at
Duquesne University, offers
surprises about life journey
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Tribune-Review [Pittsburgh PA], by Debra Erdley
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Posted By: afortiori- 4/10/2013 9:53:28 AM
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, famous as the jurist who kept silent on the bench for seven years, has a lot to say. Thomas, on the court since 1991, visited Duquesne University on Tuesday afternoon and talked freely with law school Dean Ken Gormley and 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Thomas Hardiman (snip) Thomas, 64, known as one of the court´s most conservative justices, surprised some when he spoke of his sentiments as a young lawyer who voted for Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern
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Ancient Chinese general’s
strategies should guide U.S.
in dealing with N. Korea
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Tribune-Review [Pittsburgh PA], by Lou Kilzer
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Posted By: afortiori- 4/10/2013 9:45:11 AM
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Five centuries before Christ, Sun Tzu wrote “The Art of War,” which teaches enduring principles of combat: Position troops so the enemy must face the sun. If an enemy leaves a door open, rush through. If outnumbered, retreat. The book by the ancient Chinese general and military strategist is well-known among those in the military and in the business world. Its underlying theme was the axiom, “All warfare is based on deception.” It is through this lens that Americans and others must view the situation with young North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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Obama adviser: President doesn’t
seek ‘softball’ interviews
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Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes
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Posted By: afortiori- 4/3/2013 2:01:04 PM
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President Obama has built a reputation for going around the traditional White House press corps in favor of so-called soft media, taking his message to “The View”, ESPN and friendly local radio, among other general-entertainment outlets. Who can forget these hard-hitting questions Obama was asked by a New Mexico radio station last August: “What’s your favorite song to work out to?” “If you had a superpower, what would it be?” But senior Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer scoffed at the suggestion that the White House is deliberately avoiding tough questions.
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White House Chief of Staff knew about
damaging IRS audit, kept Obama in the dark
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New York Post, by S.A. MILLER
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/20/2013 4:15:03 PM
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WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Serviced scandal today spread further within the White House and closer to President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney today disclosed that Obama’s chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, and other top White House officials had advance warning that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. But he insisted McDonough and the other White House officials purposely kept Obama out of the loop.McDonough “rightly chose not to take action” to inform Obama, Carney told reporters at the daily White House briefing.
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BREAKING: WashPost Reports
Obama DOJ Also Spied on
James Rosen of Fox News
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 7:29:20 AM
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The Washington Post on Monday reported that Obama’s Department of Justice was investigating journalists before they started wiretapping the Associated Press – for one, Fox News correspondent James Rosen in 2010. Their headline wasn´t "Obama Team Also Spied on Fox News." Fox wasn´t in the headline, on A-1 or on A-12, where the story continued. Newly obtained court documents “reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010.” Reporter Ann Marimow began:
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Leaks turn to deluge
for reeling White House
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New York Post, by John Podhoretz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/21/2013 4:49:13 AM
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The wheels came off the Obama administration yesterday. We learned of a startling assault on freedom of the press by the Department of Justice, following the revelation last week of the unprecedented information-gathering foray by that department against The Associated Press. Then, a few minutes later, the Justice Department’s inspector general released a report declaring that the US attorney in Arizona used the leak of a confidential memo to try to discredit a whistleblower in the notorious “gun-walking” scandal known as Fast and Furious (which got two federal agents killed). The leak was called “egregious.”
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Top IRS official will
invoke Fifth Amendment
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Los Angeles Times, by Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/21/2013 3:53:35 PM
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WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
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White House Aide calls
Criticism of Obama ´Offensive´
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New York Times, by Brian Knowlton
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/20/2013 7:01:33 AM
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A senior adviser to President Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration on Sunday, saying the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers’ trying to “drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations.”The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a member of the president’s inner circle, as he appeared on all five major Sunday morning talk shows in an effort to move the administration past what commentators have described as a “hell week” of controversy and missteps.
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If Your Doctor Asks You About
Guns, Do You Have to Answer?
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:12:07 PM
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Stuart Varney said this morning on "Varney & Co." that one of his producers was given a questionnaire with some surprisingly intrusive questions on it when he switched doctors. One of the questions was whether he/she was concerned about unsecured weapons in the home. Another asked whether he/she was "in a relationship in which you have been physically hurt or are you afraid of your partner?" Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that the question about guns comes out of a post-Sandy Hook executive order by President Obama, but it will be required under Obamacare. Varney expressed amazement
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Democratic Senator uses Okla.
tornado for anti-GOP rant
over global warming
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: bamapreacher- 5/20/2013 8:20:54 PM
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While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters. “So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care
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