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White House Moves To
Head Off Sequester Layoffs
National Journal, by Sara Sorcher
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 9/29/2012 4:14:19 PM
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| The White House moved to prevent defense and other government contractors from issuing mass layoff notices in anticipation of sequestration, even going so far to say that the contracting agencies would cover any potential litigation costs or employee compensation costs that could follow. Some defense companies—including Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and EADS North America—have said they expect to send notices to their employees 60 days before sequestration takes effect to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies to give advance warning to workers deemed reasonably likely to lose their jobs
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
strikingviking, 9/29/2012 4:17:00 PM (No. 8898903)
The rule of law means nothing to the Fascist thug in the Oval Office. He only conforms his behavior to the law when it doesn't inconvenience him.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
VAPMAN, 9/29/2012 5:15:32 PM (No. 8898999)
This stinks to high heaven and should be shot down.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Justavoter, 9/29/2012 5:48:02 PM (No. 8899035)
Mitt needs to get this issue to the front in this upcoming "economic" debate
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 9/29/2012 5:51:00 PM (No. 8899040)
So the W.H. will take care of any problems related to Defense and other Government contractors not sending out layoff notices to their employees, that are REQUIRED by LAW? And the "media" has NO problem with what is going on with obama-the- diktator-in-chief?? What ARE we? Venezuela? Russia? Cuba? What is going on in this Country? Disgraceful and horrendously dangerous things going on and no one seems to care. God Help this Country!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Sandbar, 9/29/2012 6:49:00 PM (No. 8899146)
Headline is misleading. He is not heading off the layoffs, he is heading off the prior to election announcements.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 9/29/2012 6:58:10 PM (No. 8899155)
Nothing about barack surprises me any more.
He is absolutely an outlaw. He is telling the companies to break a federal law which imposes certain obligations on them. And he is essentially saying that he will pay the lawyers they will need for breaking the law.
This is immeasurably worse than Watergate.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kurto, 9/29/2012 7:40:48 PM (No. 8899232)
0 is only concerned with heading off the story, until after the election...
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As Bush library opening puts
his presidency back in the
spotlight, his approval rating is up
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Washington Post, by Dan Balz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:29:52 AM
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George W. Bush will return to the spotlight this week for the dedication of his presidential library, an event likely to trigger fresh public debate about his eight fateful years in office. But he reemerges with a better public image than when he left Washington more than four years ago. Since then, Bush has absented himself from both policy disputes and political battles. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that the passage of time and Bush’s relative invisibility have been beneficial to a chief executive who left office surrounded by controversy.
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Kinder Morgan quietly
plans West Coast pipeline
expansion for oil sands
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Houston Chronicle, by David R. Baker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:15:15 AM
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As President Obama weighs the fate of the Keystone pipeline, a similar project connecting Canada’s oil sands to the West Coast is quietly moving forward, little noticed in the United States. A 60-year-old pipeline already pumps oil from northern Alberta to Vancouver’s busy harbor for shipment to Asia or California. Now the owner, Kinder Morgan Canada, wants to nearly triple the Trans Mountain Pipeline’s capacity, making it even bigger than Keystone. And unlike Keystone, Trans Mountain’s proposed $5.4 billion expansion doesn’t need the approval of the U.S. government
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Activists threaten massive
protests over Keystone XL
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Houston Chronicle, by Jennifer A. Dlouhy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:11:56 AM
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Environmentalists opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline are pledging to turn up the heat on President Barack Obama by risking arrest through acts of civil disobedience at fundraisers, political meetings and federal agency offices. The planned protests are designed to build political pressure as Obama nears a final decision on the project. They illustrate the political challenge facing Obama, who risks alienating at least one key Democratic base - environmentalists or labor unions - no matter what he decides. Becky Bond, the political director of the progressive group CREDO, which is organizing the threatened protests
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Graham: Boston bomb
augurs more attacks
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Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin and Sean Lengell
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:07:41 AM
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Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday that the Boston Marathon bombing provides Congress with a “good case study” into whether law enforcement officials need to be equipped with more tools to monitor people suspected of having ties to radical Islam. Mr. Graham, South Carolina Republican, also issued a stark “You knew this day was coming and there are more days like this coming,” Mr. Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill. “I can tell you, I hate to say it, but there are more of these people coming after us, and the new way of hitting America is do to it inside
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Now top priority, Boston
bombing puts Obama’s anti-
terrorism policy to the test
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Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:05:24 AM
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Despite President Obama’s best efforts to focus the country on top domestic priorities, the Boston bombings have thrust the war on terrorism back to the top of his agenda, and the renewed focus on protecting the homeland will test his national security team and their reliance on the criminal justice system in handling terrorism suspects. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that the Boston bombing suspect will not be tried as an enemy combatant under the law of war, throwing cold water on a heated partisan debate over how to handle his interrogation and prosecution. In announcing
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Howard Phillips, R.I.P.
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American Spectator, by Aaron Goldstein
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:00:45 AM
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Conservative activist Howard Phillips passed away on Saturday of complications of Alzheimer’s. He was 72. Phillips was born and raised the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Rising through the ranks of the GOP, Phillips became Chairman of the Boston Republican Party in the 1960s. In 1973, Phillips was appointed by President Nixon to head up the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) but resigned months later when Nixon would turn back the programs implemented by LBJ’s Great Society. Phillips would leave the GOP altogether the following year. Shortly thereafter he founded the Conservative Caucus where he would oppose both
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Richie Havens, RIP
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Power Line, by Scott Johnson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/22/2013 11:45:42 PM
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Singer/songwriter Richie Havens died today at the age of 72. Havens grew up in Brooklyn singing with a choir in church and with doo wop groups on street corners. He crossed the river to figure out how to make a go of it in Greenwich Village as a performer until he signed a recording contract with Verve. In 1967 Havens seemed to materialize out of nowhere with Mixed Bag, a beautiful album of folk covers and original compositions. The album was full of striking performances, but none more so than Havens’s stunning interpretation of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like A Woman.”
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UN Human Rights Official Says
Boston Got What It Deserved
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Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Anne Bayefsky
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/22/2013 11:39:58 PM
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UN Human Rights Council “expert” Richard Falk has published a statement saying Bostonians got what they deserved in last week’s terror attack. He quotes W.H. Auden to make his point: "to whom evil is done/do evil in return.” Richard Falk is the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” He has held the post since 2008, despite exposure as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. In his latest rant, published online on April 21, 2013 by foreignpolicyjournal.com Falk repeats the libel
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Labor Nominee Perez at Center of
Texas School Board Controversy
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 10:52:39 PM
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President Barack Obama´s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, is embroiled in a heated new controversy over a school board election in Texas in which the federal government is intervening to protect incumbent school board members from their own failure to file papers to appear on the election ballot. Elections for four positions on the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD) in Beaumont, TX are to be held on May 11 in accordance with state law. Four challengers filed applications to be placed on the ballot, but their applications were rejected by BISD--and the Department of Justice´s Civil Rights
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Obama inauguration fueled
by corporations, unions
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Washington Times, by Luke Rosiak
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 10:47:14 PM
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Chevron, Boeing and other companies whose fortunes are heavily dependent on government action or inaction were among the companies that gave $23 million to President Obama for his inauguration party, with the politician who ordinarily demonizes corporate money relying primarily on such sources, rather than individuals, for the $44 million gala in January. AT&T Inc. gave $4.6 million, Microsoft Corp. gave $2.1 million, oil giant Chevron Corp. and defense contractor Boeing Co. gave $1 million each, and healthcare firm Genentech Inc. gave $750,000, a filing showed this weekend. Unions also pitched in
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CIA, FBI, military interrogators
ready to question
Boston bombing suspect
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Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz*
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 10:44:49 PM
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Federal prosecutors on Sunday were preparing to file charges against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, even as he remained under heavy guard at a local hospital amid questions about whether authorities would be able to interrogate him. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was in critical but stable condition with a gunshot wound to the neck, Boston police said Sunday, and federal and local officials said they were unsure he would be able to talk again. “We don’t know if we’ll ever be able to question the individual,” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said Sunday. The full extent
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A red state/blue state chasm
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Washington Post, by Fred Hiatt
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 10:42:29 PM
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In the week since modest gun control died in the Senate, those of us who don’t think guns make the country safer have been inclined to blame a few cowardly senators whose votes could have shifted the outcome. Unfortunately, the problem is bigger than that. Contrary to what then-Sen. Barack Obama told us in his inspiring breakout speech to the Democratic convention of 2004, there is a blue America and a red America. And the colors have been deepening over the decade since Obama spoke. This isn’t an original thought.
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Can a President Who
Has Promised to
´Stand with the Muslims´
Protect Americans?
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American Thinker, by Lauri B. Regan
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Posted By: DW626- 4/23/2013 3:11:30 AM
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In Obama´s Audacity of Hope, he stated, "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in any ugly direction." He also asserted in Bob Woodward´s Obama´s Wars, "We can absorb [another] terrorist attack." These are two straightforward statements that raise the question of whether a man who has been seemingly obsessed with reaching out to "the Muslim world" since taking office is capable of fulfilling his duty as commander-in-chief to keep America safe and secure.
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Marco Rubio’s New Tactic: Imply
Immigration Bill’s Opponents Want To
‘Round Up’ And Deport All Illegals
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Mediaite, by AJ Delgado
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/22/2013 10:09:00 AM
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In debate classes or law school, it is often referred to as the ‘arguing against the non-existing opponent’ tactic. The way it works is you imply your opponent is making an outlandish, unsavory claim (though he isn’t), hoping others will run with it or, at worst, that your opponent won’t sufficiently correct it and the claim sticks. To illustrate, imagine Sally is arguing in favor of marijuana’s legalization against Tom. In the middle of the debate, Tom suddenly shrieks: “Well, Sally, you can talk about legalizing marijuana all you want but I just don’t believe
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No Bully in the Pulpit
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New York Times, by Maureen Dowd
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Posted By: toledo- 4/22/2013 6:58:12 AM
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THE graying man flashing fury in the Rose Garden on behalf of the Newtown families, the grieving man wiping away tears after speaking at the Boston memorial service, is not the same man who glided into office four years ago. President Obama has watched the blood-dimmed tide drowning the ceremony of innocence, as Yeats wrote, and he has learned how to emotionally connect with Americans in searing moments, as he did from the White House late Friday night after the second bombing suspect was apprehended in Boston.
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As Bush library opening puts
his presidency back in the
spotlight, his approval rating is up
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Washington Post, by Dan Balz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:29:52 AM
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George W. Bush will return to the spotlight this week for the dedication of his presidential library, an event likely to trigger fresh public debate about his eight fateful years in office. But he reemerges with a better public image than when he left Washington more than four years ago. Since then, Bush has absented himself from both policy disputes and political battles. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that the passage of time and Bush’s relative invisibility have been beneficial to a chief executive who left office surrounded by controversy.
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Report: Suspects not
licensed to own guns
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Mike Lillis
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/22/2013 9:49:28 AM
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The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws – an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of a gun-control package backed by President Obama. Because Massachusetts state law bars handgun ownership for those younger than 21, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, was the only brother who could have
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Flight Delays as Political Strategy
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/22/2013 7:59:14 PM
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President Obama´s sequester scare strategy has been a political flop, but his government keeps trying. The latest gambit is to force airline flight delays until enough travellers stuck on tarmacs browbeat enough Republicans to raise taxes again. This week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began furloughing each of its air-traffic controllers for one day out of every 10 to achieve roughly $600 million in savings this fiscal year. The White House dubiously claims that the furloughs are required by the sequester spending cuts enacted in 2011.
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Mass. police: Bomb suspects
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: CEP- 4/21/2013 6:28:15 PM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon before having shootouts with authorities didn´t have gun permits. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas tells The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that neither Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE´-ehv) nor his brother Dzhokhar had permission to carry firearms. He says it´s unclear whether either ever applied and the applications aren´t considered public records.
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The Tailor Who Sewed the Obama
Empty Suit Has Sewn Others
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American Thinker, by Bruce Walker
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/22/2013 3:27:01 AM
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The most glaring fact about our president is that he is an empty suit. The people around him are also empty suits. They believe in nothing, really, but unearned luxury, unmerited adulation, and unaccountable power. Those whom we have come to call "leftists" are in fact nothing but nihilists, and we flatter them when we presume that they value anything beyond their vanities, their avarice, and their selfishness. When tragedy strikes, like in the Boston bombing, these empty suits can look and
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Kerry on Global Warming:
´The Science Is Screaming at
All of Us and Demands Action´
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/23/2013 5:30:15 AM
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In a statement marking Earth Day, Secretary of State John Kerry pledges to deal "responsibly with the clear and present danger of climate change." The former presidential candidate also notes the "fragile planet we share with the rest of humanity and which we must protect for future generations.""The United States joins countries around the world today in commemorating Earth Day. Ever since I was involved in the first Earth Day in Massachusetts, way back in 1970, this has always been a day to reflect on our environmental challenges and our responsibility to safeguard our God-given natural resources
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Muslim Congressman On Boston:
"Let´s Not Cast A Wide Net
And Just Go After A Whole
Religious Group"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/22/2013 6:08:53 PM
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REP. KEITH ELLISON (D-MINN.): Well, you know, it is too early for me to second-guess the FBI. I think we need to know more about what they knew. The fact of the matter is that it is good that they contacted him. That wasn´t enough to deter him, obviously. But the fact is that before I’m going to say the FBI should have done something different, what I, I’m not prepared to say that yet. There is just not enough information. What I will say is this: We don´t know what their motivation was yet.
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The Pressure to Be the TV News
Leader Tarnishes a Big Brand
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New York Times, by David Carr
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 11:19:02 AM
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Like a lot of Americans, when I woke up on Friday morning and found out there was a manhunt in the Boston area for the remaining suspect in Monday’s bombing at the marathon, I turned on CNN. It’s a common impulse, although less common than it used to be. The news audience has been chopped up into ideological camps, and CNN’s middle way has been clobbered in the ratings. The legacy networks’ news divisions can still flex powerful muscles on big stories, and Twitter and other real-time social media sites (Snip) But the biggest damage to CNN has been self-inflicted
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I´ll Say
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National Review Online The Corner, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/23/2013 6:55:51 AM
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Apparently the latest craze in NYC is to let your babies’ freak flags fly by letting them go commando: When Jada Shapiro decided to raise her daughter from birth without diapers, for the most part, not everyone was amused. Ms. Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter’s offerings, and her sister insisted that she use a big, dark marker to mark the bowls so that they could never find their way back to the kitchen. But “elimination communication,” as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called,
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