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'Likeability’ is the bane
of modern politics
Telegraph [UK], by Janet Daley
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 9/29/2012 7:30:41 PM
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| There was a headline on one of the television news channel websites last week which read (this is an exact quote): “PM David Cameron addressed the UN on the need to support the Arab Spring, before appearing on the Letterman show”. Does anybody else see the incongruity here? What if it had said, “Prime Minister offers plan for world peace before doing limbo dance with banana balanced on his nose”? We have now apparently reached the point where a major national leader’s stint on a comedy programme has pretty much the same political news value as an intervention in the
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Oooh, nice one from Ms. Daley. Clobbers Obama even more than Cameron, I think, although that banana-balancing act is a lovely thwap. What she has to say about The View will set all of you a-tingle!
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird, 9/29/2012 7:58:12 PM (No. 8899255)
Janet Dailey is wicked good!
This piece is terrific. She always gets it, and her language is always on point. With some bite.
I am so glad to see Janet Daley being posted. Thanks!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
srhcb, 9/29/2012 8:01:02 PM (No. 8899267)
I think Letterman is a blowhard and fool, but he's sure as hell a grade above the UN!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 9/29/2012 10:31:30 PM (No. 8899477)
Cameron, according to reports, got sand-bagged by Letterman.
Perhaps our leaders would be better off acting like leaders. I don't want a comedian running my country. I want an executive, and a darned good one, who can run the largest business in the world.
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Margaret Thatcher: The grandchildren in
the US who share the Iron Lady’s spirit
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Telegraph [UK], by Jon Swaine, Raf Sanchez
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/12/2013 9:05:25 AM
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As they perused the well-stocked aisles of their local shop, the wealthy residents of Highland Park were charmed by the polite and handsome young man behind the counter. [Snip] Like his great-grandfather Alfred Roberts before him, Mr Thatcher works long shifts while serving as a committed Christian and conservative in his free time. After graduating from Texas A&M University in Chemistry, the subject Lady Thatcher read at Oxford in the 1940s, the 24-year-old now hands out prescriptions along with the snacks, cosmetics and greetings cards on offer. His sister Amanda, meanwhile, also appears to harbour Thatcherite ambitions. Graduating from school
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Entering the family business? Baroness Thatcher´s
American football star grandson takes
on the world of U.S. politics
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Daily Mail [UK], by Jill Reilly
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/12/2013 6:16:46 AM
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His birth was famously announced when the Prime Minster proudly stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street holding him in her arms and declared ´We have become a grandmother.´ And with politics running in the family blood, Michael Thatcher, 24, once hailed a rising American football star, now looks set to follow his grandmother´s career path. The news of Baroness Thatcher´s death this week is said to have been devastating for Michael and his sister Amanda, 19. Although they now live in America following the divorce of their father Sir Mark Thatcher and his first wife Diane Beckett
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Play Margaret Thatcher death song,
her supporters tell BBC
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Telegraph [UK], by Hayley Dixon
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/12/2013 5:58:59 AM
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The anti-Thatcher anthem Ding Dong the Witch is Dead has seen a surge in popularity since Baroness Thatcher’s death and looks set to retain a top slot when the Official Chart Show airs on Sunday.[Snip] But the move has found support in some unlikely corners as UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Tory MP Philip Davies, who have both paid glowing tribute to the former leader, said broadcasting the song was the right thing to do. Mr Farage said: “If you suppress things then you make them popular, so play the bloody thing. If you ban it it will be number
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A shaggy dog story: Boy and
his pet pose for pictures every
day for his father while he is
away serving with the navy
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Daily Mail [UK], by Sam Webb
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 4:31:37 PM
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These adorable pictures show Julian Becker and his 165 pound pet Max, the shaggy Newfoundland that never leaves his best friend´s side. Five-year-old Julian´s mother Stasha started taking pictures of the odd couple every day before they got in the family car in Whidbey Island, Washington state, U.S., although both Julian and Max were born in England. With her husband away regularly in his role as a U.S. naval officer, the pictures began as a way of keeping in touch. They have evolved into a charming document of a boy´s love for a four-legged friend he began walking
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´Obama said chill "You gonna get me
impeached"´: Jay-Z responds to fury
over his and Beyoncé´s anniversary
trip to Cuba in new song
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Daily Mail [UK], by Reuters Staff, Daily Mail Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 4:18:10 PM
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Jay-Z blasted back today at critics of his and wife´s Beyoncé´s recent trip to Cuba in a new song. The scathing song, ´Open Letter´ calls out the politicians who questioned the legality of the fifth anniversary vacation, which was approved by the Treasury Department, when the rapper says, ´Politicians never did s**t for me, except lie to me, distort history. They wanna give me jail time and a fine. Fine, let me commit a real crime.´ The song also includes lyrics boasting of his friendship with President Obama, adding: ´Obama said, ´Chill you´re going to get me impeached
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EMU plot curdles as creditors
seize Cyprus gold reserves
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Telegraph [UK], by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 12:19:35 PM
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First they purloin the savings and bank deposits in Laiki and the Bank of Cyprus, including the working funds of the University of Cyprus, and thousands of small firms hanging on by their fingertips. Then they seize three-quarters of the country’s gold reserves, making it ever harder for Cyprus to extricate itself from EMU at a later date. [Snip] Cypriots are learning what it means to be a member of monetary union when things go badly wrong. The crisis costs have suddenly jumped from €17bn to €23bn, and the burden of finding an extra €6bn will fall on Cyprus alone.
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Tens of thousands at US
immigration reform rallies
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BBC News [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 12:06:40 PM
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Harath Andrade tells the BBC´s Ben Wright: "If there was a system in place for immigration my dad wouldn´t have to be facing this struggle right now." Tens of thousands of demonstrators have rallied across the US in a mass call for citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. The co-ordinated protests were designed to press Congress to act as senators negotiate an immigration reform bill. In Washington DC cheering crowds gathered outside the Capitol, and more than 1,000 demonstrated in Atlanta.[Snip] The push for immigration reform follows an election in which Hispanic voters overwhelmingly supported President Barack Obama and
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US rice imports ´contain
harmful levels of lead
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BBC News [UK], by Jason Palmer
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 6:55:29 AM
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Analysis of commercially available rice imported into the US has revealed it contains levels of lead far higher than regulations suggest are safe. Some samples exceeded the "provisional total tolerable intake" (PTTI) set by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a factor of 120. The report at the American Chemical Society Meeting adds to the already well-known issue of arsenic in rice. The FDA told the BBC it would review the research. Lead is known to be harmful to many organs and the central nervous system.[Snip] Because rice is grown in heavily irrigated conditions, it is more susceptible
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Teachers of hatred: The drama
mistress and the master from
Miliband´s school who helped
organise the Maggie ´death parties´
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Daily Mail [UK], by Arthur Martin*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 5:28:34 AM
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Two teachers are today unmasked as key architects of the vile Thatcher ‘death parties’. One is employed at Labour leader Ed Miliband’s old school and has worked with the youngest and most impressionable pupils there, while the other teaches troubled and vulnerable children.[Snip] Craig Parr, a teacher at Haverstock School in north London--nicknamed ‘Labour’s Eton’--was pictured parading with a sick placard which read: ‘Rejoice. Thatcher is dead.’ The 27-year-old special needs teacher and union activist led chants of ‘Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, dead, dead, dead’ at a death party he organised in Brixton, south London, on Monday night which ended in
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Obama enjoys ´sequester soul concert´
at White House amid massive budget
cuts and government worker furloughs
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Business Insider, by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/10/2013 4:24:28 AM
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The sequester may have many across the country singing the blues, but for President Obama, it was all about Memphis Soul. Even with the threat of furloughs and government cuts sparked by the sequester, Obama took the time to enjoy a star-studded concert at the White House tonight. The White House celebration of Memphis Soul music in the East Room--which included special guest appearances by Queen Latifah and Justin Timberlake--is likely to rile Obama´s Republican foes. Some conservatives have called on Obama to give up golf, especially since popular public tours of the White House have been canceled because of
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Sexting scandal congressman Anthony
Weiner is rumored to be about to
join the race to become New
York´s next mayor
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Daily Mail [UK], by Katie Davies
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/10/2013 4:04:31 AM
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Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, whose career was destroyed after embarrassing sexts he sent to young women leaked online, is rumored to be planning a bid to run as New York mayor this year, according to reports today. Numerous sources claim Weiner, the Brooklyn congressman forced to step-down amid the embarrassing scandal in 2011, is about to make his entry into the race and put himself in contention for the Democratic Party primary. The New York Post today claims that Weiner is laying the foundations for a comeback after agreeing to a lengthy interview in the New York Times with
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Why They Won’t Talk
About Kermit Gosnell
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Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/11/2013 11:17:15 PM
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In 2011, the journalist Mara Hvistendahl published Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, detailing the societal effects of sex-selective abortions that target women the world over and resulted in the absence of perhaps more than 100 million girls who by now should have been born. But Hvistendahl soon learned the downside to uncovering what many believe to be a shocking trend in human rights offenses: people will want to do something about it. And so she lashed out, declaring that “anti-abortion activists
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Ben Carson steps down as
Hopkins commencement speaker
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Baltimore Sun, by Andrea K. Walker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/11/2013 7:11:23 AM
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Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage. The withdrawal came less than a week after medical school Dean Paul B. Rothman chastised Carson for his comments and met with graduating students concerned that the famed physician was an inappropriate commencement speaker.
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Daughter of Obama´s former
pastor charged with fraud
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Reuters, by Mary Wisniewski
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Posted By: mitzi- 4/11/2013 1:11:19 AM
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The daughter of President Barack Obama´s controversial former pastor was indicted on Wednesday on charges of money laundering and lying to federal authorities, a Justice Department spokeswoman said. Jeri L. Wright, 47, the daughter of Jeremiah Wright, was accused of participating in a fraud scheme led by a former suburban police chief and the chief´s husband that involved a $1.25 million state grant, according to the Attorney´s office for the Central District of Illinois in Springfield. Wright, of the Chicago suburb of Hazel Crest, was charged with two counts of money
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End this bizarre fantasy
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New York Post, by Andrea Peyser
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:10:54 AM
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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Senate votes 68-31 to move
forward with gun control measure
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley & Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 12:23:49 PM
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The Senate voted to move forward on gun control Thursday, clearing the first of what is expected to be many 60-vote hurdles for the legislation. (Snip) Sixteen Republicans voted in favor of the motion, while two Democrats — both from states President Obama lost in the 2012 election — voted against it. The two Democrats were Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska) and Mark Pryor (Ark.), both of whom face reelection next year.The 16 Republicans who voted to proceed were
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Pat Smith and 700 Special Ops
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 6:13:54 AM
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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4 annoying ways climate change
will make your life a bummer
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The Week, by Chris Gayomali
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/10/2013 7:30:26 PM
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Within the next few decades, carbon emissions could cause global temperatures to rise between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit, melting ice caps and causing sea levels to rise. The price of crops like coffee and chocolate will skyrocket, and countless cuddly animals around the globe could be wiped out. And yet, a lot of people find it hard to really care about climate change. But don´t be fooled: Climate change will affect you. Here´s a brief sampling of ways that warmer temperatures will suck the fun out of your life: 1. Your flights will be more turbulent
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Leaving Blue New York, Boo-Hoo
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: Drive- 4/12/2013 6:44:47 AM
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Only one of my six children has left New York for economic reasons but the strain of living in this expensive nanny state is weighing heavy on my other five and their families. As a native New Yorker, I´ve seen its middle class population decline over the years due to its neglect of blue collar families which is ironic since this is a Democrat city. With the recent arrests of several local politicians for corruption perhaps New Yorkers will pay more attention to those they put in office. Given their past indifference in local elections this is highly unlikely.
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Little Anthony Freemont´s
Twilight Zone is Our Reality
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American Thinker, by Doug Mainwaring
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/12/2013 6:34:43 AM
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Remember little Anthony Freemont, played by cute little Billy Mumy, in one of the "Twilight Zone´s" most famous episodes? In the opening sequence Rod Serling informs us: "A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines -- because they displeased him -- and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages -- just by using his mind. . . . and the people there have to smile. They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield
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Philadelphia abortion clinic horror:
We´ve forgotten what
belongs on Page One
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USA Today, by Kirsten Powers
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Posted By: toledo- 4/11/2013 7:39:08 AM
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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. The revolting revelations of Gosnell´s former staff, who have been testifying to what they
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Biden criticizes gun owners
who are not hunters: ´They
like the way it feels...
it´s like driving a Ferrari´
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 10:41:58 AM
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During a conversation about gun violence on MSNBC this morning, Vice President Joe Biden explained that there was a growing group of gun owners that might not understand guns as well as hunters. “There is a whole new sort of group of individuals now who – I don’t know what the numbers are – that never hunt at all,” Biden said. “But they own guns for one of two reasons, self-protection or they just like the feel of that AR-15 at the range. They like the way it feels.” Biden imitated holding a weapon and added, “You know,
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