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Another big Supreme Court
term kicks off Monday
Associated Press, by Mark Sherman
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Posted By:JoniTx, 9/30/2012 3:47:01 AM
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| WASHINGTON- When last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court's liberals in an unlikely lineup that upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Progressives applauded Roberts' statesmanship. Conservatives uttered cries of betrayal. Now, the Supreme Court is embarking on a new term beginning Monday that could be as consequential as the last one, with the prospect for major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights. Many people on both the left and right expect Roberts to return to
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
KTWO, 9/30/2012 5:00:58 AM (No. 8899695)
After the ObamaCare decision I don't care if the court itself kicks off Monday.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nonsense, 9/30/2012 6:36:59 AM (No. 8899760)
So...the coward is back on the bench. Haven't forgotten what a traitor he is, will never forget.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
shamus, 9/30/2012 6:42:33 AM (No. 8899768)
What damage can the court do this term?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam, 9/30/2012 7:21:55 AM (No. 8899804)
Yeah, I just can't wait to see how the D.C. Echo Chamber plays "Savior of the Court's Integrity" Roberts this term.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rinohunter, 9/30/2012 7:26:17 AM (No. 8899811)
That treasonous eunuch coward Roberts is back? I would have thought that by now he would have done the right thing and resigned (or taken a long walk off a short pier). Why are not the Republicans demanding an investigation into this pansy fool's way of thinking? He's obviously non compos mentis and actually belongs in a mental institution NOT on the Supreme Court. He has made Eleanor Kagan look like a lady Einstein.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
alto, 9/30/2012 8:25:56 AM (No. 8899894)
As a conservative, I expect to be sickened by the democrats. When we're stabbed in the back by our own, it's worse. I'll not forgive nor forget.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 9/30/2012 9:18:51 AM (No. 8899983)
We are fortunate that the black-robed tyrants can only rule on a small percentage of the cases sent to them. The federal judiciary should be dismantled. State courts can handle these matters. Many state courts have elected judges, which is better yet.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jimboendaatl, 9/30/2012 9:57:28 AM (No. 8900037)
Agree with number 1, the fact is we were foolish to think the courts can save this country. And why should they? Most of the federal government is rotten to the core. This goes for cowardly Republicans too. I fear this country is already lost regardless of the outcome in November.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree, 9/30/2012 11:15:16 AM (No. 8900169)
Elena Kagan was interviewed on C-Span a couple days ago. I didn't think anything could make that woman less attractive but then that screechy voice and Bronx accent came in a burst of undoubtedly stale breath from between those gapped teeth.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Coy860, 9/30/2012 11:26:55 AM (No. 8900186)
The Founding Fathers got just about everything right, but now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. The Supreme Court must NOT be allowed to continue on the current course, with no accountability to the People.
Life tenure is unacceptable, as is no accountability to the People, revisions MUST be made. Otherwise, we have lost our collective voices in the Governance of our Country.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NYbob, 9/30/2012 12:38:02 PM (No. 8900289)
Some posters clamor for Republican review or action on blatantly unconstitutional rulings that have contradictions within them. When the Republicans sit silent when Ginsberg talks about going outside the constitution and incorporating international law, when they allow Kegan to rule on matters she clearly has stated positions on, when they refuse to consider impeachment for proven lying pre appointment, don't expect them to pressure anyone or review anything. Gutless, compromised Republicans are almost as guilty as the communist sympathizing democrats.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 9/30/2012 1:48:18 PM (No. 8900375)
Amen #11. Conservatives have no representation and haven't had for a long, long time.
CJ Roberts - )*(&*%)!
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Firefighter honor guards
stand watch for fallen
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Waco Tribune [TX], by Kirsten Crow
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Night and day, from the rubble of the blast site to the medical examiner’s office to the funeral homes, honor guards have not left their fallen brethren, and won’t until they are laid to rest. In all, 10 firefighters were killed in the massive explosion of the West Fertilizer Co. plant April 17. “It’s traditional to stand watch with the casket as a tribute to that lost firefighter, and to enforce our commitment to the family that we stand side by side with our brothers and sisters,” said Chief Ronald Jon Siarnicki, executive director of the National Fallen Firefighters
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U.S.: Intelligence points to
small-scale use of sarin
in Syria
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CNN, by Michael Pearson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 1:22:16 PM
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The United States has evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday. But numerous questions remain about the origins of the chemical and what impact its apparent use could have on the ongoing Syrian civil war and international involvement in it. When asked if the intelligence community´s conclusion pushed the situation across President Barack Obama´s "red line" that could potentially trigger more U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war, Hagel said it´s too soon to say. "We need all the facts.
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Record Number of Households on
Food Stamps- 1 out of Every 5
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Cybercast News Service, by Joe Schoffstall
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 1:19:11 PM
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The latest available data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that a record number 23 million households in the United States are now on food stamps. The most recent Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP) statistics of the number of households receiving food stamps shows that 23,087,886 households participated in January 2013 - an increase of 889,154 families from January 2012 when the number of households totaled 22,188,732. The most recent statistics from the United States Census Bureau-- from December 2012-- puts the number of households in the United States at 115,310,000.
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Sen. Harry Reid: ‘Government
is inherently good’
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Washington Times [DC], by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 9:57:17 AM
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he can’t understand why the tea party remains popular, given its similarity to the anarchist movement and its steadfast opposition to the “inherently good” government. Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, made the statements during floor remarks in the Senate earlier this week, expressing dismay over legislation stalled because of tea party opposition, Breitbart reported. “We have a situation where this country has been driven by the tea party for the last number of years,” he said, adding that he learned about anarchists in high school. And though “they were different than the tea party
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IAF shoots down hostile
drone from Lebanon off Haifa
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Jerusalem Post, by Yaakov Lappin
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 9:51:06 AM
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The Israeli Air Force shot down a drone over the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday off the coast of Haifa which had flown south from Lebanon. Shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday the Israeli Air Force identifid a drone flying in Lebanese airspace south towards Israel. The drone was flying along the coast line. A squadron of F-16s and IAF helicopters were scrambled to engage the drone. IDF spokesman Brig-Gen Yoav Mordechai said that after the Air Force ensured that the aircraft was hostile, the commander of the IAF gave the order to shoot it down.
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Hacks covering own tracks
in name of privacy
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Boston Herald, by Margery Eagan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 9:47:34 AM
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Here’s what we’re talking about: One accused mass murderer who’s practically confessed to killing three marathon bystanders, plus a police officer, and injuring 260 others. And his brother, killed after a gunfight in which yet another police officer nearly died. Yet the state and federal government bureaucrats are telling you, me and every taxpayer who mailed their tax checks on the very day of the marathon bombings that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s privacy matters more than our right to know how extensively our tax dollars may have contributed to their terrorist plot.
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Barbara Bush on Jeb WH run:
´We´ve had enough Bushes´
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Justin Sink
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 9:43:18 AM
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Former first lady Barbara Bush on Thursday said she doesn´t want her son Jeb to run for president. Bush described her son as the best candidate for the job, but said other families should get a shot and "we´ve had enough Bushes." "He´s by far the best qualified man, but no," Bush told The Today Show. "I really don´t. I think it´s a great country, there are a lot of great families, and it´s not just four families or whatever. There are other people out there that are very qualified, and we´ve had enough Bushes."
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No end in sight for Issa,
Holder court battle
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Jordy Yager
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 9:40:32 AM
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Lawyers for the Justice Department and the House Oversight Committee sparred in court Wednesday over whether a federal judge has standing to resolve their dispute over documents that President Obama is withholding from Congress. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Attorney General Eric Holder have been locked in contentious negotiations for the better part of a year over a set of internal DOJ documents relating to the agency’s handling of a botched gun tracking operation. (Snip) Nearly eight months later, the court has yet to resolve whether it even has the right to hear the case.
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My favorite memories of
President George W. Bush
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Fox News, by Dana Perino
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 8:48:36 AM
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The George W. Bush Library and Museum opens this week in Dallas and many already have written about our 43rd president and his legacy. As commentators and historians hash over the big decisions, successes and mistakes over those eight years, here’s my personal take on what President Bush means to me. On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I’d supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart. When I got a call to volunteer on the campaign
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Now officials claim Boston
bombing suspect was NOT
armed in boat showdown -
despite police account of firefight
and him ´shooting himself´
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Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK), by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 8:27:11 AM
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Two unnamed U.S. officials have told the Associated Press that the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard. The report contradicts the Boston police department´s own account of Dzhokar Tsarnaev´s capture on Friday - after commissioner Ed Davies described a firefight between him and officers before the terror suspect was captured. The New York Times also said an M4 rifle had been found on the boat - another claim contradicted by the latest revelations. Officers had originally said they had exchanged gunfire
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George W Bush library to
open as former President´s
popularity soars
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Telegraph [UK], by Philip Sherwell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 8:04:03 AM
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Dallas -Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, the first George Bush and Jimmy Carter and their wives will join Mr Bush and former first lady Laura in a rare gathering of all five living presidents for the dedication of the centre at southern Methodist University. But pride of place on the 15,000-strong guest list may well go to Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who became one of Mr Bush´s closest political soulmates. With the US economy in meltdown and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan deeply unpopular, Mr Bush left office with approval ratings of 33 per cent –
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We deserve to know what
our tax $ paid for
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 7:57:48 AM
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It’s time for all the bureaucrats, paper-shufflers and flak-catchers to come clean on the Tsarnaev clan, those chiseling Chechens who tried to kill us last week. Open the damn books! If somebody tries to murder you, you have a right to know everything about them, privacy be damned. I want to know everything about them, and I want to know it now, right down to the quality of the weed Dzhokhar was peddling down at UMass Dartmouth. Were they living in Section 8 housing in Cambridge? Did they use Obamaphones to detonate the pressure-cooker bombs?
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Republican Benghazi Report
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Daily Beast, by Eli Lake
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Internal emails in the week following the 9-11 anniversary assault on the U.S. facility in Benghazi show the White House and State Department removed references to al Qaeda and the mention of other recent attacks in Benghazi from widely distributed talking points used to explain the incident to the public, according to a new report from five House Republican committee chairmen released Tuesday afternoon. Citing administration emails provided to the House committees, the 46-page report claims that “to protect the State Department, the Administration deliberately removed references to al-Qaeda-linked groups and previous attacks
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev got
Mass. welfare benefits
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/24/2013 5:31:11 AM
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Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned. State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev’s attorney has claimed Katherine — who had converted to Islam —
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Patrick administration refuses to
release Tsarnaev brothers´ records
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy*
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 5:40:37 AM
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The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind’s right to privacy. Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide information about the taxpayer-funded lifestyle for the 26-year-old man and his brother and accused accomplice Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. On EBT card status or spending, state welfare spokesman Alec Loftus would only say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter received benefits that ended in 2012. He declined further comment.
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The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage
Caused By Boxing Play a Role in
the Boston Bombings?
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Time Magazine, by Jeffrey Kluger
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 5:17:04 PM
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. But the brain that was home to his angry mind remains, and in this case that may mean something. Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer who won the New England Golden Gloves competition as recently as 2009 and 2010. That speaks to a young man with a healthy sense
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President Obama to daughters:
If you get a tattoo, I’m
getting one too
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New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 12:18:38 PM
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President Obama and the First Lady have come up with a crafty strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos — and it banks on the girls thinking their parents are deeply uncool. “What we’ve said to the girls is, ‘If you guys ever decide you´re going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo. In the same place,’” Obama said with a smile. “And we´ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.” “And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that that somehow that´s
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Ben Affleck to live on food
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Star-Ledger [Trenton, NJ], by Janelle Griffith
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 7:53:21 PM
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Academy Award winner Ben Affleck is the latest Hollywood star to lend his celebrity to a social cause. Next week, the "Argo" and "Good Will Hunting" actor will join thousands of others when he lives off of $1.50 per day as part of the Live Below the Line campaign, from April 29 to May 3. Billed as a means to challenge the way people think about poverty, the campaign requires participants to feed themselves on no more than $1.50 a day for five days.
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Bombing Suspect Immediately
Stopped Talking After
Being Read His Miranda Rights
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 7:46:45 AM
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Since the Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured, there’s been quite a debate over his Miranda rights and how to treat him — given that he’s a United States citizen. An Associated Press report out this morning is sure to add fuel to the fire. As soon as he was read his Miranda rights, it says, Tsarnaev stopped talking. The report notes that Tsarnaev was read his rights 16 hours after his interrogation had began. Then, he fell silent: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev immediately stopped talking after a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. Attorney’s office entered his
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Now officials claim Boston
bombing suspect was NOT
armed in boat showdown -
despite police account of firefight
and him ´shooting himself´
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Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK), by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 8:27:11 AM
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Two unnamed U.S. officials have told the Associated Press that the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard. The report contradicts the Boston police department´s own account of Dzhokar Tsarnaev´s capture on Friday - after commissioner Ed Davies described a firefight between him and officers before the terror suspect was captured. The New York Times also said an M4 rifle had been found on the boat - another claim contradicted by the latest revelations. Officers had originally said they had exchanged gunfire
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Her Hall of Fame: Chelsea
Clinton’s $10M buy for city’s
longest apartment
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New York Daily News, by Jason Sheftell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/24/2013 9:03:34 AM
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Think of it as a horizontal townhouse. Most developers hype the sky-high verticals of their new glitzy buildings, but a new condominium called The Whitman — soon to be home to former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton - has a completely different selling point: It features the longest apartments in the city. The four-unit building stretches an entire block between E. 26th and E. 27th Sts. It takes almost 30 second to walk the approximate 250-foot central corridor. "The hallway is a wow factor," said Douglas Elliman broker Dina Lewis, who shares the listing with partner Melanie Lazenby, daughter of
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David Brooks: Ted Cruz ´Has
a Face That Looks a Little
Like Joe McCarthy´
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 10:18:25 PM
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NewsBusters reported Sunday the media´s chorus to silence Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) is growing louder. As fate would have it, at roughly the same time, David Brooks was sitting down for a chat with PBS’s Jeff Greenfield at the 92nd Street Y during which the New York Times columnist said, “It doesn’t help that [Cruz] has a face that looks a little like Joe McCarthy” (video follows with transcript and commentary): After Greenfield brought up the Texas Senator, Brooks said, “So Ted Cruz is, just violates my sense. And I think if you mention the name Ted
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´GOP´ Pollster Frank Luntz
Denounced Limbaugh, Levin
as ´Problematic´ for GOP Future
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 7:39:06 AM
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The leftists at Mother Jones are brandishing another secret tape. Pollster Frank Luntz, denounced as too conservative by liberals when he turns up on liberal networks, told a group of college students at the University of Pennsylvania this week that Rush Limbaugh and right-wing talk radio are "problematic" for the GOP and that he and Mark Levin were “killing” Marco Rubio for his immigration proposals. Democrats have “got every other source of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what´s driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio´s getting his ass kicked. Who´s
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Morning Joe Goes After The Media:
We Can’t ‘Demonize The Entire
Religion Of Islam’ Due To Radicals
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 11:07:22 AM
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Since the Boston bombing, much of cable news quite naturally has taken to discussing various issues surrounding terrorism and radicalization. Morning Joe on Wednesday was no exception. Joined by The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown, the panel also took a look at media portrayal — stressing that we can’t “demonize” all of Islam when we talk about radicals. “The whole family was becoming radicalized, and perhaps by their inability to fit in this culture,” Brown remarked, speaking about “home-grown” terrorism and the Tsarnaev family. As the discussion turned to what exactly “self-radicalized” means, James Peterson asserted,
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