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Ikea stores plan to only
sell LED lighting by 2016
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:JoniTx, 10/1/2012 12:12:03 PM
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| PHILADELPHIA —Two years after it began phasing out incandescent bulbs, Swedish retailer Ikea is taking another step and planning to only sell energy-efficient LED lighting by 2016. In 2010, Ikea announced plans to have all incandescent bulbs out of its North American stores by 2011. The company then shifted toward only selling efficient options including compact fluorescent bulbs, LED and halogen lamps. Now, the company is going a step further and plans to only sell LED lighting due to their longer lifespan. On Monday, IKEA announced plans to shift to all-LED across the globe by 2016.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
dixieboy1, 10/1/2012 12:17:43 PM (No. 8902196)
Dixiegirl and I went to an IKEA store about ten years ago. We were not impressed. They can sell horse-apples and cow-pies to the libtards.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
yo-yo, 10/1/2012 12:28:11 PM (No. 8902218)
The law of unintended consequences might give us the better alternative, LED, to compete with the stupid, poisonous compact fluorescent bulbs.
Compact fluorescent bulbs should be the new symbol for the Dim party, they are poisonous, costly, and definitely not bright enough.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
dotty, 10/1/2012 12:28:34 PM (No. 8902219)
Go in, park for free, drink the 75 cent coffee, eat a cheap meal, leave.
The Swedes are emasculated socially engineer drones.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
andrewp1040, 10/1/2012 12:36:17 PM (No. 8902240)
Excellent.
This is great for Ikea and the consumer. The consumer not the Government will determine if Ikea made a good move or not.
Don't like CLF or LED don't shop at Ikea, like them then not a bad place to shop.
No one is telling me i MUST buy there so I'm happy. This is capitalism.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Douglas DC, 10/1/2012 12:47:36 PM (No. 8902277)
Ikea is one shopping experience I avoid.
Cabela's on the other hand...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
halfnorsk, 10/1/2012 12:54:58 PM (No. 8902296)
IKEA is a great place for faux Swedish crap made mostly in Asia.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 10/1/2012 12:59:57 PM (No. 8902309)
2016? Bought themselves a little weasel room, didn't they.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
civilservant, 10/1/2012 1:01:33 PM (No. 8902316)
Had some light fixtures replaced. One had that darn curly bulb in it.
I find that stores bearing "Uhhhbama" stickers have conveniently placed garbage cans that accept these bulbs.
Enjoy the HazMat bill!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cheese, 10/1/2012 1:21:10 PM (No. 8902357)
Yup, take a bunch of cr@p made in China, give it a Swedish-sounding name, and sell it to fools so they can think of themselves as part of the Enlightened European Global Village. Bah.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 10/1/2012 1:26:32 PM (No. 8902366)
This ikea outfit built an outlet in Denver a couple years ago. Fools lined up--- actually camped for the grand opening. A local furniture store magnet sued over the taxation applied to ikea which according to the plaintiff allowed ikea to dodge taxes. Not sure of the status of that lawsuit.
In respect to ikea, there is no chance I'll ever shop there.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zahbudda, 10/1/2012 1:27:08 PM (No. 8902368)
What number 2 said! LED is the way to go!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rubberneck, 10/1/2012 1:58:45 PM (No. 8902429)
Let the market decide.
LED technology is progressing in leaps and bounds. The curly-cue bulbs are today's Edsel. (Government-mandated Edsel.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 10/1/2012 2:09:22 PM (No. 8902450)
We bought a couple of LED flood lights which I really like (especially since you can choose your light "temperature"). They were expensive as all-get-out, but we have them in places we need to leave on for extended periods. The savings in hassle from not having the replace them is worth the extra expense alone.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
conspicio, 10/1/2012 2:11:30 PM (No. 8902456)
I am pleased to see IKEA participating in the US capitalist system. They have always been anti-union in the US, they pay their employees at all levels well, and seem to put out decent products that, while not being everyone's cup of tea, seem to be decently affordable and not cookie cutter fluff.
If LED falls on its face because consumers reject it, then so be it. But as a consumer desiring choice and competition over entrenched legacy (and in many cases, rabidly pro-union) outfits...Bring. It. On.
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Incredible picture of Boston
terrorist on the run standing
beside eight-year-old victim
Martin Richard with the bomb
at their feet
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Daily Mail (UK), by Simon Tomlinson
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A haunting image emerged today showing one of the suspected Boston bombers lurking right behind eight-year-old Martin Richard moments before planting the explosive that killed him. The suspect, named today as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, is seen just feet away from youngster while holding a rucksack believed to contain one of two bombs which killed three and injured 176 others. Martin had been waiting to give his father a big hug to congratulate him for finishing the race, but was blown up when the twin blast ripped through the city centre on Monday.
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Russia´s Putin calls Boston
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Los Angeles Times, by Sergei L. Loiko
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MOSCOW- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday began a U.S.-Russian youth hockey game opening the world championship competition by declaring a minute of silence for the casualties of the Boston bombings and the West, Texas, explosion. “In recent days, terrible tragedies that claimed lives happened in the country from which the team of our competitors today came: the terrorist act in Boston and the explosion at a Texas plant,” Putin said in televised remarks in the southern city of Sochi. “The Boston terrorist act actually took place during a sports competition, which makes this crime especially disgusting.”
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ABC News Producer Describes
‘Heart-Stopping’ Encounter
With Police: They ‘Thought
I Might Be The Suspect’
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 9:12:12 AM
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Amid reporting on the breaking story in Watertown, Massachusetts, as the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing — who has been identified — remains at large, ABC News shared a related story about one of their own colleagues. ABC News producer Megan Chuchmach described her encounter with officers who were suspicious of her backpack and thought she could be a suspect.“I was walking with my camera trying to get a better sense of where the SWAT teams were all congregating when all of a sudden, three officers…with their guns drawn, forced me to the ground,
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Texas Tea Party Groups Unite
for West, TX Explosion Victims
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Breitbart Big Government, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 9:01:20 AM
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Immediately following news of the devastating explosion of a fertilizer plant in the rural Texas town of West, the nearby Waco Tea Party began organizing efforts to help those affected. The group’s president, Toby Walker, called a local hotel and secured a room for the wives and families of first responders. Wives and mothers began to receive updates from the front lines as they charted a course of action for the following day. Local distribution centers were identified and the conservative networks were activated to volunteer and help operate the collecting, sorting, and distribution of needed items.
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The stories of 2 brothers
suspected in bombing
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Associated Press, by Jeff Donn & Jocelyn Noveck
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In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, then a senior at a prestigious high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, Mass., to pursue higher education. Now, Tsarnaev is on the run, described as "armed and dangerous" and suspected of the Boston Marathon bombing. Two brothers, one now dead, one alive and at large. After hours of only grainy images of two men in baseball caps to go on, a portrait gradually started emerging Friday of the men suspected in the attack. Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed
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Watertown residents
describe ´war zone´
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WATERTOWN, Mass. — Watertown residents say it was like being in a "war zone" when they were woken in the middle of the night during a shootout between police and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Retired couple Albert and Anna Lanzo heard gunfire and a large boom that shook their house and lit up the sky at around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Anna Lanzo, a retired medical secretary, says now she knows what it´s like to be in Iraq or Afghanistan. Christine Yajko (YAZH´-koh) says she knew the sounds she heard in the early morning hours Friday were gunshots
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FBI photos ignite frenzied
search for the suspected
Boston bombers´ baseball caps
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Daily Mail (UK), by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/18/2013 10:45:00 PM
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FBI photos of two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings were released on Thursday, prompting an eager public to take the investigation into its own hands. Internet users immediately began scrutinizing the mens´ clothing and backpacks on Reddit, and within minutes, one user had identified the cap on one of the suspects as a Bridgestone Golf hat, available at Walmart.com for $14.99. The black hat has distinct white markings and a logo above the brim that looks identical to the Bridgestone hat.
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DCCC Piles On in South Carolina
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National Journal, by Sarah Mimms
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/18/2013 10:38:38 PM
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Just one day after the National Republican Congressional Committee pulled its support for former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford´s special election campaign, its Democratic counterpart is going up on the air in the First District. [Video] The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will launch the new television spot in the district Friday and is spending more than $188,000 to run the ad on broadcast television stations in the Charleston and Savannah, Ga., markets through April 28, according to two national Republican media strategists. The DCCC ad will also run on cable television, but that buy will come through sometime later Thursday.
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Man Witnesses Both Boston,
Texas Disasters
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Associated Press, by Amy Forliti
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/18/2013 10:31:35 PM
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People keep asking Joe Berti if he feels unlucky. A bomb exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon seconds after Berti finished the race. Two days later, he was in his home state of Texas when he saw a fertilizer plant explode near Waco. "I was just like, `I can´t believe this!´" said Berti, who said he had never witnessed an explosion before. Then he thought: "I just want to get out of here and get away from all these explosions." But Berti, as it turns out, is far from unlucky. Instead, he feels fortunate.
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Flooding forces sewage to be
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Chicago Tribune, by Michael Hawthorne
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After several days of rain, an overnight deluge overwhelmed Chicago´s underground labyrinth of aging sewers and giant tunnels Thursday, forcing a noxious mix of sewage and stormwater into local waterways and Lake Michigan. The surge of murky, debris-strewn water so overloaded the system that sewage began to back up in basements and geysers of wastewater shot out of several sewer manholes — stomach-churning sights captured by smartphones and posted online. To relieve the pressure, engineers at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District were forced to rely on the region´s sewage outlet of last resort
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Holder gets stormy reception
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Politico, by Josh Gerstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/18/2013 9:42:46 PM
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The fact there is no love lost between Attorney General Eric Holder and House Republicans was on clear display again Thursday afternoon at a stormy House appropriations panel hearing which culminated with the subcommittee´s chairman declaring he´d given up on Holder and his stewardship of the Justice Department. "Forget it. Forget it. Forget it. Forget it. Forget it," an exasperated Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) declared after Holder refused to commit to a deadline to answer 91 questions Wolf had prepared. The lawmaker, who heads the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department, said he planned to forego
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control
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he is a lame-duck president
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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Obama angrily denounces
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/17/2013 6:37:42 PM
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President Obama angrily blamed the defeat Wednesday of his centerpiece gun-control proposal on lies spread by the National Rifle Association, calling it “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” “The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Mr. Obama said in the White House rose garden about 90 minutes after the vote. “It came down to politics.” As he spoke, Mr. Obama was surrounded by family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Also with him was former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Senate rejects background checks
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The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Begich (Alaska) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) voted against it. Reid supported the measure but voted against it to preserve his ability to bring the measure up again. GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk
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A growing sense that we´re not
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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Suspect 1 dead, search is on
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA] & Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 4:15:42 AM
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Boston--FOX 25 has confirmed suspect #1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead and the search for suspect #2 is ongoing. FOX 25 has confirmed through sources that suspect #1 is dead and police are searching for suspect #2. Mass. State Police asked Watertown residents not to answer the door unless it is an announced police official. Police in Watertown, Mass., began searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday. Local reports say the suspects threw and
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A Stirring Send-Off For
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PJ Media, by Mike McNally
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After all the controversy – it was too much, and too expensive; it would be marred by protests – this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war prime minister. Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin
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Boston Marathon bombs: live
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Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 6:52:32 AM
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Latest 11.42 (06.42) The two suspects may be foreign nationals, according to NBC´s Pete Williams. Quote They were legal permanent residents... They were in this country legally, at least a year. They appear to be from Turkey, possibly Chechens from Turkey. That seems to be the nationality here. We´re told they were not students, in their early twenties. One 20, one 21. We don´t have their names yet. The Associated Press has also said the suspects are from Russian region near Chechnya, and had lived in the US at least one year. 11.25 (06.25) A woman in Watertown has snipers
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Obama: Gun lobby ´lied´ about
background check bill
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 6:09:57 PM
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Washington — President Barack Obama says the Senate’s opposition to a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers marks a “shameful day” in Washington. He says a minority of senators decided “it wasn’t worth it” to protect the nation’s children. Obama spoke in the Rose Garden shortly after the Senate vote rejecting a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers. (Snip) The president pinned the blame for the measures failure, though five Democrats also opposed the plan. He also said the gun lobby and its allies “willfully lied” about background check bill.
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Misinformation and Anxiety in
Boston Terrorism Investigation
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PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 10:38:32 PM
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Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday’s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon. The anxiety stemming from the attack and the stream of inaccurate news about it is further freighted, moreover, by the FBI’s confirmation that two letters addressed to top political officials — President Obama and Senator Richard Wicker (R., MS) — tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison. As noted below, a man identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the mailings. Early this afternoon, massive confusion
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Top Dem sees ´train wreck´
for Obama health law
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Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 4:11:03 PM
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WASHINGTON -- A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama´s health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he thinks it´s headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama´s health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense. Baucus is the first top Democrat to publicly voice fears about the rollout of the new health care law, designed to bring coverage to some 30 million uninsured Americans through a mix
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