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Richard Tisei is a nontraditional
Republican vying to
represent Massachusetts
Washington Post, by Paul Kane
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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/1/2012 12:43:22 PM
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| WAKEFIELD, Mass — Richard Tisei is running a highly competitive campaign for Congress that could give Republicans their first House seat in Massachusetts in 16 years. And if Mitt Romney were going to have coattails, this is where they would be helping. But the gay, pro-choice Tisei, a former state legislator who helped Romney secure some of his most important victories as governor of Massachusetts, is not exactly the typical face of the Republican Party. And with the former governor trailing President Obama by about 20 percentage points in Massachusetts, Tisei is keeping his distance.
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This was sent to me for posting by an L-Dotter resident of Massachusetts. I wish Mr. Tisei good luck and a November victory.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Susannah, 10/1/2012 12:55:13 PM (No. 8902299)
Today's Globe has Tisei running ahead of his Democratic opponent John Tierney, whose family financial scandals are the stuff of local jokes. It would be wonderful if Tisei, Brown, and Sean Bielat, who's unfortunately running against Joe Kennedy III, all won. That would put two more Republicans in the House of Representatives and keep one in the Senate.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
KTWO, 10/1/2012 1:33:46 PM (No. 8902384)
Warren's next ads will say "I am a nontraditional Cherokee"
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Judith, 10/1/2012 2:46:35 PM (No. 8902526)
Nontraditional republican is the very definition of a republican from MA. They have little or no resemblance to what once passed for the republican party. But, then again, the traditional republican party no longer exists.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Sickened, 10/1/2012 2:54:58 PM (No. 8902542)
I hope the social conservatives take note -- we can win in blue states if we include gay fiscal conservatives in our tent.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 10/1/2012 3:14:50 PM (No. 8902580)
"Non-traditional" Republicans come in two varieties: "Progressives" and Libertarians. I can live with someone who leans libertarian, but progressivism is a RINOvirus that has plagued the Republican party for too long, esp. in the the northeast. If this man were happy to keep his lifestyle private, it might be a different story. But IMO his open advocacy for that lifestyle makes him unacceptable because I suspect he would just vote with the Democrats most of the time.
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George Jones, country
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 10:32:25 AM
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic He Stopped Loving Her Today, has died. He was 81. Publicist Kirt Webster says Jones died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after being hospitalized with fever and irregular blood pressure. Known for his clenched, precise baritone, Jones had No. 1 songs in five separate decades, 1950s to 1990s, and was idolized not just by fellow country singers, but by Frank Sinatra, Pete Townshend, Elvis Costello, James Taylor and countless others.
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Faith at the Finish
Line in Boston
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Wall Street Journal, by Jennifer Graham
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 10:28:23 AM
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Boston The heart-wrenching photographs taken in the moments after the Boston Marathon bombings show the blue-and-yellow jackets of volunteers, police officers, fire fighters, emergency medical technicians, even a three-foot-high blue M&M. Conspicuously absent are any clerical collars or images of pastoral care. This was not for lack of proximity. Close to the bombing site are Trinity Episcopal Church, Old South Church and St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine, all on Boylston Street. When the priests at St. Clement´s, three blocks away, heard the explosions, they gathered sacramental oils and hurried to the scene in hopes of anointing the injured
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John Kerry, Secretary of Gaffes
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American Spectator, by John Tabin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 6:14:23 AM
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Secretary of State John Kerry suggested yesterday that Boston bomber Tamarlan Tsarnaev became a terrorist when he traveled to Russia in 2011: “We just had a young person who went to Russia, Chechnya, who blew people up in Boston,” he said. “So he didn’t stay where he went, but he learned something where he went and he came back with a willingness to kill people.” Of course it’s not yet clear what happened on Tsarnaev’s trip to Russia — he may have had direct contact with terrorist groups there, but we don’t know that yet. Does Kerry know something
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Is an Obama Cover-Up In Progress
on the Marathon Bombing?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 6:09:50 AM
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Many commentators have criticized the Obama administration for prosecuting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev criminally, which entailed giving him Miranda rights and providing him with a lawyer. But apart from the wisdom, in principle, of promptly commencing a criminal prosecution in this case, the sequence of events raises obvious questions about what the administration is up to. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured last Friday evening. At that time, his condition was described as critical. He had been shot multiple times, had lost a great deal of blood, and doubt was expressed as to whether he would live. Nevertheless, by Monday morning,
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Mugged by Reality
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Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 5:56:01 AM
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You have heard the words. You know the narrative. Let’s not rush to judgment. These were lone wolves. They were self-radicalized. The system worked. The dots were connected. Osama Bin Laden is dead; GM is alive. Al Qaeda is a shadow of its former self. It is time for nation building at home. Add up all of those lone wolves, however, and pretty soon you have a pack. Which may be one reason the reaction of some liberals to last week’s terror attack has been so bizarre: The bombing of the Boston Marathon by two radical
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Bush’s “Decency” Was Always There,
but Where Was the Media’s?
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Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 5:52:28 AM
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As the 2012 presidential election drew to a close, Mitt Romney made the rounds in the important state of Pennsylvania with a closing message: “The president has run a strong campaign, I believe he is a good man and wish him well, and his family well. He is a good father and has been a good example of a good father, but it is time for a new direction.(Snip) The mainstream press coverage of the Bush presidency was not a sober record of history as it developed but rather a daily expression of the Kerry-Gore-Obama attitude toward the president.
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Evading Gosnell, Still
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National Review Online, by John Fund
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 5:44:36 AM
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The word in TV newsrooms has long been that “if it bleeds, it leads,” meaning that a crime story is often the fastest way to get media attention and coverage. It doesn’t even have to be bloody — witness the wall-to-wall coverage of the Jerry Sandusky sexual-assault case at Penn State last year. But the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, currently America’s most grisly serial killer, has been an exception. Two weeks ago, Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers dropped a bomb on the mainstream media when she called them to account for failing to adequately report
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Another day in alien nation
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 5:35:55 AM
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Suppose the marathon bombings had been committed by born-again Christian Tea Party members on the dole. Do you really think that Gov. Deval Patrick would be hanging on to those terrorists’ welfare files even tighter than he clutches Lt. Gov. Tim Murray’s state cellphone logs from the morning of Nov. 3, 2011? If these were “domestic” terrorists, I guarantee you Deval would have coughed up everything by now, up to and including whether they were getting on-the-arm brand-name or generic prescription drugs. Hey Deval, I’ve got some news for you. Tamerlan doesn’t care if you release his welfare records.
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Against the ‘New Normal’
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Weekly Standard, by William Kristol
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 5:30:34 AM
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Are you alarmed by the counterterrorism failures increasingly evident as we learn more about the Boston terror attack? Don’t be. Former CIA director Michael Hayden has helpfully explained, “This tragedy is the new normal.” Are you surprised that a whole city was ordered to “shelter in place” as one “knockoff jihadi,” in Vice President Biden’s term, roamed the streets? Don’t be. It’s the new normal. Are you shocked by the Obama administration’s dissembling in response to terror attacks in Benghazi? Don’t be naïve. It’s the new normal. Are you worried that the president proclaims “red lines” to deter dictators
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The mother of all madness
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New York Post, by Andy Soltis
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 5:26:10 AM
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The Boston bombers’ mother bizarrely claimed in interviews that the blasts that killed three people and injured more than 200 were nothing more than an elaborate ruse by the US government. “There was paint instead of blood!” a wild-eyed Zubeidat Tsarnaeva insisted in an interview with CNN. “It is some kind of show, spectacle . . . something like a really big play performed by actors.” And the bombers’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, joined her at a press conference in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan, where they demanded an investigation
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Virgin´s creepy new
in-flight flirting service
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The Week, by Peter Weber
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 5:08:57 AM
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Virgin America kicked off its new Los Angeles to Las Vegas route this week. That in itself isn´t too newsworthy — plenty of airlines make the short hop from the City of Angels to Sin City. But the new in-flight option Virgin rolled out along with the new route has people talking — maybe even hooking up. The "seat-to-seat delivery" service lets Virgin passengers use their seat´s in-flight entertainment console to order a cocktail, a snack, or even a meal for a flier in any seat in the cabin. Yes, says Mary Forgione at The Los Angeles Times,
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The Thin Red Line
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PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 4:58:02 AM
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Chemical weapons — the ‘red line’ which President Obama said he would so resolutely oppose — have emerged in Syria. Blood tests have confirmed the exposure of patients in hospitals to these weapons. Readers will recall that President Obama issued a stern warning against their use. Now they’ve been used. The problem is now how ignore them. The National Journal’s article is headlined: “Obama Is Looking for Reasons to Delay Response to Syria’s Chemical Weapons Use.” It would seem to add up to certain U.S. military action: On Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed the findings
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Obama to Largest Abortion
Provider: ´God Bless You´
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/26/2013 1:05:08 PM
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President Obama ended his address to the largest abortion provider in the U.S., Planned Parenthood, by saying, "God bless you." "As long as we´ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we´ve got to fight to protect a woman´s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you´ve also got a president who´s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way," said Obama. "Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you."
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Tear down this icon: Why the GOP
has to get over Ronald Reagan
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/27/2013 6:32:46 AM
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The unfailing reverence on the American right for Ronald Reagan is understandable. He was the only exemplar of modern conservatism to win the White House, and unlike liberal icons such as Roosevelt or Johnson or Obama, he presided over an economic boom and became beloved by voters not normally drawn to his party. No wonder that Reagan, long before his death in 2004, attained mythical status in the conservative movement and the Republican Party. But that myth has become a burden for the modern GOP. It has bound Reagan’s followers on the right to policies and positions that were
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Eric Holder: Citizenship For
Illegal Immigrants Is A ‘Matter
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/26/2013 3:20:10 PM
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During an April 24 address to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Attorney General Eric Holder told the crowd that “creating a pathway to earned citizenship” is a critical element of any comprehensive immigration reform plan. He said that establishing legal status for the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants is a “matter of civil and human rights.” “Creating a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country is essential,” Holder said to applause. “The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented by creating a mechanism for
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Obama’s National-Security Fraud
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National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Toledo- 4/27/2013 6:51:54 AM
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Unlike you, federal government officials are immune from charges of fraud. The executive branch, vested with all of the government’s prosecutorial authority and discretion, is not going to investigate its own operatives for carrying out its own mendacious policies.That is the story of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing and the frantic efforts of the bombers, the brothers Tsarnaev, to evade capture, shoot it out with police (two of whom they killed), and — we’re now told — detonate more bombs in Times Square. The Times Square non-attack is quite interesting.
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Obama: Our top priority must
be ´growing the economy´
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/27/2013 12:33:55 PM
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President Obama´s weekly remarks: Hi, everybody. Our top priority as a nation must be growing the economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding opportunity for the middle class. But two months ago, Congress allowed a series of automatic budget cuts to fall across the federal government that would do the opposite. In Washington-speak, these cuts were called the “sequester.” It was a bad idea then. And as the country saw this week, it’s a bad idea now. Because of these reckless cuts, there are parents whose kids just got kicked out of Head Start programs scrambling for a solution.
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Obama urges US Congress
to end ´dumb´ budget cuts
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/27/2013 3:22:44 PM
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President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the US Congress to end the "reckless" and "dumb" budget cuts known as the sequester, and to adopt a plan of "smarter" cuts to fuel economic growth. Obama´s weekly address comes after Congress on Friday overwhelming approved a bill putting furloughed air traffic controllers back on the job, thus undoing one of the most high-profile effects of the so-called sequestration, the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1 and hit federal spending across the board. (Snip) "Republicans claimed victory when the sequester first took effect,
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Obama talks tough, shows no rush to
act on Syria chemical arms evidence
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Reuters, by Matt Spetalnick, Jeff Mason
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Posted By: EagleEye- 4/26/2013 9:34:06 PM
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Washington - President Barack Obama warned Syria on Friday that its use of chemical weapons would be a "game changer" for the United States but made clear he was in no rush to intervene in the civil war there on the basis of evidence he said was still preliminary. Speaking a day after the disclosure of U.S. intelligence that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against its own people, Obama talked tough while calling for patience as he sought to fend off pressure for a swift response against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "Horrific as it is when mortars are being fired on civilians and people
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Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap
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Associated Press, by Eileen Sullivan & Matt Apuzzo
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/27/2013 5:40:17 PM
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WASHINGTON — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call. In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said. The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family. The conversations
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Michelle Obama Wears Lacy
Monique Lhuillier to the White
House Correspondents´ Dinner
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New York Magazine, by Charlotte Cowles
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 8:39:05 AM
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Michelle Obama did not walk the E!-streamed red carpet before tonight´s White House Correspondents´ Dinner — she was already at home, of course — so our first glimpse of her black Monique Lhuillier gown came later, once dinner started. And damn does she look good. This is a sexier look on her than usual, with a sheer lace panel over her decolletage and a molded bustier-style top. She very wisely chose a dress that photographs well while she´s sitting down, Schiaparelli-style, with elaborate beading along her collarbone and fitted cap sleeves that flatter her arms. Other observations:
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Democrats Surrender on Sequestration
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/27/2013 1:27:21 AM
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The Democrats proposed sequestration as part of a package to secure an increase in the debt ceiling, but they never expected it to go into effect. When it did, they felt double-crossed, apparently because they thought Republicans owed it to them to fold like a cheap suit, as usual. When the Republicans figured out that sticking with the sequester was a pretty good outcome–it represented a modest, but real, restraint on federal spending, which is what Republicans always say they want–the Democrats went to Plan B. It’s a strategy they have often used before: cut back
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White House Correspondents´ Dinner:
Conan O´Brien´s Best Jokes
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ABC News, by Sarah Parnass
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Posted By: ladyhawke- 4/28/2013 12:54:35 AM
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Comedian Conan O´Brien took a break from his late-night show, "Conan," to join President Obama in Washington, D.C. Saturday at the 2013 White House Correspondents´ Dinner. Two hours or so before the festivities began, he sent out a picture of himself behind a podium, sporting a Boston Red Sox hat. "Just rehearsed my routine to an empty ballroom at the Washington Hilton," the comedian tweeted. "The one guy unfolding chairs loved it."
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A History Lesson for Marco Rubio
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Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Michelle Malkin
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Posted By: tocsin- 4/27/2013 12:55:43 PM
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Florida GOP senator Marco Rubio seems well-meaning enough. I know we both share, as second-generation conservative Americans, a common passion for this great land of opportunity. But when it comes to comprehending the real agenda of the open-borders zealots he’s allied himself with, Rubio doesn’t have a clue. And his abject ignorance threatens all of us who cherish American sovereignty and exceptionalism. On Fox News’ The Sean Hannity Show Tuesday night, Rubio defended his Gang of Eight “immigration reform” bill and insisted that we could and should have a system in place that vets
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