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US officers in Israel
for military exercise: report
Agence FrancepPresse, by Staff
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Posted By:BuckeyeRon, 10/7/2012 9:22:09 AM
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| US army officers have begun arriving in Israel ahead of joint military manoeuvres between the countries' armed forces, an Israeli newspaper said on Sunday. The officers will supervise the arrival of hundreds of US troops on October 14 for joint manoeuvres that will take place the following week and last for three weeks, according to Yediot Aharonot.(Snip) Time magazine reported on September 1 that Washington had significantly reduced the number of its joint military exercises with Israel, probably because of disagreement between them over how best to deal with Iran's nuclear
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Griz70, 10/7/2012 10:24:14 AM (No. 8915699)
Interesting timing here. Stay awake.
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Revealed: Mother of Boston ´bombers´
was put on CIA terrorist watchlist 18
months before attacks and is now a
´person of interest´
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/26/2013 5:51:50 PM
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The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was put on the CIA terrorist watchlist 18 months before the tragedy, officials said on Friday as lawmakers revealed Zubeidat Tsarnaev is now considered a ´person of interest´ in the federal investigation into the attack. Two U.S. lawmakers said that investigators have traveled to Dagestan, Russia, to learn more from close associates who knew the suspects´ mother. (Snip)´[She (Zubeidat)is a person of interest that we´re looking at to see if she helped radicalize her son, or had contacts with other people or other terrorist groups,´ Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, a Democrat
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Asian lawmakers fear changes to visa
program would keep families apart
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The Hill [Washington,DC], by Kevin Bogardus & Mike Lillis
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/26/2013 3:11:04 PM
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Asian-American lawmakers and advocates are troubled by changes to family-sponsored visas in the Senate’s immigration bill. The legislation’s new merit-based visa program has not won over critics who are worried that tweaks to the visa petition process could keep immigrant families apart. Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), co-chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus’s (CAPAC) immigration taskforce, is among those concerned about the Senate bill’s treatment of family-sponsored visas. “I support family reunification. I support a definition of families that goes beyond the nuclear family,” Honda said. Honda said he and other CAPAC members met this week with aides
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US officials: Canada terror
suspect traveled to Iran
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Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/26/2013 12:45:57 PM
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Washington - Investigators believe one of two suspects charged in Canada with plotting to blow up a railroad track carrying passenger trains traveled to Iran within the past two years, US law enforcement and national security officials said on Thursday. Chiheb Esseghaier, a Tunisian-born doctoral student, traveled to Iran on a trip that was directly relevant to the investigation of the alleged plot, the officials said. (Snip) One official said there was "another shoe to drop" in the case. Canada´s National Post newspaper reported on Thursday that the FBI was holding a third man in New York.
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Jersey City man charged with having
explosives on train 8 days before
Marathon bombings: cops
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Jersey Journal [Hudson County, NJ], by Michaelangelo Conte
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/26/2013 1:20:39 AM
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More than a week before three people were killed and more than 260 people were injured in the Boston Marathon bombings, a Jersey City man carried two homemade explosives on an NJ Transit train, authorities say. Police also found explosive devices in the Newport Parkway home of Mykyta Panasenko, 27, Jersey City police said today. According to a criminal complaint, Panasenko is charged with having "two destructive devices, specifically improvised explosive devices (IEDs) constructed from a cylinder containing Pyrodex (black powder)" on April 5, the criminal complaint says. He is also charged with recklessly creating widespread risk of injury
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Ukrainian Rutgers student arrested
taking two IEDs into New York
just a week before Boston
Marathon bombing
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Daily Mail [UK], by Paul Thompson*
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/26/2013 1:02:55 AM
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Just eight days before three people were killed and more than 260 people were injured in the Boston Marathon bombing, a Ukrainian student was arrested in New Jersey carrying two homemade devices. Rutgers student Mykyta Panasenko, 27, was arrested in Hoboken on April 7 aboard a NJ Transit train bound for Suffern, New York. He was carrying two improvised explosive devices, according to police. Jersey City Police Deputy Chief Peter Nalbach said Thursday that authorities also found material at Panasenko´s home ‘that may have been used to make an explosive device.’ (Snip) His arrest wasn´t reported by authorities at the
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Mother of Boston bombing suspects
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
on US terrorist list
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Daily Telegraph [Sydney,AUS], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/25/2013 10:14:26 PM
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The mother of the Boston bombings suspects was on a US list of terrorists, an intelligence official has revealed. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva was added to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database - a collection of more than half a million names kept by the National Counterterrorism Center, CNN reports. Her son, Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was killed in a gun battle with police, was also on the terrorist list. Russia raised concerns to US authorities about the mother in 2011 - at the same time they asked the US about Tamerlan, several sources told CNN. FBI agents interviewed the mother
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Suspect in Illinois killings is
nephew of town’s mayor
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FoxNews, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/25/2013 3:19:08 PM
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The suspect in the west-central Illinois shooting Wednesday that left six dead, including the suspect, was the nephew of the town’s mayor, MyFoxChicago.com reports. "Really shocked," Ronald Drake, the mayor of Manchester, said. "The sheriff´s department contacted me at 6:30 this morning and said they were looking for him and not to tell anybody...to keep my mouth shut until everything was completed." (Snip) Jill Osbourne says she knew the gunman. She says Smith had a 4-year-old daughter with a woman who is related to all the murder victims. She says Smith had recently accused them of hurting his daughter.
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White House in political bind over
Syrian chemical weapons
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Politico, by Stephanie Gaskell*
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/25/2013 2:10:21 PM
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President Barack Obama has talked tough in trying to dissuade Syrian President Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons against the rebels in Syria’s civil war, warning it would be a “red line” and a “game changer.” Now, Assad has called his bluff, and Obama wants time and space to decide what comes next. The White House said in a letter to Congress on Thursday that U.S. intelligence officials believe “with varying degrees of confidence” that Assad has used the nerve agent sarin, based on the results of “physiological samples.” But the administration did not place the U.S. on the brink
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FBI video: Domestic terrorist says
he targeted conservative group
for being ‘anti-gay’
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/24/2013 10:34:11 PM
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Family Research Council (FRC) officials released video of federal investigators questioning convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II, who explained that he attacked the group’s headquarters because the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified them as a “hate group” due to their traditional marriage views. “Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups,” Corkins tells interrogators in the video, which FRC obtained from the FBI.(Snip)The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reported that Corkins, who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, said in court that he hoped to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill
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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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College’s husky dog logo
promotes rape, says student
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Daily Caller, by Robby Soave
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/26/2013 12:21:39 PM
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The new logo for the University of Connecticut’s sports teams is a terrifying husky dog that calls to mind images of sexual assault, says one student. The new logo was unveiled last week, receiving mixed-to-negative reviews from UConn fans who preferred the older, cuter husky dog. But one student went much further, criticizing the new, meaner logo for being a pro-rape symbol. In an open letter to UC President Susan Herbst, self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote that the redesigned team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture. UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma said the logo
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Eric Holder: Citizenship For
Illegal Immigrants Is A ‘Matter
Of Civil And Human Rights’
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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 Hubris Problem
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Politico, by Keith Koffler
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/26/2013 6:20:27 AM
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Tuesday morning, a peculiar announcement trickled out of the White House press office: President Barack Obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings. At the White House. By himself. No press or other intruders allowed. That Obama assumed Americans would want an iconic photo of him privately mourning the victims of the bombings was emblematic of a kind of hubris that has enveloped the president and his White House as the president commences his second term.
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GOP Pollster Frank Luntz:
Limbaugh, Levin, And Right-
Wing Talk Radio Are ‘Problematic’
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/25/2013 2:32:13 PM
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Progressive publication Mother Jones has revealed yet another secretly-recorded video of a Republican saying something newsworthy. This time, it’s of GOP pollster and frequent Fox News analyst Frank Luntz remarking that Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and other right-wing talk radio hosts are “problematic” for the Republican Party’s efforts to reach out to other demographics and to fight the polarization of politics. The video was recorded on an iPhone while Luntz delivered a College Republicans-sponsored speech at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this week. Most of his speech reportedly consisted of his thoughts on how words matter — for
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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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Congress, Fearing ´Brain Drain,´
Seeks to Opt Out of Participating
in Obamacare´s Exchanges
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Forbes, by Avik Roy
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/25/2013 1:59:47 PM
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As Obamacare was winding its way through the Senate in 2009, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) slipped in an amendment requiring that members of Congress, and their staff, enroll in Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges. The idea was simple: that if Congress was going to impose Obamacare upon the country, it should have to experience what it is imposing firsthand. But now, word comes that Congress is quietly seeking to rescind that provision of the law, because members fear that staffers who face higher insurance costs will leave the Hill. The news has sparked outrage
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NBC´s Gregory Declares: Bush´s
´Reputation of Incompetence´
Has ´Stained´ GOP
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NewsBusters, by Kyle Drennen
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/26/2013 11:00:26 AM
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On the eve of the dedication of George W. Bush´s presidential library, NBC´s Meet the Press moderator David Gregory appeared on Wednesday´s Nightly News to tear down the former president´s legacy, beginning the report by remarking that it was "difficult to remember" Bush´s popularity after the September 11th attacks. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Gregory described how Iraq War intelligence failures "formed the backdrop to criticism that the President underestimated the challenges he faced....And grew stubborn in the face of mounting setbacks." Gregory further proclaimed: "What grew into a reputation
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Bush’s legacy keeps getting worse
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Washington Post, by Eugene Robinson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 10:47:05 PM
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In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse. I join the nation in congratulating Bush on the opening of his presidential library in Dallas. Like many people, I find it much easier to honor, respect and even like the man — now that he’s no longer in the White House. But anyone tempted to get sentimental should remember the actual record of the man who called himself The Decider. Begin with the indelible stain that one of his worst decisions left on our country’s honor: torture.
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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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Obamacare off the rails
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Washington Times, by Editorial
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/26/2013 5:41:18 AM
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Sen. Max Baucus, who as chairman of the Finance Committee guided Obamacare down the tracks in the U.S. Senate, is changing his tune now that he’s about to retreat into Montana to hide in placid retirement. He sees “a huge train wreck coming down” with the implementation of President Obama’s health care takeover. Now he tells us. With no sense of irony, the senator complained to Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services, that he is “very concerned” that Obamacare exchanges will not open on time. “The administration’s public information campaign
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