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Attack on U.S. mission in
Libya presents legal, policy
dilemma for Obama administration
Washington Post, by Michael Birnbaum and Craig Whitlock
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/8/2012 11:39:27 PM
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| TRIPOLI, Libya — The Obama administration is confronting a legal and policy dilemma that could reshape how it pursues terrorism suspects around the world as investigators try to determine who was responsible for the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. Should it rely on the FBI, treating the assaults on the two U.S. compounds like a regular crime for prosecution in U.S. courts? Can it depend on the dysfunctional Libyan government to take action? Or should it embrace a military option by ordering a drone strike — or sending more prisoners to Guantanamo Bay?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sanspeur, 10/8/2012 11:47:43 PM (No. 8919391)
Oh let us go back to the Gorelick/klintoon wall of separation and treat things like crimes... Not terror attacks ...just déjà vu all over... With the resultant body count ...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/9/2012 12:16:30 AM (No. 8919412)
Maybe first Obama should quit lying about Benghazi.
The security debacle there was created by the Obama State Department and Obama has spent weeks of lies covering it up.
Remember when this was all about an angry crowd of movie critics?
Now, Obama is starting to admit Al Qaeda was involved and talk about drone strikes.
Someone is lying.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
janylou, 10/9/2012 1:00:06 AM (No. 8919438)
I doubt this admin wants to do much of anything about this mess until after the election.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 10/9/2012 1:10:46 AM (No. 8919446)
The Obama administration is not going to do anything but campaign. What happens in Libya will be determined by whether or not the Libyans co-operate.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
veritas, 10/9/2012 4:21:00 AM (No. 8919533)
"How to pursue"?
No. That can't be a real question.
How? Everything, everywhere, 24/7/365, and all the state sponsors in the same bag, the same net, the same pot, too. Like piranhas just tossed a raw pork chop. Sheesh.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 10/9/2012 8:02:19 AM (No. 8919696)
"...or sending more prisoners to Guantanamo Bay?"
Didn't Barry just buy a US prison over some law congress passed so he can put his beloved muslims out on the street after faux civilian trials?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone, 10/9/2012 10:58:47 AM (No. 8920209)
What happened was an armed attack on a US consular post. That was an act of war by an enemy. That enemy should be identified, located, and killed. Then the USA big wigs will not have to struggle with all these perceived legal problems, and future enemies will know their fate if they dare to attack USA people and consular property.
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Obama’s 2014 budget plan to
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into a yawning political void
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Washington Post, by Lori Montgomery
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 10:54:06 PM
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President Obama will unveil his 2014 spending plan Wednesday, 65 days late and several trillion dollars short, by Republican standards, of effectively reining in the national debt. But the more relevant fact about the White House budget may be the yawning political void into which it is about to fall on Capitol Hill. Administration officials say their plan offers a path to compromise, a centrist course that avoids the extreme spending cuts of the House Republican budget as well as the $1 trillion tax hike endorsed last month by Senate Democrats. The president’s proposal contains the same set of policies
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‘Obama phones’ subsidy program
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Washington Post, by Karen Tumulty
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 10:52:24 PM
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When someone in the Washington area begins to type the president’s last name into the search box of Google’s home page, the top three terms it suggests as the most popular selections are Obama, Obamacare and .?.?. Obama phone. Obama phone? A hotline, maybe, to the Oval Office? Hardly. “Obama phone” is the widely used — and misleading — nickname of a 28-year-old federal program known as Lifeline. It provides discounts, averaging $9.25 a month, on phone service for 13.3 million low-income subscribers. In the 31 / 2 years after false rumors
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Jeff Zucker is remaking
CNN. Are viewers tuning in?
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 10:50:27 PM
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For a few minutes the other night, the hot topic on CNN was .?.?. bacon. The panel on a new prime-time show called “(Get to) The Point” came out boldly in favor of it. “I had a double order this morning at breakfast,” confessed Jason Taylor, the pro-football-player-turned-“Dancing With the Stars”-contestant-turned-TV-gabber. “But there’s a restaurant in Miami. .?.?. You know, they have a great bar. They don’t serve bar nuts. They have bacon.” “Wow!” responded Margaret Hoover, a fellow panelist. CNN says “(Get to) The Point,” a mixed-gender knockoff of “The View,” is an experimental program that was swiftly canceled
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A prominent GOP supporter
of assault weapons ban, background
checks? It’s George W. Bush
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Houston Chronicle, by Alison Sullivan
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 10:30:11 PM
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There’s a Texas Republican who vocally stated that he supported background checks to keep guns away from those who shouldn’t have them. And an assault weapons ban. Don’t believe it? Former President George W. Bush said he supported background checks during the 2000 and 2004 presidential debates. Check out the video proof posted by Buzzfeed. “I believe law abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun,” he said during a 2004 presidential debate against Democratic challenger John Kerry. “I believe in background checks, at gun shows, or anywhere to make sure
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Suspected stabber familiar
with Lone Star campus
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Houston Chronicle, by Cindy George and Mike Glenn
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 10:17:39 PM
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Dylan Quick, 20, who is suspected of stabbing 15 people Tuesday at Lone Star College-Cy Fair, became familiar with the school nearly a decade ago when he began attending book clubs and other teen activities on campus. His story was told last week on Lone Star-Cy Fair blog created by and for teens transitioning from high school to college. The student spotlight published on April 1 describes how Quick began coming to the Harris County Public Library´s on-campus branch at age 12 for activities that helped him transform from a withdrawn young man to an outgoing college student. "Initially reluctant
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Blockbuster Immigration Report
Could Derail Gang of Eight
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 9:56:02 PM
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Former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, now the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, said Tuesday that his former colleagues’ largely secret negotiations about immigration reform are troubling. A bipartisan group, dubbed the “Gang of Eight,” has been spearheading immigration reform efforts for months, and no legislative text has been presented to date. When it is presented, Democratic leadership in the Senate and Republican leadership in the House are expected to try to rush the bill through to passage. In remarks to the Heritage Foundation’s Blogger’s Briefing on Tuesday
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What Does Obama Think
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 9:16:46 PM
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It seems very odd that President Obama has made gun control the signature issue of his second term, so far. He can’t possibly achieve any significant legislation; a few tweaks to the background check system, maybe, but there is no chance of getting any meaningful gun control through the House. The House Democrats aren’t even trying. So it also seems strange that all eyes are on the Senate, where Harry Reid will unveil some sort of gun legislation–no one knows what, exactly–on Thursday. The party’s left-wing base is lining up behind the bill, sight unseen.
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Police Poll: Armed Citizens,
not Gun Control, Will
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by AWR Hawkins
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 9:07:40 PM
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In a poll conducted by PoliceOne, a majority of law enforcement personnel said universal background checks, "assault weapons" bans, and "high capacity" magazine bans do not make police safer and will not lower violent crime. Armed citizens, on the other hand, do make a positive difference. In the poll of 15,000 law enforcement professionals, 71% of respondents said an "assault weapons" ban would have zero impact on violent crime. Of those surveyed, 95.7% said the same of a "high capacity" magazine ban, and 79.7% said the same in response to a question on universal background checks.
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Biden Pushes Gun-Control:
Foreign Capitals Are Watching
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/9/2013 8:46:42 PM
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Vice President Joe Biden gave a heated speech on reducing gun violence this afternoon, lashing out at Republican senators who have vowed to filibuster the gun-control legislation. “It’s almost mind-boggling,” Biden said to law-enforcement officials in Washington, D.C. He asked the senators to consider how their actions are being viewed by the international community: “In sophisticated capitals and in less-sophisticated capitals, they all reported on Sandy Hook, they all reported on Aurora.” “What do you think is being said today in those capitals about us?”
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Thatcher a ‘fiercely loyal’
and tough ally of the U.S.
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Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:11:22 PM
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Margaret Thatcher captured Americans’ hearts and minds in a way few other foreign leaders have done, and much of that was because of the symbiotic relationship she had with President Reagan — a relationship that in many ways mirrored the storied “special” friendship between the two countries. Mrs. Thatcher, who died Monday at age 87, was a tough-talking maverick who was bullish on the promise of the U.S. as a force on the international stage. Those traits appealed to Americans weary of the 1970s malaise and eager to hear reasons to believe in themselves. “She had the perfect balance between
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White House: Planned GOP
gun filibuster cowardly
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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The Oil Boom Continues
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Commentary Magazine, by John Steele Gordon
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 10:46:58 PM
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Guess which country is the world’s largest oil producer. No, it’s not Saudi Arabia or Russia. It’s the United States, which passed Saudi Arabia in November of 2012, according to data from the federal Energy Information Administration and reported in Investors Business Daily. In 2012 American domestic output rose by an astonishing 800,000 barrels a day. That’s more than total oil production in such middling oil producers as Argentina, and the greatest single-year increase in the United States since Edwin Drake drilled the first well in 1859. That has consequences far beyond the oil patches
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Former British prime minister
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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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Obama says he´s ´determined
as ever´ for gun bill
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Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 10:27:49 PM
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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The most shocking news
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/9/2013 11:49:09 AM
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
Call from Obama - report
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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White House: Planned GOP
gun filibuster cowardly
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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´Mickey Mouse Club´ star
Annette Funicello dies at 70
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Special ops veterans’ group
calls for select probe of
Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
they can back gun control in person
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping,
Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused
of raping adopted children
will face trial
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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