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On eve of House hearings,
State Department finally admits:
No, there was never any protest
outside the Benghazi consulate
before the attack
Hot Air, by Allahpundit
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Posted By:earlybird, 10/11/2012 4:14:41 PM
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| If you’ve been following the news about Benghazi, you’ll have two questions after watching this clip. One: Didn’t we already know this? Answer: Yes, “we” did, but not because our government was eager for us to find out. McClatchy published an interview with a Libyan guard wounded in the attack just two days after it happened in which he claimed that there was never any protest. Four days later, Fox News was hearing the same thing from an intelligence source on the ground. Four days after that, Eli Lake of Newsweek reported that there was intelligence early on
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paulfromTexas, 10/11/2012 4:23:40 PM (No. 8926491)
If one digs and reads the evening's passings from Libya, the attack took place in two waves....and the president went to bed after the first, knowingit was underway.....
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Alleged carjack victim
tells of Boston suspects
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USA Today, by Melanie Eversley and Kevin Johnson
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 6:12:29 PM
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The complaint against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev includes a chilling account from an unidentified man who says he was carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers in Cambridge, Mass., late Thursday night, as the final drama began to unfold.(Snip) the group drove to an ATM machine and one or both of the suspects tried to withdraw money from the victim´s account. They stopped at a gas station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. At the gas station, the two suspects left the car and the motorist "managed to escape," according to the complaint,
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Hagel: Mideast arms deal
‘a very clear signal’ to Iran
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Washington Post, by Craig Whitlock
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 2:39:47 PM
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JERUSALEM — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Israel on Sunday to put the finishing touches on a complicated $10 billion arms deal with three Middle Eastern countries, saying the pact sends “a very clear signal” to Iran. Under preliminary terms of the agreement, the United States would sell tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey aircraft — which can take off like a helicopter but cruise at airplane speed — to Israel.that the Pentagon has approved a foreign sale of the Osprey, which can carry combat troops and is prized for its maneuverability.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with
using ‘weapon of mass destruction’
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Washington Post, by Sara Horwitz*
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 2:33:19 PM
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Federal authorities on Monday charged the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings with using a “weapon of mass destruction” against people and property, and the White House rejected demands by some congressional Republicans that he be tried before a military tribunal as an “enemy combatant.” The Justice Department said Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. It said he is “specifically charged with one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely,
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The Pressure to Be the TV News
Leader Tarnishes a Big Brand
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New York Times, by David Carr
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 11:19:02 AM
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Like a lot of Americans, when I woke up on Friday morning and found out there was a manhunt in the Boston area for the remaining suspect in Monday’s bombing at the marathon, I turned on CNN. It’s a common impulse, although less common than it used to be. The news audience has been chopped up into ideological camps, and CNN’s middle way has been clobbered in the ratings. The legacy networks’ news divisions can still flex powerful muscles on big stories, and Twitter and other real-time social media sites (Snip) But the biggest damage to CNN has been self-inflicted
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John Kerry slammed
over Erdogan Gaza visit
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 10:59:59 AM
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Gaza City: The Hamas rulers of Gaza on Sunday slammed US Secretary of State John Kerry for urging the Turkish prime minister to delay a visit to the Palestinian territory. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused Kerry and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas - who met in Istanbul earlier in the day - of “collusion in a bid to maintain the [Israeli] blockade on Gaza.”(Snip)Washington fears Erdogan’s visit could hurt a US-brokered rapprochement between former allies Turkey and Israel after a three-year rift.
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Japan PM Abe´s war shrine
offering likely to infuriate China
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Reuters, by Kaori Kaneko
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 12:05:32 AM
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TOKYO--Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ritual offering of a pine tree to a shrine seen as a symbol of Japan´s former militarism on Sunday, a gesture likely to upset Asian victims of Japan´s war-time aggression, including China and South Korea. Abe, an outspoken nationalist, offered the tree to the Yasukuni Shrine, where 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honored along with other war dead. Abe(Snip)is unlikely to visit the shrine as he seeks to rebuild relationships with China and South Korea.
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For bombing suspects, question
may be who led whom
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Associated Press, by Allen J. Breed*
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/21/2013 6:56:57 PM
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BOSTON — Tamerlan Tsarnaev ranted at a neighbor about Islam and the United States. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, relished debating people on religion, "then crushing their beliefs with facts." The older brother sought individual glory in the boxing ring, while the younger excelled as part of a team. Tamerlan "swaggered" through the family home like a "man-of-the-house type," one visitor recalls, while Dzhokhar seemed "very respectful and very obedient" to his mother.
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Boston nurses tell of
bloody marathon aftermath
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Associated Press, by Carla K. Johnson
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/21/2013 6:46:03 PM
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BOSTON — The screams and cries of bloody marathon bombing victims still haunt the nurses who treated them one week ago. They did their jobs as they were trained to do, putting their own fears in a box during their 12-hour shifts so they could better comfort their patients. Only now are these nurses beginning to come to grips with what they endured — and are still enduring as they continue to care for survivors. They are angry, sad and tired. A few confess they would have trouble caring for the surviving suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
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Parents of Boston suspect
describe his Russia trip
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Associated Press, by ARSEN MOLLAYEV
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/21/2013 6:37:10 PM
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia — The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev insisted Sunday that he came to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with the militants operating in the volatile part of Russia, with his father saying he slept a lot of the time. (Snip)"He was here, with me in Makhachkala," Anzor Tsarnaev told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "He slept until 3 p.m., and you know, I would ask him: ´Have you come here to sleep?´ He used to go visiting, here and there.
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Bombing Suspect In
and Out of Consciousness
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Wall Street Journal, by Devlin Barrett*
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/21/2013 5:12:31 PM
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Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been drifting in and out of consciousness, a U.S. law-enforcement official said, and officials said his serious medical condition has prevented federal agents from interrogating him. Justice Department officials had hoped to charge Mr. Tsarnaev, 19 years old, as soon as Sunday afternoon with the Boston Marathon bombings, but the timing of such charges remains uncertain.(Snip)The federal High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, a specialized interrogation team led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, is on standby in case Mr. Tsarnaev becomes capable of communicating, even if only in writing, officials said.
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Legal Questions Riddle
Boston Marathon Case
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New York Times, by Ethan Bronner*
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/21/2013 5:03:37 PM
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The capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect raises a host of freighted legal issues for a society still feeling the shadow of Sept. 11, including whether he should be read a Miranda warning, how he should be charged, where he might be tried and whether the bombings on Boylston Street last Monday were a crime or an act of war.(Snip)Most experts expected the case to be handled by the federal authorities, who were preparing a criminal complaint, including the use of weapons of mass destruction, which can carry the death penalty because deaths resulted from the blasts.
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Terror, murder charges could be filed
against Boston bombing suspect
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CNN, by Lateef Mungin
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/21/2013 7:48:30 AM
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Federal terrorism charges against Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev could be filed soon, even as he remains hospitalized, a Justice Department official told CNN on Saturday. The 19-year-old could also face murder charges at the state level.(Snip) But Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Saturday that the suspect should not be held as an enemy combatant. "I am not aware of any evidence so far that the Boston suspect is part of any organized group, let alone al Qaeda, the Taliban, or one of their affiliates -- the only organizations whose members
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The Kennedy meth
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New York Post, by Larry Getlen
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/21/2013 5:09:29 AM
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In 1962, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, a man “peeled off his clothing and began prancing around his hotel suite.” His bodyguards were cautiously amused, until the man “left the suite and began roaming through the corridor of the Carlyle.” The man in question was delusional, paranoid and suffering a “psychotic break” from the effects of an overdose of methamphetamine. He was also the president of the United States. The reason for John F. Kennedy’s bizarre behavior was that, according to an explosive new book, the president was — unbeknownst to him, at first — a meth addict.
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Boston bombers: FBI hunting
12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to
brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Mirror [UK], by Christopher Bucktin, Andy Lines
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/21/2013 6:34:23 AM
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The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday. A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated
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Don’t Rule Out Anything
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Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/21/2013 5:01:15 AM
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“In this age of instant reporting and tweets and blogs, there´s a temptation to latch on to any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions,” said President Obama, in the late evening of April 19, after Dzokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive in Watertown, Mass. (Snip)In an exceptionally well-reported story in the Daily Beast Friday, we read this: "One U.S. intelligence official who was regularly briefed on the investigation told Newsweek that he and his colleagues all but ruled out al Qaeda central or one of its affiliates giving direct and specific instructions for the attack."
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Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals:
´They Are Driving on Our Streets
Without a Driver´s License´
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 10:00:59 PM
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.), one of eight senators who have crafted legislation that would put illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, explained in a Senate floor speech yesterday that one of the reasons he wants to do this is that he believes illegal aliens are currently driving on U.S. roads without drivers licenses and auto insurance and his bill would encourage them to get licenses and buy insurance. Rubio explained that under his bill ilegal aliens who "have committed serious crimes" will be deported. However, the proposal will apparently not deem as a serious crime the habit
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No Bully in the Pulpit
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New York Times, by Maureen Dowd
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Posted By: toledo- 4/22/2013 6:58:12 AM
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THE graying man flashing fury in the Rose Garden on behalf of the Newtown families, the grieving man wiping away tears after speaking at the Boston memorial service, is not the same man who glided into office four years ago. President Obama has watched the blood-dimmed tide drowning the ceremony of innocence, as Yeats wrote, and he has learned how to emotionally connect with Americans in searing moments, as he did from the White House late Friday night after the second bombing suspect was apprehended in Boston.
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Marco Rubio’s New Tactic: Imply
Immigration Bill’s Opponents Want To
‘Round Up’ And Deport All Illegals
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Mediaite, by AJ Delgado
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/22/2013 10:09:00 AM
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In debate classes or law school, it is often referred to as the ‘arguing against the non-existing opponent’ tactic. The way it works is you imply your opponent is making an outlandish, unsavory claim (though he isn’t), hoping others will run with it or, at worst, that your opponent won’t sufficiently correct it and the claim sticks. To illustrate, imagine Sally is arguing in favor of marijuana’s legalization against Tom. In the middle of the debate, Tom suddenly shrieks: “Well, Sally, you can talk about legalizing marijuana all you want but I just don’t believe
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Official: Boston bombing suspect suffers
throat injury, may not be able to talk
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 12:32:40 PM
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BOSTON - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack. With one suspect dead, authorities believe answers to a motive and whether the brothers had help rest with Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday night just minutes after authorities had indicated that a massive manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty. The official, who was briefed on Tsarnaev´s condition
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Muslims guard against backlash
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Chicago Tribune, by Manya A. Brachear
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:22:13 PM
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The Council on American Islamic Relations again offered sympathy to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday, but added a plea for Americans not to generalize and conclude that Muslim teachings influenced the suspect in any way. "Our focus is primarily on the victims," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter at a press conference Friday afternoon. "We don´t want to be drawn into defending ourselves." Citing acts of violence in Boston and New York, Rehab blamed Islamophobic forces for inciting hate crimes.
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Mass. governor says he has no idea what
motivated Boston Marathon bombers
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 9:08:53 AM
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Washington — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on CBS’ ”Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S.
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Boston Mayor:
Bombing Suspects Acted Alone
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BaseballFan- 4/21/2013 2:36:56 PM
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Washington - Boston Mayor Tom Menino says information he has indicates that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing acted alone. Menino tells ABC's "This Week" that he agreed with the decision to lock down Boston all day Friday, based on information officials had at the time. He tells ABC's "This Week" that a pipe bomb was found at another location and that another person was taken into custody. The mayor did not elaborate. One suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), is in the hospital in serious condition. His older brother, Tamerlan, died in a police shootout
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Mass. police: Bomb suspects
didn´t have gun permit
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: CEP- 4/21/2013 6:28:15 PM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon before having shootouts with authorities didn´t have gun permits. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas tells The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that neither Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE´-ehv) nor his brother Dzhokhar had permission to carry firearms. He says it´s unclear whether either ever applied and the applications aren´t considered public records.
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The Tailor Who Sewed the Obama
Empty Suit Has Sewn Others
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American Thinker, by Bruce Walker
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/22/2013 3:27:01 AM
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The most glaring fact about our president is that he is an empty suit. The people around him are also empty suits. They believe in nothing, really, but unearned luxury, unmerited adulation, and unaccountable power. Those whom we have come to call "leftists" are in fact nothing but nihilists, and we flatter them when we presume that they value anything beyond their vanities, their avarice, and their selfishness. When tragedy strikes, like in the Boston bombing, these empty suits can look and
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