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Bringing America Back Home
American Spectator, by Andrew B. Wilson
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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/22/2012 6:10:36 AM
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| Mitt Romney keeps surprising people -- in a positive way. First he turns out the best debater ever in American presidential politics -- going back to the first Nixon-Kennedy debate. Now it seems that he is an excellent stand-up comedian -- working in the deadpan style of a Jack Benny or Bob Newhart. Having already whipped Barack Obama in their two debates, Romney faced off against the president again on Thursday night at the Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York to benefit Catholic charities -- a black tuxedo and white bow-tie affair where the two men competed strictly for laughs
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pineledger, 10/22/2012 6:17:15 AM (No. 8951618)
Anyone who has not watched Romney's entire remarks is missing something classic.
My favorite line: "You should have brought Vice President Biden....he'll laugh at anything."
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Spidey, 10/22/2012 6:20:31 AM (No. 8951621)
Romney looked amazing dapper at the charity event also which won't hurt his chances.Of course the left's obsession over republican women's wardrobes took on a life of it's own.Never mind that MO tapped into her billion a year expense account to buy an outfit that was twice as much.
Romney will not only do a great job as a nuts and bolts president but he'll restore honor an integrity back to the office. The left thinks Romney is outdated but look how the up to date Obama has ruined the country. Even if Obama accidentally told the truth,I wouldn't believe it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40, 10/22/2012 7:26:37 AM (No. 8951710)
When we look back after Nov 6 we will realize that this speech did almost as much to elect him as the performance in Denver.
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jinx, 10/22/2012 7:33:27 AM (No. 8951727)
I watched the entire show. Romney was brilliantly wonderful. Obama was Obama laughing at his own jokes and talking about how wonderful he is. Romney won that round easily.
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nerdowell, 10/22/2012 8:27:52 AM (No. 8951837)
#2, Spidey's comment deserves repeating:
"Romney will not only do a great job as a nuts and bolts president but he'll restore honor an integrity back to the office..."
There's only one thing I would add:
a Romney/Ryan administration would restore dignity.
Won't it be wonderful to live in a country led by competent, upright, God-fearing people?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mathman, 10/22/2012 8:37:07 AM (No. 8951863)
No, no, NO.
Look again.
This is the delivery style of Bob Hope.
Watch as he gives a little tick to his left when he finishes each line. Watch his eyes.
Observe the pleased look as the laugh starts.
This is Hope at his best.
Not Benny. Not Newhart.
Hope.
Look again.
Pull up the videos from the USO tours if you doubt me!
Hope knew how to keep the attention of his audience. So does Mitt.
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jlw509, 10/22/2012 10:29:34 AM (No. 8952205)
I watched the video with (as far as I know) no particlular biases in favor of Roimeny --- not Democratic or Republican, aI;m a member of the Hard to Please Party --- and one not particularly charmed by political humor.
So I was honestly surprised, pleased, even impressed by Romney. By Jiminy, he made me laugh!
He also brought up the always-unmentioned reality of the endangered unborn.
"There is more to life than politics. At the Al Smith Foundation and the Archdiocese of New York, you show this in the work you do...You answer with calm and willing hearts and service to the poor and care for the sick, in defense and the rights of conscience and in solidarity with the innocent child waiting to be born."
How many people would have the political courage, and such a deft touch?
I expectrd to give him a C+; I ended up giving him an A.
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The Islamist Pull
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National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:46:22 AM
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Although information is still too sketchy to draw any comprehensive conclusions (other than that the Boston killings are not, as recently suggested, fall out from sequestration, the NRA, lack of gun control, climate change, right-wing tea-party zealots, etc.), there emerges a familiar profile to the suspects that we have seen before. In articles in 2002 and 2007, I touched on the dangers of isolated Islamic-driven terrorists without direct connections to organized terrorist networks, calling it a sort of “al-Qaedism.” In other word, single and usually young American resident males, often originating from the Muslim world
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A Teacher of Note
Behind Opera´s Stars
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Wall Street Journal, by Pia Catton
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:41:22 AM
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When vocal teacher Bill Schuman works with an aspiring opera singer, he invokes the past, present and future with equal importance. He looks to the past for examples: "Study the great tenors," he advises one student, just before issuing a command for the present. "Pick up your palate! Don´t be lazy!" He also has a way of foreseeing what´s to come: "You will be Tosca," he promises a young soprano. Since 1989, Mr. Schuman, age 54, has been a voice instructor at Philadelphia´s Academy of Vocal Arts, a four-year conservatory program devoted to training young opera singers.
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Yes, Mr. Sirota, There Are
White, Muslim Terrorists
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American Spectator, by Aaron Goldstein
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:31:00 AM
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When David Sirota hoped the person or people responsible for bombing the Boston Marathon would be a “white American”, I asked, “Can’t a terrorist be both white & Muslim?” Yes, Mr. Sirota, there are white, Muslim terrorists. Granted, I was thinking more along the lines of a convert to Islam like John Walker Lindh. Nevertheless, Chechens are both Caucasian and Muslim. While it’s certainly possible for non-Muslims to commit terrorism, we do ourselves a disservice by being afraid to cause offense and refuse to consider the possibility that Muslims are responsible for these acts of evil. Whether the Tsarnaev brothers were part
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2014 or Bust
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Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:24:48 AM
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Things are looking up for Republicans. President Obama’s agenda is collapsing before our eyes. Obama is pointing to the 2014 midterm elections to capture the House and revive his presidency. “My job is not simply to occupy the Oval Office,” he said at a San Francisco fundraiser. “My job is to make sure we move the country forward, and I think we can best do that if Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House once again.” Obama said Pelosi is “thought ful” and “visionary” and “never lets ideology cloud her judgment.”
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Emergencies Bring out the
Best in Citizens and First
Responders, Worst in First Reactors
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PJ Media, by Bryan Preston
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:06:56 AM
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Ordinary Americans respond to emergencies and tragedies with grace and heart. Across the street from slain MIT officer Sean Collier’s Teele Square apartment, several Tufts students have hung an American flag from their balcony to honor Collier. “We found out this morning we lived across from him and hung the flag in support,” said Max Jaffe, 22. Jaffe and roommates Gary Grandonico and Tomas Isman, both 22, hung the flag. All are seniors at Tufts. The street where Collier lived in Teele Square
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Pride in warring Chechnya homeland
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New York Post, by Andy Soltis
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:01:32 AM
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The Tsarnaev brothers were ethnic Chechens whose family fled the breakaway republic in the remote Caucasus mountains where insurgents fought two bloody wars with Russia at the cost of more than 100,000 lives. Even after the worst of the fighting was over, Chechnya became a training ground for terrorists who have carried out attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the FBI’s “Suspect Number 2” in Monday’s bombing, followed two Internet sites that advocated independence for Chechnya, whose heavily Muslim population of more than 1 million suffered badly during Soviet rule.
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Kermit Gosnell and the
Politics of Abortion
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 4:55:41 AM
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Several years ago, Jennifer Senior wrote a fascinating, agonized essay for New York Magazine on abortion and the challenges facing the pro-choice cause. Of the piece’s many memorable passages, this stretch in particular stood out: … if you want to hear honest talk about the realities of abortion, go speak with those abortion counselors and providers. Even the most radically pro-choice will tell you that the political discourse they hear about the subject, with its easy dichotomies and bumper-sticker boilerplate, has little correspondence to the messy, intricate stories of her patients.
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The American Who Tells Russia
How Bad Things Are in America
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Wall Street Journal, by Alan Cullison
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 4:49:33 AM
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MOSCOW—In Russia, the voice of America is strong again. Alexander Nefyodov hears it every Thursday when he tunes in from the Arctic port city of Murmansk. "It´s so interesting to hear from an American about how America really works," he says. It isn´t quite the radio of days past. Soviet-era beacons like Radio Liberty and the BBC have lost their place on Russian airwaves, and now the Kremlin is offering a fresher voice: Tim Kirby, an expatriate from the suburbs of Cleveland, who says he wants Russian citizenship and says Joseph Stalin was a better leader than he has been portrayed
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Bombing Suspects’ Uncle: They Do
Not Deserve To Live On This Earth
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WBZ-TV (Boston, MA), by Staff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/19/2013 9:29:52 AM
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BOSTON – The uncle of the two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings says they had lived together in Cambridge for about a decade. WBZ-TV spoke with the suspects’ uncle, Ruslan Tsarni. Tsarni says Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev immigrated to the United States around 2000 or 2001, and have lived at the same Cambridge address since that time. According to Tsarni, Dzhokar completed high school in Cambridge and was attending college somewhere outside of Boston. Tsarni, who says he hasn’t been in touch with the brothers since around 2009, tells WBZ-TV he believes that the brothers’ parents
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´They were doing what
they were trained to do´
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Star-Telegram [Ft. Worth, TX], by Alex Branch & Deanna Boyd
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/19/2013 7:38:58 AM
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WEST -- They are farmers, car salesmen, business owners and city employees. But when flames broke out at the West Fertilizer Co. on Wednesday night, West volunteer firefighters and others left those jobs behind and rushed toward the danger blazing on the north end of town. Those at ground zero of the thundering explosion never came home. Grief and worry were etched on the faces of the men, women and children who gathered Thursday at the West Fire Station, desperately seeking information on the whereabouts of their loved ones. While officials have backed off their estimate
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Outpost of Czech spirit and
culture will thrive again in West
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Star-Telegram [Ft. Worth, TX], by Bud Kennedy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/19/2013 7:35:10 AM
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Not long ago, a local TV station promoted itself as the "Spirit of Texas." Commercials showed Texans of all ages and colors. They danced together, shared thrills and celebrated life´s joys. It looked just like West. Of all Texas´ iconic small towns, I don´t know another that is such a crossroad for Texans. We meet on the polka dance floor at the annual Westfest, or for kolaches at Gerik´s or the Czech Stop. Smack dab between Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and College Station, West draws guests and energy from all three, but remains loyal to century-old traditions of Moravian immigrants who came seeking freedom.
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Ex-justice of the peace charged
in Kaufman DA slayings; authorities
say he is linked to email confession
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Dallas Morning News, by Tanya Eiserer
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/19/2013 7:30:35 AM
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Former Justice of the Peace Eric Lyle Williams was charged Thursday with capital murder in what authorities have described as a revenge plot to kill the Kaufman County district attorney, his wife and a top assistant. Authorities say Williams, 46, gunned down Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse as he walked to the courthouse on Jan. 31, and killed District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, in their home over Easter weekend. And an arrest warrant affidavit says he was behind an email sent to the authorities confessing to the slayings and threatening future attacks. “The death penalty is a viable option,”
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control
despite 90 per cent support. Truly,
he is a lame-duck president
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:42:40 AM
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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Source: Suspect 2 shot, is
down in Watertown neighborhood
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 7:09:43 PM
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Watertown, Mass.– A number of gun shots were fired near Franklin Street in Watertown Friday night and it was believed that suspect number 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings had been shot. FOX 25's Bob Ward reported that as many 30 shots were fired in the neighborhood. Ward reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man known as suspect 2, was shot by police. It was not immediately known if Tsarnaev was killed. A bomb squad could be seen responding to the scene. A massive police presence was also in the area. FOX 25's Jarrod Holbrook reported that Tsarnaev was seen in a boat with a canvas
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Suspect 1 dead, search is on
for suspect 2 in Watertown
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA] & Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 4:15:42 AM
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Boston--FOX 25 has confirmed suspect #1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead and the search for suspect #2 is ongoing. FOX 25 has confirmed through sources that suspect #1 is dead and police are searching for suspect #2. Mass. State Police asked Watertown residents not to answer the door unless it is an announced police official. Police in Watertown, Mass., began searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday. Local reports say the suspects threw and
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Schumer: Do not ‘jump to conclusions’
about connection between Boston
attacks, immigration
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Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 12:49:40 PM
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WASHINGTON — New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer admonished colleagues not to “try to conflate” the immigration reform bill that the Senate is considering with the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the perpetrators of which have been identified as immigrants. “I’d like to ask that all of us not jump to conclusions regarding the events in Boston or try to conflate those events with this legislation,” Schumer said Friday at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the immigration bill. As the hearing was happening, the Boston metropolitan area was on lockdown, as police attempted to
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Boston Marathon bombs: live
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Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 6:52:32 AM
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Latest 11.42 (06.42) The two suspects may be foreign nationals, according to NBC´s Pete Williams. Quote They were legal permanent residents... They were in this country legally, at least a year. They appear to be from Turkey, possibly Chechens from Turkey. That seems to be the nationality here. We´re told they were not students, in their early twenties. One 20, one 21. We don´t have their names yet. The Associated Press has also said the suspects are from Russian region near Chechnya, and had lived in the US at least one year. 11.25 (06.25) A woman in Watertown has snipers
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The Insanity of
blaming Islam
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The Week, by Mark Ambinder
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/19/2013 5:30:45 PM
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We are still speculating about virtually everything right now, but I feel as though I need to explain why I find the quick and easy conversation about Muslims being radicalized in America to be so illogical and laced with bigotry. Of course, there is a global violent jihadist movement, loosely organized, that wants to recruit young men to influence policies at home and abroad and perhaps usher in the global caliphate. That ideology motivates some Muslims to kill innocent people.But you´re allowed to be a radical Muslim in America.
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A growing sense that we´re not
getting the truth about Boston bombing
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted
down gun legislation ‘out of fear’
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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Griner Reveals That She’s Gay
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CBS Sports, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 1:39:43 PM
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Waco - Baylor star Brittney Griner has revealed she’s a lesbian. The Bears center, who was picked No. 1 overall in the recent WNBA Draft (to the Phoenix Mercury) and is considered by many to be an all-time great in women’s college basketball, casually explained her sexual orientation to Sports Illustrated. Griner was asked by SI’s Maggie Gray on the difference between men’s and women’s sports when it comes to acceptance of sexual orientation; why the WNBA has been able to often embrace many lesbians within their sport, while male sports in America still waits on its first publicly gay player.
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´My children were set up,´ father claims
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Associated Press *, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 12:34:59 PM
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Two brothers of Chechen origin suspected of staging the Boston marathon bombings, one of whom has been shot dead by police, are innocent of any crime, the Interfax news agency quotes a man identified as their father as saying. ‘‘In my opinion, my children were set up by the secret services because they are practising Muslims,’’ Anzor Tsarnaev told the Interfax news agency on Friday (Snip) On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as ‘‘Islam’’ and he says his personal goal is ‘‘career and money.’’
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Allen West: Can we investigate
radical Islamic terror now?
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Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/19/2013 1:06:46 PM
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Former Florida Rep. Allen West issued a scathing statement on his Facebook page Friday, in response to the ongoing manhunt for one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. “Let me be very clear. The terrorist attack in Boston and evolving events indicate we have a domestic radical Islamic terror problem in America,” he wrote. “No more excuses. No more apologies. We are in a war of ideological wills and we shall prevail.”
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Boston Shooting, Robbery,
Car Chase, Manhunt (Photos)
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Business Insider, by Alyson Shontell, Mandi Woodruff*
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/19/2013 6:01:23 AM
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A shocking series of events on Thursday night and Friday morning left one Boston bombing suspect dead and the other on the run. Below are some images from the night. Please note that exact details are scare. Two men — later identified as the bombing suspects — are also suspected of fatally shooting an MIT Police Officer on Thurday night. An image from the crime scene was posted to Twitter by The Tech, below:(Photos)
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