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No Joking Matter: O’s Declining Navy
National Review Online, by Alexander B. Gray
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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/24/2012 5:35:43 AM
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| President Obama’s attempt to discredit Mitt Romney’s farsighted plan to rebuild the U.S. Navy — derisively referencing “horses and bayonets” — shows his obliviousness to the real-life consequences of his leadership. A look at what this administration’s policies have meant to the U.S. Navy is both revealing and frightening. Over the last four years, the combat strength of the U.S. Navy has been degraded to an extraordinary degree. President Obama is fond of saying that Governor Romney would spend “trillions of dollars that the military isn’t asking for.” In fact, successive chiefs of naval operations have testified
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DWIM, 10/24/2012 5:52:17 AM (No. 8957128)
"... underfunded by $800 million..."? So exactly where did that money go? How much of the proverbial 'sacrificial lamb' did that reduction 'contribute' so 'green energy' could squander so much to so few (read, those that supported Zero)?
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Charactercounts, 10/24/2012 7:25:46 AM (No. 8957261)
#1, well, Solyndra got over $500 million, and that battery plant which hasn't produced a single battery got about $250 million...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mass Minority, 10/24/2012 8:32:02 AM (No. 8957441)
Heres another somewhat lost point. Building an American Naval vessel will create thousands and thousands of jobs. You cannot outsource the construction of an aircraft carrier, it must be built in America. Most of the components and outfitting must also be built in America and all of the support and maintainance will be American.
Building 15 ships a year is the equivalent of a 10 billion dollars of economic stimulus. While fulfilling one of the primary goals of a limited federal government. The 800 billion dollar "stimulus" bill could have completely rebuilt our Navy.
Those shipbuilding jobs would also have a positive multiplier on GDP. The jobs pay well, a lot of those workers would be looking for a new flat screen TV, a better car and maybe a new deck or addition on the family home creating even more jobs.
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GOPJihad, 10/24/2012 8:55:19 AM (No. 8957511)
An outstanding column reiterating what many who have any knowledge of military and naval matters were well aware of and held aghast by as soon as BHO made his snide and uninformed comments during the debate the other night.
Infortunately, the facts in this column are those that should have been provided minutes after the debate ended Tuesday night. Check out the various military and naval-centered blogs and forums and their reaction to BHO's statement. BHO pretty much precipitated a Joe Wilson-esque "You Lie!" reaction in response.
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In Kaufman slayings, did
we overlook a threat
hiding in plain sight?
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Dallas Morning News, by Jacquielynn Floyd
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 8:00:51 AM
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Eric Williams does not look like a cunning serial killer. He doesn’t look like a terrorist mastermind capable of setting off a rhetorical spasm of fear that our nation’s entire system of justice might be under attack. He looks like a guy you might see manning the grill at a Jaycees pancake breakfast or shopping for a lawn mower at Sears. He looks like what he is — or at least was: a small-town public official, a buttoned-down shirt-and-tie local lawyer. He looks ordinary. Compared with the more exotic theories of who might have been responsible for the violence
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It’s About the Legacy, Not the House
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American Spectator, by J.T. Young
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 6:15:34 AM
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Obama’s not trying to regain Congress, he’s attempting to retain his legacy. Despite the much-reported spin about White House sights being set on retaking control of the House in 2014, it is really aiming at not replaying 2010’s devastating defeat. Obama’s first midterm loss stopped his agenda cold; a 2014 one could hurl it into reverse — and that’s not the way Obama wants to leave office and enter history. Is the White House so cynical to claim they are grasping at victory, when they are really attempting to avoid defeat? What else are they supposed to say?
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Reality temporarily interferes with
the fantasy world of John Kerry
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 6:12:10 AM
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Over the weekend, I wrote about how the Palestinian Authority blew off John Kerry’s efforts to keep Salam Fayyad in power as Prime Minister. Kerry’s failure, I believe, “demonstrates once again the lack of U.S. influence over the PA” and the futility of our efforts to cause it to make any concessions to Israel. As for Fayyad, I dismissed him a “PA pol.” But, plainly, that’s not how the U.S. and the EU view him. Otherwise, Kerry would not have worked so assiduously for his retention. The U.S./EU view of Fayyad is shared by many Israelis, though not necessarily the Israeli government,
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Rubio goes into the arena, but
it may be the critic who counts
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Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 6:04:08 AM
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Sen. Marco Rubio appeared on seven Sunday shows this weekend. At the end of his appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press” he said something that I think deserves more attention: (Snip) It’s easy to attack immigration reform right now. In fact, if you’re a conservative pundit, it’s probably the smart career move. But Rubio is in the arena — and as easy as it is for his critics to demagogue this issue — I’d love to see them come up with a better solution. Here’s the problem. Incentives matter, and I worry that it is once again
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1984 + 29
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National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 5:49:47 AM
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Imagine if, during the campaign of 2008, someone had written the following: “If Barack Obama is elected president, then each year from now on the federal budget will be a trillion dollars in the red. He will pile up in two terms more debt than all previous presidents combined. Interest rates will stay at near zero; 7.6 percent unemployment will be proof of progress in creating jobs. Record use of food stamps, unemployment, and disability insurance will be hallmarks of recovery. The government will take over health care, and the costs will skyrocket. During Obama’s second term, ammunition will vanish
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14 Theories for Why Kermit Gosnell´s
Case Didn´t Get More Media Attention
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Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 5:41:05 AM
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The trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the abortionist charged with killing babies and neglecting women in his care, is now national news. There´s no bigger story on the web. Anderson Cooper covered it thoroughly Friday on CNN. The Washington Post´s executive editor pledged to send a reporter to file dispatches from the Philadelphia courtroom. My contribution, "Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell´s Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story," distilled the Philadelphia grand jury report and argued that those horrific, detailed allegations are thoroughly newsworthy by any reasonable standard. That premise is now conventional wisdom. The trial is likely to remain national news.
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The gun bill’s misdirection
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Washington Post, by Richard Cohen
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 5:34:00 AM
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Washington is one big magic show. In black tie and tails, the Senate points to the bereaved parents of Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults were shot to death. While the audience is focused on the Newtown horror, senators vote to take up a bill that would do absolutely nothing to avoid such a tragedy. A grateful nation, fooled by what magicians call “misdirection,” applauds like crazy while, in the wings, the National Rifle Association cackles in triumph. The Senate reaches into its top hat and, with appropriate flourish, extracts a bird. We expect a dove.
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Gitmo v. Birmingham Jail
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New York Post, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 5:22:34 AM
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Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. penned one of the most enduring documents of the civil-rights struggle while locked in a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala. His Letter From Birmingham Jail was a clarion call for the right to civil disobedience. Though first requested by an editor for The New York Times, it was in the pages of The New York Post that these words would first be printed. This week, the Times published a very different kind of prison letter. Yesterday its op-ed pages carried an article titled “Gitmo Is Killing Me.”
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Boston Marathon Bombing
Called ‘a Madrid-Style Event’
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Daily Beast, by Lloyd Grove
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 5:16:28 AM
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Watching the images of Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing on CNN International and the BBC, former FBI counterterrorism investigator Mark Rossini thought he noticed a disquieting connection. “This has the hallmarks of a Madrid-style event in many respects,” Rossini told The Daily Beast from Paris, where he was visiting on business for his private security consulting firm. “We don’t know who the bombers are, but I assume it was more than one. It’s just my gut that there might have been two people involved. And allegedly, a third device has been found.” The Madrid commuter train bombings,
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The Embarrassment That Is CNN
Situation Room’s Coverage Of Boston
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Hot Air, by Duane Patterson
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 4:56:48 AM
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Wolf Blitzer took to the airwaves at 5pm Eastern time, about two hours after the twin bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Wolf brought on CNN contributor Tom Fuentes, who didn’t want to ‘speculate’ as to whether this was terrorism, but that if it was, certainly there are a lot of domestic terrorist groups like white supremacists and/or the Aryan Brotherhood. Not helpful. 12 minutes later, former California Congresswoman Jane Harman said, while video streamed of the two different blasts, seconds apart, a block apart, we don’t know as of yet whether this was terrorism. Also not helpful.
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After Marathon attack,
fellowship must prevail
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Editorial, by Boston Globe
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 4:52:38 AM
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Boston remembers its pain. The inscription on the back of the Beacon Hill memorial to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and his legendary Civil War regiment declares, “The memory of the just is blessed.” The plaque on the Bay Village site of the Cocoanut Grove fire describes a “phoenix out of the ashes.” The Public Garden memorial to those who lost their lives on 9/11 proclaims, “The people of Massachusetts will always remember. . .” A commitment to rise to the occasion, to endure what must be endured, to remember all
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Gun background check
deal in jeopardy in Senate
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Associated Press, by Alan Fram
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 4:46:31 AM
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WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers seemed in jeopardy Monday as a growing number of Republican senators expressed opposition to the proposal, perhaps enough to derail it. But there was plenty of time for lobbying and deal-making to affect the outcome, and the sponsors seemed willing to consider carving out at least one exemption in an effort to drum up votes. The White House said President Barack Obama was calling lawmakers, as both sides hunted support for a nail-biting showdown. As of Monday evening, some senators were saying
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White House snub to Thatcher:
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by James Chapman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:50:39 PM
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Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed ‘surprise and disappointment’ last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral. Whitehall sources have revealed that the U.S. delegation at tomorrow’s service in St Paul’s Cathedral will be led by two Reagan era secretaries of state: James Baker and George Shultz. Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either by Vice President Joe Biden or wife Michelle. The Queen’s decision to attend
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Are We Being Compromised
by Barack Obama´s Murky Past?
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American Thinker, by James A. Lyons
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 6:18:58 AM
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Since he first became a presidential candidate, President Obama must have spent millions of dollars in legal expenses to combat dozens of so-called "birther" challenges seeking the original documents pertaining to his birth. As president, he famously issued an electronic document on the White House website in 2011; the document purported to be his long-form birth certificate, though it is apparently a forgery. In addition, he has taken great pains to hide the paper trail of passport records, college transcripts, and other data -- all of which a prospective employer might require of a job applicant.
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Mark Levin: ‘Fascist’ GOP
congressman is trying to
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/14/2013 9:22:21 AM
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On his Friday show, syndicated talk show host Mark Levin said that a Republican congressman is attempting to persuade one of his affiliates to remove his show from the airwaves. Although Levin would not offer the congressman’s name on air, he has been a vocal critic of various members of the House Republican leadership in the past. But Levin called the situation “fascism.” “Well, it has come to my attention that there is a Republican congressman out there who doesn’t like what I’ve been saying,” Levin said. “It has come to my attention that there is a
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Gitmo Is Killing Me
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New York Times, by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 8:29:32 AM
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ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.
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NBC Reporter Luke Russert
Speculates On Boston
Explosions’ Link To 1993 Waco Siege
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/15/2013 5:18:48 PM
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In light of the explosions that have rocked Boston on Patriots’ Day, during the city’s annual marathon, NBC reporter Luke Russert took to Twitter to speculate that today’s horrific events could possibly be related to the 1993 government siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas — an incident often attached to conversations about “right-wing terrorism” and anti-government violence. “I was at Fenway Park w my dad and @mikebarnicle during Waco which was on Patriots Day in 1993. Speculating on possible link,” Russert tweeted following the explosions.
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Obama: ‘People shouldn’t
jump to conclusions’ about
Boston Marathon bombing
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/15/2013 9:45:50 PM
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President Obama pledged that the United States would punish anyone responsible for the explosions at the Boston Marathon today, but he said that “people shouldn’t jump to conclusions” about the tragedy. “We still do not know who did this or why and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before they have all the facts,” Obama told reporters during a statement from the White House. “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice,” he added. Two explosions occurred today near the finish line of the Boston Marathon,
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Breaking: Obama to make
statement from White House
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/15/2013 5:58:09 PM
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President Barack Obama will deliver a statement Monday at 6:10 p.m. ET from the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. As seen in the photo, President Barack Obama spoke Monday on the phone with FBI Director Robert Mueller to receive an update on the Boston explosions. Seated with the President are Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. A White House official said earlier the president has been notified of the explosions. "His administration is in contact with state and local authorities.
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Exclusive: Newtown shooter
Adam Lanza taunted and beaten
by fellow students when he
attended Sandy Hook Elementary
School, relative reveals
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New York Daily News, by Matthew Lysiak & Larry Mcshane
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/14/2013 10:33:17 AM
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Newtown killer Adam Lanza’s mother considered suing Sandy Hook Elementary School after teachers turned a blind eye to beatings from his classmates, a family member claims. The relative, speaking to the Daily News, claimed that mass murderer Lanza was taunted and attacked by fellow students at his childhood alma mater. “Nancy felt fiercely protective of him,” the relative said. “She was convinced the school wasn’t doing enough to protect Adam. It made her irate.” Nancy Lanza — gunned down by her 20-year-son to start his Dec. 14 rampage — even tagged along with Adam to school
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Rubio Offers Full-Throated
Support for Immigration Bill
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New York Times, by Brian Knowlton
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/14/2013 5:33:09 PM
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The impending introduction of legislation to overhaul the country’s badly strained immigration system received an extraordinary endorsement on Sunday from Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, who, after holding back for weeks, appeared on no fewer than seven television talk shows to explain and defend a plan that he said would be “a net positive for the country, now and in the future.” It was a striking show of confidence from Mr. Rubio, one of eight members of a bipartisan Senate group that has been crafting a plan to provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants;
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Is media bias to blame for lack
of Gosnell coverage?
Or something far more banal?
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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Posted By: mitzi- 4/14/2013 10:03:20 PM
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Is media bias to blame for lack of Gosnell coverage? Or something far more banal? The trial of Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell would seem to have all the elements of a spectacular news story: shocking allegations, horrifying visuals, sympathetic victims. Yet until late last week, much of the national media was silent as testimony about Gosnell’s alleged “house of horrors” abortion clinic rolled out. Much of the media attention outside Philadelphia, in fact, centered on how little media attention the story was receiving outside Philadelphia.
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Meredith Baxter, Patty
Duke to Play Lesbian
Couple on Upcoming ´Glee´
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Breitbart´s Big Hollywood, by Breitbart News
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/15/2013 11:12:19 AM
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Two veteran TV actresses may join the cast of Fox´s Glee after their upcoming appearance as a kindly lesbian couple. Meredith Baxter, known for being the All-American Mom on Family Ties, and Patty Duke who soared to fame in her self-titled series, will offer guidance to a gay character considering popping the question to his partner. According to a Friday report at E!, Oscar winner Patty Duke and longtime television star Meredith Baxter will play a lesbian couple. Not only that, regular character Blaine played by Darren Criss will propose to
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Obama’s plan hatched
at Columbia University
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Human Events, by Wayne Root
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Posted By: EnsignO- 4/14/2013 12:55:47 PM
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President Obama and I were college classmate at Columbia University, class of ’83. I know all too well how mindlessly liberal the students and faculty of that institution can be, and Barack Obama is certainly no exception. My time at Columbia made it crystal clear: liberals always believe they are morally superior. [Snip] It is in this cesspool of intolerance that Obama and his Marxist cronies hatched a secret plan to destroy our country. There are two things you need to know about Obama at Columbia University. First, he was Pre Law and a Political Science major- just like me.
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