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Obama's Mistakes
and the Role of Race
Atlantic, by Clive Crook
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 10/27/2012 5:50:34 AM
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| In a column for Bloomberg View I argue that, if Obama loses this election, it won't be for what many will say are the obvious reasons -- because the economy is weak and Obama's an African-American. It'll be because he ran as a failed progressive rather than a successful centrist. Almost to the exclusion of everything else, his campaign has emphasized the leftist priority of taxing the rich more heavily, the issue on which he's been constantly beaten back. To most people, I think, that goal seems desirable or inevitable,
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Another disappointed liberal analyzes the failures.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/27/2012 5:54:15 AM (No. 8966251)
I'm surprised they haven't had the gall to call Obama a "sensible centrist".
It only took this guy 4 years to figure out Obama's biggest problem is everything he does is leftist.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Grace Veritas, 10/27/2012 6:09:35 AM (No. 8966265)
It's an alternative universe at the Atlantic. Raging racism possibly preventing an otherwise natural second term; Obama the amazingly talented, gifted, and overall great guy; Obama the mild centrist. Worldview trumps reality.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Liberal like Jefferson, 10/27/2012 7:28:51 AM (No. 8966360)
FTA: " taxing the rich more heavily, the issue on which he's been constantly beaten back. To most people, I think, that goal seems desirable or inevitable..."
Yeah - like carting rich people up the volcano on rails to sacrifice them is going to make it rain and make the sun rise tomorrow. Loons.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 10/27/2012 10:02:09 AM (No. 8966677)
Tax policy is very important but only moves the deficit number up or down slightly over time.
SPENDING, however, has no built-in limit. Just like in a personal budget, you can spend 10-20 years worth of income in an afternoon.
Barky has spent us into the ground on programs that hindered real growth.
Criminal....nothing short of criminal.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pensom2, 10/27/2012 12:42:12 PM (No. 8967174)
I actually read the article. Liberalism is a disease. This guy is blind to reality: "Obama seems embarrassed even to mention his far larger centrist achievements: an effective (for all its faults) fiscal stimulus and universal health-care coverage."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GraniteBayTom, 10/27/2012 3:27:13 PM (No. 8967588)
Liberalism really IS mental disorder. It is a denial of reality and the firm belief that good intentions are all that matter. Results, like the devastating effects on black family life, can be ignored if you meant well.
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Three Cheers for Ruslan Tsarniof
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National Review Online, by Charles C. W. Cooke
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/19/2013 5:11:33 PM
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All in all, it’s been a horrible week, and today has been no better. But this morning, a little beam of light amid the darkness. Ruslan Tsarniof, uncle of the Boston Bombers, came out of his house and, facing a gaggle of reporters, showed the best of America. Here was a confused, grieving man, who managed nonetheless to articulate in the heat of a difficut momement what is best about immigrants in the United States. Tsarniof praised assimilation and, crucially, he highlighted the potential problems that arise when newcomers refuse to “settle.”
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President George W. and Laura Bush
Reflect on the Twins, Bush´s Newfound
Passion for Painting, and More
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Parade Magazine, by Mark K. Updegrove
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/19/2013 5:06:05 PM
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In this Sunday’s issue of PARADE, the former first couple, George W. and Laura Bush, discuss life after the White House, the state of the Republican Party, and their joy at becoming grandparents. Historian Mark K. Updegrove caught up with them as they prepared for the April 25 dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, which includes a library, museum, and policy institute. In the exclusive interview extras below, the Bushes reflect on everything from the twins to Bush’s newfound passion for painting.
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Gun debate triggered media bias
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Politico, by Dylan Byers
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/19/2013 5:09:19 AM
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If you thought President Obama was outraged after the Senate killed the plan to expand background checks on guns, you should have seen some members of the press. Even by the standards of today’s partisan media environment, the response has been noteworthy. Television hosts, editorial boards, and even some reporters have aggressively criticized and shamed the 46 Senators who opposed the plan, while some have even taken to actively soliciting the public to contact them directly. The decision by some members of the media to come down so firmly on one side of a policy debate has only served
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Kermit Gosnell and the
abortion movement´s dark past
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Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/18/2013 6:07:24 AM
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Flash back to 1972. Dr. Harvey Karman, a star of the abortion movement, came up with a bold publicity stunt. The 1972 "mass Mother´s Day abortion," as the Chicago Tribune described it, was designed to show that late-term abortions could be easy and safe. The site of this demonstration was the Philadelphia abortion clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. The media was alerted, and television cameras rolled in. Arriving by bus were 18 pregnant women, half of them teenagers, who would undergo a new abortion technique called the "Super Coil." A Los Angeles Times article in April 1972 --
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Official: Suspect in
custody in Boston bombings
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Associated Press, by Denise Lavoie
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/17/2013 2:11:13 PM
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BOSTON -- A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation says a suspect has been taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombings. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday. The official was not authorized to divulge details of the investigation. The official says the suspect is expected in federal court in Boston. Law enforcement agencies had earlier pleaded for the public to come forward with photos, videos or any information that might help them solve the twin bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 170 on Monday.
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IEDs called first
multiple use on US soil
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Boston Globe, by Bryan Bender
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/17/2013 6:04:55 AM
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WASHINGTON — The Boston Marathon bombing marked a watershed moment that counterterrorism officials and specialists have dreaded for years: the use of multiple “improvised explosive devices,’’ or IEDs, to inflict mass casualties on US soil. Islamic militant groups routinely have used makeshift bombs — detonated nearly simultaneously — to kill civilian bystanders as well as military personnel from Iraq and Israel to Russia and Afghanistan. But until Monday’s explosions at the finish line in Copley Square, such street-level detonations targeting sidewalk or marketplace crowds had not occurred in the United States. “The sad thing is that finally someone
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Boston Marathon bombings
present new test for Obama
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Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/17/2013 6:01:37 AM
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Authorities on Tuesday revealed little new information about the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, the most high-profile bombing on U.S. soil in more than a decade and a tragedy that presents a new test for President Obama. Obama, like all Americans, is standing by, waiting for answers as to who planted two bombs improvised from pressure cookers at the finish line of the storied race, and why. Three Americans were killed in Monday´s attack and more than 170 others were injured. "Anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror," Obama said,
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How the Rest of the World Is
Watching the Wake of Boston
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Atlantic, by Esther Zuckerman
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/17/2013 5:51:13 AM
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In the Muslim world there were concerns about who might be blamed; in Britain thoughts turned to their own marathon set to take place Sunday. In its aftermath, the Boston Marathon bombings became a global news story, appearing on front pages in places ranging from Argentina to Turkey. Max Fisher of the Washington Post reported Monday afternoon on the fear that spread throughout the Muslim world that a potential bomber might turn out to be someone who practiced the same faith. He pointed attention to Jenan Moussa, a reporter for Al Aan TV based in Dubai.
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Chavismo Runs Out of Gas
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PJ Media, by Jaime Darenblum
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/17/2013 5:10:46 AM
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This one wasn’t supposed to be close. In the weeks leading up to Venezuela’s April 14 presidential election, polls consistently showed Nicolás Maduro with a double-digit lead over Henrique Capriles, the opposition figure who lost to Hugo Chávez by 11 points (55 percent to 44 percent) back in October. Maduro had served as foreign minister under the late populist demagogue; he had been named vice president — and thus designated as Chávez’s successor — after the October election; and he had formally taken over as interim president following his mentor’s death from cancer on March 5. Maduro also enjoyed
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Death Tax Made More Deadly
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/16/2013 6:09:12 AM
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An abiding lesson of the Obama Presidency is that no tax increase is ever enough. So it´s not surprising that the President´s new budget includes an increase in the death tax only three months after the last increase. In January Mr. Obama and Republicans agreed to tax estates at 40% with an exemption of $5 million ($10 million for couples). That was an increase from 35% and a $5 million exemption. Now only weeks later he´s again looking for more, as his budget proposes to raise the rate to 45% and reduce the exemption to $3.5 million.
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Questions of Coordination
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Washington Free Beacon, by Lachlan Markay
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/16/2013 5:46:40 AM
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Allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) say a series of attacks and ethical complaints leveled against him are part of a coordinated campaign by left-wing activists, political operatives, and journalists to prevent his reelection in 2014. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a left-wing watchdog group, filed an ethics complaint against McConnell on Thursday, alleging he improperly used Senate resources to support his reelection effort. The charges were based on a recording released earlier in the week by Mother Jones. Allegedly recorded by two members of Democratic Super PAC Progress Kentucky, the tape captured McConnell
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Did Hugo Chavez´s handpicked successor
steal the Venezuelan election?
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The Week, by Peter Weber
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/16/2013 5:07:37 AM
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L ate Sunday, acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared victory in the country´s first presidential election since the death of longtime leader Hugo Chavez. The national election commission had just released the results, much closer than the polls had foretold: Maduro, 50.66 percent; Henrique Capriles, 49.07 percent. While Maduro was celebrating, Capriles was calling fraud — and tweeting.(Snip for tweet)That message — "We alert the country and the world of the intent to change the will of the people!" — was followed by a speech to supporters. "I want the truth to be known," Capriles said.
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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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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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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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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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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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A Stirring Send-Off For
the Iron Lady – And No
One Missed the Obamas
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PJ Media, by Mike McNally
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 11:39:38 PM
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After all the controversy – it was too much, and too expensive; it would be marred by protests – this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war prime minister. Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin
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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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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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Misinformation and Anxiety in
Boston Terrorism Investigation
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PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 10:38:32 PM
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Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday’s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon. The anxiety stemming from the attack and the stream of inaccurate news about it is further freighted, moreover, by the FBI’s confirmation that two letters addressed to top political officials — President Obama and Senator Richard Wicker (R., MS) — tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison. As noted below, a man identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the mailings. Early this afternoon, massive confusion
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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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