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Syria jets bomb Damascus
on last day of 'ceasefire'
BBC News, by Staff
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Posted By:earlybird, 10/29/2012 6:35:53 AM
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| Warplanes have bombed parts of Syria's capital, Damascus, on the fourth day of a ceasefire during which hundreds of people are reported to have died. Opposition activists said government jets attacked areas in and around the eastern suburbs of Harasta and Barzeh. Witnesses heard several explosions. Clashes were also reported Aleppo, Idlib, Homs and Deir al-Zour provinces. Both sides agreed to abide by the truce meant to cover the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, which ends on Monday.
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The BBC's reporter in Beirut says no real ceasefire - hostilities have continued since the four-day period began.
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Faith eyed as motive in Boston
marathon attack, as suspect
communicates by writing
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 10:54:34 PM
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The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand of Islam but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating and charging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with crimes that could bring the death penalty. (Snip)After the first blast, a block away from Dzhokhar, "virtually every head turns to the east ... and stares in that direction in apparent bewilderment and alarm," the complaint says. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "virtually alone of the individuals in front of the restaurant, appears calm."
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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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Can a President Who
Has Promised to
´Stand with the Muslims´
Protect Americans?
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American Thinker, by Lauri B. Regan
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Posted By: DW626- 4/23/2013 3:11:30 AM
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In Obama´s Audacity of Hope, he stated, "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in any ugly direction." He also asserted in Bob Woodward´s Obama´s Wars, "We can absorb [another] terrorist attack." These are two straightforward statements that raise the question of whether a man who has been seemingly obsessed with reaching out to "the Muslim world" since taking office is capable of fulfilling his duty as commander-in-chief to keep America safe and secure.
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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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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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As Bush library opening puts
his presidency back in the
spotlight, his approval rating is up
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Washington Post, by Dan Balz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:29:52 AM
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George W. Bush will return to the spotlight this week for the dedication of his presidential library, an event likely to trigger fresh public debate about his eight fateful years in office. But he reemerges with a better public image than when he left Washington more than four years ago. Since then, Bush has absented himself from both policy disputes and political battles. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that the passage of time and Bush’s relative invisibility have been beneficial to a chief executive who left office surrounded by controversy.
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Report: Suspects not
licensed to own guns
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Mike Lillis
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/22/2013 9:49:28 AM
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The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws – an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of a gun-control package backed by President Obama. Because Massachusetts state law bars handgun ownership for those younger than 21, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, was the only brother who could have
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Flight Delays as Political Strategy
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/22/2013 7:59:14 PM
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President Obama´s sequester scare strategy has been a political flop, but his government keeps trying. The latest gambit is to force airline flight delays until enough travellers stuck on tarmacs browbeat enough Republicans to raise taxes again. This week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began furloughing each of its air-traffic controllers for one day out of every 10 to achieve roughly $600 million in savings this fiscal year. The White House dubiously claims that the furloughs are required by the sequester spending cuts enacted in 2011.
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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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Kerry on Global Warming:
´The Science Is Screaming at
All of Us and Demands Action´
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/23/2013 5:30:15 AM
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In a statement marking Earth Day, Secretary of State John Kerry pledges to deal "responsibly with the clear and present danger of climate change." The former presidential candidate also notes the "fragile planet we share with the rest of humanity and which we must protect for future generations.""The United States joins countries around the world today in commemorating Earth Day. Ever since I was involved in the first Earth Day in Massachusetts, way back in 1970, this has always been a day to reflect on our environmental challenges and our responsibility to safeguard our God-given natural resources
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Muslim Congressman On Boston:
"Let´s Not Cast A Wide Net
And Just Go After A Whole
Religious Group"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/22/2013 6:08:53 PM
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REP. KEITH ELLISON (D-MINN.): Well, you know, it is too early for me to second-guess the FBI. I think we need to know more about what they knew. The fact of the matter is that it is good that they contacted him. That wasn´t enough to deter him, obviously. But the fact is that before I’m going to say the FBI should have done something different, what I, I’m not prepared to say that yet. There is just not enough information. What I will say is this: We don´t know what their motivation was yet.
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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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I´ll Say
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National Review Online The Corner, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/23/2013 6:55:51 AM
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Apparently the latest craze in NYC is to let your babies’ freak flags fly by letting them go commando: When Jada Shapiro decided to raise her daughter from birth without diapers, for the most part, not everyone was amused. Ms. Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter’s offerings, and her sister insisted that she use a big, dark marker to mark the bowls so that they could never find their way back to the kitchen. But “elimination communication,” as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called,
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John McCain Blasts GOP Senators
Citing Bombing To Delay Immigration
Reform: ‘That’s Ludicrous’
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/22/2013 12:18:28 PM
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Following the attack in Boston, some politicians, including Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dan Coats (R-IN), advised slowing down immigration reform legislation in order to allow further debate and not make rushed decisions based on emotions. In an interview with Bloomberg’s Trish Regan, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) criticized his colleagues, deeming the argument “ludicrous.” Grassley’s remarks on Friday immediately caught attention when he said, “Given the events of this week, it’s important for us to understand the gaps and loopholes in our immigration system.” “How can individuals evade authorities and plan such attacks on our soil?” he asked.
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