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Investor's Business daily, by Editorial
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Posted By:earlybird, 10/29/2012 11:50:55 PM
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| President Obama spent roughly half an hour last Tuesday on the phone with the Des Moines Register's publisher and editor, desperately trying to win the influential Iowa newspaper's endorsement for a second term. "You'll feel better when you give it," Obama told them, after touting what he said were four years of accomplishments, along with promises of strong economic growth should he get four more years. Three days later, the Register endorsed Mitt Romney — the first Republican the paper has backed in 40 years. Not only that, but the editors blasted Obama, saying his "best efforts to
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"Mittmentum"...
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Phil_hk, 10/30/2012 1:21:31 AM (No. 8973799)
It is a fraudulent endorsement. They are only doing it to keep from having to deal with Benghazi
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird, 10/30/2012 12:28:44 PM (No. 8974652)
It doesn't read like a fraudulent endorsement. It reads like an endorsement that was made by the paper's editorial board when the publisher - and maybe others - were not happy with Obie's high and mighty, ham-handed tactics. Flaky editor Rick Green would probably have gone with Obie.
And this article is about more than the Des Moines Register. It documents a number of other papers that have flipped from their 2008 endorsements to go for Romney this time - and why. Their damning comments about Obie are as valuable as their good ones about Romney.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Emerson, 10/30/2012 12:30:15 PM (No. 8974657)
#2, often posters reveal with their Replies that they haven't read anything but the headline and the intro.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mickturn, 10/30/2012 12:51:29 PM (No. 8974722)
WOW, newspapers taking out the trash!
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U.S. Investigators Interview Alleged
Bombers´ Parents in Dagestan
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ABC News, by Kirit Radia
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/24/2013 10:53:09 AM
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MAKHACHKALA, Dagestan--A team from the U.S. embassy in Moscow is in Dagestan today to interview the parents of two brothers suspected of planting bombs at last week´s Boston marathon, ABC News has learned. But the mom said today her sons were only guilty of being Muslim. (Snip) Their mother told ABC News Monday that she urged Tamerlan to embrace Islam in 2008 after she became concerned about his drinking, smoking and women. She said she also became more religious and started wearing a head covering. Her growing religious beliefs also took a toll on her marriage.
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Tsarnaev’s condition improves; brothers
reportedly motivated by U.S. wars
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Yahoo! News, by Dylan Stableford
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/24/2013 6:50:47 AM
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev informed investigators that he and his brother were not directed by a foreign terrorist organization. Instead, they were “self-radicalized” and motivated to kill, in part, by U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported.(Snip)And just like the conspiracy theorists who claimed last week that the Boston Marathon attacks were staged, the support for Dzhokhar has been fervent despite his reported confession. A Change.org petition to "guarantee Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the right to a fair trial," addressed to President Barack Obama, has more than 6,000 supporters.
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Older Boston Suspect Made Two
Trips to Dagestan, Visited
Radical Mosque, Officials Say
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Time Magazine, by Simon Shuster
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 8:19:39 PM
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Makhachkala, Russia - Two years ago, while visiting his family in the Russian region of Dagestan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, was flagged as a potential extremist by Russian security services. The only evidence they had were his regular visits to a mosque that gets more than its share of attention from police. Since its construction in 2000, the mosque’s broad, emerald-colored dome has been the center of the region’s Salafi community, which adheres to a more orthodox brand of Islam and, over the years, has been a hangout for men killed
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Boston bombing suspect cites U.S.
wars as motivation, officials say
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Washington Post, by Scott Wilson*
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 8:11:03 PM
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The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to U.S. officials familiar with the interviews. From his hospital bed, where he is now listed in fair condition, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has acknowledged his role in planting the explosives near the marathon finish line on April 15, the officials said. The first successful large-scale bombing in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era, the Boston attack killed three people and wounded more than 250 others.
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Boston Bomb Suspect´s Condition
Upgraded, He´s Talking to Cops
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ABC News, by BRIAN ROSS *
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 8:04:25 PM
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Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev´s condition was upgraded today to fair. (Snip) In his initial responses to questions, Tsarnaev has reportedly told investigators the attack was devised from the Internet. The two brothers, he said, had no direction or financing from governments or rogue groups overseas. For all the power of the two explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line, and for all the dramatic gun fights on the streets of Watertown, and for all the suppositions about the role of disciplined, well-trained terrorists,
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Ben Affleck to live on food
budget of $1.50 per day
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Star-Ledger [Trenton, NJ], by Janelle Griffith
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 7:53:21 PM
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Academy Award winner Ben Affleck is the latest Hollywood star to lend his celebrity to a social cause. Next week, the "Argo" and "Good Will Hunting" actor will join thousands of others when he lives off of $1.50 per day as part of the Live Below the Line campaign, from April 29 to May 3. Billed as a means to challenge the way people think about poverty, the campaign requires participants to feed themselves on no more than $1.50 a day for five days.
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Obama Budget Shows Middle-Class
Tax Pledge Was Fraud
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 7:47:06 PM
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Taxes: A new study shows President Obama´s budget would significantly boost taxes on the middle class. Funny, we seem to recall him promising voters that only the rich would pay for his grandiose spending plans. According to the analysis from the nonpartisan but liberal-leaning Tax Policy Center, Obama´s budget would hit wealthy families hardest, with the top 20% of income earners shouldering almost 90% of the tax hike. But families at every income level would end up paying more if Obama´s budget were enacted, including those making less than $10,000 a year.
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Women´s settlement with LAPD
in Dorner case worth $4.2 million
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Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Blankstein and Kate Mather
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 7:41:52 PM
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The women injured when Los Angeles police opened fire on them during the manhunt for ex-cop Christopher Dorner have reached a $4.2-million settlement with the city, sources told The Times. Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich announced a settlement had been reached Tuesday afternoon. More details were expected at a 2 p.m. news conference. Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71, were delivering newspapers in Torrance on Feb. 7 when LAPD officers shot repeatedly at their blue Toyota Tacoma. Hernandez was shot twice in the back, and Carranza was injured by broken glass, an attorney for the women said.
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Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan
Tsarnaev bought three pounds of black
powder from N.H. fireworks store
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New York Daily News, by Bill Hutchinson
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 7:33:25 PM
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Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev walked into a New Hampshire fireworks store two months before his deadly attack and asked for the “biggest and loudest” kit in the store — then got another set free, the Daily News has learned. In a chilling twist, the company that sold Tamerlan the fireworks is the same company that sold Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad the firecrackers he used to build his failed car bomb. “We were just shocked,” said Bill Weimer, vice president of Phamtom Fireworks in Seabrook, N.H. “After our Times Square experience, we said, ‘It can’t happen twice.’”
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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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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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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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Republican Benghazi Report
Alleges State Department Coverup
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Daily Beast, by Eli Lake
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/24/2013 4:50:38 AM
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Internal emails in the week following the 9-11 anniversary assault on the U.S. facility in Benghazi show the White House and State Department removed references to al Qaeda and the mention of other recent attacks in Benghazi from widely distributed talking points used to explain the incident to the public, according to a new report from five House Republican committee chairmen released Tuesday afternoon. Citing administration emails provided to the House committees, the 46-page report claims that “to protect the State Department, the Administration deliberately removed references to al-Qaeda-linked groups and previous attacks
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev got
Mass. welfare benefits
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/24/2013 5:31:11 AM
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Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned. State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev’s attorney has claimed Katherine — who had converted to Islam —
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The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage
Caused By Boxing Play a Role in
the Boston Bombings?
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Time Magazine, by Jeffrey Kluger
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 5:17:04 PM
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. But the brain that was home to his angry mind remains, and in this case that may mean something. Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer who won the New England Golden Gloves competition as recently as 2009 and 2010. That speaks to a young man with a healthy sense
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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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President Obama to daughters:
If you get a tattoo, I’m
getting one too
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New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 12:18:38 PM
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President Obama and the First Lady have come up with a crafty strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos — and it banks on the girls thinking their parents are deeply uncool. “What we’ve said to the girls is, ‘If you guys ever decide you´re going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo. In the same place,’” Obama said with a smile. “And we´ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.” “And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that that somehow that´s
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Franken: The Senate needs to
talk more about climate change
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 10:26:58 AM
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Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) suggested on Earth Day that the Senate should spend more time talking about climate change issues. “I’m here to suggest we talk more about climate change so that we can agree on taking action to address it,” Franken said Monday. “The Senate cannot afford to ignore climate change, we need to talk about it.” Franken pointed out that 98 out of 100 scientist say climate change is real and needs to be dealt with. He said people outside Washington, D.C., understand this. “Many of my other colleagues I suspect don’t talk about
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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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Ben Affleck to live on food
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Star-Ledger [Trenton, NJ], by Janelle Griffith
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 7:53:21 PM
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Academy Award winner Ben Affleck is the latest Hollywood star to lend his celebrity to a social cause. Next week, the "Argo" and "Good Will Hunting" actor will join thousands of others when he lives off of $1.50 per day as part of the Live Below the Line campaign, from April 29 to May 3. Billed as a means to challenge the way people think about poverty, the campaign requires participants to feed themselves on no more than $1.50 a day for five days.
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Bloomberg Says Interpretation
of Constitution Will ‘Have to
Change’ After Boston Bombing
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New York Observer, by Jill Colvin
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 12:10:33 PM
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In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks. “The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex word where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”
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David Brooks: Ted Cruz ´Has
a Face That Looks a Little
Like Joe McCarthy´
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 10:18:25 PM
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NewsBusters reported Sunday the media´s chorus to silence Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) is growing louder. As fate would have it, at roughly the same time, David Brooks was sitting down for a chat with PBS’s Jeff Greenfield at the 92nd Street Y during which the New York Times columnist said, “It doesn’t help that [Cruz] has a face that looks a little like Joe McCarthy” (video follows with transcript and commentary): After Greenfield brought up the Texas Senator, Brooks said, “So Ted Cruz is, just violates my sense. And I think if you mention the name Ted
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