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Tidal surge overruns 2 NJ
towns with floodwaters
Associated Press, by David Porter
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Posted By:JoniTx, 10/30/2012 11:36:37 AM
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| MOONACHIE, N.J.- A huge tidal surge sent water overflowing a creek and gushing out of storm drains in two northern New Jersey towns early Tuesday, filling streets with up to 5 feet of water and setting off a frantic rescue effort by boats and trucks. Gov. Chris Christie said hundreds of stranded people were rescued when the tidal surge up the Hackensack River from superstorm Sandy resulted in water overflowing a natural berm. In Moonachie, a town of 2,700 about 10 miles northwest of Manhattan, police Sgt. Tom Schmidt said water rose to 5 feet within 45 minutes,
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formerNYer, 10/30/2012 11:52:11 AM (No. 8974586)
Growing up on LI we used await for the Passaic river to flood every spring and watch as residents row down their streets in boats - houses should have never been built that close to the river and the owners couldn't give away the houses.
really sad.
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1 dead, 8 wounded in
shootings across city
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Chicago Tribune, by Peter Nickeas & Rosemary Regina
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 2:21:14 PM
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A 34-year-old man was killed early Sunday morning and eight others wounded since Saturday afternoon in shootings from the Northwest Side to the Southeast Side. The man killed was shot about 6:05 a.m. in the 2500 block of West Division Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side and was pronounced dead at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County at 6:35 a.m., authorities said. The man killed was shot in the head, and a second man, age 20, was shot in the arm and later walked into West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park,
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Sen. John McCain hosts Vice
President Joe Biden at
Sedona Summit
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3TV News [Phoenix AZ], by Jared Dillingham
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 2:17:32 PM
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SEDONA, Ariz.- Arizona Senator John McCain welcomed Vice President Joe Biden to a summit in Sedona for a weekend of policy talks with leaders from around the world. (Snip) McCain and Biden have shared a contentious political relationship since the 2008 presidential election, when they were members of opposing tickets. McCain has been a sharp critic of the Obama administration´s handling of domestic and foreign affairs, but the two men joked and flattered each other on stage. "He´s the most likable and most frustrating one I´ve dealt with, and the best vice president," McCain told the crowd.
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Chuck Todd: Obama ´Hates´
´Internet Media and Social Media´
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Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 1:27:01 PM
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NBC´s Chuck Todd told an inconvenient truth about Barack Obama on Sunday´s Meet the Press. "The rise of the internet media and social media and all that stuff - he hates it" (video follows with transcript and commentary): CHUCK TODD: What I wonder how many people realized at the end [of Saturday´s White House Correspondents´ Dinner] when he did his, you know, there´s always this part at the end where they get serious for a minute. And it’s usually the part where presidents say, “You know, I think the press has a good job
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West residents scattered
among hotels, campgrounds,
friends homes in wake of blast
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Waco Tribune [TX], by Cindy V. Culp
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 9:29:59 AM
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On the night of the West fertilizer plant explosion, the American Red Cross quickly arranged to open a shelter at a local campground. Not a single person showed up. That fact is a reflection of how tight-knit the West community is, said Mark Felton, executive director of the Red Cross’ Heart of Texas chapter. Most people affected by the tragedy were quickly offered shelter by friends or family, and that’s where the majority of them remain, he said. Nancy Shelton, for example, said the bedroom ceiling of the home she leases in West fell in after the explosion.
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Vet injured in West blast
gets new home
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Waco Tribune [TX], by Mike Copeland
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 9:24:00 AM
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Scott Burgess, 51, took one last look out the back door of his home in West on April 17, wondering about the embers falling in the blackness like an impromptu meteor shower. His wife, Geri, swung her purse over her shoulder and reached for her cellphone. A neighbor had warned them about the fire at the nearby fertilizer plant, and they were preparing to leave. But in an explosive flash, their view of the world would change forever. Glass ripped into Scott’s left eye, rendering it sightless and causing agonizing pain.
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Michelle Obama Wears Lacy
Monique Lhuillier to the White
House Correspondents´ Dinner
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New York Magazine, by Charlotte Cowles
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 8:39:05 AM
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Michelle Obama did not walk the E!-streamed red carpet before tonight´s White House Correspondents´ Dinner — she was already at home, of course — so our first glimpse of her black Monique Lhuillier gown came later, once dinner started. And damn does she look good. This is a sexier look on her than usual, with a sheer lace panel over her decolletage and a molded bustier-style top. She very wisely chose a dress that photographs well while she´s sitting down, Schiaparelli-style, with elaborate beading along her collarbone and fitted cap sleeves that flatter her arms. Other observations:
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Obama jokes about radical
2nd term changes
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Associated Press, by Bradley Klapper
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 7:14:07 AM
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama joked Saturday about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from a "strapping young Muslim Socialist" to retiree golfer, all with a new hairstyle like first lady Michelle´s. Obama used this year´s annual White House Correspondents´ Association dinner to poke fun at himself and some of his political adversaries, asking if it was still possible to be brought down a peg after 4 1/2 years as commander-in-chief. Entering to the rap track "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled, Obama joked about how re-election would allow him to unleash a radical agenda. But then
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USDA invites illegal aliens
to go on food stamps
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American Thinker, by Rick Moran
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 7:09:45 AM
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Brazen...shocking...nutszo. Call it whatever you want, but this flyer the Department of Agriculture is planning to circulate in the Hispanic community proudly boasts that you don´t have to declare your "immigration status" to get food stamps. Breitbart: A government watchdog group has discovered that the United States government is advising Spanish-speaking residents that they need not declare their immigration qualify for food stamps. Judicial Watch obtained the Spanish-language flyers through a Freedom of Information Act request
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Obama Golfs Ahead of
WH Correspondents’ Dinner
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ABC News, by Arlette Saenz
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/27/2013 7:53:15 PM
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President Obama spent Saturday afternoon at the golf course, just a few hours before he is set to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner later this evening. The president golfed at Joint Base Andrews with former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and White House aides Marvin Nicholson and Michael Brush. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend the annual dinner held by the White House Correspondents Association at the Washington Hilton hotel Saturday evening where journalists, politicians and celebrities will have the chance to see the president’s comedic
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Liberal News Analyst:
´George W. Bush, Not Barack
Obama, Is the Real American
Hero in Africa´
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Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/27/2013 7:48:43 PM
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NewsBusters readers know Ellen Ratner as the perilously liberal news analyst typically offering the left-wing views on Fox News Watch. On Thursday, Ratner published an article titled "George W. Bush Has Saved More Lives Than Any American President" that is guaranteed to shock the heck out of you as it angers folks on her side of the aisle: "George W. Bush, not Barack Obama, is the real American hero in Africa," she amazingly began. "Take it from me, a liberal Democrat who voted for Obama twice." After discussing her knowledge of the problems
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Tammy Haddad draws
stars — and ‘POTUS’
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Politico, by Patrick Gavin
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/27/2013 5:16:33 PM
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A president of the United States showed up to Tammy Haddad’s garden brunch. Well, sort of. As a cute joke that made everyone in the crowd stop and pay attention, Haddad told those gathered that the president was in the house. “There’s a president here,” confirmed Democratic consultant Hilary Rosen. “Okay, then everyone stand up, put up your iPhones, ladies and gentleman, for the president of the United States,” said Haddad.Considering that David Axelrod had spoken just moments before, it didn’t seem like such a stretch that the real president might show up. Alas, it was not meant to be.
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Flushed diplo pick
tight with Bill & Bam
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New York Post, by Jeane MacIntosh
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/27/2013 3:27:51 PM
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Billionaire Manhattan hedge-funder Marc Lasry — who this week turned down a coveted ambassadorship to France after his name surfaced in a $100 million illegal-gambling-ring probe — has deep ties to the Clintons and President Obama. The relationship was so strong that the powerful Dems hired each other’s children and considered themselves family friends. Lasry’s son, Alex, worked as a $42,000-a-year special assistant reporting to senior Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, while Chelsea Clinton did a three-year stint with Lasry’s Avenue Capital investment fund.
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Tear down this icon: Why the GOP
has to get over Ronald Reagan
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/27/2013 6:32:46 AM
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The unfailing reverence on the American right for Ronald Reagan is understandable. He was the only exemplar of modern conservatism to win the White House, and unlike liberal icons such as Roosevelt or Johnson or Obama, he presided over an economic boom and became beloved by voters not normally drawn to his party. No wonder that Reagan, long before his death in 2004, attained mythical status in the conservative movement and the Republican Party. But that myth has become a burden for the modern GOP. It has bound Reagan’s followers on the right to policies and positions that were
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Eric Holder: Citizenship For
Illegal Immigrants Is A ‘Matter
Of Civil And Human Rights’
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/26/2013 3:20:10 PM
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During an April 24 address to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Attorney General Eric Holder told the crowd that “creating a pathway to earned citizenship” is a critical element of any comprehensive immigration reform plan. He said that establishing legal status for the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants is a “matter of civil and human rights.” “Creating a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country is essential,” Holder said to applause. “The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented by creating a mechanism for
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Michelle Obama Wears Lacy
Monique Lhuillier to the White
House Correspondents´ Dinner
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New York Magazine, by Charlotte Cowles
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 8:39:05 AM
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Michelle Obama did not walk the E!-streamed red carpet before tonight´s White House Correspondents´ Dinner — she was already at home, of course — so our first glimpse of her black Monique Lhuillier gown came later, once dinner started. And damn does she look good. This is a sexier look on her than usual, with a sheer lace panel over her decolletage and a molded bustier-style top. She very wisely chose a dress that photographs well while she´s sitting down, Schiaparelli-style, with elaborate beading along her collarbone and fitted cap sleeves that flatter her arms. Other observations:
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Obama’s National-Security Fraud
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National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Toledo- 4/27/2013 6:51:54 AM
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Unlike you, federal government officials are immune from charges of fraud. The executive branch, vested with all of the government’s prosecutorial authority and discretion, is not going to investigate its own operatives for carrying out its own mendacious policies.That is the story of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing and the frantic efforts of the bombers, the brothers Tsarnaev, to evade capture, shoot it out with police (two of whom they killed), and — we’re now told — detonate more bombs in Times Square. The Times Square non-attack is quite interesting.
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Obama: Our top priority must
be ´growing the economy´
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/27/2013 12:33:55 PM
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President Obama´s weekly remarks: Hi, everybody. Our top priority as a nation must be growing the economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding opportunity for the middle class. But two months ago, Congress allowed a series of automatic budget cuts to fall across the federal government that would do the opposite. In Washington-speak, these cuts were called the “sequester.” It was a bad idea then. And as the country saw this week, it’s a bad idea now. Because of these reckless cuts, there are parents whose kids just got kicked out of Head Start programs scrambling for a solution.
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Obama urges US Congress
to end ´dumb´ budget cuts
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/27/2013 3:22:44 PM
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President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the US Congress to end the "reckless" and "dumb" budget cuts known as the sequester, and to adopt a plan of "smarter" cuts to fuel economic growth. Obama´s weekly address comes after Congress on Friday overwhelming approved a bill putting furloughed air traffic controllers back on the job, thus undoing one of the most high-profile effects of the so-called sequestration, the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1 and hit federal spending across the board. (Snip) "Republicans claimed victory when the sequester first took effect,
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Obama talks tough, shows no rush to
act on Syria chemical arms evidence
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Reuters, by Matt Spetalnick, Jeff Mason
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Posted By: EagleEye- 4/26/2013 9:34:06 PM
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Washington - President Barack Obama warned Syria on Friday that its use of chemical weapons would be a "game changer" for the United States but made clear he was in no rush to intervene in the civil war there on the basis of evidence he said was still preliminary. Speaking a day after the disclosure of U.S. intelligence that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against its own people, Obama talked tough while calling for patience as he sought to fend off pressure for a swift response against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "Horrific as it is when mortars are being fired on civilians and people
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Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap
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Associated Press, by Eileen Sullivan & Matt Apuzzo
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/27/2013 5:40:17 PM
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WASHINGTON — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call. In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said. The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family. The conversations
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Democrats Surrender on Sequestration
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/27/2013 1:27:21 AM
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The Democrats proposed sequestration as part of a package to secure an increase in the debt ceiling, but they never expected it to go into effect. When it did, they felt double-crossed, apparently because they thought Republicans owed it to them to fold like a cheap suit, as usual. When the Republicans figured out that sticking with the sequester was a pretty good outcome–it represented a modest, but real, restraint on federal spending, which is what Republicans always say they want–the Democrats went to Plan B. It’s a strategy they have often used before: cut back
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White House Correspondents´ Dinner:
Conan O´Brien´s Best Jokes
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ABC News, by Sarah Parnass
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Posted By: ladyhawke- 4/28/2013 12:54:35 AM
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Comedian Conan O´Brien took a break from his late-night show, "Conan," to join President Obama in Washington, D.C. Saturday at the 2013 White House Correspondents´ Dinner. Two hours or so before the festivities began, he sent out a picture of himself behind a podium, sporting a Boston Red Sox hat. "Just rehearsed my routine to an empty ballroom at the Washington Hilton," the comedian tweeted. "The one guy unfolding chairs loved it."
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In a First, Black Voter
Turnout Rate Passes Whites
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Associated Press, by Hope Yen
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Posted By: rlwo- 4/28/2013 10:56:39 AM
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Washington - America´s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home. Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly, according to an analysis conducted for The Associated Press. Census data and exit polling show that whites and blacks will remain
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The Brothers Tsarnaev and the Danger
Whose Name we Dare not Speak
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: Judy W.- 4/28/2013 4:58:29 AM
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We now have had a number of terrorist attacks on the homeland -- though the administration often refers to them in ridiculous euphemisms like "workplace violence" -- and the behavior of the administration, including our lavishly funded FBI and Homeland Security Administration, and our richly rewarded media stars remains so predictable I´ve decided to spare you the time it takes to unravel the unending lies and poppycock we are regularly fed about these horrors, lies, and blundering that only increase our danger. This week´s bombing of civilians at the Boston Marathon in which three people, including an 8-year-old child,
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