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Powerful storm devastates
New York, New Jersey
Washington Post, by Dan Eggen and William Branigin
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/30/2012 7:59:53 PM
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| Storm-ravaged residents of New York and New Jersey began urgent recovery efforts Tuesday after a nighttime pummeling from Hurricane Sandy, which caused widespread flooding, raging fires and broad power outages and left at least 40 people dead from Connecticut to North Carolina. The devastating storm’s torrential rains and howling winds left behind floodwaters from Lower Manhattan to Atlantic City, N.J., while firefighters continued to battle a still-smoldering fire that consumed scores of homes in a waterfront neighborhood in Queens. Mighty New York City was largely paralyzed,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
kanphil, 10/30/2012 9:03:55 PM (No. 8975667)
Words cannot express how bad I feel for those folks in Jersey, NYC and Connecticut.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mabelkitty, 10/30/2012 9:05:24 PM (No. 8975670)
As do I.
Then I remember the hateful things they've said about the Salvation Army and churches when they donate and help others.
I hope they remember who the first are who show up, and they won't be government employees.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 10/30/2012 10:16:11 PM (No. 8975821)
Very sad, indeed. NY'rs are tough and resilient. Too bad they have such an idiot now for a Mayor...I bet they will miss Giuliani a lot in the next six or ten weeks.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
so_free_me, 10/30/2012 10:45:39 PM (No. 8975876)
I am so sorry for all of you in NYC. I do hope Bloomberg rises to the occasion and is 100 times better than I expect him to be.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
steph_gray, 10/31/2012 12:26:17 AM (No. 8976001)
I am sorry for everyone in NYC, but admit I am more sorry for the minority of smart conservatives and Republicans.
I know they exist there because I live in Massachusetts. They are probably the ones who will lead the rebuilding, and get no thanks for it.
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NRA comes out with guns
blazing as convention opens
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Washington Times, by David Sherfinski
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/3/2013 11:46:42 PM
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National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre lashed out at members of the media and “political elites” during a Friday speech at the group’s national convention in Houston, Texas Gov. Rick Perry showed off his marksmanship, and Sen. Ted Cruz challenged Vice President Joseph R. Biden to a debate about gun control. “They think they know better than we do,” Mr. LaPierre told delegates Friday afternoon. “They think they’re smarter than we are.”
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Investigators sharpen focus on
Boston bombing suspect’s widow
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Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/3/2013 11:41:57 PM
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Federal law enforcement officials are sharpening their focus on the widow of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing after finding al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine and other radical Islamist material on her computer, according to law enforcement officials. The probe of the computer belonging to Katherine Russell, 24, widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is part of the effort by investigators to determine whether Russell knew anything about the April 15 bombing plot or helped her husband and his brother, Dzhokhar, hide from authorities, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
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The deadly sound silence can make
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Boston Herald, by Peter Gelzinis
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/2/2013 11:21:23 PM
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We already know that Dias Kadyrbayev was either too stupid or too lazy to continue as an engineering major at UMass Dartmouth. His New York lawyer will soon try to convince a federal judge that this 19-year-old kid from Kazakhstan wasn’t even bright enough to put two and two together. When the FBI released security camera stills of the Tsarnaev brothers strolling toward infamy on Boylston Street, Special Agent-in-Charge Richard DesLauriers made a point of saying someone out there would know exactly
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Pentagon: Soldiers who spread
faith may be prosecuted
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Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/2/2013 10:54:38 PM
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Soldiers who promote their faith can be prosecuted under military law, the Pentagon said in a brief statement released to the media. “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense,” the statement to Fox News stated. “Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis.” The statement comes on the heels of a Breitbart report about Pentagon officials who met with Mikey Weinstein, the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, to shape policies that prevent active duty members from sharing faith. Mr. Weinstein has a no-tolerance view of Christianity
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Feds accuse 6-year-old of plagiarism,
strip her duck stamp victory
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Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/2/2013 10:51:58 PM
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The federal government accused a 6-year-old of plagiarism and stripped her of her victory in this year’s national Junior Duck Stamp contest, leaving the youngest-ever winner in tears and igniting a fierce debate in the wildlife art community over artistic techniques, precocious youngsters and catty parents. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which runs the annual contest, says that by first tracing the outlines of her duck from one of her father’s unpublished photos before painting it, Madison Grimm violated the rules.
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President Obama’s sequester
sleight of hand
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Washington Post, by Roy Blunt
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/2/2013 10:49:29 PM
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Never mind that sequestration was originally President Obama’s idea — an idea he later called “dumb.” Forget that he threatened to “veto any effort to get rid of the automatic spending cuts.” As the deadline loomed for Washington to implement the 2.4 percent in spending cuts, the president didn’t tell his Cabinet agencies to reprioritize spending, nor did he ask Congress for more flexibility to protect the economy and bolster public safety. Instead, he did what everyone agrees he’s really good at: He took to the campaign trail.
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Boston suspect says bombings were
initially planned for 4th of July
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Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/2/2013 10:46:40 PM
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The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings told the FBI that he and his brother initially considered committing suicide bombings and also planned attacking on the Fourth of July at Boston’s large celebration along the Charles River, according to two law enforcement officials. The suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, said that he and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, decided to launch their attack earlier because they completed building the pressure-cooker bombs more quickly than they expected
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Biden ponders a 2016 bid,
but a promotion to the top
job seems to be a long shot
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/2/2013 10:44:21 PM
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When Vice President Biden arrives in South Carolina on Friday to headline a sold-out dinner for state Democrats, here’s what you can expect to go down: Biden will stoke speculation that he wants to run for president in 2016 by pressing the flesh in the first-in-the-South primary state. He will show himself to be on a first-name basis with many of the local politicians and county activists who will line up to greet him. They will gush over his attributes — genuine, down-to-earth, rock solid on the issues
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Pentagon: N. Korea Missile
Advances ‘In Line’ with Kim’s
Desire to Strike U.S.
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PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/2/2013 10:18:24 PM
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A Defense Department report to Congress on security developments in North Korea warned that the country is pulling closer to its “stated objective of being able to strike the U.S. homeland.” In the same report, Pentagon analysts also told lawmakers that Kim Jong-un really just wants to get along with the U.S., which, along with Asian allies, is the target of daily threats from the communist nation. The unclassified report, which cost $59,000, was mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. It came as North Korea sentenced an American
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Higher Education´s Role in
the Boston Marathon Attack
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National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/2/2013 10:13:59 PM
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So, UMass-Dartmouth, you have a campus where one student decided to place a bomb next to a child and blow up marathoners, and several of his friends, also students, learned of his actions, and then turned around and tried to help him by destroying evidence. This is on a college campus, a place where “tolerance” is considered the supreme value. Yet somehow, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev never learned to tolerate the existence of American children watching a marathon. Somehow his friends managed to find blowing up Americans tolerable. However, they couldn’t quite tolerate
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In Germany, a U.S. beer invasion
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Washington Post, by Michael Birnbaum
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/1/2013 10:40:03 PM
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BERLIN — Almost 65 years after Allied planes flew Western supplies into blockaded Berlin, a new American import is arriving by air: craft beer. The beer is being flown in as part of a new surge of German interest in American brewing, upending a centuries-old relationship in which German beer defined the golden standard for brewing and Americans emulated it. Now, with craft brewers in the United States capturing an ever-greater share of their home market, they are expanding in Germany as well. German consumers, intrigued by unfamiliar flavors, are purchasing more imported beer and are increasingly copying American
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Skeleton of teenage girl confirms
cannibalism at Jamestown colony
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Washington Post, by David Brown
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/1/2013 10:33:06 PM
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The first chops, to the forehead, did not go through the bone and are perhaps evidence of hesitancy about the task. The next set, after the body was rolled over, was more effective. One cut split the skull all the way to the base. “The person is truly figuring it out as they go,” said Douglas Owsley, a physical anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution. In the meantime, someone — perhaps with more experience — was working on a leg. The tibia bone is broken with a single blow, as one might do in butchering a cow.
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Benghazi Impeachment
Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched
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PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:10:55 AM
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On October 27th, 2012, only days before the presidential election, I wrote: If Barack Obama is reelected, will he face impeachment over Benghazi — a yet more unpleasant and far more wrenching result than to lose an election? (Snip) Reading Stephen F. Hayes’ new article in The Weekly Standard — “The Benghazi Talking Points” — I am beginning to feel like Nostradamus. I’m not ready to make any predictions, but let’s put it this way… Barack Obama is bloody lucky he’s a Democrat, because if he were a Republican,
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The Benghazi Talking Points
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Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/3/2013 11:17:54 AM
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Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and additional information about why the changes were made and by whom. As intelligence officials pieced together the puzzle
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Obama´s sunny speech in
Mexico raises eyebrows
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Los Angeles Times, by Kathleen Hennessey & Tracy Wilkinson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/3/2013 10:13:38 PM
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MEXICO CITY — President Obama on Friday painted a sunny picture of a modern Mexico emerging from its past troubles, an attempt at rebranding that serves the political aims of both governments but clashes with the realities of a country beset by violence and poverty. On his second day of a swing through Latin America, Obama emphasized optimism about Mexico´s economic future and offered a broad endorsement of President Enrique Peña Nieto´s reform agenda. Speaking to a crowd largely made up of high school and college students, Obama pushed the next generation of Mexicans to continue to demand change.
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BENGHAZI: Names of ‘whistleblower’
witnesses revealed
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Fox News, by James Rosen, Chad Pergram
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 1:06:01 PM
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Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff. But now Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi “whistleblowers” who are set to testify before a widely anticipated congressional hearing on Wednesday. Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks; Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations
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Court OKs Barring
High IQs for Cops
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ABC News, by Staff
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Posted By: US veteran- 5/3/2013 8:16:12 AM
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A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. “This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control
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Rep. Paul Ryan Now Backs Adoption
of Children by Homosexuals
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Cybercast News Service, by Michael W. Chapman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/3/2013 10:54:53 AM
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate, used to oppose adoption of children by homosexuals but now says it is okay for gays to adopt kids and that he would vote to support such a policy. The Catholic faith, which Ryan professes, teaches that such adoptions “are contrary to the divine plan” of God and Pope Francis has said that gay adoption is a form of discrimination against children. At a meeting with some of his constituents in Janesville, Wisc., on Apr. 29, Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, was asked about
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Funeral director struggles to find
graveyard to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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New York Daily News, by Bev Ford & Larry McShane
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:45:55 AM
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He´s a body without a burial plot. Four cemeteries in three states have refused to accept the battered corpse of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said the Massachusetts funeral director tasked with finding his final resting place. Peter Stefan, funeral director and owner of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass., tried to find a plot for Tsarnaev in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts — but nobody wants to bury the Russian-born terrorist on their land, he said. If nothing comes up, “we have to go to the federal government
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Bombshell CNN Investigation:
3 Al Qaeda Operatives Took
Part In Attack On Benghazi Consulate
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/3/2013 4:54:39 AM
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According to an investigation by CNN reporters, three Yemeni members of Al Qaeda took part on the coordinated attack on an American consulate and a safe house in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. “One senior U.S. law enforcement official told CNN that “three or four members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” or AQAP, took part in the attack,” CNN reports. It is not clear what command structure may have ordered the Al Qaeda operatives to strike at American diplomatic assets in Benghazi, or if the individuals were already in the region and took advantage of the
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Will Barack Obama ever stop
apologising for America?
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Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/4/2013 1:21:19 AM
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I’ve just watched this extraordinary clip of Barack Obama’s speech in Mexico City earlier today, where the president blames the United States for the out of control gun violence in Mexico, a frankly ludicrous assertion. RealClear Politics has a partial transcript: "Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States," President Obama said during a speech at Mexico´s Anthropology Museum. "I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always
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The Immigration Reform Opportunity
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Wall Street Journal, by Marco Rubio
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Posted By: tocsin- 5/3/2013 5:45:32 AM
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Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month. This part of the process is a chance to fix America´s broken immigration system and end today´s de facto amnesty for those who live here illegally. It will also show that Washington can work when leaders listen to the American people and invoke their wisdom in debates and legislative work. In January, I outlined my principles for conservative immigration reform in these pages—principles that guided the drafting of this legislation.
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A day in the strawberry fields
seems like forever
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Los Angeles Times, by Hector Becerra
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 6:59:57 AM
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About 30 minutes into my job as a picker, the strawberry fairy left her first gift. On one of the beds of berries that seemed to stretch forever into the Santa Maria marine layer, Elvia Lopez had laid a little bundle of picked fruit. She and the other three dozen Mexican immigrants in the field were bent at an almost 90-degree angle, using two hands to pack strawberries into plastic containers that they pushed along on ungainly one-wheeled carts. They moved forward, relentlessly, ever bent, following a hulking machine with a conveyor belt that spirited away their fruit.
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Nancy Pelosi: ‘I pray’ Hillary
Clinton runs for president
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Washington Times, by David Sherfinski
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/3/2013 10:49:50 AM
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday at an event in Little Rock, Ark., that she prays former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will run for president, saying it would send a powerful message to women in the world. “I pray that Hillary Clinton decides to run for president of the United States,” Mrs. Pelosi said during a wide-ranging discussion at the Clinton School of Public Service. “Nobody has been first lady and senator and now secretary of state. Putting everything aside that she is a woman, she’d be the best qualified person that we’ve seen
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