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Despite the Great Recession, Obama’s
New Coalition of Elites Has Thrived
Daily Beast, by Joel Kotkin
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Posted By:StormCnter, 11/1/2012 5:03:46 AM
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| The middle class, we’re frequently told, decides elections. But the 2012 race has in many ways been a contest between two elites, with the plutocratic corporate class lining up behind Mitt Romney to try and reclaim its position on top of the pile from an ascendant new group—made up of the leaders of social and traditional media, the upper bureaucracy and the academy—that’s bet big on Barack Obama. As recently as 2008, the Wall Street plutocrats were divided, as Obama deftly managed to run as both the candidate of hope and change and the candidate of the banks.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/1/2012 9:47:56 AM (No. 8979178)
Yes, on OUR MONEY!
Time to take these people out...of our midst and put them in PRISON for a variety of crimes!
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Boehner-led cost-cutting
saving millions in the House
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USA Today, by Susan Davis
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 12:12:49 PM
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WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives will spend 15% less on its own operations this year than it did three years ago under a cost-cutting effort launched by Speaker John Boehner that is on pace to save taxpayers more than $400 million by the end of this year When Republicans took control of the House in January 2011, Boehner, the new speaker, said cutting House spending would be a priority. Since then, House lawmakers have seen a nearly 20% decrease in their office budgets. Three years ago, the average lawmaker had an annual $1.5 million budget, which is down to $1.2 million.
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The Speaker Responds
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 12:08:38 PM
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In response to reports that congressional leaders from both parties are seeking exemptions from Obamacare, Speaker John Boehner´s spokesman released the following statement. "The fact that Democratic leaders want to opt themselves out of the ObamaCare exchanges shows that Sen. Baucus isn´t the only one who realizes the President´s healthcare law is a ´train wreck.´ The Speaker would like to see resolution of this problem, along with the other nightmares created by Washington Democrats´ health law, which is why he supports full repeal. In the meantime, it is Democrats´ problem to solve.
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A Superheroic Caped Crusade to
Keep Troops Safe in Afghanistan
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Wall Street Journal, by Nathan Hodge
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 11:59:39 AM
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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan—In fictional Gotham City, Batman protects citizens from crime. Here, at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, another Dark Knight is on a different kind of crusade: making sure soldiers carry their rifles and don´t get run over at night. "Bagram Batman" is the star of a recent series of public-service announcements broadcast to troops deployed in and around Afghanistan. The camouflaged superhero—and his catchphrase, "SWEAR TO ME!"— have become an unlikely hit, winning a cult following among soldiers, and going viral on the Internet. "He acts just as well as Adam West did,"
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Tax Surprises Can Follow
When Payroll Firms Implode
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Wall Street Journal, by Angus Loten
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 11:56:26 AM
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An estimated four in 10 business owners farm out management of their payrolls. But many, including Kerry Koletar of Baltimore, are coming face to face with a downside of that strategy. The 44-year-old bookkeeper, whose family opened its flower shop five decades ago, figured the Internal Revenue Service had made a mistake when it informed her last year that the business owed $22,000 in unpaid employment taxes. She says she shrugged it off because the contractor that handled paychecks for the shop´s 13 employees had reliably collected and paid the shop´s taxes for more than a decade.
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America On Welfare
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American Spectator, by Doug Bandow
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 6:18:00 AM
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Living the good life on welfare. Even the Europeans recognize that they pay a high price for creating an increasingly dependent society. Denmark has been transfixed by the revelation of a 36-year-old single mother who collects more in benefits than many Danes earn at work, and has done so for two decades. Worried Karen Haekkerup, Minister of Social Affairs and Integration, people “think of these benefits as their rights. The rights have just expanded and expanded.” But it’s really not that much different in the U.S., the nominal home of the free. Nearly two decades ago welfare reform briefly captured
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Immigration Act: Dream Or Nightmare?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 6:08:40 AM
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Senator Jeff Sessions’ staff has begun assembling summaries of key provisions of the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill. They released the first one, which deals with how the act treats “dreamers,” this afternoon. It is titled,“Immigration Bill S. 744 Allows Milllions of Illegal Immigrants to Become Citizens in 5 Years – And Bring Their Relatives On An Expedited Basis.” * Those who qualify for the broad DREAM Act fast-track amnesty under S. 744 – estimated by Steve Camarota to be between 2 to 3 million people – are able to become citizens after being
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FEMA drags feet, leaves
schools hit by Hurricane
Sandy without materials or cash
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New York Daily News, by Corinne Lestch & Ben Chapman
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 6:03:12 AM
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Six months after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of New York, federal disaster workers have visited just 25 of 50 badly damaged city schools, education officials said Wednesday. Storm damage forced the closure of 102 schools for more than a week after Sandy hit, displacing nearly 75,000 kids. By January, all of the schools were repaired and reopened, but those 50 lack classroom materials and technology ruined by the deluge. “We still have some clouds from Hurricane Sandy hanging over our heads,” said Brian O’Connell, principal of Scholars’ Academy in Rockaway Park, Queens.
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Near-Suicidal Immigration Policies
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National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 5:47:44 AM
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Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the U.S. admits, and at times deports, foreign nationals. Despite the Obama administration’s politically driven and cyclical claims of deporting either a lot more or a lot fewer non-citizens, no one knows how many are really being sent home — for a variety of reasons. There are not any accurate statistics on how many people are living in the United States illegally. And how does one define deportation? If someone from Latin America is detained by authorities an hour after illegally crossing the border
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Terrorism on trial
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Washington Times, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 5:44:36 AM
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The Constitution stands on trial in Boston. After a manhunt with a warrantless search of thousands of homes — sometimes at gunpoint — the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was finally captured. The birthplace of the American independence movement shouldn’t be the place where liberty dies. Fortunately, the Obama administration got it mostly right when it decided Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ought to be tried in a federal court for the federal crime of “using a weapon of mass destruction.” Others, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, wanted the prime suspect interrogated as an enemy combatant, where a defendant is clothed in minimal rights.
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Patrick administration refuses to
release Tsarnaev brothers´ records
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy*
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 5:40:37 AM
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The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind’s right to privacy. Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide information about the taxpayer-funded lifestyle for the 26-year-old man and his brother and accused accomplice Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. On EBT card status or spending, state welfare spokesman Alec Loftus would only say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter received benefits that ended in 2012. He declined further comment.
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Officer’s Killing Spurred
Pursuit in Boston Attack
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New York Times, by Wendy Ruderman*
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 5:37:30 AM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Officer Sean A. Collier was 27, not much older than the Massachusetts Institute of Technology students he watched over as a campus police officer, and he sometimes joined them in a game of darts or Xbox. So when an ambulance staffed by students rolled past his parked patrol car last Thursday night, he flashed his blue lights to say hello. The students answered with their red lights. It was just a little after that routine interaction, the police said, that a pair of men approached Officer Collier’s squad car from behind
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Patrick administration refuses to
release Tsarnaev brothers´ records
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy*
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/25/2013 5:40:37 AM
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The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind’s right to privacy. Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide information about the taxpayer-funded lifestyle for the 26-year-old man and his brother and accused accomplice Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. On EBT card status or spending, state welfare spokesman Alec Loftus would only say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter received benefits that ended in 2012. He declined further comment.
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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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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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Bombing Suspect Immediately
Stopped Talking After
Being Read His Miranda Rights
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 7:46:45 AM
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Since the Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured, there’s been quite a debate over his Miranda rights and how to treat him — given that he’s a United States citizen. An Associated Press report out this morning is sure to add fuel to the fire. As soon as he was read his Miranda rights, it says, Tsarnaev stopped talking. The report notes that Tsarnaev was read his rights 16 hours after his interrogation had began. Then, he fell silent: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev immediately stopped talking after a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. Attorney’s office entered his
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Now officials claim Boston
bombing suspect was NOT
armed in boat showdown -
despite police account of firefight
and him ´shooting himself´
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Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK), by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 8:27:11 AM
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Two unnamed U.S. officials have told the Associated Press that the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard. The report contradicts the Boston police department´s own account of Dzhokar Tsarnaev´s capture on Friday - after commissioner Ed Davies described a firefight between him and officers before the terror suspect was captured. The New York Times also said an M4 rifle had been found on the boat - another claim contradicted by the latest revelations. Officers had originally said they had exchanged gunfire
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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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Her Hall of Fame: Chelsea
Clinton’s $10M buy for city’s
longest apartment
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New York Daily News, by Jason Sheftell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/24/2013 9:03:34 AM
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Think of it as a horizontal townhouse. Most developers hype the sky-high verticals of their new glitzy buildings, but a new condominium called The Whitman — soon to be home to former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton - has a completely different selling point: It features the longest apartments in the city. The four-unit building stretches an entire block between E. 26th and E. 27th Sts. It takes almost 30 second to walk the approximate 250-foot central corridor. "The hallway is a wow factor," said Douglas Elliman broker Dina Lewis, who shares the listing with partner Melanie Lazenby, daughter of
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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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´GOP´ Pollster Frank Luntz
Denounced Limbaugh, Levin
as ´Problematic´ for GOP Future
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 7:39:06 AM
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The leftists at Mother Jones are brandishing another secret tape. Pollster Frank Luntz, denounced as too conservative by liberals when he turns up on liberal networks, told a group of college students at the University of Pennsylvania this week that Rush Limbaugh and right-wing talk radio are "problematic" for the GOP and that he and Mark Levin were “killing” Marco Rubio for his immigration proposals. Democrats have “got every other source of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what´s driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio´s getting his ass kicked. Who´s
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GOP Pollster Frank Luntz:
Limbaugh, Levin, And Right-
Wing Talk Radio Are ‘Problematic’
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/25/2013 2:32:13 PM
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Progressive publication Mother Jones has revealed yet another secretly-recorded video of a Republican saying something newsworthy. This time, it’s of GOP pollster and frequent Fox News analyst Frank Luntz remarking that Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and other right-wing talk radio hosts are “problematic” for the Republican Party’s efforts to reach out to other demographics and to fight the polarization of politics. The video was recorded on an iPhone while Luntz delivered a College Republicans-sponsored speech at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this week. Most of his speech reportedly consisted of his thoughts on how words matter — for
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