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Women: Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex in the Dominican Republic
Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By:Drive, 11/1/2012 8:09:52 AM
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| Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year. In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000 acre resort in the Dominican Republic. They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100. The women spoke through a translator in the company of their attorney, Melanio Figueroa.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
disasterman, 11/1/2012 8:11:51 AM (No. 8978922)
CNN is already setting up a talk show for the Congressman.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
suejeanne, 11/1/2012 8:16:47 AM (No. 8978931)
Paging Gloria Allred, paging Gloria Allred!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 11/1/2012 8:16:58 AM (No. 8978932)
The only thing worse than paying for these types of services is.... failing to pay for them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Oriton, 11/1/2012 8:18:14 AM (No. 8978936)
Poster 2, my exact first thought. I hear crickets though.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
enuf8, 11/1/2012 8:20:49 AM (No. 8978943)
So Menendez is the one Drudge was referencing with his 'teaser'. Hmmmmm--a Democrat--surely they don't pay for sex. Ask Teddy K or Dodd or Franks.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mizzmac, 11/1/2012 8:21:09 AM (No. 8978946)
Sadly, nothing new here.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Throwback, 11/1/2012 8:21:51 AM (No. 8978948)
In his defense, he ran the $500 payment through his new HHS Choomster-Care payment schedule calculator.
They are lucky they got more than a pain pill.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Maybeth, 11/1/2012 8:21:52 AM (No. 8978949)
This is the senator who demanded that members of our Secret Service be fired for hiring prostitutes in Columbia. .... Oh my! The glass houses are coming down.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bnrmusa, 11/1/2012 8:22:48 AM (No. 8978953)
The senator has a pretty good expense package, one of the GSA credit cards. The little pin dick stiffed em anyway.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 11/1/2012 8:26:59 AM (No. 8978963)
Posted previously
http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=709906
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
beca, 11/1/2012 8:27:37 AM (No. 8978966)
#3 ^5 lol...nothing like a woman scorned......gotta pay the hohoho..or she isnt bashful about talking......stingy senator....wouldnt it be nice if he was as tight with out tax dollars....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
fed-up, 11/1/2012 8:28:54 AM (No. 8978970)
This first thing I wondered was if he was up for re-election, and of course, he is. I don't like these "surprises" regardless of party affiliation. He may be a rat, but to bring it out now, looks bad for the challenger. I say it will backfire.
New Jersey has enough to worry about right now. This will look petty and desperate.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird, 11/1/2012 8:30:13 AM (No. 8978974)
A last minute windfall for his opponent in the New Jersey senate race, Republican Joe Kyrillos.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Cardsfan, 11/1/2012 8:30:50 AM (No. 8978980)
He's a liberal - this will get him more votes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 11/1/2012 8:31:54 AM (No. 8978983)
Don't know what the "problem" is. Such "activity" is considered a resume enhancer by the demonrat party. In fact, I believe being a low-life-womanizing-loser is in the job description and a requirement to be a "senator" in the demonrat party.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Quaestio, 11/1/2012 8:32:02 AM (No. 8978985)
#14 beat me to it. My guess is he was sliding in popularity, got jealous of all the recent attention on Bill Clinton, and this was the strategy his office came up with.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
The Patriot Code, 11/1/2012 8:36:37 AM (No. 8978992)
Hopefully this will derail the career of his snotty daughter Alicia, the the democrap strategist TV talking head.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LZK, 11/1/2012 8:37:22 AM (No. 8978996)
I'm shocked I tell you -- simply shocked that a senator from New Jersey would stoop so low.....
Sarcasm -- big time!!
Why Governor Christi was kissing some butt yesterday -- wasn't he? Wonder what the cost of that piece of political maneuvering was -- eh????
LZK
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cartcart, 11/1/2012 8:39:42 AM (No. 8979004)
At first the cared, then he didn't? This guy is a sleaze! Dems always care. And girls, it is not all about money, is it?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
tommyr, 11/1/2012 8:48:23 AM (No. 8979033)
Another question is just who paid for the luxury resort?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
cheese, 11/1/2012 8:53:19 AM (No. 8979043)
Hunh. I guess the ladies didn't know that they needed to cover the $400.00 deductible themselves. Maybe they can call Sandra Fluck for information and assistance.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Geelabeela828, 11/1/2012 8:56:17 AM (No. 8979049)
What is it with these people and Easter Sunday? Most of us are on our knees for a far more important reason.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
lana720, 11/1/2012 8:59:19 AM (No. 8979053)
Maybe he paid $400 for the cigars and $100 for the girls? It's a dem thing. Cheap SOB.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
qmcgs, 11/1/2012 9:00:44 AM (No. 8979055)
Has the senator been blackmailed?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
owl, 11/1/2012 9:03:07 AM (No. 8979058)
Puh-leeze let this make it to the supermarket tabloids . Nothing is so fun as watching the Lames juggle handgrenades .
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
nevernaught, 11/1/2012 9:08:20 AM (No. 8979077)
He is now qualified for a Secret Service job, and vice versa if you think about it. The third choice is being a TSA agent.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 11/1/2012 9:11:09 AM (No. 8979089)
After the way the Governor of NJ acted the last two days, in blessing the G_D -like President for doing the job he is hired to do, the whole thing plain stinks. While Christie was kissing Obama's butt, many 1000's of people were stuck, stranded, decimated, you name it. If the two egomaniacs could get off TV and do their jobs, people might have a chance to get their lives back together sooner. Their burlesque act make me sick to my stomach. I don't muck like the mayor of NYC but at least he had the common sense to tell the President NO, stay away, and take care of your job from D>C>, the way you are supposed to. The way the NJ Governor acted was unbelievable, especially when other states are in desperate straits also. Bipartisanship ship my butt. Obama has none in his DNA. Christie acted like a fool,in my opinion. He should go take lessons from the Governor of Lousiana, who knows how to conduct himself, and be a leader.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Alex, 11/1/2012 9:22:36 AM (No. 8979120)
According to this web site http://gocaribbean.about.com/od/healthandsafety/a/Caribbeansex_2.htm prostitution is legal in the DR and since Menendez isn't married where's the scandal? The possibility that he ripped off the ladies of the evening might make him look bad, but that's what democrats do, look bad.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Bevan, 11/1/2012 9:28:41 AM (No. 8979130)
Finally, a fiscally conservative democrat! s/
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
FunOne, 11/1/2012 9:35:00 AM (No. 8979145)
Were this a republican senator, his fellow party members would ask him to resign.
But, being a democrat, this is a resume enhancer for Menendez.
This illustrates the different value system of the dems v. GOP.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff, 11/1/2012 9:37:23 AM (No. 8979150)
Paying for it is the only way the snivelling little pantywaiste is gonna get some.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
nightvision, 11/1/2012 9:41:39 AM (No. 8979162)
It's a little late for an 'October surprise', but what the heck.
This guy is a weasel-faced RAT! On his Wiki entry, there's a whole list of "controversies" he's been involved with. And I just love this: "A poll released by CBS and the New York Times in 2006 asked participants to name the first thing that came to their minds when hearing Menendez's name: the top answer given was “corruption” or “crooked”."
#12, you're kidding, right?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 11/1/2012 9:42:55 AM (No. 8979164)
And guess who's money he used...
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
bpl40, 11/1/2012 9:43:42 AM (No. 8979167)
To the 'Rats it upgrades his resume. Bringing him closer to Bubba.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 11/1/2012 9:51:16 AM (No. 8979194)
how do you make a hormone? Don't pay her.
(Sorry, lucianne, I lapsed into my h.s. mode)
Menendez has a corrupt practice of renting his property to non profits who he obtains earmarks for.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Hazymac, 11/1/2012 9:58:02 AM (No. 8979208)
So that worthless mouth on the federal fisc, Moon Man Menendez, has the fire down below. Who knew or even suspected? Or cared? Hey, senator, aren't you supposed to agree on the tariff before dropping trou? Ain't it just like a Democrat to short change a horizontal performance artist after the fact? What a scum bucket Menendez is.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 11/1/2012 9:59:18 AM (No. 8979211)
He did to her what the Democrats do to us on Social Security. Only give back 1/5 of what you could have earned in a privately managed financial investment.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
papasparky, 11/1/2012 10:04:38 AM (No. 8979229)
Rework of an old joke:
QUESTION; What is the definition of a three time loser?
Answer; A DR prostitute with HIV driving her Chevy Volt to the bank with a rubber check from a Democrat Senator.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Butch59, 11/1/2012 10:07:51 AM (No. 8979248)
I can just see all the other Dim senators crowding around Menendez, looking at him with adoration and asking him "Hey man, just how did you get away with stiffing those "broads" $400? We'd all like to know"!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
amylu, 11/1/2012 10:11:02 AM (No. 8979263)
The way Drudge hyped this all day, I was expecting a really BIG somebody. What a let-down!
Who is this little gnat? I wouldn't recognize him if I passed him on the street. His photo, though, reminds me of Jim Bakker, the TV preacher who scandalized the nation many years back.
Moving on...
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
coldoc, 11/1/2012 10:19:37 AM (No. 8979291)
Just goes to show, don't ever try to screw a hooker. She's a professional!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
SouthSanAntonio, 11/1/2012 10:22:49 AM (No. 8979307)
He is a Demon-RAT. Nobody expects any moral convictions from him, so why is this even news???
To be honest, if this is true, I'm just shocked this was with female prostitutes.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Salt5792, 11/1/2012 10:27:56 AM (No. 8979334)
If only whoring was the worst thing that Democrats do.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree, 11/1/2012 10:41:15 AM (No. 8979397)
A hundred bucks? Is this a case of unequal pay for the same work? A possible question is, how much were the male prostitutes working out of Barney Frank's house being paid?
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
faldo, 11/1/2012 10:51:05 AM (No. 8979442)
Will Menendez resign in disgrace and allow Christie to name a replacement until a special election can be held...?
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
rplat, 11/1/2012 10:51:50 AM (No. 8979447)
I’m sure he had simply and inadvertently drawn down his “hooker” account below the level of his last transaction and he just didn’t have enough cash to pay the girls. Easily fixed with an immediate deposit. Now move on, nothing more to see here . . . I mean for goodness sake couldn’t anybody have made this innocent mistake?
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
KS.Kayla, 11/1/2012 11:22:18 AM (No. 8979562)
I do not like this type of politics-bringing out accusations right before the election. I don't know anything about this fellow-or whether their is truth to it or not. It's easy to make up a story & hope it sticks-the Dems have been doing it for years! As to whether it would affect the election-I can't imagine that it would. Democrats seem to expect this from their leaders, how else would you explain Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, etc.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/1/2012 11:33:36 AM (No. 8979612)
Yes, and your point is?
He is a Lib, I'm sure his wife is OK with this, right?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Donna M, 11/1/2012 11:47:32 AM (No. 8979664)
If it were close, it might put Joe Kyrillos (a good man, but didn't ace it in the one critical debate) over the top, but Menendez has something like a 20 point lead, and the corrupt NJ media has squashed any mention of this.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
GardenGal, 11/1/2012 12:10:33 PM (No. 8979746)
#48, he is divorced.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
radrelic, 11/1/2012 12:16:37 PM (No. 8979770)
Typical dem politician hypocrisy.
But Newt also was saying one thing and doing another and one other than his used up sickly spouse.
This goes nowhere because GOP weren't voting for him and dems do not care.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 11/1/2012 12:21:58 PM (No. 8979793)
Career enhancement.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
horacer, 11/1/2012 12:33:39 PM (No. 8979836)
This belongs with the Trump announcement and Allreds fiasco. David Vitter (R) - LA was married when he got caught. Hookers didn't hurt him. Public officials acting like pigs isn't news anymore.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
pickle1, 11/1/2012 12:36:17 PM (No. 8979847)
Is there anyone in Congress that is moral or honest?
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Calvinesq, 11/1/2012 12:55:08 PM (No. 8979895)
I think the real crime here is that we have plenty of working women here willing to do the job. But, no, this senator has to send jobs overseas. Really, what's wrong with Admiral Wilson Boulevard there senator?
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Flipper3, 11/1/2012 1:07:27 PM (No. 8979930)
$500 to $100? It's good to see that one Dem knows something about debt reduction.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 11/1/2012 1:42:15 PM (No. 8980018)
Menendez didn't pay his sex with a putamama in Dominican Republic. We taxpayers did.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
MKirkUSN, 11/1/2012 3:26:44 PM (No. 8980302)
I guess not all Dem's are against offshore drilling after all.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
Father of Internet, 11/1/2012 4:10:24 PM (No. 8980431)
Doesn't matter. The NJ Supreme Court will allow Jon Corzine to replace Menendez at the last minute, stating that NJ voters MUST have a choice! Worst logic ever when they allowed Torricelli to be replaced by Lautencadaver at the last minute...
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
paulfromTexas, 11/1/2012 4:14:58 PM (No. 8980441)
Poor working girls just trying to make living whoring, much like Menendez...now this. I hope they didn't catch "greasy politician " from him, or worse the dreaded "mafioso"
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
HistoryBuff, 11/1/2012 5:40:27 PM (No. 8980619)
Don't believe it. It is a cash in advance business. You can't reposses or take out a mechanic's lein if you aren't paid.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
carolina blue, 11/1/2012 5:45:06 PM (No. 8980629)
I am just in utter shock I tell you...just cant believe it. Three lashes with a wet Noodle should be sufficent punshiment for this high crime....
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
Ida Lil, 11/1/2012 6:34:50 PM (No. 8980698)
All the out of US party payment gaffs merely reflect the fact that all democrats connected to Obe's coat tails are as poor at business as he. They think in money exchange rates the women s think in American cash. Hmm do they have to sign a sort of pay for play agreement?
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
cav160, 11/1/2012 7:19:20 PM (No. 8980806)
Well this clown is cabinet level material in bozo administration!
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 11/1/2012 7:30:29 PM (No. 8980827)
In re #18, Christie was hugging Obie for dollars...lots of dollars. I guess you do what you got to do when you need lots of money even if you have to do it on camera.
Meanwhile, back at the Menendez scandal, I guess the two women should consider accepting a Visa or master card next time Bobby boy goes down for another "fix"?
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
ArtieC, 11/1/2012 8:07:52 PM (No. 8980886)
Ok, poster 2 cracked me up.
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
uno_thatguy, 11/1/2012 8:10:50 PM (No. 8980889)
I'm with you #28. Where's the scandal. This activity only started a couple of weeks ago..., er millenia ago. And, this isn't the first time claims have been made that were not the original agreement in this industry.
Also, a guy who shoots and kills his wife and three others in a hair salon and injures several more is an "alleged" assailant. A guy with a couple tons of dope in a truck is an "alleged" trafficer. Yet this guy positively stiffed these girls for $400 bucks. Strange someone joker just now found them. I wonder if he coughed up his $400 or did he stiff them also.
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
qmcgs, 11/2/2012 7:47:21 AM (No. 8981598)
Did he break 18 U.S.C. § 2423(d)?
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ceos/citizensguide/citizensguide_trafficking.html
The age of consent in the Dominican Republic is 18.
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´ GOP filibuster on guns
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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´My bangs are getting a little irritating´: Michelle Obama admits she already regrets her high-maintenance hairdo
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone Call from Obama - report
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Christians, here´s why we´re losing our religion
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Broadcasters worry about ´Zero TV´ homes
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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´Mickey Mouse Club´ star Annette Funicello dies at 70
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Special ops veterans’ group calls for select probe of Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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