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Storm's wake could
make voting difficult
USA Today, by Gregory Korte
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 11/2/2012 5:25:36 PM
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| Election officials in the storm-battered Northeast say voting will go on next Tuesday -- but that relocated polling places, mobile polling trucks and even an extra day of voting are possible. (Snip) In New Jersey, where nearly half the state is without power after Superstorm Sandy's Monday blow, Gov. Chris Christie has said the last thing people are thinking about is how to vote. "We'll be ready for Election Day one way or the other, and people will have the opportunity to vote in the election, but we're just going to have to see where we are," Christie said Wednesday. New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno,
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Comments:
[with Jessica Bakeman and Michael Symons]
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
blizzard, 11/2/2012 5:55:14 PM (No. 8983372)
Our military members that are out of the country are far more disenfranchised than these people will be.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 11/2/2012 5:57:35 PM (No. 8983374)
True, #1, but it's important to note that the voting rights of our military are done by DemocRATS.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 11/2/2012 6:14:02 PM (No. 8983422)
I agree #1. When the democrats make it difficult for the military people overseas to vote, I have no sympathy for these people.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Udanja99, 11/2/2012 6:21:07 PM (No. 8983450)
Setting us up to declare the election of Romney void???
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
nimby, 11/2/2012 6:27:51 PM (No. 8983478)
This is where all the election rigging will happen. Hope that Republicans have observers at the polling places.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
oriton, 11/2/2012 6:55:48 PM (No. 8983532)
They were going to make the Marathon work, so let Doomburg make voting work. Christie took out valuable time to kissy face with obama, maybe he can work on making sure his people vote in the election. Which is more the people's right, making obama look presidential or the people's constitutional right to vote? Cry me a river, you liberals always looking for an excuse to cheat.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WestCoastCowboy, 11/2/2012 7:00:58 PM (No. 8983546)
Extra Day ? Barbara Streisand !
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
CEP, 11/2/2012 7:09:33 PM (No. 8983563)
THey need the extra day because they couldn't vote early.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Caljeepgirl, 11/2/2012 7:19:19 PM (No. 8983573)
Oh well!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Susannah, 11/2/2012 7:24:10 PM (No. 8983582)
What difference will it make? They're both solidly blue states.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
srhcb, 11/2/2012 7:37:38 PM (No. 8983608)
How easy do you think it was for people to vote in the 17-1800's?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
droopydog, 11/2/2012 7:50:32 PM (No. 8983626)
Just means Romney will do better with the popular vote. We need a cold snap or rain in the swing states so all the hand-to-mouthers will stay home.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Italiano, 11/2/2012 7:53:18 PM (No. 8983631)
It seems that the more time the Democrats have, the more "lost" ballots they always seem to "find." Car trunks, closets, Democrat poll-workers' underwear and coat pockets, Democrat HQ printer trays, all the usual places misplaced ballots usually end up.
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Boston suspect´s web page venerates
Islam, Chechen independence
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Reuters, by Peter Graff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 3:18:36 PM
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Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site. Abusive comments in Russian and English were flooding onto Tsarnaev´s page on VK, a Russian-language social media site, on Friday after he was identified as a suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon. Police launched a massive manhunt for Tsarnaev, 19, after killing his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a shootout overnight. On the site, the younger Tsarnaev identifies himself as a 2011 graduate of Cambridge Rindge
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Russia´s Chechnya, Caucasus:
A breeding ground for terror
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USA Today, by Ray Locker
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 8:21:09 AM
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MOSCOW — Chechnya, the Russian republic believed to be connected to the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects, has been the scene of terrorism and related violence since the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union. Militants from Chechnya and other restive regions in Russia´s volatile North Caucasus have targeted Moscow and other areas with bombings and hostage-takings for more than 20 years. The allegations of ties to Monday´s Boston bombings are the first connection of terror attacks in the United States. Predominantly Muslim, Chechnya declared independence from Russia in November 1991. A full-scale separatist war broke out in 1994
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The Problem With Identifying
a Suspect as "Dark-Skinned"
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Slate, by Hanna Rosin
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/18/2013 11:44:51 AM
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John King of CNN caused a frenzy today when he was the first to report that a possible suspect in the Boston bombings was in custody. King told his colleague Wolf Blitzer that a law enforcement source had given him one bit of physical description: The suspect was “dark skinned.” “A physical description was given to me of the suspect, Wolf. I want to be very careful here because this is very sensitive information, but the description given to me is a dark-skinned individual,” King said, according to the Daily Caller. “And I want to just stop there.
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Jobs, factory data point
to slowing economy
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Reuters, by Lucia Mutikani
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/18/2013 11:37:00 AM
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WASHINGTON - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week and factory activity in the nation´s Mid-Atlantic region cooled in April, further signs of a moderation in economic growth. The softening growth outlook was also underscored by another report on Thursday showing a gauge of future economic activity fell in March for the first time in seven months. They were the latest data to indicate a step-back in the economy after a brisk start to the year as tighter fiscal policy began to weigh. "The evidence is mounting that the economy lost momentum
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Boston poses new turf for
Obama as "consoler-in-chief"
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CBS News, by Lindsey Boerma
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/18/2013 9:02:40 AM
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Americans as a people "refuse to be terrorized," President Obama assured Tuesday, one day after twin bombs at the Boston Marathon left three of them dead and more than 100 others seriously wounded. On Thursday morning he arrives in Boston for an interfaith vigil honoring the victims of an attack being termed an act of "terror" but about which otherwise little is yet understood. (Snip) Now, anew in his second term, the president stands on a stage set that begs that tried-and-true consoler costume, but offers a script yet unknown to him: No defined suspects, no cut-and-dried crime scene
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Heitkamp votes against
expanded gun sale checks
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Dickinson Press [West Dickinson, ND], by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/18/2013 8:48:03 AM
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BISMARCK — North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she could not support a measure to tighten restrictions on the sale of guns because it would have placed undue burdens on law-abiding people. A measure to expand background checks for the sale of guns failed in the Senate. Heitkamp was one of five Democrats who voted against it. In a statement, Heitkamp says she has thought a lot about the background-check measure and heard from North Dakotans. She says she voted to protect Second Amendment rights. Heitkamp says she believes the focus of gun safety should be on mental health issues
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Price of fame: Performers
and sports stars die younger
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Reuters, by Belinda Goldsmith
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 10:50:00 PM
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LONDON - The price of fame can be high with an international study on Thursday finding that people who enjoy successful entertainment or sporting careers tend to die younger. Researchers Richard Epstein and Catherine Epstein said the study, based on analysing 1,000 New York Times obituaries from 2009-2011, found film, music, stage performers and sports people died at an average age of 77.2 years. This compared to an average lifespan of 78.5 years for creative workers, 81.7 for professionals and academics, and 83 years for people in business, military and political careers.
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Apple shares fall below $400
on fears of slowing sales
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BBC News [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 10:46:09 PM
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Shares of Apple dipped below the $400 mark for the first time since December 2011 amid concerns over slowing sales. Its shares fell as low as $398.11 in Wednesday trading, before ending the day down 5.5% at $402.80. The concerns were triggered after one of its suppliers, Cirrus Logic, which makes sound components for the iPhone and iPad, reported a decline in sales. With Apple due to release its latest quarterly results next week, some fear the numbers may be underwhelming. According to various estimates, demand from Apple accounts for nearly 90% of Cirrus´s revenue.
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Boston Marathon Runners Sidelined
by Bombings Feel ´Angry,´ ´Disappointed´
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ABC News, by Alyssa Newcomb
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 7:58:05 PM
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First-time marathoner Andrea Kalsow was on mile 21 of the Boston Marathon course when she heard bombs had wreaked havoc at the finish line. "In that instant I knew my run was over," Kalsow, 23, of Brighton, Mass., told ABCNews.com One in four of the elite runners who´d spent months training for the Boston Marathon couldn´t cross the finish line and collect their medals before the blasts ended the race. For those 5,000-plus people it was a frustrating end to a day that was supposed to end in celebration. "It´s heartbreaking because you train
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Top Dem sees ´train wreck´
for Obama health law
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Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 4:11:03 PM
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WASHINGTON -- A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama´s health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he thinks it´s headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama´s health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense. Baucus is the first top Democrat to publicly voice fears about the rollout of the new health care law, designed to bring coverage to some 30 million uninsured Americans through a mix
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Mid-April Linked
With National Tragedy
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CBS News, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 10:26:07 AM
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MIAMI – The deadly attacks in Boston Monday left a city and a nation searching for answers. But it has also drawn attention to an odd historical phenomenon that happens around this time of April. April 15 will be forever linked with the horrific bombings in Boston during the Boston Marathon. At least three people were killed and another 144 were injured during the bombings. April 16, 2007 was the date of the Virginia Tech University massacre where Seung-Hui Cho shot 32 students and faculty to death and injured 23 others before committing suicide. April 17 is linked
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Bomb blast in southern Indian city of
Bangalore injures at least 16 people
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 10:21:39 AM
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BANGALORE, India – A powerful bomb exploded Wednesday near the office of a political party in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, injuring at least 16 people, police said. The bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked about 100 yards from the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bangalore´s Malleshwaram neighborhood, said Lalrokhuma Pachau, director general of police in Karnataka state, of which Bangalore is the capital. The injured were being treated at nearby hospitals, where doctors said the condition of two people was serious, Pachau said. Ten of the injured were policemen who were on duty
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control
despite 90 per cent support. Truly,
he is a lame-duck president
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:42:40 AM
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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Obama angrily denounces
gun-rights groups as willful liars
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/17/2013 6:37:42 PM
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President Obama angrily blamed the defeat Wednesday of his centerpiece gun-control proposal on lies spread by the National Rifle Association, calling it “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” “The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Mr. Obama said in the White House rose garden about 90 minutes after the vote. “It came down to politics.” As he spoke, Mr. Obama was surrounded by family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Also with him was former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Suspect 1 dead, search is on
for suspect 2 in Watertown
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA] & Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 4:15:42 AM
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Boston--FOX 25 has confirmed suspect #1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead and the search for suspect #2 is ongoing. FOX 25 has confirmed through sources that suspect #1 is dead and police are searching for suspect #2. Mass. State Police asked Watertown residents not to answer the door unless it is an announced police official. Police in Watertown, Mass., began searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday. Local reports say the suspects threw and
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Boston Marathon bombs: live
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Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 6:52:32 AM
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Latest 11.42 (06.42) The two suspects may be foreign nationals, according to NBC´s Pete Williams. Quote They were legal permanent residents... They were in this country legally, at least a year. They appear to be from Turkey, possibly Chechens from Turkey. That seems to be the nationality here. We´re told they were not students, in their early twenties. One 20, one 21. We don´t have their names yet. The Associated Press has also said the suspects are from Russian region near Chechnya, and had lived in the US at least one year. 11.25 (06.25) A woman in Watertown has snipers
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Schumer: Do not ‘jump to conclusions’
about connection between Boston
attacks, immigration
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Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 12:49:40 PM
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WASHINGTON — New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer admonished colleagues not to “try to conflate” the immigration reform bill that the Senate is considering with the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the perpetrators of which have been identified as immigrants. “I’d like to ask that all of us not jump to conclusions regarding the events in Boston or try to conflate those events with this legislation,” Schumer said Friday at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the immigration bill. As the hearing was happening, the Boston metropolitan area was on lockdown, as police attempted to
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A growing sense that we´re not
getting the truth about Boston bombing
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted
down gun legislation ‘out of fear’
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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A Stirring Send-Off For
the Iron Lady – And No
One Missed the Obamas
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PJ Media, by Mike McNally
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 11:39:38 PM
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After all the controversy – it was too much, and too expensive; it would be marred by protests – this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war prime minister. Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin
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´My children were set up,´ father claims
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Associated Press *, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 12:34:59 PM
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Two brothers of Chechen origin suspected of staging the Boston marathon bombings, one of whom has been shot dead by police, are innocent of any crime, the Interfax news agency quotes a man identified as their father as saying. ‘‘In my opinion, my children were set up by the secret services because they are practising Muslims,’’ Anzor Tsarnaev told the Interfax news agency on Friday (Snip) On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as ‘‘Islam’’ and he says his personal goal is ‘‘career and money.’’
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Misinformation and Anxiety in
Boston Terrorism Investigation
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PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 10:38:32 PM
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Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday’s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon. The anxiety stemming from the attack and the stream of inaccurate news about it is further freighted, moreover, by the FBI’s confirmation that two letters addressed to top political officials — President Obama and Senator Richard Wicker (R., MS) — tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison. As noted below, a man identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the mailings. Early this afternoon, massive confusion
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Griner Reveals That She’s Gay
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CBS Sports, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 1:39:43 PM
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Waco - Baylor star Brittney Griner has revealed she’s a lesbian. The Bears center, who was picked No. 1 overall in the recent WNBA Draft (to the Phoenix Mercury) and is considered by many to be an all-time great in women’s college basketball, casually explained her sexual orientation to Sports Illustrated. Griner was asked by SI’s Maggie Gray on the difference between men’s and women’s sports when it comes to acceptance of sexual orientation; why the WNBA has been able to often embrace many lesbians within their sport, while male sports in America still waits on its first publicly gay player.
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