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Obama or Romney - neither should expect to get much done in the Congress
Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 11/7/2012 6:40:26 AM
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| As if the economy weren’t problem enough, America’s broken and hostile political system will seriously impede the actions of whoever is elected president. After four years in the White House, Barack Obama is going grey fast. [Snip] But his wife believes that the stress of high office is to blame. “Every day, I see Barack make choices he knows will affect every American family,” Michelle wrote in an email to supporters. “That’s no small task for anyone--and more proof that he’s earning every last one of those grey hairs.” At the moment, Mitt Romney has an admirably dark head of hair,
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Comments: Urp.
Well, let's see if we can turn his hair completely white, shall we?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
redmom, 11/7/2012 6:49:17 AM (No. 8995223)
Wonder where they will vacation next, to alleviate the stress of the campaign, and restore themselves?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mabelkitty, 11/7/2012 6:51:40 AM (No. 8995231)
Good. Gridlock always was what was best for the American public.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 11/7/2012 6:58:01 AM (No. 8995242)
If Boehner isn't up to it, replace him or go third party. What's to lose?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 11/7/2012 7:10:05 AM (No. 8995269)
What do people want done? Another trillion dollar stimulus that pays off Unions and Cronies? Nationalize the oil industry?
Congress does not solve problems. It makes them worse. So, the less they do the better.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FilAm, 11/7/2012 7:17:24 AM (No. 8995292)
4 more years of this woman,She needs to shut her big mouth once in a while.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bur Oak, 11/7/2012 8:11:45 AM (No. 8995448)
Obama has already demonstrated that he doesn't need Congress. He will simply do what he wants either by executive order, regulations (eg. EPA & Dept. of Homeland Security), or by fiat. Who is going to stop him?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/7/2012 9:01:02 AM (No. 8995661)
Obama doesn't give a flip about Congress. Bernanke prints all the money he needs and he rules by executive order.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lylacat, 11/7/2012 9:41:55 AM (No. 8995813)
Michelle will get her many expensive lavish, and luxurious vacations to all the exotic places her little heart desires. She will take all her family and friends with her. She feels entitled to spend the taxpayers' money. 0bama will continue to enjoy his many hours on the golf course. 0bama and Michelle do not like each other, she will travel alone, he will have his male friends. Nothing will get done. There will be no budget; the spending will continue at an exponential pace, and 0bama will keep printing dollars making everything much more expensive.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pindarjr, 11/7/2012 10:25:37 AM (No. 8996038)
I can suggest at least one difference in the governance that Obama will provide and that Romney would have provided. Romney was committed to working with congress while Obama has learned it's a lot easier to manage the country with tzars and executive orders
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Boston bomber linked to radical British group who made N-bomb Olympics film
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Sunday Express [UK], by Paul Thompson, James Murray
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/21/2013 8:35:20 AM
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Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev took a close interest in a radical British group that made a film about the potential of exploding a nuclear bomb at the London Olympics. Checks on the dead 26-year-old’s computer show he regularly watched a propaganda film on YouTube called the Black Flags of Khorasan, the old name for Afghanistan. It was produced by a London-based group called the Real Undercover Enemies Exposed. The group says: “The video contains information relating to the possibility of a nuclear or dirty bomb at the London Olympics and a chemical/biological attack on the London
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The Boston bombs: we shall not yield to those powered by hate
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Telegraph [UK], by Lionel Shriver
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/21/2013 5:07:23 AM
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Like kittens and libraries, marathons are intrinsically benevolent. They raise funds for charities, provide a day out for families, and present athletes a demanding challenge. Beyond the frontrunners, the race isn’t even especially competitive, since most amateurs are attempting to beat only their own personal bests. Thus the double pressure-cooker bombing of the Boston marathon on Monday was perfectly designed to garner no sympathy whatsoever. It was contrived to be as appalling as possible in order to draw just the scale of outraged international coverage that the carnage has duly received. Of every stripe, terrorists eat denunciation for breakfast.
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The Great Escape: Cuban defectors find freedom playing for Charleston Battery soccer team
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Andrew Miller
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/20/2013 8:40:04 PM
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The three Cuban national soccer team players scrambled down the back stairs of their Toronto hotel. Odisnel Cooper, Maikel Chang and Heviel Cordoves took the stairs two at a time. The future Charleston Battery players were in the midst of defecting from their homeland, and were just steps away from freedom. As the trio got to the final flight of stairs, Cordoves froze. It was a brisk October afternoon, with temperatures hovering just below 40 degrees. For Cordoves, a native of Havana, it was absolutely frigid. Wearing only the light warm-up suit the Cuban team had supplied, Cordoves wanted to
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'We got him!' Fugitive 'bomber' captured Alive after he was found hiding inside a Boat in backyard of Boston home.*
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Daily Mail [UK], by Louise Boyle*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 9:14:56 PM
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A man believed to be the terrorist behind the Boston bombings is in custody after he was cornered in a boat in a Boston backyard and appears to be wounded but still alive. Boston police confirmed that an individual has been apprehended, taking to social media to announce, ´Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info.´ The mayor of Boston, Tom Menino, was quoted by the Boston Globe as taking to the police scanner, saying ´We got him´. Relieved law enforcement officers began cheering and clapping after the man, believed to be Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was
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FAA approves resumption of Boeing 787 flights
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Staff, wire reports
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 5:48:56 PM
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Federal officials have accepted Boeing’s revamped battery system for its beleaguered 787 Dreamliners and intend to lift a 3-month-old order grounding the planes. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Friday that next week it will send airlines instructions and publish a notice lifting the grounding order. The lifting of the grounding order will be effective the day the notice is published. Lifting the grounding order gives Boeing the go-ahead to begin retrofitting planes with an enhanced lithium ion battery system. The root cause of battery failures that led to a fire on one of the planes and
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford defends Super Bowl visit on radio today
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Robert Behre, Schuyler Kropf
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 5:15:39 PM
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First Congressional District Republican candidate Mark Sanford today defended entering his ex-wife’s home to watch the Super Bowl with his son, saying “You’ve got to make the call as a dad.” [Snip] Earlier today, Sanford told the radio that he and his 14-year-old son were watching the game at the home of Chad Waldorf, who has an annual Super Bowl party at his home, also on Sullivan’s Island. His son didn’t like the crowd and wanted to return home at half-time to watch the game in a quieter venue, Sanford said.
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For the mainstream media, the Boston bombing has been one of the messiest stories ever reported
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 4:51:17 PM
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It started with the false claim that a Saudi man was a suspect (he was actually a victim), something the networks ran with (including the rumour that he had been thrown into a cage) and were then forced to retract. Then there was a second “attack” at the JFK library that turned out to be an unrelated fire. Pundits weighed in uselessly, calling for the deaths of all Muslims in the world on Twitter or else somehow laying responsibility at the feet of the otherwise peaceful and democratic Tea Party (was Sarah Palin anywhere near the scene--we have the right
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Why can’t the IMF face up to the truth about the failing euro?
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Telegraph [UK], by Jeremy Warner
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 3:16:42 PM
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I´ve been in Washington most of this week for the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund. I wish I could say there was light at the end of the tunnel, but the reality is still deeply depressing. Sorry to use cliches, but two sayings spring to mind: fiddling while Rome burns, and re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. In "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", the British economist, John Maynard Keynes, wrote that his preference in any negotiation or arbitration was for "violent and ruthless truth telling" but there has been very little evidence of that in this week´s
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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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Source: Suspect 2 shot, is down in Watertown neighborhood
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 7:09:43 PM
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Watertown, Mass.– A number of gun shots were fired near Franklin Street in Watertown Friday night and it was believed that suspect number 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings had been shot. FOX 25's Bob Ward reported that as many 30 shots were fired in the neighborhood. Ward reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man known as suspect 2, was shot by police. It was not immediately known if Tsarnaev was killed. A bomb squad could be seen responding to the scene. A massive police presence was also in the area. FOX 25's Jarrod Holbrook reported that Tsarnaev was seen in a boat with a canvas
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Feds ´investigating possibility that the government´s terror-trackers knew about the Boston bombers before the blasts´
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by David Martosko
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/20/2013 12:06:21 AM
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Federal law enforcement officials are actively investigating the possibility that the Boston bombers were known to the government’s terror-trackers, MailOnline understands. Any inquiry into the marathon bombing will look into whether agents could have taken action – but didn’t – to prevent the Tsarnaev brothers from obtaining the explosives that killed 3 and wounded 173 others. CBS News reported Friday evening that two years ago, the FBI interviewed the elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in Thursday night´s dramatic shootout. The feds reportedly spoke to him at the request of an unspecified foreign government, but couldn´t
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USA needs refuge from refugees
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:55:25 AM
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So once again, no good deed goes unpunished. Uncle Sam lets another bunch of leeching future terrorists into the country who have absolutely no business being here, gives them “asylum,” making them immediately eligible for welfare, and this is the thanks we get? They turn into mass murderers. We bring in thousands of Muslims from a primitive society that has been battling Christians for centuries, and put them into a peaceful Christian society — what could possible go wrong? This is what I was thinking about yesterday, with much of the city under what amounted to martial law.
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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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Zogby: Obama still one of the great communicators
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 7:10:32 PM
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that when it came to messaging Boston, President Obama had the right touch. "We have had presidents who have been able to rally local communities and the nation when people are hurting. This president is truly one of the great ones. He carried the right message to the people of the Boston area and beyond when he told them Thursday ´we will finish this race.´ He also has a strong shot at gaining an immigration reform victory with the package drawn up by
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Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals: ´They Are Driving on Our Streets Without a Driver´s License´
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 10:00:59 PM
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.), one of eight senators who have crafted legislation that would put illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, explained in a Senate floor speech yesterday that one of the reasons he wants to do this is that he believes illegal aliens are currently driving on U.S. roads without drivers licenses and auto insurance and his bill would encourage them to get licenses and buy insurance. Rubio explained that under his bill ilegal aliens who "have committed serious crimes" will be deported. However, the proposal will apparently not deem as a serious crime the habit
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The Insanity of blaming Islam
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The Week, by Mark Ambinder
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/19/2013 5:30:45 PM
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We are still speculating about virtually everything right now, but I feel as though I need to explain why I find the quick and easy conversation about Muslims being radicalized in America to be so illogical and laced with bigotry. Of course, there is a global violent jihadist movement, loosely organized, that wants to recruit young men to influence policies at home and abroad and perhaps usher in the global caliphate. That ideology motivates some Muslims to kill innocent people.But you´re allowed to be a radical Muslim in America.
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Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Mirror [UK], by Christopher Bucktin, Andy Lines
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/21/2013 6:34:23 AM
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The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday. A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated
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Muslims guard against backlash
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Chicago Tribune, by Manya A. Brachear
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:22:13 PM
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The Council on American Islamic Relations again offered sympathy to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday, but added a plea for Americans not to generalize and conclude that Muslim teachings influenced the suspect in any way. "Our focus is primarily on the victims," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter at a press conference Friday afternoon. "We don´t want to be drawn into defending ourselves." Citing acts of violence in Boston and New York, Rehab blamed Islamophobic forces for inciting hate crimes.
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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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Mass. governor says he has no idea what motivated Boston Marathon bombers
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 9:08:53 AM
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Washington — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on CBS’ ”Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S.
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