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Reeling conservatives face ‘recalibration’ at their core
Washington Times, by Ralph Z. Hallow
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 11/7/2012 10:10:02 PM
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| Republicans found themselves facing agonizing day-after questions Wednesday that they admit are nearly impossible to answer while trying to hold together their diverse electoral coalition and ensure their survival as America’s conservative party. In the wake of Mitt Romney’s narrow but decisive loss Tuesday to President Obama, top conservative strategists said the party will have to find leaders from a not very deep pool to help them adjust to increasingly unfavorable demographic trends and voter attitudes reflecting more the live-and-let-live views
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
reddfroge, 11/7/2012 10:14:36 PM (No. 8998386)
because of the makeup of Congress, Obamacare will go forward and that means the end of America as a free country. Thanks to all of you who voted to destroy freedom
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
QRP, 11/7/2012 10:17:57 PM (No. 8998393)
Conservatives are looking at how they are going to live the rest of their lives. As for the country - its yours - enjoy it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KTWO, 11/7/2012 10:27:04 PM (No. 8998404)
Recalibration MA, they face Reeducation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 11/7/2012 10:31:44 PM (No. 8998419)
Methinks its the voting machines that need recalibration.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
angelesgift, 11/7/2012 11:24:00 PM (No. 8998471)
Aw screw the "reeling" and "agonizing" crap. Let's have some fun with this thing. My first proposal is to take Harry Reid's lies at face value. We have to save the planet!
Let's get some dumb enviroweenies to lobby for us to get a busload of taxpayer dollars and set up a green company to build ... something or other. Doesn't matter as long as it sounds good. Then let's lavishly pay the "owners" and "workers" to pretend to build ... something or other.
When that scheme goes bust, on to the next one. I'm thinking maybe dioramas or snow globes of dying polar bears and receding ice. Environmental activists would pay good money to have a constant reminder what what makes them feel glad to be sad. Might want to forget that idea, though. It could actually make money and the point is to get back some of our confiscated tax dollars.
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neanderthal, 11/8/2012 12:30:26 AM (No. 8998535)
Recalibration? Forget it. Constitutional America is as dead as a doornail. It is beyond reviving. As we used to say in the engineering business: "The best thing to do when you've got a dead horse is to accept the fact and take out an bury it will as little ceremony as possible. This country is a dead horse. It's just that nobody is ready to admit it....yet.
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TickleTheDragon, 11/8/2012 12:40:16 AM (No. 8998541)
For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American, and I will get revenge in whatever small way I can. To start, canceling Satellite TV service (being sick to death of the talking heads anyway), no more new movies or CD’s, and no more blatant consumerism...I will not contribute one dime to this economy that is not absolutely essential for my survival. (For as long as I can take it...today was rough.)
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mws50, 11/8/2012 3:42:49 AM (No. 8998624)
Yea... recalibrate with another "more moderate" candidate than McCain and Romney.
I say let's get a Sarah Palin type person to go after the liberal socialists that are ruining what is left of the USA.
Or lets form the United States of Texas and let the blue states have their Utopia...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Udanja99, 11/8/2012 3:45:05 AM (No. 8998626)
The only things that can save the country now would be an end to entitlements and an honest unbiased media. Or a military coup. We know the first two will never happen. The third? Looking like a pretty good option.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/8/2012 6:50:54 AM (No. 8998732)
We don't need to recalibrate anything except having a better salesman for our point of view. The electoral map is still an ocean of red with a few blue splotches thrown in.This means urban America is deciding our elections.People as far back as the Founders said that once you have more takers than givers,you're doomed country and we have reached that point.
Jobs and the economy weren't the number one issues,the cult of a permissive parent president decided the election. This country doesn't have the stomach for strong medicine but it's going to have to happen because we can't borrow enough money to maintain the status quo. Europe is proving that right now.
Europe has raised taxes and cut the military to bare bones and they're still way underwater but that'll be Obama's solution.
How long will Jerry Browns tax increase keep Cal. going. Probably less than a year.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Judith, 11/8/2012 7:24:37 AM (No. 8998783)
Unfortunately for the USA and our Constitution, the recalibration of the gop is to join the lunacy of the left and become more like them. Hyper drive over the cliff.
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Rumblehog, 11/8/2012 8:54:57 AM (No. 8999015)
You'd better investigate VOTER FRAUD first before you launch off on a "re-branding" effort.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Israel Putnam, 11/8/2012 10:21:12 AM (No. 8999300)
I for one, have recalibrated. In my newly reconsidered opinion I am heartly for contributing to the payment for on demand abortions for any woman who wants one. One fewer liberal to deal with in eighteen years.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Stopstoreload, 11/8/2012 10:53:12 AM (No. 8999429)
The problem with consewrvatives is that not enough people turned out to vote for their candidate.
This is probably insoluble as long as we are dependent on people who stay at home on election day or vote for oddball third party candidates, or non-candidates without rhyme or reason.
Have I mentioned that we have a two party system here? If you don't vote for the candidate who most nearly adheres to your beliefs, the other guys will win. And so it goes. Shame on us.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chief1942, 11/8/2012 3:35:04 PM (No. 9000254)
The undoing of America on Tuesday was not because the GOP "needs recalibration", it was due to the GOP's major loss of members who were the group both partys were fighting for, ie. INDEPENDENTS! Any third grader can see the make-up of the Democrats (American hating progressive/socialists and their minority chattel), and the GOP's (old school, died in the wool sellouts). Now the numbers will show that both those pathetic excuses for political representation still have considerable numbers when compaired to the Independents and Libertarians, but, both those political morasses must bend to the reality that they have both disenfranchised way too many traditionalist Americans and as we have seen, given birth to the "Don't Tread On Me" Tea Party. Eventually, and I may not see it in my few years that are left, but there will be a major upheaval in this country that will make the former Civil War look like a mere catfight. One of our founders in his wisdom, actually suggested that a "revolution now and then, is a good thing". That "now and again" is now before us.
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Obamas Knocked for ´Royal Lifestyle´
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 9:51:58 PM
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Joseph Curl noted in his Sunday column in the Washington Times that many ordinary Americans around the country were upset with the extravagant lifestyles President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and their families are living while most Americans suffer from a still-disastrous economy. “President Obama had another tough week in a second term filled with bad news and blunders — and he’s only 10 weeks in,” Curl wrote. “While the White House suddenly decided to drop its budget Friday in an effort to control the news, there was no covering up the disastrous jobless numbers
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Maryland girl is armed with arguments against gun control
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Washington Times, by David Sherfinski
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:26:36 PM
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A three-minute video of Sarah Merkle’s testimony about Maryland’s new gun legislation has drawn more than 2 million views on YouTube, won her praise from gun rights advocates across the country and even scored her an interview on national television last week. But the 15-year-old from Baltimore said she cares more about her message. “The biggest part of this is that the pro-gun, Second Amendment argument is getting publicity,” she said. “I like that it actually got out there, and not just because it’s me, but because it’s the argument.”
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Filibuster gains support to delay gun control vote
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Washington Times, by David Sherfinski
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:25:18 PM
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A growing number of senators are trying to quash gun legislation before it even hits the chamber floor as Democrats hold out hope for a compromise and the White House gears up for a weeklong offensive to pressure Congress to act. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said as many as 13 senators now publicly support a filibuster on the motion to proceed on pending gun legislation, which effectively would block debate on the bill. “When you’re in a snake pit, you kill a snake any time and chance that you get,”
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White House looks to salvage gun-control legislation
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Washington Times, by Tim Devaney
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:22:42 PM
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The Obama administration took to the airwaves Sunday morning to call on Republicans to back the president’s plan for gun control. In interviews on “Fox News Sunday” and ABC’s “This Week,”Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House adviser, pointed out that 90 percent of Americans support President Obama’s plan to expand background checks on citizens who purchase guns, and he pressured Republicans to get on board with what he said where “common-sense measures.” “You can’t get 90 percent of Americans to agree on the weather,” Mr. Pfeiffer said on “Fox News Sunday.” Mr. Pfeiffer warned that a potential Republican filibuster
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Bipartisan unity on North Korea: Republicans praise Obama’s handling of threat
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Washington Times, by Guy Taylor
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:20:32 PM
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President Obama won rare foreign policy praise from Republicans for his administration’s handling of the North Korea crisis, as China signaled a possible readiness to play a more active role in pressuring Pyongyang away from provoking a military conflict. Two influential Republicans commended the White House on separate news talk shows Sunday for striking an effective balance by allowing senior Cabinet members to issue cautionary remarks in response to North Korea, while also strategically adjusting the U.S. military posture in the region. “This administration’s acted responsibly,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham
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Senate has become more partisan, less collegial — more like the House
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Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:17:33 PM
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The world’s greatest deliberative body has started to look a lot like its legislative little brother over the past few years. The Senate was once regarded as the home of the great political orators of the time — not to mention the body where true dealmaking actually took place. Its members prided themselves on their cool approach to legislating, in contrast with the more brawling nature of the House. Senators, generally, liked one another — no matter their party — and weren’t afraid to show it, either personally or politically. No longer. The Senate has undergone a marked transformation
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Gun legislation’s prospects improve
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Washington Post, by Ed O´Keefe and Philip Rucker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:14:37 PM
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Prospects for a bipartisan deal to expand federal background checks for gun purchases are improving with the emergence of fresh Republican support, according to top Senate aides. The possibility that after weeks of stalled negotiations senators might be on the cusp of a breakthrough comes as President Obama and his top surrogates will begin on Monday their most aggressive push yet to rally Americans around his gun-control agenda. Even though polls show that a universal background-check system is supported by nine in 10 Americans, the president has been unable to translate popular support
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An act of political malpractice
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Washington Post, by Ruth Marcus
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:12:28 PM
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On the matter of the president and Kamala Harris, I could go either way. I could write a column — call it Classic Feminist High Dudgeon — lamenting the president’s comments about the California attorney general’s good looks. This column would discuss the continuing, albeit more subtle, discrimination against women in the workplace. It would explain how, even if unintentionally, Obama’s reference to Harris’s attractiveness is demeaning — that it serves, in the apologetic words of White House press secretary Jay Carney, “to diminish the attorney general’s professional accomplishments and her capabilities.” It would, inevitably, invoke the president’s daughters
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Democrats push problem solvers in House contests
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Washington Post, by Paul Kane
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:38:26 PM
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Democratic Party officials believe that Kevin Strouse is exactly the kind of candidate who can help them retake the House next year. He’s a smart, young former Army Ranger — good qualities for any aspiring politician. But what party leaders really like is that Strouse doesn’t have particularly strong views on the country’s hottest issues. Immigration? Tax policy? “Certainly I have a lot of research to do,” Strouse acknowledged in an interview Thursday as he announced his candidacy in a suburban Philadelphia House district. Strouse’s candidacy reflects an emerging
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Texas prosecutors’ slayings unnerve rural Kaufman County
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Washington Post, by Stephanie McCrummen
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:33:08 PM
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KAUFMAN, Tex. — The judge was on the phone. “Yep, I said I’ll do anything,” Bruce Wood told the person on the other end, rubbing his forehead. “They asked me to do a eulogy. I don’t know what I’m going to say.” Elsewhere in the Kaufman County Courthouse, a sheriff’s deputy was handing out bulletproof vests. “I brought the smallest one,” he said to a secretary, who stared at the khaki armor as he explained how to adjust the side straps should the need arise. “These have the neck for a female.” Outside, two armed guards
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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A Reporter Explains Why Gun Coverage Is So Biased
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 9:13:14 PM
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Well, not intentionally. But Jim Ragsdale of the Minneapolis Star Tribune attended a conference in Chicago on covering gun issues, which he describes this way: “Covering Guns” brought reporters with front-line experience covering mass shootings in Tucson, Ariz.; Aurora, Colo.; Newtown, Conn., and Red Lake, Minn., to meet with gun experts and advocates and gun trainers. Sponsored by the Poynter journalism center and funded by the McCormick Foundation of Chicago, we gathered in a city that witnessed 506 homicides last year. The idea, I take it
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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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Former British prime minister Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
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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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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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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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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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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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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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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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