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Mitt’s enduring gifts
New York Post, by James Rosen
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 11/10/2012 5:05:31 AM
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| Even before the Republican Party’s convention had gaveled to order last August, The Washington Post was pronouncing Mitt Romney at best “a transitional figure, rather than a transformative one” within the GOP. That he has since lost the election, and in so doing ceded to President Obama virtually all the battleground states, will do nothing to disturb this assessment. But it would be wrong to see Romney’s failed candidacy as a total loss for Republicans, or for the country. For all Romney’s limitations as a candidate — his interpersonal awkwardness and propensity for gaffes,
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bobsadventures, 11/10/2012 5:27:31 AM (No. 9004461)
This is a weird article by a left-winger who demonstrates she is at conflict with her own statements.
She spends the whole article praising Romney, even says he would have made a great president, but then puts down the voters who selected him.
I am getting the feelling that there is buyer´s remorse happening with their Obama victory now. Once the pundits realize they just screwed themselves and their families to a declining country they are ready to point the fingers at everyone but themselves. The media elected Obama, not the people whom they kept ignorant.
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Former lurker, 11/10/2012 6:35:12 AM (No. 9004517)
#1, what a "weird" response. I am sure James Rosen´s wife and two kids will be as surprised to learn that he is a she as Fox News will be to learn he is a left-winger.
I am afraid we as a nation are too dumbed down, too physically and mentally lazy and too indocdrinatied by a "weird" left-wing propagandizing media to elect a serious man to the Presidency.
Proud to have supported Romney-Ryan.
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Malia2012, 11/10/2012 6:52:24 AM (No. 9004540)
#1, Huh? James Rosen is NO left-winger. I disagree with this article on one fact, the re-election of obama IS "a great loss for the Country.". I agree with #2, I am also proud to have voted for Mitt Romney, IMHO who would have been a great President.
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Moritz55, 11/10/2012 6:59:30 AM (No. 9004552)
Agreed, #2. Whatever his flaws/mistakes as a candidate, Mitt Romney brought tremendous strengths to the race -- not the least of which was a degree of personal decency that the current president cannot even imagine -- and he offered America the kind of leadership we desperately need. It is not his fault that the voters made the wrong choice. In fact, given the brutal primaries, the lavishly financed character assassination, the hostility of the mainstream media, and the effects of "Sandy," it is amazing that he came so close to winning. He could have been a great president; Paul Ryan could have been a great VP. Both men and their families deserve our gratitude for a hard fought, honorably waged campaign.
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FunOne, 11/10/2012 7:19:43 AM (No. 9004589)
Agree totally with #4.
Four years from now, more people will realize that they took the wrong path in 2012, but for far too many, responsible government really does not seem to matter.
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Jebediah, 11/10/2012 7:45:08 AM (No. 9004633)
I voted for Romney, think he would have done a superb job in getting us back on our feet...and now we are sunk!, but have to tell you I thought he and his, for whom he seemed to have such regard, were inept beyond belief in their ground game. E.G., they NEVER responded to Obama´s brilliant demonization re: Bain or even a dog on a car, nor did they listen to any (Larry Kudlow etc.) who asked that they consider talking about tax cuts, they totally WASTED Paul Ryan and vetoed his ideas, and my son in Denver bought and paid for a Romney yard sign and it took 5 weeks and 4 calls to even get it.....this was emblematic of their ground game in my mind! They arrogantly seemed to think that the American electorate would THINK about a vote for Obama just because of the economy, something far beyond its capacity.......is this bright people expecting others (who watch Brian Williams and David Letterman for their news) to be bright ande informed?
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Coy860, 11/10/2012 8:16:06 AM (No. 9004670)
Mitt Romney made NO gaffes, the msm created them. He was 100% correct on Benghazi, and the msm ridiculed him. Biden and Obama ran one of the stupidest campaigns ever...and were elected by the stupidest citizens ever. I overheard 2 young women discussing Romney, and one said to the other that she believed Romney would take away her tampons. We can´t fight stupid. America is so dysfunctional that most people cannot relate to a couple who are long married, with 5 decent children, who neither smokes nor drinks . They dress modestly, worship God and don´t use the "F" word in every sentence, nor give the finger. Instead, they can relate to the "ghetto" president and his wife.
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jalo1951, 11/10/2012 8:35:40 AM (No. 9004714)
I imagine that in a year or two Mitt will be able to say "I told you so". But he won´t because he is too decent.
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slipstik, 11/10/2012 9:13:02 AM (No. 9004810)
#8, On election day I was in the glacially slow "speedy checkout" line at a local wallyworld and the checkout person (morbidly obese, in a hoodie, and so on, as one might expect in NC) was asking every customer on line when the election results would be in. When I told her about 11 pm or so, she said "it´s a close one, ah hope ah gits ta keep on gittin´ mah gummint assistance checks...". This woman wasn´t stupid, she knew EXACTLY what she was voting for. We were outnumbered. The republic is toast.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cgood, 11/10/2012 10:49:59 AM (No. 9005061)
Mitt was the right guy at the right time. He didn´t lose a fair fight. Obama lied and cheated his way to a second term. The media not only enabled him, they actively promoted him and covered for him. The election was wrought with fraud, and, no, I´m not delusional. There is plenty of evidence of cheating and the outcome was shocking because it didn´t align with reality. The polls were tied in some of the swing states, but the republicans were far more motivated - understandably. This election was stolen by Chicago thugs. If something good is to come from this atrocity, Republicans need to get serious about preventing voter fraud and overcoming the liberal media´s near monopoly.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
tomishere, 11/10/2012 10:53:24 AM (No. 9005072)
About two million conservatives didn´t vote. I truly hope they and their children feel the impact of this decision for years to come.
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jorgecito, 11/10/2012 12:27:34 PM (No. 9005269)
Agree with Rosen that Mitt´s selection of Paul Ryan for VP was the right one.
We´re now hearing a chorus of finger-pointers shriek that Rubio would´ve been a winning choice. I disagree. Rubio is a promising candidate for the future, but too young and inexperienced to have been the VP nominee in 2012.
I have no doubt the MSM would´ve "Dan Quayled" Rubio, had he been nominated this year. (Remember that Quayle was a much-liked and much-respected senator before the MSM sunk their teeth into him, and created or amplified "gaffes," while ignoring far worse gaffes on the part of Dem candidates.)
Let Rubio "grow" a bit in office, get practiced at facing flak from the MSM, and start to lose his literal and figurative baby face. Then we´ll see in 2016.
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The IRS wants YOU — to share everything
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Politico, by David Nather*
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/15/2013 7:57:24 AM
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The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books people were reading. A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything — in some cases, it even seemed curious what members were thinking. The review included interviews with groups or their representatives from Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere. The long-awaited report Treasury Department inspector general report released Tuesday says the agency itself decided
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Finally, the rest of the world catches up
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Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/15/2013 6:26:23 AM
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Dear MSM, You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t fall all over myself congratulating you for finally doing your jobs. Assuming you don’t find a way to help Obama weasel his way out of trouble again — Go, Media Matters! Go, JournoList 2.0! — it’s a little too late. The damage of this administration has been done. And he got away with it because you helped him. You covered for him. Most pathetically, some of you are only turning on him now because he’s been exposed going after the Associated Press. Going after the good guys: you. Gasp!
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Obama´s dangerous new narrative
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Politico, by Alexander Burns & John F. Harris
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/15/2013 6:19:59 AM
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No contemporary American politician has benefited more from the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama. He vaulted from obscurity to the presidency on the power of narrative – invoking his biography and personal values to make a larger point about how he would lead the nation. So presumably no one understands more vividly than Obama and his close aides just how toxic and potentially paralyzing his situation has become this spring, as four distinct ethical and policy controversies have simultaneously converged. Obama’s critics now have a narrative – a way of connecting four discrete episodes to a larger point
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A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting
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Wall Street Journal, by James Bovard
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/15/2013 6:12:21 AM
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Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits and harassment. But of all the troubles now dogging the Obama administration—including the Benghazi fiasco and the Justice Department´s snooping on the Associated Press—the IRS episode, however alarming, is also the least surprising. As David Burnham noted in "A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power" (1990), "In almost every administration since the IRS´s inception the information and power of the tax agency have been mobilized
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The IRS and AP controversies spell trouble for Obama and Democrats
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Guardian [UK], by Harry J. Enten
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/14/2013 5:59:40 AM
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The Justice Department has "secretly obtained" two months of conversations between Associated Press (AP) officials in a move called "unprecedented". The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Cincinnati office singled out new conservative groups for extra scrutiny over the past couple of years. One of these controversies alone would have caused a headache for the Obama administration, but the two of them together could spell big trouble for the Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections. Historically speaking, trust in government has been tied very closely to how people view
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Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate Conservative Tax-Exempt Groups
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Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/14/2013 5:41:05 AM
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A report in Roll Call in March 2012 revealed that leading members of Congress not only were aware that the Internal Revenue Service had begun investigating the political activity of would-be 501(c)4 Tea Party groups that winter, but showed to what an extent members of Congress had been actively putting pressure on the agency to take a closer look at tax-exempt conservative organizations in the wake of the Supreme Court´s Citizens United ruling. Reported Janie Lorber in 2012: Tea party outrage over a spate of IRS letters to conservative groups has revived a long-standing dispute
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Alaska Senate Poll: Far, Far Less Than Meets the Eye
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Roll Call, by Stuart Rothenberg
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/14/2013 5:11:36 AM
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A Harper Polling survey conducted for the Tea Party Leadership Fund, an obscure conservative group that has supported Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun and Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul, is one of those polls probably meant for fundraising and little else. Though writing about the poll and the polling memo automatically gives them more attention than they deserve, those of us in the media can’t merely ignore these kinds of questionable polls conducted for groups which seem more interested in fundraising than in impacting elections. The May 6-7 IVR survey of 379 respondents tested
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President Obama waited 3 days to address the IRS scandal. Why?
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Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/14/2013 5:06:50 AM
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On Monday, President Obama called the singling out of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service “outrageous”, adding: “I have no patience with it. I will not tolerate it.” Obama’s strong condemnation of the growing scandal came amid similar denunciations from Democratic elected officials. Montana Sen. Max Baucus called it an “outrageous abuse of power and a breach of the public’s trust.” West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin described the IRS’ actions as “unacceptable and un-American.” You get the idea. The question being asked in the political world today is whether the condemnations are too little, too late.
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Obama on Benghazi: ´There´s No There There´
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/13/2013 12:29:43 PM
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At a press conference today at the White House, President Obama said "There´s no there there" on criticism of how his administration handled the Benghazi terror attack:(Snip for video)"And suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there´s something new to the story," Obama said in response to a question about Benghazi. "There´s no there there." The president continued, "Keep in mind by the way these so-called talking points that were prepared for Susan Rice, five, six days after the event occurred, pretty much matched the assessments that I was receiving at that time
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West EMT "let go" after explosion
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KPRC [Houston, TX], by Robert Arnold
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:49:40 AM
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Local 2 Investigates learned an Emergency Medical Technician arrested Friday on federal charges had been "let go" from the West EMS department just days after the explosion, according to state health officials. Bryce Ashley Reed, an EMT who responded to the explosion at the West fertilizer company, currently faces federal charges of possession of a destructive device. However, investigators said they have found no connection between Reed and the explosion. "We removed him from the roster for West EMS (Friday) after receiving notice that he was let go from there," Carrie Williams with the Texas Department of State
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Mom´s texts raised flags
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Boston Herald, by Erin Smith
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:44:46 AM
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Russian agents intercepted text messages showing Tamerlan Tsarnaev wanted to join up with militant jihadists, according to a new report — a revelation that could have put the Boston bomber under closer federal watch, experts say, if it was shared with U.S. officials. “That could have been the trigger that put him under surveillance,” said Cedric Leighton, former deputy director of training at the National Security Agency. “Although in and of itself each text message may not have shown anything, it’s still important to put all the pieces together. Some little snippet of information could make all the difference.”
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Administration Relying on Shoddy Benghazi Report to Absolve Itself of Blame
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Weekly Standard, by Victoria Toensing
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/12/2013 11:42:56 AM
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The White House has touted the Accountability Review Board (ARB) investigation of the Benghazi massacre as a review “led by two men of unimpeachable expertise and credibility that oversaw a process that was rigorous and unsparing.” In fact, the report was purposefully incomplete and willfully misleading. The two men in charge of the ARB, Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Thomas Mullen, a diplomat and military man respectively, have no meaningful investigative experience. Instead of letting the facts lead the direction of the investigation, the report appears designed to protect the interests of Hillary Clinton, the State Department higher ups,
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IRS Scandal About to Blow Wide Open?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/13/2013 11:39:47 PM
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To no one’s surprise, it is already evident that the Obama administration has been lying about the scope of the IRS’s harassment of conservative-leaning non-profits. The Washington Post has obtained documents that show the anti-conservative effort was directed from Washington, D.C., and was not a rogue operation out of the agency’s Cincinnati office, as the administration has claimed: Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the
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O’s scandals take nation by storm
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New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/15/2013 5:31:55 AM
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As a metaphor for big government, it is hard to top the Justice Department’s seizing of journalists’ phone records from The Associated Press. Unless, of course, you think the best example is the Internal Revenue Service turning the screws on groups it viewed as conservative and, therefore, unworthy of fair treatment. Or maybe the winner is the sneaky spreading of ObamaCare’s tentacles, with insurance companies now predicting the law will drive up the cost of individual premiums by as much as 400 percent. There are no losers in this race to the bottom — except the American people. It is tempting
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Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
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Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/13/2013 10:44:29 PM
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In a sweeping and unusual move, the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot last year. The AP’s president said Monday that federal authorities obtained cell, office and home telephone records of individual reporters and an editor, AP general office numbers in Washington, New York and Hartford, and the main number for AP reporters covering Congress in what he called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion”
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Benghazi´s smoking guns
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Los Angeles Times, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/14/2013 12:03:29 AM
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President Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died in Benghazi, the president said, "We dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus." He added that "the whole issue of talking points, throughout this process, frankly, has been a sideshow.… There´s no there there." He´s half right. The talking points drafted by the State Department, the CIA and the White House and given to congressional Republicans and, most famously, to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice
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Obama, the uninterested president
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Washington Post, by Dana Milbank
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/14/2013 10:37:21 PM
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President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a fishing expedition through months of phone records of Associated Press reporters. And yet President Obama reacted much as he did to the equally astonishing revelation on Friday that the IRS had targeted conservative groups based on their ideology: He responded as though he were just some bloke on a bar stool, getting his information from the evening news.
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D.C. turns on Obama
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Politico, by Mike Allen, Jim Vandehei
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/14/2013 9:52:12 PM
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One Democrat who likes Obama and has been around town for many years said elected officials in his own party are no different than Republicans: they think the president is distant and unapproachable. “He has never taken the Democratic chairs up to Camp David to have a drink or to have a discussion,” the longtime Washingtonian said. “You gotta stroke people, and talk to them. It’s like courting: you have to send flowers and candy and have surprises. It’s a constant process. Now they’re saying, ‘He never talked to me in the good times.’ ”
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My Medical Choice
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New York Times, by Angelina Jolie
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/14/2013 7:07:23 AM
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MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was. We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,”(Snip)the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer(Snip)I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.
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The Still-Forgotten Obama Lie
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American Thinker, by Nick Chase
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Posted By: onashi- 5/15/2013 9:47:52 AM
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"Benghazi-gate," "IRS-gate," "AP-gate" -- it would seem the intrepid investigators in the dinosaur media, in an effort to repair their shredded reputations, are finally catching up to the truths known months or years ago to those of us who get our news from the internet. (snip) Hey, dinosaurs, now that we have your attention, we have a hot tip for you: there´s one big Obama lie that´s two years old that you completely missed. In fact, you suppressed the truth.
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Eric Holder Recuses Himself From Leak Investigation
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Townhall, by Katie Pavlich
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/14/2013 12:53:49 PM
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Attorney General Eric Holder has recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation. He will officially announce his recusal at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Fox News is reporting his recusal comes partially because Holder has testified about potential national security leaks surrounding a May 7, 2012 Associated Press story. Yesterday, the Associated Press revealed the Department of Justice had been secretly monitoring both the personal and work phones of numerous AP editors and reporters. DOJ responded to these revelations by releasing the following
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Gore: ´Our Very Way of Life´ Is at Stake
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Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/14/2013 10:16:26 AM
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Former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore said “our very way of life” is at stake because of “our recklessness” on climate change. Gore blogged on Friday that concentrations of carbon dioxide hit 400 parts per million in the Earth’s atmosphere, a warning that if Americans don’t change there will be dire consequences. “Now more than ever before, we are reaping the consequences of our recklessness,” Gore wrote. “From Superstorm Sandy, which crippled New York City and large areas of New Jersey, to a drought, which parched more than half of our nation;
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Is Rush Limbaugh still relevant?
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CNN, by Dean Obeidallah
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Posted By: SpinMaster- 5/14/2013 1:25:13 PM
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New York -- Is Rush Limbaugh becoming a relic, a human version of "Mad Men," except without the style or cool clothes? Has Limbaugh become as dated as Jazzercise or "Macarena?" All you need to do is look at the bottom line to see that Limbaugh is in trouble. Limbaugh once raked in the big bucks for his radio syndicator, Cumulus. But last week, Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey made it clear those days are over. Dickey reported that Cumulus had lost millions of dollars in ad sales because many advertisers no longer want to be associated with Limbaugh.
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7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State
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CBS (Boston), by Staff
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Posted By: nhchemist- 5/15/2013 7:01:31 AM
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BELCHERTOWN – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir. State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates. The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies.
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