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Afghan Women Fear Rights Will Erode as U.S. Leaves
Wall Street Journal, by Maria Abi-Habib
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Posted By:pineledger, 11/13/2012 6:29:48 AM
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| Herat, Afghanistan—Rokhshana, a 14-year-girl, has been behind bars here since March. She is serving a yearlong adultery sentence after what she describes as rape by her adult cousin, who remains a free man. (Snip)The U.S. says women´s rights will remain an important issue after the withdrawal, even though American officials acknowledge the limits of their waning influence. "Afghanistan is run by Afghans; we are significant partners," says Melanne Verveer, the U.S. Ambassador at large for global women´s issues. "We will continue to ensure that women´s rights are pivotal because of our partnership
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Comments: I hope this pleases all the women who handed the election to The Won.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 11/13/2012 6:33:38 AM (No. 9010538)
Elections have consequences, not just in the United States, but around the world...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NYBruin, 11/13/2012 6:36:06 AM (No. 9010540)
And Hillary says. . . ???
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civilservant, 11/13/2012 6:46:28 AM (No. 9010551)
They will, and the liberals, be they democrats, euro-socialists or what have you will not lose one nanoseconds sleep over it. Ladies of the world, you´ve been wonderful props over the years, now go die quietly!!!!
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GringoinQuito, 11/13/2012 6:51:42 AM (No. 9010554)
What did they expect? Stop killing our troops by the sneak attacks by Afghan army/police. A pox on all of their houses!
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Dallasobg, 11/13/2012 7:19:12 AM (No. 9010591)
Liberals care nothing about women. Remember when Oprah refused to go to Afghanistan with Laura Bush and others showing support for Afghan women? I was done with Oprah at that point.
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bpl40, 11/13/2012 7:31:46 AM (No. 9010612)
The Libs and the Libbers will promptly blame Bush and the MSM will back it up. This is getting too predictable.
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anonymous, 11/13/2012 7:32:41 AM (No. 9010617)
Do they want the US to be their daily police guard, do they? It´s impractical and not possible. While I feel for these women, perhaps what´s needed is action by the government in Kabul that is supposed to be looking after its citizens and protecting them from criminals.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Namma, 11/13/2012 7:37:57 AM (No. 9010630)
hey ladies..join the c rowd..our rights and liberties here in Amerika have also eroded..
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john56, 11/13/2012 7:46:13 AM (No. 9010648)
The Democrats´ War on Women opens up the Afgan front. Watch for Obama to drop free birth control pills from the sky and declare victory!
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iamtinman, 11/13/2012 7:47:21 AM (No. 9010650)
The instant we leave Afghanistan, the taliban will start to take over and dogs will be treated better than women. Obama will not get reengaged and the American supported Afghan government won´t last a year. Thousands of American and Afghan lives will have been wasted for what? Melanne Verveer is typical of the airheads in the Obama administration who believe that wishing for something makes it so. If that was true Mitt Romney would be president and I would be handsome.
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Patchy Groundfog, 11/13/2012 8:13:24 AM (No. 9010722)
Dear Afghan Women: every time we read about a military operation we read about 3-4 women and a bunch of kids living under the roof of a terrorist.
Stop providing them aid and comfort and stop bearing their children (hint: they are groomed to become more terrorists) and we might start listening to you.
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suedotsue, 11/13/2012 8:36:29 AM (No. 9010781)
Our being there was never going to make life better for anyone except the Taliban and other criminals. It´s not a secret. We´ve been there to humiliate and kill ourselves. Certainly not to change the culture or fight a war. We´re guests there. We´ve given 9 or 10 billion dollars a month every month for over a decade to a country controlled by organized crime and the Taliban. Some goes to cronies here, but most of it goes to crime and the Taliban. For that privilege we get our best murdered and our country´s economy destroyed. There are terrible things happening in Islamic countries all the time. We´re only there to run green programs and diversity training.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Nimby, 11/13/2012 8:37:02 AM (No. 9010784)
Why should we care?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ZurichMike, 11/13/2012 8:51:50 AM (No. 9010821)
Tell the witches at NOW, NARAL, Code Pink, and the editors of Vogue, Cosmopolitan; tell Oprah, Diane Sawyer, Rachel Maddow; tell Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cartcart, 11/13/2012 8:54:27 AM (No. 9010828)
it is tough all over ladies...get a general.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
fljack, 11/13/2012 9:06:26 AM (No. 9010864)
Karzai is negotiating with the Taliban to save is own now very rich hide. What do you think will happen?
Obama is purging the military so we won´t even have competent senior officers running the military with which to stop Al Qaeda re-surgence in Afghanistan, let alone Pakistan.
This administration can´t keep secrects and you can only do so much with video games (drone strikes).
Those poor women are doomed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
civilservant, 11/13/2012 9:08:24 AM (No. 9010870)
Double post apologies........ Can´t help buit wonder if the ladies had ever heard of Clytmnestra..........if they were allowed to read, maybe.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NYbob, 11/13/2012 9:14:27 AM (No. 9010881)
Send a letter to Jay Leno´s wife asking why she is a democrat. Perhaps the constant 8 years of her husband mocking, President Bush and then 4 years of supporting Obama were a significant part of why you are in this position. All the liberal parties in NY and LA won´t make a speck of difference to your grim future.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
janjan, 11/13/2012 9:25:02 AM (No. 9010908)
Americans fear rights will erode in the US as Obama stays.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
jackburton, 11/13/2012 9:33:58 AM (No. 9010935)
Having to pay for contraception: War on Women.
Acid in the face for looking at a boy: Cultural diversity says that´s OK.
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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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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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U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%
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New York Times, by Catherine Rampell
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/5/2013 9:23:27 AM
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For the 30th straight month, the United States economy added jobs in March, albeit still at a pace too sluggish to put a big dent in the backlog of 11.7 million idle workers. The nation’s employers increased their payrolls by 88,000 last month, compared with 268,000 in February, according to a Labor Department report released Friday. The unemployment rate, which comes from a different survey, ticked down to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent. The slight decrease in the unemployment rate occurred not because more unemployed people got jobs,
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Bank of Japan launches easing campaign
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Wall Street Journal, by Takashi Nakamichi and Tatsuo Ito
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/4/2013 8:54:41 AM
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Tokyo—The Bank of Japan [8301.JA +4.83%] is pulling out all the stops to get the economy out of deflation, its new governor said, after the central bank rolled out aggressive easing measures that surprised markets, pushing bond yields to an all-time low and boosting share prices. At his inaugural policy board meeting Thursday, Haruhiko Kuroda convinced the nine-member panel to agree to a major expansion of government bond purchases, including buying longer-term debt, which is designed to drive down longer-term rates. The BOJ also broke free from some self-imposed limits that the previous leadership under Masaaki Shirakawa adhered to.
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He Wears the Mask
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New York Times, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/4/2013 6:41:02 AM
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The present darling of the right wing, Dr. Benjamin Carson, is a distinguished neurosurgeon who went from the depths of Detroit poverty to the heights of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. But his current status among conservatives isn’t so much rooted in Carson’s redemptive rise from rags to respectability, as it is in the belief that he is, in the long winter of Obama, the one they’ve been waiting for. (Snip)He then cast himself as a victim of political correctness, besieged by white liberals — “the most racist people there are”
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How the I.R.S. Hurts Mothers
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New York Times, by Lilian V. Faulhaber
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/4/2013 6:06:53 AM
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Boston--Lost in the debate between Anne-Marie Slaughter’s chronicle of the obstacles confronting career-oriented mothers and Sheryl Sandberg’s call to “lean in” is a crucial reality: taxes. Women — no less than other humans, it turns out — can be rational economic actors. The tax code starts with a bias in favor of couples in which one partner works and one stays home. (Snip) What does is the tax code’s treatment of child care.
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Did Putin Sink Cyprus?
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New York Times, by Ben Judah
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/3/2013 5:58:03 AM
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Istanbul--The blue-glass skyscrapers of Moscow City — fragments of Russia’s boom-time dream — are visible from the Kremlin walls, within which there was once hope that those towers could supplant the West’s financial centers. When the sun sets behind them, you can see that many of the offices lie empty.In fact, the real hubs for Russian banking are in other countries. Moscow’s billionaires squirrel their fortunes abroad, and many businessmen register their companies as British, Dutch, Swiss or Cypriot — anything but Russian. Whistle-blowers would have us believe that even President Vladimir V. Putin stashes his money offshore.
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Lines Form as Cyprus Banks Reopen
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Wall Street Journal, by Joe Parkinson
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Posted By: pineledger- 3/28/2013 7:17:05 AM
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Nicosia, Cyprus—-Lines formed outside banks in Cyprus´s capital early Thursday, but there was little sign of panic as the island´s lenders reopened after a two-week hiatus. Small groups of depositors—mainly numbering a few dozen, mostly pensioners—pressed to enter the banks as they formally reopened at noon (1000 GMT) local time. Police officers and security guards at Bank of Cyprus in Nicosia´s old town allowed eight depositors in at one time. (Snip)Some Cypriots said they would wait until the weekend to go to the bank, fearing that a rush might topple the very banks
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Europeans Planted Seeds of Crisis in Cyprus
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New York Times, by Andrew Higgins
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Posted By: pineledger- 3/27/2013 4:52:22 AM
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Nicosia, Cyprus--When European finance chiefs explained their harsh terms for rescuing Cyprus this week, many blamed the tiny Mediterranean nation’s wayward banking practices for bringing ruin on itself. But the path that led to Cyprus’s current crisis — big banks bereft of money, a government in disarray and citizens filled with angry despair — leads back, at least in part, to a fateful decision made 17 months ago by the same guardians of financial discipline that now demand that Cyprus shape up.
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Hot Money Blues
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New York Times, by Paul Krugman
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Whatever the final outcome in the Cyprus crisis — we know it’s going to be ugly; we just don’t know exactly what form the ugliness will take — one thing seems certain: for the time being, and probably for years to come, the island nation will have to maintain fairly draconian controls on the movement of capital in and out of the country. In fact, controls may well be in place by the time you read this. And that’s not all: Depending on exactly how this plays out, Cypriot capital controls may well have the blessing
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Cyprus Postpones Debate on Deposit-Tax Proposal
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Cyprus postponed for yet another day an emergency parliamentary session to discuss a bailout plan that will see the country´s bank depositors share part of the burden, the house speaker said Monday. The Cypriot parliament is now scheduled to meet Tuesday at 1600 GMT, house speaker Yannakis Omirou told reporters. The parliament had been due to meet Monday at 1400 GMT as the government sought to push the levy through parliament before banks reopened Tuesday after a three-day bank holiday. The vote delay means that the bank holiday will likely be extended for at least another day.
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Young Adults Retreat From Piling Up Debt
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Wall Street Journal, by Neil Shah
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Posted By: pineledger- 3/5/2013 6:40:38 AM
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Young people are racking up larger amounts of student debt than ever before, but fresh data suggest they are becoming warier of borrowing in general: Total debt among young adults dropped in the last decade to the lowest level in 15 years. A typical young U.S. household—defined as one led by someone under age 35—had $15,000 in total debt in 2010, down from $18,000 in 2001 and the lowest since 1995, according to a recent Pew Research Center report and government data. (Snip)In addition, fewer young adults carried credit-card balances and 22% didn´t have any debt at all in 2010
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Privatize Airport Security
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Commentary, by Michael Rubin
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Rather than use sequestration to trim waste, the Obama administration has viewed the deadline—and the Republican desire to curtail spending—as an assault on big government. If it’s a choice between defending big government and hurting the individual, President Obama appears much more inclined to punish the individual, hoping that a backlash against government-instigated inconvenience will lead Republicans to cave.(Snip)Endless airport lines under sequestration are not about security, they are about the inability of a government agency to do its job with its available means.
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We Are Living in a Dying Country
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RUSH: Folks, I don´t know how else to categorize this. We are living in a dying country. I don´t know how else to categorize what´s happening -- 88,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate, because of a terrible statistic, is down to 7.6%. The number of people in this country who are not working is shameful. Ninety million Americans are no longer in the workforce. Ninety million. People not in the labor force grew by 663,000, and now 90 million. That´s the labor force participation rate. This is 1979 levels.
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Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney General´ Comment Was a Gaffe
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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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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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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Hillary Clinton Would Not ´Clear the Field´ for 2016
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for his ´poorly chosen words´ on gay marriage
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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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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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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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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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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White House Blames Jobs Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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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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