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Cold, Dark and Damp, Pockets of Misery Persist 2 Weeks Later
New York Times, by Michael Wilson
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Posted By:Drive, 11/13/2012 9:13:00 AM
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| In Coney Island, a 67-year-old man sleeps with plastic bottles from the bodega, filled with hot water, tucked in his armpits. Toilets unflushed by modern means for a fortnight have created a stench in the Rockaways that is so bad that one man keeps incense burning in his apartment day and night. On Staten Island, people sit in “warming buses,” cozy and, like time itself these days, going nowhere. In a town in New Jersey where wells do not pump because the power is out, residents collect rainwater in empty
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
gustavwasa, 11/13/2012 9:15:57 AM (No. 9010885)
Guess I´m mean .. the voted for Obama in droves - let Obie and Schumer take care of them - it´s what they want
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 11/13/2012 9:20:35 AM (No. 9010898)
Relax the government will fix it. Security problem? Call a cop. Government is a hell of a lot better at intruding on your individual freedoms than it is at providing help in times of trouble. The Constitution is a whole lot smarter than the folks taking away its authority.
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zephyrgirl, 11/13/2012 9:29:59 AM (No. 9010926)
Oh but Skippy looked so good in his bomber jacket when he dropped in to console the victims. They were so comforted that they voted in droves for him. Now that he doesn´t need them anymore, they can rot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 11/13/2012 9:31:07 AM (No. 9010928)
Just read an article on Red State about how unions turned away electrical people and how FEMA is sidelined due to unions and red tape. This is big government and this is what the voters in NY and NJ voted for.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
dadofboys, 11/13/2012 9:34:50 AM (No. 9010938)
The whole country just entered a cold, dark and miserable pocket, and it will last a hell of a lot longer than 2 weeks!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan, 11/13/2012 9:35:33 AM (No. 9010940)
RE #1:
You´re not mean, you´re realistic. I sent more than $100 worth of goods to relief efforts before the election. Now I wish I hadn´t. I need that money for my own relief.
I said it in another post, I´ll say it again: let the me-gimme-mine´s do for themselves for once. My give-a-dam broke into smithereens on 11/6/12!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoDeacs79, 11/13/2012 9:49:27 AM (No. 9010966)
How on earth anyone could think the federal government can successfully run the nation´s healthcare system is beyond me.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tennman, 11/13/2012 10:01:24 AM (No. 9011016)
But Obie got his photo op for the election. Now these people are forgotten since they´ve no value. They now learn the FEMA lessons we in Louisiana have come to understand.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sfacheem, 11/13/2012 10:06:52 AM (No. 9011039)
Your government-regulated utilities in New York are an absolute dumpster fire right now.
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Hardright, 11/13/2012 10:07:05 AM (No. 9011041)
Obama can dig into his stash and help these people. He and Moochelle can cut back on their fancy vacations and party´s. Don´t hold your breath.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mobyclik, 11/13/2012 10:24:25 AM (No. 9011126)
Where´s all the screaming headlines attacking the messiah for letting these people suffer? Where´s the demands for heads to roll for all this incompetence? Where´s all the sob stories from the victims?
Sure makes a difference when there´s a complete democrat fool running things, right, so-called media?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 11/13/2012 10:28:24 AM (No. 9011141)
Don´t expect anything from the Obamedia. They´ll just rail against Fox News not being a member of their club.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 11/13/2012 11:02:35 AM (No. 9011255)
The misery is certainly spread around. What did these people do to deserve this? What did any of us do to deserve this? We turned our backs on our creator. We said "No" Just as we cried for the Tsunami victims in Japan, we cry for these as well.
If there is no turning, then perhaps they should move to a country favored by the won. Our government would jump right in pronto in order to assist.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mustang flyer, 11/13/2012 11:04:14 AM (No. 9011261)
Why do I have to keep reading about the miserable people in the north east who tripped over themselves to vote their savior back into office? They were so stupid in pretending that everything was rosy and bright when the country was going to hel* in a basket. Now that he´s back in the saddle and the useful idiots are no longer needed he´s planning his victory party, his next vacation and rushing to head us into a World Government mode to feed and clothe the worlds little people in africa, the middle east and everywhere else but here...anyway, thanks again for voting for him, now go and pretend that he has already removed your trash, provided heat, electricity, water, gasoline, food and transportation not to mention JOBS and quit your bellyaching!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
pouncer, 11/13/2012 11:13:26 AM (No. 9011294)
I see this as an opportunity from God to show others that "we the church" are to step up and in to show the Way. Not the government. Social justice comes only from our Heavenly Father not from man nor from government. This is our lemons to lemonade moment, Christians.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
southron, 11/13/2012 11:20:31 AM (No. 9011330)
I know this has been said over and over, but this would be HUGE headlines if Bush were president.
I cannot imagine how people are coping without their necessary medicines and medical care. The area is ripe for some awful pestilence.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mustang flyer, 11/13/2012 11:40:06 AM (No. 9011384)
I don´t think God was thinking about lemonade when Eve refused His orders about the apple, He chose instead a different method to press the point to obey and we are all paying for that behavior...I think the north east could learn from their experience too without being bailed out right away...do you think?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bettysez, 11/13/2012 11:49:27 AM (No. 9011406)
Thank God George Bush isn´t in charge. Whew!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan, 11/13/2012 12:04:20 PM (No. 9011460)
RE #17:
Revelations 6:8? Though I´m not sure if the "pale horse" refers to the hurricane or urkel.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
B&B, 11/13/2012 1:11:23 PM (No. 9011612)
#16, think about, and see how long the list grows, if Romney was suddenly president; all the issues in this country brought about by Zero and the dems, and kept so vigorously under wrap by the lsm, would be, overnite, shouted from the rooftops, and it would ALL be Romney´s fault, before he even took official office.
I´m so very tired of it all...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/13/2012 1:26:40 PM (No. 9011643)
I don´t understand, today I saw streams and streams of groups of utility vehicles going south on I-81 through Maryland. Some had North Carolina license plates. I thought the job was completed, and power had been restored to everyone. s/off.
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How the Media Blew the Gun Control Debate
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Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte
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Posted By: Drive- 4/18/2013 3:55:53 PM
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With the total and complete defeat of gun control legislation late Wednesday afternoon, the media learned something they had obviously forgotten since pushing Obama over the reelection finish line: They do not run the country. And from what we are seeing across the media landscape since the handing down of this defeat (which was followed by a full-blown presidential hissy fit), this realization has been quite a slap to the face. The first mistake the media-complex made was the decision to immediately make the National Rifle Association the "Newtown Bogeyman."
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NY Post Stands By Decision To Run Photo Of High Schooler Unconnected To Boston Bombings
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: Drive- 4/18/2013 3:49:50 PM
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In response to the controversy erupting over today’s New York Post “Bag Men” cover photo, the paper’s editor issued a statement to Salon standing by the editorial decision. The cover photo, which clearly singles out two males wearing backpacks in the marathon crowd shortly before the bombs went off, was accompanied by the headline: “Bag Men: Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.” Though the headline and graphics implied the two were criminal suspects, Post editor Col Allan‘s statement explains that the paper did not explicitly identify anyone as a suspect:
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AP-GfK poll: Public lacks faith in government, opposes changes to Medicare, Social Security
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 4/18/2013 3:18:50 PM
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s re-election glow is gone. Congress’ reputation remains dismal. And only about one in five Americans say they trust the government to do what’s right most of the time, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Most adults disapprove of Obama’s handling of the federal deficit, a festering national problem. But they also dislike key proposals to reduce deficit spending, including a slower growth in Social Security benefits and changes to Medicare. Rounding out the portrait of a nation in a funk, the share of people saying the United States is heading in the wrong direction is at its highest since last August: 56 percent.
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Napolitano: Deportation of Saudi national is a ‘rumor’
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Daily Caller, by Caroline May
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Posted By: Drive- 4/18/2013 3:12:56 PM
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano reacted with incredulous frustration at questions presuming the Saudi national who was detained following the Boston Marathon bombing is set to be deported. “I am unaware of anyone who is being deported for national security concerns at all related to Boston. I don’t know where that rumor came from,” Napolitano said, when questioned by South Carolina Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan about reports of the Saudi national’s deportation during a House hearing Thursday.
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Boehner: We Are ‘Determined’ to Reach the Truth on Benghazi
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Washington Free Beacon, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 4/18/2013 2:03:19 PM
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House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) announced the five committees he directed to investigate the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi would release a progress report next week outlining their findings and the next phase of the investigation: We are determined to get to the truth regarding the terrorist attack on our Mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which [four] Americans lost their lives. Last year, I directed five Committees to look at various parts of this investigation.
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Obama’s Lear-Like Rage
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Commentary, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: Drive- 4/18/2013 11:39:06 AM
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In a Rose Garden statement in the aftermath of his failure to persuade the Senate to move on any of his gun control proposals, the president raged, Lear-like, against his opponents. It was a rather unpleasant mix–one part petulance and two parts anger. In the course of his outburst, the president said this: I’ve heard folks say that having the families of victims lobby for this legislation was somehow misplaced. “A prop,” somebody called them. “Emotional blackmail,” some outlet said. Are they serious?
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Tale of two terrorists
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New York Post, by John Murtagh
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Posted By: Drive- 4/18/2013 9:24:47 AM
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Somewhere near Boston early Monday morning, he packed a bomb in a bag. It was by all accounts relatively crude — a pressure cooker, explosives, some wires, ball bearings and nails . . . nails which, hours later, doctors would struggle to remove from the flesh of bleeding victims. His motive is unclear. His intent is not: It was to maximize injury, suffering, pain, trauma and, yes, death. Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be caught, perhaps not. Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be offered a teaching job at Columbia University.
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What Boston Means To America
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National Public Radio, by Linton Weeks
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Posted By: Drive- 4/18/2013 8:10:51 AM
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As a city, Boston is at the crux of this country´s past, present and future. This was brought home on April 15 — Tax Day, Patriots Day, Marathon Day — when two deadly bombs exploded on historic Boylston Street near the finish line of the 117th running of the Boston Marathon. The tragic blasts occurred so close to the Boston Public Library that the building — home to the personal book collection of Founding Father John Adams — is included in the crime scene. The bombs struck at the very heart of the heart of America.
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Delaware Planned Parenthood halts abortions while under investigation
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Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar
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Posted By: Drive- 4/17/2013 9:11:13 PM
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Abortions have been suspended at a Delaware Planned Parenthood, after several 911 calls made from within the clinic prompted a new investigation by Health and Human Services. Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich and Joyce Vasikonis, who both quit their jobs as nurses at the facility, spoke to Action News about the unsafe and unsanitary conditions they experienced while working in the facility. “I couldn’t tell you how ridiculously unsafe it was,” Ms. Mitchell-Werbrich said. “He didn’t wear gloves. He didn’t believe he needed to wear them,” she added about a particular doctor.
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The media´s ´marathon´ meltdown
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Politico, by Dylan Byers
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Posted By: Drive- 4/17/2013 7:34:51 PM
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The fast-moving news out of Boston on Wednesday snared some of the most respected reporters and news outlets in the country into offering false or conflicting information about whether a suspect had been arrested — leaving CNN and the Associated Press, among others, scrambling to clean up their reports as the day went on. The flood of conflicting reports, confusion, and subsequent criticism reminded some of June 28, 2012, when many media outlets — most notably CNN — incorrectly reported the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling.
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Could Gun Rights Be the New SOPA?
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National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By: Drive- 4/17/2013 3:29:31 PM
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Blame the gun lobby. Blame Republicans. Blame a handful of skittish Democrats who gave the GOP cover. Blame the entire band of demagogues who killed the modest attempt to close loopholes in a law requiring background checks for guns. Blame them, too, for jeopardizing President Obama’s entire legislative agenda. That was the point, anyhow, right? But don’t call this good news for Obama’s enemies, at least not yet, because under new rules of politics that are still being written, the victory could be Pyrrhic. In an era of voter empowerment and surprise, the GOP’s opposition to a popular gun regulation could backfire.
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The day after the Boston bombings
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Washington Post, by Kathleen Parker
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Posted By: Drive- 4/17/2013 1:15:14 PM
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You know the feeling. You wake up filled with dread but, still groggy, you can’t put your finger on the reason. Possibilities flitter across the landscape of near-consciousness: An exam? A deadline? A speech? What day is it? Oh my God, Boston. For longer than usual, you linger, head on pillow, breathing, thinking, I have my legs. Oh my God. Coffee. “Boston will survive,” someone is saying
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control despite 90 per cent support. Truly, he is a lame-duck president
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:42:40 AM
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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Obama angrily denounces gun-rights groups as willful liars
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/17/2013 6:37:42 PM
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President Obama angrily blamed the defeat Wednesday of his centerpiece gun-control proposal on lies spread by the National Rifle Association, calling it “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” “The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Mr. Obama said in the White House rose garden about 90 minutes after the vote. “It came down to politics.” As he spoke, Mr. Obama was surrounded by family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Also with him was former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Senate rejects background checks on gun purchases in 54-46 vote
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Hill [Washington,DC], by Alexander Bolton
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 4:41:19 PM
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The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Begich (Alaska) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) voted against it. Reid supported the measure but voted against it to preserve his ability to bring the measure up again. GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk
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A growing sense that we´re not getting the truth about Boston bombing
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted down gun legislation ‘out of fear’
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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A Stirring Send-Off For the Iron Lady – And No One Missed the Obamas
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PJ Media, by Mike McNally
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 11:39:38 PM
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After all the controversy – it was too much, and too expensive; it would be marred by protests – this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war prime minister. Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin
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CNN: Pressure Cooker Bomb ´Right Wing´ Signature
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Lee Stranahan
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/17/2013 8:56:39 AM
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An article published on CNN´s website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a ´signature´ of ´right-wing extremists.´ The article was co-written by Jennifer Roland and Peter Bergen. Bergen is the CNN ananlyst made the claim that right-wing extremists could be behind the bombing less than two hours after it took place. The article says (emphasis added) :A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told CNN that pressure cooker bombs have also been a signature of extreme right-wing individuals in the
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Obama: Gun lobby ´lied´ about background check bill
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 6:09:57 PM
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Washington — President Barack Obama says the Senate’s opposition to a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers marks a “shameful day” in Washington. He says a minority of senators decided “it wasn’t worth it” to protect the nation’s children. Obama spoke in the Rose Garden shortly after the Senate vote rejecting a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers. (Snip) The president pinned the blame for the measures failure, though five Democrats also opposed the plan. He also said the gun lobby and its allies “willfully lied” about background check bill.
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Misinformation and Anxiety in Boston Terrorism Investigation
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PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 10:38:32 PM
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Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday’s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon. The anxiety stemming from the attack and the stream of inaccurate news about it is further freighted, moreover, by the FBI’s confirmation that two letters addressed to top political officials — President Obama and Senator Richard Wicker (R., MS) — tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison. As noted below, a man identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the mailings. Early this afternoon, massive confusion
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Suspect 1 dead, search is on for suspect 2 in Watertown
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA] & Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 4:15:42 AM
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Boston--FOX 25 has confirmed suspect #1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead and the search for suspect #2 is ongoing. FOX 25 has confirmed through sources that suspect #1 is dead and police are searching for suspect #2. Mass. State Police asked Watertown residents not to answer the door unless it is an announced police official. Police in Watertown, Mass., began searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday. Local reports say the suspects threw and
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Top Dem sees ´train wreck´ for Obama health law
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Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 4:11:03 PM
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WASHINGTON -- A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama´s health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he thinks it´s headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama´s health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense. Baucus is the first top Democrat to publicly voice fears about the rollout of the new health care law, designed to bring coverage to some 30 million uninsured Americans through a mix
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