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Why aren’t Asians Republicans?
American Enterprise, by Charles Murray
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 11/27/2012 5:10:42 AM
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| Last week, I pointed out that there is no such thing as a natural social-conservative skew among Latino Americans. But that leaves open a rejoinder, expressed by several readers: The GOP doesn’t need to get all of the Latino vote, just its fair share. That’s true, and I should have made my point clearer. In the wake of the election, some social conservatives have tried a new version of the old Silent Majority argument, contending that Republicans can continue to make their candidates pass litmus tests on abortion and gay marriage and still win national elections
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He´s right that we´ve allowed our party face to be portrayed as rigidly socially conservative. So, voters stop listening before we ever get a chance to discuss smaller government and fiscal responsibility. Social issues do not belong in national politics. Leave those to the states.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ecclesiastes, 11/27/2012 6:13:44 AM (No. 9035409)
Maybe because Republicans are about ideas instead of demographics?
I mean except for being spineless weaseling sell-outs.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 11/27/2012 6:18:30 AM (No. 9035414)
My daughter in law in from the Philippines and I know a ton of Philippinos. There should be no mystery about why they cote Democrat. It´s not social conservatism. It´s the same old story. As soon as they get here they are told that the Democrats are for the "little people". Also, most are Catholic and are very wary of Protestants. My son´s mother in law was in horror of the fact that the grandchildren were being taken to the Baptist Church and seemed to think there must be something evil about that. Now she attends with them every Sunday. But, most can´t be influenced.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
revdeppisch316, 11/27/2012 6:54:13 AM (No. 9035451)
Not enough Jackie Chan movies with conservative themes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 11/27/2012 7:17:57 AM (No. 9035480)
A substantial number of Liberals may be atheists but they know better than to allow themselves to be labeled that way.
Limited government and free markets are the light and hope and promise of the world.
But the sneaky pastards on the left know that strident Christianity is VERY off-puting to most people and we allow them to define conservatism as a religious thing.
Liberalism is actually more of a religion but we never make that case either.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NuGoddess, 11/27/2012 7:34:11 AM (No. 9035504)
OP is right that we have allowed our party to be portrayed as rigidly socially conservative. One needs only post an article on gay marriage as evidence of explosive outrage from this forum. We tut-tut liberals for resorting to ´´name calling´´ and then exhibit the same gut-reaction by using the same tactics.
Do most Conservatives share the same opinions as the average American concerning social issues like gay marriage or abortion? No, but I would surmise we are closer than we know to most Americans on these issues and it is high time we re-examine our personal objections regarding these topics.
We have allowed ourselves to be painted as stiff-necked, obdurate, obstinate, and just plain cranky. Like it or not these issues are not going away. Instead of shouting ´´shut up!´´ to the Left, we need to co-opt their tactics, verbally bend a little and close off their route to victory.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pigop, 11/27/2012 8:59:27 AM (No. 9035644)
Co opt all liberal social issues but be fiscal conservative. That´s a winning formula. Really, anything that does not affect others should not matter and must be left alone. For GOP do not touch abortion issue, it´s a matter between the mother and her conscience(God).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Susannah, 11/27/2012 9:40:21 AM (No. 9035737)
Totally agree, #6. Todd Akin, a supposedly pure conservative, got 39% of the vote in Missouri, a state that otherwise went totally red. Even Republicans couldn´t stand the man.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smcchk, 11/27/2012 10:41:28 AM (No. 9035868)
Agree with Charles Murray and the OP. Starting to think there may need to be a 3rd party, as some fols, in all sincerity, will always consider social issues to be foremost and that is hampering the GOP.
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When Terrorists “Act Alone”
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Commentary Magazine, by Max Boot
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/25/2013 6:11:44 AM
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Law enforcement officials are touting news that the Boston Marathon bombers acted alone. The source for their conclusion? Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has averred from his hospital bed that he and his brother had no links to any terrorist organization. This may or may not be true; it’s possible that even if Dzhokhar is sincere he may not have known about links cultivated by his brother during Tamerlan’s sojourn to Dagestan last year. But even if it’s true that their bombing was not directed by foreign terrorist organizations, it was certainly inspired by them. In seeking to explain their heinous actions,
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39 Photos That Show
Why Everyone Misses
George W. Bush
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Business Insider, by Grace Wyler
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/25/2013 5:58:24 AM
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After four years of silent obscurity, former President George W. Bush will return the national spotlight Today for the inauguration of his presidential library in Dallas, Texas. When Bush left office back in 2009, he was the politician that everyone in America loved to hate. His approval ratings were in the tank at 33 percent — the lowest of any outgoing president since Richard Nixon — and just 24 percent of Americans approved of the way he had handled the economic collapse. On the eve of Bush´s political comeback tour, however, the American people appear to have largely forgiven
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How teens become terrorists
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USA Today, by Russell Razzaque
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/24/2013 12:13:20 PM
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was only 19 years old when he allegedly planned and carried out one of the worst acts of terror on U.S. soil since 9/11. This, however, is actually not an uncommon age for radicalization. In fact a number of suicide bombers and terrorist convicts were radicalized at around exactly this time; Hasib Hussain, for example, one of the London 7/7 bombers of 2004 was 18. This is when the existential wound that has been festering since childhood is most vulnerable to external forces. Radical Islamist ideology is a poison disguised as a cure. In the research I conducted
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Did the FBI miss clues about Boston
Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev?
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New York Daily News, by Editorial
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/24/2013 5:52:29 AM
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The critical challenge facing America’s counterterrorism agencies is to connect the dots that draw an outline of a plot in the making and then intervene to prevent death and destruction. Identifying the dots — those bits of information that are innocuous standing alone but together are terrifying — is perhaps the hardest aspect of the work. More, they don’t just come your way. You have to hunt them down. Self-evidently true, the basics bear repeating because there are serious questions as to how national security authorities failed to recognize that Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a brewing jihadist threat.
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Flying the Government Skies
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/24/2013 5:46:04 AM
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As travellers nationwide are learning, the White House has decided to express its dislike of the sequester—otherwise known as modestly smaller government—by choosing to cut basic air traffic control services. We wrote about this human- rights violation on Tuesday in "Flight Delays as Political Strategy," but the story gets worse the closer we look. Start with the Federal Aviation Administration, better known as the Postal Service without the modern technology. Flyers directly fund two-thirds of the FAA´s budget through 17 airline taxes and fees—about 20% of the cost of a $300 domestic ticket, up from 7% in the 1970s.
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Time-lapse footage: Constructing
the George W. Bush presidential library
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Hot Air, by Guy Benson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/23/2013 5:01:52 PM
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The visual history of a two-and-a-half year project in less than two minutes, via the Dallas Morning News:(Snip for video)The formal dedication is slated for Thursday, with all five living US presidents in attendance. When Bush shakes Obama’s hand at the ceremony, our 43rd and 44th presidents will share something in common: A job approval rating of 47 percent. While we’re on the subject of President Bush, be sure to read Ron Fournier’s stirring tribute to Bush’s abiding decency in National Journal. A taste: White House press secretary Ari Fleischer
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Why the FBI Didn’t Make Much of
Russia’s Request to Probe Boston Bomber
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Daily Beast, by Eli Lake
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/23/2013 4:57:03 PM
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On the surface, it looks like another failure to connect the dots. Russia’s intelligence service, the FSB, warned the FBI in 2011 about a young Chechen named Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who they believed had become radicalized and was prepared to join an underground organization in Russia. The FBI interviewed the man, searched its databases and found nothing, and closed the case the same year. Two years later, Tamerlan and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, bombed the Boston Marathon. Already two members of Congress have asked the Obama administration for answers about the FBI’s empty investigation. On Saturday, Rep. Michael McCaul (R–Texas),
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Bush is back
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/23/2013 4:50:50 PM
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It took less than 4 1/2 years of the Obama presidency for President George W. Bush to mount his comeback. While doing absolutely nothing on his own behalf (he’s been the most silent ex-president in my lifetime), his approval is up to 47 percent according to The Post/ABC poll. That’s up 14 points from his final poll in office. For comparison’s sake President Obama’s RCP average is a tad over 49 percent. Why the shift? Aside from the “memories fade” point, many of his supposed failures are mild compared to the current president (e.g. spending, debt). Unlike Obama’s tenure,
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Carjacker: ´Did you hear about the
Boston explosions? I did that´
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Cambridge Chronicle [Somerville, MA], by Erin Baldassori
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/23/2013 11:45:57 AM
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Cambridge — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev looked calmly on as the first bomb exploded on Boylston Street during the Boston Marathon April 15. Days later, a suspected carjacker boasted about the bombings, according to new details from a criminal complaint issued Monday, April 22. (Snip)Seven hours later, police responded to a report of an armed carjacking in Cambridge. According to the complaint, the victim was sitting in his car when he heard a tapping on the passenger-side window. The man rolled down his window, and the man reached in, opened the door, and got inside. The man reportedly told the victim,
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The Age of Hope and Shame
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Commentary Magazine, by Abe Greenwald
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/23/2013 5:55:54 AM
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What’s the difference between righteous and self-righteous? Last Wednesday, President Obama stood alongside victims of gun violence and spoke about the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey bill, which would have expanded background checks for gun buyers. Obama’s insistence that America has seen “too many tragedies” of late is righteous (“characterized by uprightness or morality,” according to dictionary.com). But he went on to describe a moral split that posited on his side “those who care deeply about preventing more and more gun violence” and on the other, “those who blocked these common-sense steps to help keep our kids safe.”
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The He Said, She Said of
Gun Control: Get Over It
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Roll Call, by Stuart Rothenberg
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/23/2013 5:10:07 AM
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The deep disappointment coming from the White House, gun control advocates and the parents of Newtown, Conn., at the demise of the Manchin-Toomey Senate compromise gun bill is understandable. But some of the rhetoric following the amendment’s defeat has been over the top. Supporters of stricter gun control have called those who voted against the measure “cowards,” a strange label for senators who voted contrary to what 85 percent of the country, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and virtually all in the media wanted. Is it courageous to follow national public opinion
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Feds Look Into Accused
Bomber´s Dark Side
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ABC News, by Brian Ross*
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/23/2013 4:42:44 AM
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In the widening federal probe into the Boston Marathon bombing, authorities are uncovering growing evidence of 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev´s violent dark side and increasing disaffection and disgust with things Christian and American. Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers accused of detonating explosives near the marathon finish line, died during a firefight with police early Friday morning. Authorities are working to uncover the details of Tsarnaev´s life in the hope their search will help provide a motive for the deadly bombing.
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Daily Beast, by Eli Lake
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Internal emails in the week following the 9-11 anniversary assault on the U.S. facility in Benghazi show the White House and State Department removed references to al Qaeda and the mention of other recent attacks in Benghazi from widely distributed talking points used to explain the incident to the public, according to a new report from five House Republican committee chairmen released Tuesday afternoon. Citing administration emails provided to the House committees, the 46-page report claims that “to protect the State Department, the Administration deliberately removed references to al-Qaeda-linked groups and previous attacks
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev got
Mass. welfare benefits
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/24/2013 5:31:11 AM
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Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned. State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev’s attorney has claimed Katherine — who had converted to Islam —
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The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage
Caused By Boxing Play a Role in
the Boston Bombings?
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Time Magazine, by Jeffrey Kluger
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 5:17:04 PM
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. But the brain that was home to his angry mind remains, and in this case that may mean something. Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer who won the New England Golden Gloves competition as recently as 2009 and 2010. That speaks to a young man with a healthy sense
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President Obama to daughters:
If you get a tattoo, I’m
getting one too
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New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 12:18:38 PM
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President Obama and the First Lady have come up with a crafty strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos — and it banks on the girls thinking their parents are deeply uncool. “What we’ve said to the girls is, ‘If you guys ever decide you´re going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo. In the same place,’” Obama said with a smile. “And we´ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.” “And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that that somehow that´s
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Franken: The Senate needs to
talk more about climate change
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 10:26:58 AM
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Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) suggested on Earth Day that the Senate should spend more time talking about climate change issues. “I’m here to suggest we talk more about climate change so that we can agree on taking action to address it,” Franken said Monday. “The Senate cannot afford to ignore climate change, we need to talk about it.” Franken pointed out that 98 out of 100 scientist say climate change is real and needs to be dealt with. He said people outside Washington, D.C., understand this. “Many of my other colleagues I suspect don’t talk about
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Ben Affleck to live on food
budget of $1.50 per day
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Star-Ledger [Trenton, NJ], by Janelle Griffith
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 7:53:21 PM
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Academy Award winner Ben Affleck is the latest Hollywood star to lend his celebrity to a social cause. Next week, the "Argo" and "Good Will Hunting" actor will join thousands of others when he lives off of $1.50 per day as part of the Live Below the Line campaign, from April 29 to May 3. Billed as a means to challenge the way people think about poverty, the campaign requires participants to feed themselves on no more than $1.50 a day for five days.
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Bloomberg Says Interpretation
of Constitution Will ‘Have to
Change’ After Boston Bombing
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New York Observer, by Jill Colvin
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 12:10:33 PM
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In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks. “The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex word where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”
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Her Hall of Fame: Chelsea
Clinton’s $10M buy for city’s
longest apartment
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New York Daily News, by Jason Sheftell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/24/2013 9:03:34 AM
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Think of it as a horizontal townhouse. Most developers hype the sky-high verticals of their new glitzy buildings, but a new condominium called The Whitman — soon to be home to former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton - has a completely different selling point: It features the longest apartments in the city. The four-unit building stretches an entire block between E. 26th and E. 27th Sts. It takes almost 30 second to walk the approximate 250-foot central corridor. "The hallway is a wow factor," said Douglas Elliman broker Dina Lewis, who shares the listing with partner Melanie Lazenby, daughter of
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David Brooks: Ted Cruz ´Has
a Face That Looks a Little
Like Joe McCarthy´
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 10:18:25 PM
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NewsBusters reported Sunday the media´s chorus to silence Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) is growing louder. As fate would have it, at roughly the same time, David Brooks was sitting down for a chat with PBS’s Jeff Greenfield at the 92nd Street Y during which the New York Times columnist said, “It doesn’t help that [Cruz] has a face that looks a little like Joe McCarthy” (video follows with transcript and commentary): After Greenfield brought up the Texas Senator, Brooks said, “So Ted Cruz is, just violates my sense. And I think if you mention the name Ted
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Morning Joe Goes After The Media:
We Can’t ‘Demonize The Entire
Religion Of Islam’ Due To Radicals
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 11:07:22 AM
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Since the Boston bombing, much of cable news quite naturally has taken to discussing various issues surrounding terrorism and radicalization. Morning Joe on Wednesday was no exception. Joined by The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown, the panel also took a look at media portrayal — stressing that we can’t “demonize” all of Islam when we talk about radicals. “The whole family was becoming radicalized, and perhaps by their inability to fit in this culture,” Brown remarked, speaking about “home-grown” terrorism and the Tsarnaev family. As the discussion turned to what exactly “self-radicalized” means, James Peterson asserted,
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Rubio Shamefully Attacks Conservatives
Over Immigration Reform
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Breitbart´s InstaBlog, by Javier Manjarres
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 11:15:51 AM
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Senator Marco Rubio continues running a scorched-earth immigration reform defense, as he ramps up his criticism and attacks against the very conservatives that helped him win his 2010 U.S. Senate race. Since his much anticipated immigration reform surfaced last week, Rubio has been out defending every single opposing view that has been written about his flawed immigration bill.What most people don´t know about Rubio is that he has always supported a pathway to citizenship. While he was Speaker of the Florida House, Rubio blocked six pro-immigration bills, and then defended his actions by
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Democrat Beckel Calls For Moratorium
On Student Visas For Muslims
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Larry O´Connor
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 11:23:35 AM
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On Monday´s "The Five" on Fox News Democrat Bob Beckel made a startling call for a moratorum on all student visas for Muslims. "In the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us, I think we really have to consider, given the fact that so many people hate us, that we´re going to have to cut off Muslim students coming to this country for some period of time so that we can absorb what we´ve got, and look at what we´ve got, and decide whether some of the people here should be sent back home or
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