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Reversing America´s Decline
American Thinker, by Jared E. Peterson
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Posted By:magnante, 11/27/2012 9:23:50 AM
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| The ongoing and not-so-gradual loss of American Civilization is the result of two related phenomena: the invasion of our country from the southern border, and our elites´ culture of self-loathing that oozed out of the noxious slime of the 60´s. Western Europe is rapidly losing its own civilization for identical reasons (with invaders more poisonous than America´s, and its own reproductive decadence, thrown in to expedite the process). The first phenomenon -- the invasions -- wouldn´t be happening in either place had they not been preceded by the second
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bobgray2, 11/27/2012 10:20:20 AM (No. 9035823)
I am afraid that it is irreversible. Ignorance can be remedied, stupidity can´t. Institutional stupidity is now the new normal. All civilizations collapse, and so will ours. That time is fast approaching.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rubinski, 11/27/2012 11:09:24 AM (No. 9035930)
..yes, and we have all the guns thanks to the liberals desire to disarm themselves.
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tisHimself, 11/27/2012 12:24:32 PM (No. 9036080)
Pat Buchanon sounded the alarm on the erosion of American greatness in his 1992 campaign and the books that have followed.
Any culture has an absorbtion rate for new arrivals.
The faux sophistication of the coasts and to some extent, the moral corruption that accompanies wealth and elitism have resulted in a disdain for the values that accompanied this nation at its zenith; we are either at a nadir or the end of our run.
It wouldn´t kill us to get back to Church on a regular basis.
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LittleHoodedMonk, 11/27/2012 12:29:37 PM (No. 9036088)
I am not a parent. Watching two-children families, one has to wonder how we got it so wrong that offspring hate the niceties we gave them growing up that they took for granted. These young psuedo-enviormentalist accuse US of wanton pollution as they wrangle to have the keys for the SUV.
In the end, it is our fault for not spending more quality time as parents, paying attention to school system they attend, and giving them a moral compass to follow.
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KTWO, 11/27/2012 1:03:30 PM (No. 9036171)
Knowing the future is tough. I don´t agree that the high immigration from the south is poisonous. I agree that we hurt ourselves by mismanaging it.
The absorption rate premise is a tool, a way of studying a process. The rate limit is not knowable, no magic calculation exists.
Our policy of discouraging assimilation by immigrants has been madness. We end up with large neighborhoods of one ethnicity where life is no different from the African or Asian locale where the immigrants came from.
We might as well divide the US into a thousand or ten thousand tribal reservations having nothing in common.
I regard Washington as a process too. A failed one that increasingly drains any good from the remainder of the nation.
Our masters in the Imperial City prosper now as never before. Meanwhile the rest of the nation struggles and staggers. Yet the population fails to draw the logical conclusion.
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coyote56, 11/27/2012 1:53:38 PM (No. 9036258)
Yes we need to go back to church; yes we need to get involved in our schools; yes we need to support our founding principles as in a strong military. If churches are not teaching the complete doctrines from studying in Greek & Hebrew they will teach incorrect doctrine, do good to get to Heaven & give boy scout "I love everyione" messages. If parents do not teach manners,morals & principles at home & marry the opposite sex the children will wander lost. If schools do not teach our wonderful history correctly children will never know what FREEDOM they really enjoy. God will not put up with this crap - even history should teach the stupid brainwashed sheep by example. II Chronicles 7:14
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locarno, 11/27/2012 8:27:35 PM (No. 9036726)
A thousand times YES. One of the best articles I´ve read in some time. There was a time when we had the backbone to stand up for ourselves, and the article mentions some of the great battles in Europe that preserved our culture. Today, we would not be able to defend ourselves against a new threat, simply because we´ve become our own enemies. Political correctness, multi-culturalism , and leftist indoctrination in the schools has effectively neutered us. Although its late in the 4th quarter and we´re way behind, the game is not over and we can still pull out a miracle and reassert ourselves again.
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Posted By: magnante- 4/8/2013 8:36:50 AM
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It had to pain the very reverend Jesse Jackson that when the Trayvon Martin story began to break nationally in mid-March 2012 he was on a pointless glad handing tour of Europe.(snip)As it happens, in 1991 Jackson bought a red brick mansion in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood that had seen its better days. Months after moving in, a burglar broke into the house and made off with some valuables while his mother-in-law was home alone. She heard him and then saw him run away.
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By his own standards, Obama is ´self-delusional´
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/6/2013 9:03:24 AM
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It´s one thing for President Obama to be cocky and overstate his prowess at governing. People are used to politicians grabbing credit, and besides, you can always rationalize when it comes to explaining why things didn´t quite work out as you claimed they would - "the sequester ate my recovery" being the latest successful-enough example. But sports is something else. The basketball either goes through the hoop or it doesn´t. That´s why President Obama´s history of braggadocio regarding his prowess at hoops is having a potent effect on his overall public image, especially with those who are favorably inclined to him.
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Gays for Sharia?
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American Thinker, by Pamela Geller
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Posted By: magnante- 4/5/2013 9:10:00 AM
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Over at Salon, Chris Stedman, the Assistant Humanist Chaplain and the Values in Action Coordinator for the Humanist Community at Harvard, has published a vicious piece attacking me for calling attention to the persecution of gays under Islamic law. This comes just days after San Francisco´s Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution condemning my ads standing up for gays. Stedman and the transgender head of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Theresa Sparks, could form a new organization: Gays for Sharia.
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Barry butches up with comment on California AG
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/5/2013 9:08:13 AM
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During his two day flurry of fundraising in Northern California, the President of the United States took it upon himself (and allow to be released to the public - not all of his fundraising comments make it to the masses) to praise the attractiveness of Kamala Harris, California Attorney General (snip) The remark, predictably, generated a little of what Allahpundit called a ´Blue on blue food fight." I suspect that was the intention. The president´s image as a manly man took a beating when he missed 20 of 22 basketball shots, all recorded on video.
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Oh-oh! The dreaded i-word starts attaching itself to Obama
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/4/2013 10:37:18 AM
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We have already seen Peak Obama; from here on, it´s going to get rougher and rougher for Barack Obama. Even worse, the one word he must fear the most has just been uttered by a man regarded as a bit of a truth-teller among liberal elites. Joe Klein, the celebrated author "Anonymous," who wrote the best selling, truth-telling book Primary Colors about the 1992 primary campaign that brought us President Bill Clinton, has made it ok for liberals to apply the word "incompetence" to the Obama administration. This represents something of a breakthrough. Until now, it has been taboo
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Where is Starbucks Board of Directors?
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American Thinker, by Tom Trinko
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Posted By: magnante- 4/4/2013 9:44:12 AM
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The CEO of Starbucks basically told a shareholder that if the shareholder believes in traditional marriage he should dump his Starbucks stock. Historically the job of the CEO has been to make money and increase shareholder value. It would seem telling people who don´t share the CEO´s personal beliefs, whether it´s gay marriage or abortion, to dump the companies stock is not a pro-shareholder action. This is another example of the liberal belief that everything belongs to liberals because they´re just so darn much smarter than the rest of us
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The Coming Global Warming Voter Backlash
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American Thinker, by Jonathon Miseley
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Posted By: magnante- 4/4/2013 8:40:29 AM
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News is breaking out all over: global warming stopped 20 years ago. A political earthquake has resulted from a feature story in the Economist magazine because the Economist used to be a consistent cheerleader for global warming activism. Doubts about global warming used to be censored by its London editors, one reporter confided to Stephen Hayward. So what will voters do to Democrat candidates in 2014 and 2016 when the former realize that the Democratic Party was lying to them? Is it time to run away from the issue for Democrats, journalists, and Hollywood personalities?
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Finally! School Choice can show its stuff
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/3/2013 10:24:03 AM
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The Great State of Indiana is about to test statewide school choice on a meaningful scale. This a major victory that has attracted little media attention at a time when the MSM narrative is focused on same sex marriage splitting the Republicans, and the inevitable tide of history sweeping away the evangelical wing of the GOP into the dustbin of history, or at least out of the its status as the party´s reliable base.
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It´s Almost 3 AM and North Korea´s Calling
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/3/2013 8:36:58 AM
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President Obama has a situation on his hands where charisma and media support do him no good. He is dealing with a nuclear-armed regime with a history of military attacks, provocations as a means of extortion, and brutality. (snip) In understanding the North Koreans, an unspoken factor that must be considered is that the North Koreans know they are phonies, that they carefully distort reality to impress the rest of the world with how successful they are, even in the midst of economic collapse and mass starvation. North Korea is a Potemkin country
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How Liberals Corrode Society
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American Thinker, by Christopher Chantrill
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Posted By: magnante- 4/2/2013 8:47:57 AM
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In the girl section of the Wall Street Journal last weekend Matt Ridley had an article on nice vs. nasty, cooperation vs. competition. Researchers have found, he writes, that families that stay together cooperate better than families that are far apart. This is not the first work to find mathematical evidence that there are conditions under which cooperative behavior drives out selfish behavior... So long as there is little geographic mobility, clusters of networked kin and friends develop, putting an advantage on being nice. Who knew?
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ObamaCare Bites Unionized Educators
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American Thinker, by Eileen F. Toplansky
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Posted By: magnante- 4/1/2013 9:57:00 AM
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As the proverbial offal hits the fan, adjunct instructors and their union leaders are understandably panic-stricken as they finally realize the impact of ObamaCare on their livelihoods. Union representatives are now sending their members letters stating that "the Affordable Care Act [aka ObamaCare] has defined full time as anyone working over 30 hours a week or 130 hours a month." Many of these hardworking and well-meaning local labor representatives, who were duped -- I mean, told by the American Federation of Teachers Union (AFT) that Obama was the one who would bring all good things to pass
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´ GOP filibuster on guns
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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Christians, here´s why we´re losing our religion
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Broadcasters worry about ´Zero TV´ homes
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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Obama critic apologizes for his ´poorly chosen words´ on gay marriage
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
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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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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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Is going gluten-free healthier for everybody?
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The Week, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 11:28:27 AM
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Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.
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Adam Lanza´s murder spree at Sandy Hook may have been´act of revenge´
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New York Daily News, by Matthew Lysiak and Rich Schapiro
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Posted By: noproblems- 4/7/2013 9:52:58 AM
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Newtown killer Adam Lanza may have launched his murder spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School as an “act of revenge,” the Daily News has learned. A close friend of Lanza’s mother told The News that the troubled boy was a target of relentless bullying when he attended the Connecticut school years ago. “I think Adam felt betrayed by the school and this was his act of revenge,” said Marvin LaFontaine, a friend of Nancy Lanza’s. “Nancy told me he was being picked on at school. That they were just torturing him.” Source and text corrected by Staff.
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Parents outraged that Mass. kids were denied lunch
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: beancounter- 4/6/2013 5:21:39 PM
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ATTLEBORO, Mass. — As many as 25 students at a Massachusetts school were denied lunch this week — with at least some forced to dump their food in the garbage — because they couldn´t pay, school officials and parents said. Outraged parents said some students at Coelho Middle School in Attleboro cried when they were told by a worker for the district´s food service provider they could not eat on Tuesday because they couldn´t pay or their pre-paid accounts were short on funds. The on-site director for the company, Whitsons Culinary Group of Islandia, N.Y., was placed on administrative leave by
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