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In Communist Cuba,
the Tax Man Cometh
Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By:Drive, 11/28/2012 10:31:41 AM
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| Most Cubans have not paid taxes for half a century, but that will change under a new code starting January 1. The landmark regulations will change the relations of Cubans with their government and are a signal that market-oriented reforms, launched since President Raul Castro succeeded his brother, Fidel Castro, in 2008, are here to stay. The recently published code constitutes the first comprehensive taxation in Cuba since the 1959 revolution abolished just about all taxes.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
phx4546, 11/28/2012 11:05:27 AM (No. 9037526)
you mean this communist country isn´t going to only tax the rich?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Redneck In NY, 11/28/2012 11:24:02 AM (No. 9037565)
When everything that you have belongs to the state, there is no need for taxes. Apparently "Rooters" has forgotten communism 101.
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AP says Twitter hacked after
false report of White House explosions
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Reuters, by Susan Heavey and Alina Selyukh
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Posted By: Drive- 4/23/2013 2:23:01 PM
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Hackers took control of the Associated Press Twitter account on Tuesday and sent a false tweet of two explosions in the White House that briefly shook U.S. stock markets. AP spokesman Paul Colford told Reuters that the message, which also said U.S. President Barack Obama was injured, was "bogus" but did not immediately provide more details. The AP´s Twitter account was suspended shortly after the fake tweet. The news organization said the tweet came after hackers made repeated attempts to steal the passwords of AP journalists.
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CNN´s King says mistakes
last week were ´embarrassing´
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WTOP (Washington, DC), by Amy Hunter
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Posted By: Drive- 4/23/2013 2:16:32 PM
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WASHINGTON -- CNN´s John King says he is embarrassed after wrongly reporting last week that a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was arrested, calling the mistake a "double kick in the head" because he´s a Boston native. "When you do something like this, it´s embarrassing," King, the network´s chief national correspondent, told WTOP on Tuesday. "The one thing you have to do is look straight in the camera and say, ´We were wrong.´" CNN was criticized for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. On Wednesday, it was one of at least four major news organizations that cited anonymous sources when reporting an arrest was imminent.
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Big Brother´s Blind Spots
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National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Drive- 4/23/2013 2:10:59 PM
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During a big chunk of the Bush years, there was a good deal of legitimate concern about the extent to which the government was monitoring us. And then there was some flat out crazy stuff. Naomi Wolf spoke for many when she periodically would come unglued about one imagined violation or another. She would spew a lot of nonsense about how if you fly on a plane, the government would know what you read, where you’re going, who you’re visiting etc. with the smug assurance that all conspiracy theorists somehow master (watch the first 30 seconds of this if you doubt me). Often breathless front page stories about data mining and phone tapping were a regular fixture of the news cycle. There was all that nonsense — and it was nonsense — about the government monitoring libraries.
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Chris Matthews On Bombers:
"What Difference Does It Make
Why They Did It?
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Real Clear Politics, by Staff
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Posted By: drive- 4/23/2013 11:45:33 AM
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MSNBC´s Chris Matthews is not that interested in finding out a motive for last week´s bombing of the Boston Marathon, but instead focused on prosecuting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old ethnic Chechen who was apprehended by authorities on Saturday. While Matthews was concerned about the video tape that puts Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan, 26, now deceased, at the Marathon, former FBI profiler and hostage negotiator Clint Van Zandt was interested in gathering intelligence to find out if more attacks were being planned. CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: I know we´re filled in this country with some strange
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Bush, Obama now tied at
47 percent approval rating
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Washington Examiner, by Conn Carroll
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Posted By: drive- 4/23/2013 11:27:46 AM
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One president is falling. One president is rising. Now their paths have crossed. According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, former-President Bush now has the exact same job approval rating, 47 percent, as President Obama, 47 percent. From The Washington Post: Almost as many people (47 percent) approve of how Bush handled his eight years in office as disapprove (50 percent), according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. That’s the highest approval rating for Bush since December 2005.
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Lessons of Boston
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New York Post, by Ralph Peters
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Posted By: drive- 4/23/2013 8:43:36 AM
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The superb work of our law-enforcement officials in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing ignited a blaze of self-congratulation that obscured the event’s implications. Yeah, we killed one fanatic and nabbed the other. But our dysfunctional system couldn’t prevent this latest Boston Massacre. That carnage was a dirt-cheap terrorist triumph. Fanatics will take its lessons to their shriveled jihadi hearts: Lesson No. 1: Two amateur terrorists can paralyze a major American city for days. The Tsarnaev punks generated global headlines, ran up millions in government
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Go Ahead, Admit It: George W.
Bush is a Good Man
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National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By: drive- 4/23/2013 7:51:30 AM
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White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer walked into the media cabin of Air Force One on May 24, 2002, and dropped identical envelopes in the laps of two reporters, myself and Steve Holland of Reuters. Inside each was a manila card – marked by a small presidential seal and, in a simple font, “THE PRESIDENT.” Handwritten in the tight script of President George W. Bush, both notes said essentially the same thing: “Thank you for the respect you showed for the office of the President, and, therefore, the respect you showed for our country.” What had we done? Not much, really.
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Reddit owns up to missteps
in Boston Marathon fiasco
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USA Today, by Rem Rieder
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Posted By: drive- 4/23/2013 7:49:00 AM
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After a shameful witch hunt that mindlessly smeared the reputations of people guilty of nothing more than attending the Boston Marathon, Reddit has done the right thing. On Monday, Erik Martin, general manager of the social media website, apologized fully for the debacle in which Reddit´s amateur sleuths set out to determine, in full view of the world, who was responsible for the marathon bombing.
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Alleged ´al-Qaeda-supported´
plot against Via train thwarted
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CBC (Canada), by Staff
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Posted By: drive- 4/23/2013 7:46:56 AM
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Police say they have arrested two men accused of conspiring to carry out an "al-Qaeda supported" attack targeting a Via passenger train in the Greater Toronto Area, following a cross-border investigation that involved Canadian and American law enforcement. In a press conference that followed a report by CBC´s Greg Weston, police named the two accused as Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, from Toronto. They have been charged with conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack and "conspiring to murder persons unknown for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group."
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Anthony Weiner Making Theatrical
Debut in ´Hating Breitbart´ Doc (Video)
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Hollywood Reporter, by Paul Bond
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Posted By: drive- 4/23/2013 7:38:16 AM
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As former congressman Anthony Weiner gears up for a possible run for mayor of New York, he is also making his theatrical debut in a film he probably wishes didn’t exist. Those involved with the movie, called Hating Breitbart, are also intending to lean on Weiner´s image -- by way of news video of some of his embarrassing TV moments -- to promote their film. OUR EDITOR RECOMMENDS Take Two: Anthony Weiner Returns to Twitter Kelly Ripa Talks Regis, Debates Mark Consuelos on Anthony Weiner´s NYC Mayoral Run (Video) Andrew Breitbart Documentary to Get Recut, Re-rated and Re-released (Video)
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North Korea begs for food aid from
Mongolia as starving state
faces ´severe´ shortage
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Daily Express (U.K.), by Charlotte Meredith
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Posted By: drive- 4/22/2013 1:21:45 PM
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The North, suffering under dictator Kim Jong-un´s cruel regime, cited a "severe" shortage of food and requested aid during a recent meeting with Mongolia´s President Ts. Elbegdorj. "We ask Mongolia to seek possibilities of delivering food aid to North Korea," an article by InfoMongolia said. Millions of people live near starvation at the secretive state, and children orphaned by misfortune or their parent´s imprisonment, often die from malnutrition. Chilling video footage recently documented a 10-year-old-boy starving to death on the streets of North Korea.
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FAA Furloughs Kick In,
Some Flight Delays Appear
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: drive- 4/22/2013 8:41:16 AM
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Commercial airline flights moved smoothly throughout most of the country on Sunday, the first day air traffic controllers were subject to furloughs resulting from government spending cuts, though some delays appeared in the late evening in and around New York. And even though the nightmarish flight delays and cancellations that the airline industry predicted would result from the furloughs did not materialize yet, the real test will come Monday, when traffic ramps up.
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Can a President Who
Has Promised to
´Stand with the Muslims´
Protect Americans?
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American Thinker, by Lauri B. Regan
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Posted By: DW626- 4/23/2013 3:11:30 AM
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In Obama´s Audacity of Hope, he stated, "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in any ugly direction." He also asserted in Bob Woodward´s Obama´s Wars, "We can absorb [another] terrorist attack." These are two straightforward statements that raise the question of whether a man who has been seemingly obsessed with reaching out to "the Muslim world" since taking office is capable of fulfilling his duty as commander-in-chief to keep America safe and secure.
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Marco Rubio’s New Tactic: Imply
Immigration Bill’s Opponents Want To
‘Round Up’ And Deport All Illegals
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Mediaite, by AJ Delgado
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/22/2013 10:09:00 AM
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In debate classes or law school, it is often referred to as the ‘arguing against the non-existing opponent’ tactic. The way it works is you imply your opponent is making an outlandish, unsavory claim (though he isn’t), hoping others will run with it or, at worst, that your opponent won’t sufficiently correct it and the claim sticks. To illustrate, imagine Sally is arguing in favor of marijuana’s legalization against Tom. In the middle of the debate, Tom suddenly shrieks: “Well, Sally, you can talk about legalizing marijuana all you want but I just don’t believe
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No Bully in the Pulpit
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New York Times, by Maureen Dowd
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Posted By: toledo- 4/22/2013 6:58:12 AM
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THE graying man flashing fury in the Rose Garden on behalf of the Newtown families, the grieving man wiping away tears after speaking at the Boston memorial service, is not the same man who glided into office four years ago. President Obama has watched the blood-dimmed tide drowning the ceremony of innocence, as Yeats wrote, and he has learned how to emotionally connect with Americans in searing moments, as he did from the White House late Friday night after the second bombing suspect was apprehended in Boston.
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As Bush library opening puts
his presidency back in the
spotlight, his approval rating is up
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Washington Post, by Dan Balz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:29:52 AM
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George W. Bush will return to the spotlight this week for the dedication of his presidential library, an event likely to trigger fresh public debate about his eight fateful years in office. But he reemerges with a better public image than when he left Washington more than four years ago. Since then, Bush has absented himself from both policy disputes and political battles. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that the passage of time and Bush’s relative invisibility have been beneficial to a chief executive who left office surrounded by controversy.
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Flight Delays as Political Strategy
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/22/2013 7:59:14 PM
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President Obama´s sequester scare strategy has been a political flop, but his government keeps trying. The latest gambit is to force airline flight delays until enough travellers stuck on tarmacs browbeat enough Republicans to raise taxes again. This week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began furloughing each of its air-traffic controllers for one day out of every 10 to achieve roughly $600 million in savings this fiscal year. The White House dubiously claims that the furloughs are required by the sequester spending cuts enacted in 2011.
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Report: Suspects not
licensed to own guns
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Mike Lillis
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/22/2013 9:49:28 AM
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The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws – an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of a gun-control package backed by President Obama. Because Massachusetts state law bars handgun ownership for those younger than 21, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, was the only brother who could have
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The Tailor Who Sewed the Obama
Empty Suit Has Sewn Others
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American Thinker, by Bruce Walker
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/22/2013 3:27:01 AM
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The most glaring fact about our president is that he is an empty suit. The people around him are also empty suits. They believe in nothing, really, but unearned luxury, unmerited adulation, and unaccountable power. Those whom we have come to call "leftists" are in fact nothing but nihilists, and we flatter them when we presume that they value anything beyond their vanities, their avarice, and their selfishness. When tragedy strikes, like in the Boston bombing, these empty suits can look and
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Kerry on Global Warming:
´The Science Is Screaming at
All of Us and Demands Action´
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/23/2013 5:30:15 AM
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In a statement marking Earth Day, Secretary of State John Kerry pledges to deal "responsibly with the clear and present danger of climate change." The former presidential candidate also notes the "fragile planet we share with the rest of humanity and which we must protect for future generations.""The United States joins countries around the world today in commemorating Earth Day. Ever since I was involved in the first Earth Day in Massachusetts, way back in 1970, this has always been a day to reflect on our environmental challenges and our responsibility to safeguard our God-given natural resources
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Muslim Congressman On Boston:
"Let´s Not Cast A Wide Net
And Just Go After A Whole
Religious Group"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/22/2013 6:08:53 PM
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REP. KEITH ELLISON (D-MINN.): Well, you know, it is too early for me to second-guess the FBI. I think we need to know more about what they knew. The fact of the matter is that it is good that they contacted him. That wasn´t enough to deter him, obviously. But the fact is that before I’m going to say the FBI should have done something different, what I, I’m not prepared to say that yet. There is just not enough information. What I will say is this: We don´t know what their motivation was yet.
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The Pressure to Be the TV News
Leader Tarnishes a Big Brand
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New York Times, by David Carr
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 11:19:02 AM
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Like a lot of Americans, when I woke up on Friday morning and found out there was a manhunt in the Boston area for the remaining suspect in Monday’s bombing at the marathon, I turned on CNN. It’s a common impulse, although less common than it used to be. The news audience has been chopped up into ideological camps, and CNN’s middle way has been clobbered in the ratings. The legacy networks’ news divisions can still flex powerful muscles on big stories, and Twitter and other real-time social media sites (Snip) But the biggest damage to CNN has been self-inflicted
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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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National Review Online The Corner, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/23/2013 6:55:51 AM
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Apparently the latest craze in NYC is to let your babies’ freak flags fly by letting them go commando: When Jada Shapiro decided to raise her daughter from birth without diapers, for the most part, not everyone was amused. Ms. Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter’s offerings, and her sister insisted that she use a big, dark marker to mark the bowls so that they could never find their way back to the kitchen. But “elimination communication,” as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called,
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