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The New Populism of the Right
Daily Beast, by Michael Moynihan
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Posted By:StormCnter, 11/29/2012 4:56:45 AM
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| In the weeks following the presidential election, a number of prominent conservatives, stunned by the scale of Mitt Romney’s loss, took to the cable-news circuit, offering heterodoxies and heresies designed to save a wounded party. Multiple Congressmen—Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Rep. Peter King, and Sen. Lindsey Graham—retreated from Grover Norquist’s infamous anti-tax pledge. Republican strategist Mike Murphy advised his fellow conservatives to develop a “view of America that’s not right out of Rush Limbaugh’s dream journal.” Weekly Standard editor William Kristol has told Fox News Sunday viewers that tax hikes on millionaires isn’t a hill
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It doesn´t matter how virtuous we feel and talk, we still have to win elections if we want to have influence.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Muggins, 11/29/2012 5:20:06 AM (No. 9038806)
The interest groups are flocked to the Democratic Party. They accept, unquestioned, the propaganda that is the backbone of the Democrat Party discourse. The Republicans have to address these points if they want to win the White House. This Democrat demagoguery is of 3 themes. And they are:
[1] The Republicans are racist.
[2} The Republicans don´t care about the poor or middle class.
[3] The Republicans would have Congress take away women´s right to have an abortion.
With these 3 themes, the Democrats capture the overwhelming majority of the minorities, the poor and working poor, and the women´s vote. Are the Republicans resigned to carry the tag of racist, being only for the rich, and determined to take away women´s right to have an abortion? I think the litmus test Republicans essentially say yes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
tocsin, 11/29/2012 5:48:03 AM (No. 9038828)
Daily Beast, a Tina Brown publication, quoting political transvestites, is where I always get my conservative thoughts.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ruready?, 11/29/2012 6:49:48 AM (No. 9038874)
Don´t want influence - just want to be left alone.
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Townhall, by Kevin Glass
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 9:34:13 AM
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President Obama´s health care law was projected to spend $898 billion over ten years when it was passed. That price tag largely masked the true ten-year cost because of the delayed implementation of the law, and the CBO revised its cost estimate in 2013 to show that the law will spend $1.85 trillion in the next ten years. Obamacare is already experiencing cost overruns, and the Obama Administration expects the states to pick up the tab. One of Obamacare´s provisions, the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, has nearly run out of its $5 billion budget, and HHS Secretary Sebelius has proposed
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Someone Gainfully Employed in
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New York Observer, by Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 9:30:13 AM
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Everyone knows that media is not the most stable industry and that it’s hard to find an affordable apartment in New York. But surely somebody who is gainfully employed at a media organization with a recognizable name would not be denied an apartment just because the whole industry is shaky, right? Wrong. “Last week, I was denied an apartment because I have a full-time job in the media industry,” AOL.com frontpage editor Allie Compton wrote on HuffPost earlier this week. Ms. Compton responded to a “For rent by owner” listing on Craigslist and saw one of those too-good-to-be true
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The Only Question That Matters
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National Review Online, by Michael Walsh
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 6:12:48 AM
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Once you understand that the radical Left’s stated reasons for any given program or legislative initiative are entirely bogus, and that the corrective mechanism they propose has absolutely nothing to do with the putative social ill they purport to address, we are left with one simple question: Why? Why was the legislatively unconstitutional seizure of one-sixth of the U.S. economy in the name of “reform” really necessary? Not a single honest argument in favor of it came from the likes of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid at the time
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Obama Spins Furiously On Guns
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:59:58 AM
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Barack Obama’s comments about guns in Mexico today demonstrated a curious lack of self-awareness. “[M]ost of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States.” So the violence perpetrated by Mexican drug cartels is our fault? That seemed to be the implication. But obviously, if there were not a single firearm in the U.S., the drug cartels would be just as well armed as they are today. But that is almost beside the point. How could anyone utter those words without thinking about Fast and Furious? Obama also said,
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Jesse Jackson Jr. likely to use
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Chicago Sun-Times, by Natasha Korecki
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:55:38 AM
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Former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge asked for it. So, too, did former Gov. George Ryan. And Springfield millionaire William Cellini. Now, it’s Jesse Jackson Jr. who will likely make the same pitch to a federal judge and that is: Give me a break on my sentence, I’m sick. In Jackson’s case, it’s his mental health. Prosecutors, showing some skepticism, said they want to have their own experts evaluate Jackson. The ex-congressman’s top lawyer, Reid Weingarten, had said his client’s behavior — embezzling $750,000 from his campaign fund to lavish himself and his wife with a $40,000 Rolex watch,
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Arias´ fate in jurors´ hands
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Arizona Republic, by Michael Kiefer
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:49:13 AM
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PHOENIX -- They have sat stone-faced and silent for four months and a day, listening to lawyers bicker and experts drone. They have seen photographs of unspeakable acts and unmentionable moments, listened to recordings of people in unguarded rut, watched victims and witnesses and defendants go through a range of emotions from tears to anger. In short, they have witnessed the worst of humanity. Now, the remaining 12 members of the Jodi Arias jury must ponder the evidence, sort through what they have seen and heard, decide what is true and what is lies, and bring back a verdict
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Funeral director struggles to find
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New York Daily News, by Bev Ford & Larry McShane
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:45:55 AM
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He´s a body without a burial plot. Four cemeteries in three states have refused to accept the battered corpse of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said the Massachusetts funeral director tasked with finding his final resting place. Peter Stefan, funeral director and owner of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass., tried to find a plot for Tsarnaev in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts — but nobody wants to bury the Russian-born terrorist on their land, he said. If nothing comes up, “we have to go to the federal government
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Losing the Game
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Weekly Standard, by William Kristol
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:38:39 AM
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There was one moment in President Obama’s world-weary press conference last Tuesday when he seemed genuinely interested and engaged. At the very end, when Obama had already begun to depart the podium, a reporter shouted a question about the previously obscure but now famously gay NBA center, Jason Collins. Obama returned to the podium and was animated as he expressed his pride in Collins: “I told him I couldn’t be prouder of him.... And I think America should be proud.... So I’m very proud of him.” That’s nice. In the meantime, between his hoop-shooting and golf-playing expeditions
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Job surge a mirage
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New York Post, by John Crudele
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:31:56 AM
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I’ve been telling you for years that this country’s employment numbers are rigged during the months of April, May and June — so when the Labor Department announced yesterday that the US created 165,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.5 percent from 7.6 percent in March, I had to take a closer look. Sure enough, the report showed that about 50,000 of those new jobs — or 193,000 on a pre-adjusted basis — were based on government assumptions, not fact. And I believe those assumptions are very outdated and false — and they produce,
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Wealthy exec poised
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Politico, by Alexander Burns
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:26:56 AM
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A wealthy Minneapolis finance executive appears poised to enter the race against first-term Democratic Sen. Al Franken. In an email earlier this week, a private real estate company solicited assistance in finding a campaign headquarters for Lazard Middle Market co-CEO Mike McFadden, a Republican who has said publicly that he is considering a statewide campaign. McFadden “will formally announce plans next week to run for the US Senate as a Republican challenger to Al Franken in November 2014,” according to the April 30 inquiry, which a source shared with POLITICO.
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From the Choom Gang to Drug Warrior,
Barack Obama Keeps Bogarting Joints
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Daily Beast, by Nick Gillespie
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:22:53 AM
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While a high school student at Honolulu’s elite Punahou School, Barack Obama was a high-flying member of a pot-smoking, party-hearty crew that called itself “the Choom Gang.” As biographer David Maraniss revealed in last year’s Barack Obama: The Story the future president “had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!,’ and took an extra hit.” n his current trip to meet with Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto, Obama will once again be talking about illegal drugs and interceptions—
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Watch: Rick Perry obliterates
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The Week, by Jon Terbush
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Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) really likes guns. He made that clear during his brief run at the Republican presidential nomination, and again in the wake of the Newton, Conn., shooting when he accused the "political left" of trying to politicize the tragedy. But in case there was any doubt, Perry has made that point even more clear with this explosive video that prefaced his speech Friday to the NRA´s annual gathering in Houston, Texas. In the video, Perry blows away a row of stationary targets with a semi-automatic assault rifle and then, a chugging guitar riff blaring
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PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:10:55 AM
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On October 27th, 2012, only days before the presidential election, I wrote: If Barack Obama is reelected, will he face impeachment over Benghazi — a yet more unpleasant and far more wrenching result than to lose an election? (Snip) Reading Stephen F. Hayes’ new article in The Weekly Standard — “The Benghazi Talking Points” — I am beginning to feel like Nostradamus. I’m not ready to make any predictions, but let’s put it this way… Barack Obama is bloody lucky he’s a Democrat, because if he were a Republican,
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The Benghazi Talking Points
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Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes
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Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and additional information about why the changes were made and by whom. As intelligence officials pieced together the puzzle
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Obama´s sunny speech in
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Los Angeles Times, by Kathleen Hennessey & Tracy Wilkinson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/3/2013 10:13:38 PM
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MEXICO CITY — President Obama on Friday painted a sunny picture of a modern Mexico emerging from its past troubles, an attempt at rebranding that serves the political aims of both governments but clashes with the realities of a country beset by violence and poverty. On his second day of a swing through Latin America, Obama emphasized optimism about Mexico´s economic future and offered a broad endorsement of President Enrique Peña Nieto´s reform agenda. Speaking to a crowd largely made up of high school and college students, Obama pushed the next generation of Mexicans to continue to demand change.
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BENGHAZI: Names of ‘whistleblower’
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Fox News, by James Rosen, Chad Pergram
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 1:06:01 PM
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Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff. But now Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi “whistleblowers” who are set to testify before a widely anticipated congressional hearing on Wednesday. Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks; Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations
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First Lady: Some Kids Don´t Know
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´Where a Cucumber Comes From´
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Cybercast News Service, by Craig Bannister
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/4/2013 4:43:04 PM
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"Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like," and some "don´t know where a cucumber comes from," First Lady Michelle Obama said today. Addressing a gathering at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mrs. Obama said that´s one reason she planted her garden at the White House: "And the nutrition issue, as Tom mentioned, as you all know, is something near and dear to my heart not just as First Lady, but as a mother. In fact, one of the first things that I did, as you know, as First Lady, was to plant the garden
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Court OKs Barring
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ABC News, by Staff
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Posted By: US veteran- 5/3/2013 8:16:12 AM
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A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. “This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control
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Rep. Paul Ryan Now Backs Adoption
of Children by Homosexuals
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Cybercast News Service, by Michael W. Chapman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/3/2013 10:54:53 AM
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate, used to oppose adoption of children by homosexuals but now says it is okay for gays to adopt kids and that he would vote to support such a policy. The Catholic faith, which Ryan professes, teaches that such adoptions “are contrary to the divine plan” of God and Pope Francis has said that gay adoption is a form of discrimination against children. At a meeting with some of his constituents in Janesville, Wisc., on Apr. 29, Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, was asked about
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Will Barack Obama ever stop
apologising for America?
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Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/4/2013 1:21:19 AM
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I’ve just watched this extraordinary clip of Barack Obama’s speech in Mexico City earlier today, where the president blames the United States for the out of control gun violence in Mexico, a frankly ludicrous assertion. RealClear Politics has a partial transcript: "Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States," President Obama said during a speech at Mexico´s Anthropology Museum. "I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always
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Funeral director struggles to find
graveyard to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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New York Daily News, by Bev Ford & Larry McShane
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:45:55 AM
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He´s a body without a burial plot. Four cemeteries in three states have refused to accept the battered corpse of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said the Massachusetts funeral director tasked with finding his final resting place. Peter Stefan, funeral director and owner of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass., tried to find a plot for Tsarnaev in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts — but nobody wants to bury the Russian-born terrorist on their land, he said. If nothing comes up, “we have to go to the federal government
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Americans Are Ready for a
Female President. Finally
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Daily Beast, by Eleanor Clift
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/4/2013 9:35:41 PM
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A new poll from Emily’s List shows an overwhelming number of voters now support the idea. It’s a movement the group hopes someone in the sisterhood is about to inherit. With polls showing Hillary Clinton holding a formidable lead over all other potential candidates for president in 2016, a press conference to promote the idea of a woman president seems a little behind the news, a treasured dream catching up with a new reality, or perhaps a stalking horse for Clinton.
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Bombshell CNN Investigation:
3 Al Qaeda Operatives Took
Part In Attack On Benghazi Consulate
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/3/2013 4:54:39 AM
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According to an investigation by CNN reporters, three Yemeni members of Al Qaeda took part on the coordinated attack on an American consulate and a safe house in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. “One senior U.S. law enforcement official told CNN that “three or four members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” or AQAP, took part in the attack,” CNN reports. It is not clear what command structure may have ordered the Al Qaeda operatives to strike at American diplomatic assets in Benghazi, or if the individuals were already in the region and took advantage of the
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Obama: ´My top priority as President:
Creating good, middle-class jobs´
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 5/4/2013 9:47:49 AM
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Hi, everybody. Today, I’m speaking to you from the road — a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. I’m here because Latin America represents an incredible opportunity for the United States, especially when it comes to my top priority as President: creating good, middle-class jobs. On Friday, we learned that our businesses created another 176,000 jobs last month. That’s 2.2 million new jobs over the past year, and 6.8 million new jobs over the past 38 months. But as I´ve said before, I won’t be satisfied until everyone who wants a job can find one.
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