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Pass Simpson-Bowles,
Watch Hilarity Ensue
Power Line, by Steven Hayward
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 12/1/2012 11:24:09 PM
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| In my National Review print edition article right after the election (behind a subscriber wall, alas), I suggested the House pass a bold tax reform bill right away, and send it to the Senate. Heck, I added, “the House GOP could even just pass Simpson-Bowles, and rightly say they are passing the plan President Obama’s own commission recommended.” I am happy to see this idea is catching on. Mary Katherine Ham likes the idea over on Hot Air today. I agree with MKH that Simpson-Bowles is not perfect, but let us always remember
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Howard Adams, 12/1/2012 11:38:02 PM (No. 9043804)
Makes sense to me, with passage of the bill after about 3 paychecks have gone out in 2013.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Abigail4, 12/2/2012 7:39:40 AM (No. 9044083)
Simpson-Bowles would be a better option than the fiscal cliff, and it is the only other one that already has the details in place. I don´t have any hope that a different detailed plan could be worked out at all, let alone before the end of the year.
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After Gun Debate, Media
Credibility Is Shot
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NewsBusters, by Matthew Sheffield
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 11:16:54 AM
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Normally, the people who cover the media industry try studiously to avoid mentioning the very obvious fact that America´s elite journalists are overwhelmingly liberal and that one can discern this by reviewing their output. This is a logical response considering that said reporters probably do not wish to antagonize potential sources. It´s hard to report on the media if no one in the media will speak to you. In the case of the recent journalist meltdown over gun control, the bias was so overwhelming, even Politico's cautious media reporter Dylan Byers had to admit the obvious:
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Police, citizens and technology
factor into Boston bombing probe
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Washington Post, by David Montgomery*
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 11:19:51 PM
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BOSTON — Within hours of the Boston Marathon bombing, investigators were already overwhelmed. Bloody clothing, bags, shoes and other evidence from victims and witnesses were piling up. Videos and still images, thousands of them, were beginning to accumulate. Quickly, the authorities secured a warehouse in Boston’s Seaport district and filled the sprawling space: On half of the vast floor, hundreds of pieces of bloody clothes were laid out to dry so they could be examined for forensic clues or flown to FBI labs at Quantico in Prince William County for testing. In the other half of the room
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Authorities seek answers in
Boston Marathon bombing
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Washington Post, by Joel Achenbach and Robert Barnes,
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 11:17:50 PM
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Authorities pressed forward Saturday in their search for answers in the Boston Marathon bombing, and the person who likely knows more than anyone else is the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, known to friends as “Jahar.” He remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds and was “not able to communicate yet,” said Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick. Tsarnaev is at heavily guarded Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the same hospital where his older brother, Tamerlan, 26, was pronounced dead Friday after a shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown. “One of the reasons why I and so many
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and
the Ticking Bomb Scenario
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PJ Media, by Rick Moran
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 11:04:05 AM
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The FBI will use the “public safety exception” to the Miranda rule in order to interrogate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston bomber, without having to read him his Constitutional rights. ABC News: The exception, according to the FBI‘s website, “permits law enforcement to engage in a limited and focused unwarned interrogation and allows the government to introduce the statement as direct evidence.” “Police officers confronting situations that create a danger to themselves or others may ask questions designed to
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FBI questions three in
New Bedford in connection
with second bombing suspect
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Standard-Times [New Bedford, MA], by Simon Rios
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 10:43:03 AM
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NEW BEDFORD — The FBI detained three people in connection with marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after a raid at the Hidden Brook apartment complex Friday evening, according to New Bedford police. Lt. Robert Richard told The Standard-Times the FBI executed a search warrant, taking into custody two college-age males and one female who are believed to be fellow students or roommates of Tsarnaev. "At this point, they´re being questioned as to ... their familiarization with suspect No. 2," Richard said around 7:30 p.m. Friday. The names of those taken
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Obama hails capture of bombing suspect
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 1:25:16 AM
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President Obama praised Bostonians for the capture of the suspected terrorist bomber Friday night, even as he issued a plea for the public not to rush to judgment about the suspects’ possible motives. “Whatever hateful agenda drove these men to such heinous acts will not, cannot, prevail,” Mr. Obama said at the White House. “Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they’ve already failed.” Mr. Obama said the terrorists failed because Boston and the nation refused to be intimidated. And then Mr. Obama spoke about the importance of Americans’ spirit “staying true to the unity and the diversity
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In Boston and its suburbs, nearly
unprecedented shutdown is surreal
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Washington Post, by Doug Struck and Kevin Sullivan
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 1:20:55 AM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Hub stopped Friday. The kinetic and salty city of Boston, which got its proud nickname from Oliver Wendell Holmes in the 19th century, came to a standstill Friday while an army of heavily armed police hunted for a skinny 19-year-old in a gray hoodie. By order of the state, a public transit system that serves more than 1.3 million riders a day was padlocked. Amtrak trains were suspended between Boston and New York. Businesses, offices and some of the world’s greatest universities were shut. Taxis were ordered off the streets for part of the day. Residents
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How string of events involving
Tsarnaev brothers unfolded
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Washington Post, by Joby Warrick and Sari Horwitz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 1:18:42 AM
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As their photographs spread rapidly across the Internet, the Tsarnaev brothers decided to make their move. Not waiting for police to find them, they gathered guns and homemade explosives for what became a final, bloody rampage on a community still in shock from the bombing three days before. In less than 15 minutes late Thursday, authorities said, the brothers fatally shot a campus police officer as he sat in his car, then carjacked a Mercedes-Benz sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint. They held the driver hostage for 30 minutes as they scoured Boston’s western suburbs for bank machines
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Second Boston Marathon
bombing suspect arrested
after day of lockdown
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Washington Post, by Annie Gowen*
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 1:07:49 AM
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WATERTOWN, Mass. — Police arrested the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing here Friday night after a day-long manhunt led them to the wounded man hiding in a back yard. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found after a resident in Watertown saw blood on a boat parked behind his home. The man looked under a plastic cover and saw a man inside the boat, covered in blood. Officers responded, and they exchanged gunfire with the suspect and threw “flash-bang” grenades into the boat in an attempt to flush him out. The suspect was later seized by a SWAT team
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USA Today founder Al Neuharth dies
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Washington Post, by Martin Weil
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 1:04:32 AM
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Allen H. Neuharth, 89, whose drive, energy and enterprise helped him write an American success story as he rose from delivering the daily paper to presiding over a giant publishing empire and achieving recognition as one of the most influential figures in modern journalism, died Friday in Florida. Mr. Neuharth’s death came after he suffered injuries in a fall at his home in Cocoa Beach, according to a story in USA Today, the national newspaper he founded. Neuharth, the onetime chief of the Gannett Co., a huge newspaper chain, also helped found the Newseum
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Counterterrorism officials long
feared IEDs would make
way to US shores
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Washington Guardian, by Sara Carter
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/19/2013 10:14:52 PM
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Long before the gruesome bombings at the Boston marathon, U.S. counterterrorism officials feared that the improvised explosive devices used so effectively by insurgents on the Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields might one day make their way to U.S. shores. And as authorities sift the crime scene for clues about who carried out Monday´s attack that killed three and injured more than 140, a new question lingers over the Homeland Security front: Has America entered a new era of terrorism in which small, easily hidden bombs that can wreak panic and carnage supplant or augment the larger-scale terrorist attacks favored by traditional
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Source: Suspect 2 shot, is
down in Watertown neighborhood
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 7:09:43 PM
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Watertown, Mass.– A number of gun shots were fired near Franklin Street in Watertown Friday night and it was believed that suspect number 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings had been shot. FOX 25's Bob Ward reported that as many 30 shots were fired in the neighborhood. Ward reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man known as suspect 2, was shot by police. It was not immediately known if Tsarnaev was killed. A bomb squad could be seen responding to the scene. A massive police presence was also in the area. FOX 25's Jarrod Holbrook reported that Tsarnaev was seen in a boat with a canvas
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Feds ´investigating possibility that the
government´s terror-trackers knew about
the Boston bombers before the blasts´
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by David Martosko
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/20/2013 12:06:21 AM
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Federal law enforcement officials are actively investigating the possibility that the Boston bombers were known to the government’s terror-trackers, MailOnline understands. Any inquiry into the marathon bombing will look into whether agents could have taken action – but didn’t – to prevent the Tsarnaev brothers from obtaining the explosives that killed 3 and wounded 173 others. CBS News reported Friday evening that two years ago, the FBI interviewed the elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in Thursday night´s dramatic shootout. The feds reportedly spoke to him at the request of an unspecified foreign government, but couldn´t
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USA needs refuge from refugees
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:55:25 AM
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So once again, no good deed goes unpunished. Uncle Sam lets another bunch of leeching future terrorists into the country who have absolutely no business being here, gives them “asylum,” making them immediately eligible for welfare, and this is the thanks we get? They turn into mass murderers. We bring in thousands of Muslims from a primitive society that has been battling Christians for centuries, and put them into a peaceful Christian society — what could possible go wrong? This is what I was thinking about yesterday, with much of the city under what amounted to martial law.
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The Kennedy meth
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New York Post, by Larry Getlen
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/21/2013 5:09:29 AM
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In 1962, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, a man “peeled off his clothing and began prancing around his hotel suite.” His bodyguards were cautiously amused, until the man “left the suite and began roaming through the corridor of the Carlyle.” The man in question was delusional, paranoid and suffering a “psychotic break” from the effects of an overdose of methamphetamine. He was also the president of the United States. The reason for John F. Kennedy’s bizarre behavior was that, according to an explosive new book, the president was — unbeknownst to him, at first — a meth addict.
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Zogby: Obama still one
of the great communicators
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 7:10:32 PM
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that when it came to messaging Boston, President Obama had the right touch. "We have had presidents who have been able to rally local communities and the nation when people are hurting. This president is truly one of the great ones. He carried the right message to the people of the Boston area and beyond when he told them Thursday ´we will finish this race.´ He also has a strong shot at gaining an immigration reform victory with the package drawn up by
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Boston bombers: FBI hunting
12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to
brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Mirror [UK], by Christopher Bucktin, Andy Lines
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/21/2013 6:34:23 AM
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The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday. A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated
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Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals:
´They Are Driving on Our Streets
Without a Driver´s License´
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 10:00:59 PM
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.), one of eight senators who have crafted legislation that would put illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, explained in a Senate floor speech yesterday that one of the reasons he wants to do this is that he believes illegal aliens are currently driving on U.S. roads without drivers licenses and auto insurance and his bill would encourage them to get licenses and buy insurance. Rubio explained that under his bill ilegal aliens who "have committed serious crimes" will be deported. However, the proposal will apparently not deem as a serious crime the habit
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Muslims guard against backlash
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Chicago Tribune, by Manya A. Brachear
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:22:13 PM
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The Council on American Islamic Relations again offered sympathy to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday, but added a plea for Americans not to generalize and conclude that Muslim teachings influenced the suspect in any way. "Our focus is primarily on the victims," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter at a press conference Friday afternoon. "We don´t want to be drawn into defending ourselves." Citing acts of violence in Boston and New York, Rehab blamed Islamophobic forces for inciting hate crimes.
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Don’t Rule Out Anything
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Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/21/2013 5:01:15 AM
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“In this age of instant reporting and tweets and blogs, there´s a temptation to latch on to any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions,” said President Obama, in the late evening of April 19, after Dzokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive in Watertown, Mass. (Snip)In an exceptionally well-reported story in the Daily Beast Friday, we read this: "One U.S. intelligence official who was regularly briefed on the investigation told Newsweek that he and his colleagues all but ruled out al Qaeda central or one of its affiliates giving direct and specific instructions for the attack."
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Mass. governor says he has no idea what
motivated Boston Marathon bombers
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 9:08:53 AM
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Washington — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on CBS’ ”Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S.
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Terror Expert: Boston Attack More
Columbine More Than 9/11, These
Are ‘Murderers Not Terrorists’
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/21/2013 11:13:04 AM
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Philip Mudd, former counterterror expert for the CIA and the FBI, joined Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday to discuss the nature of the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers and any network they may have been associated with in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. He said the Boston attack reminded him more of the 1999 attack on Columbine than a terror event orchestrated by a foreign network. “I would charge these guys as murders not terrorists,” Mudd said of the suspects in the attack on the Boston Marathon. “Do you think we have to fear copycats – more of these small,
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