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Blame Congress, not Clinton, during
State Department Benghazi hearing
Human Events, by Hope Hodge
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Posted By:draggingtree, 12/20/2012 12:06:08 PM
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An early morning hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with two deputy Secretaries of State emphasized the need for material resources to boost security and downplayed errors made by high-ranking officials in the State Department in the course of the Benghazi attacks in September. Sen. John Kerry appeared to be trying on the role of Secretary of State in advance of his rumored nomination when he discussed the need to contribute more funds to U.S. foreign relations efforts.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
master sergeant, 12/20/2012 12:19:17 PM (No. 9076239)
Sorry Kerry - You´re misstating the facts as usual. Lack of money for diplomatic security was not the problem as stated by the lady State Department official responsible for security. Downsize the U.S. Embassy in London to half its size for extra diplomatic security cash.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nimby, 12/20/2012 12:25:48 PM (No. 9076247)
As #1 says...Kerry should go back and read the statements of Charlene Lamb. $$ were not the criteria. DumRats and their obsession with spending once again!!! Geesh
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
phx4546, 12/20/2012 12:45:38 PM (No. 9076274)
if kerry becomes Secy of State can he finally fufill his dream to visit Cambodia like he claimed to have done during Christmas of 1968?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W, 12/20/2012 12:57:13 PM (No. 9076287)
Never blame a Clinton for anything...ever! /s
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Stopstoreload, 12/20/2012 1:15:23 PM (No. 9076309)
Congress is not to blame for the Libyan tragedy. Our government, who wouldn´t let sleeping dictators ( Ghadaffi and Mubarak) lie and supported their overthrow, is to blame.
People who don´t know anything about world affairs shouldn´t dabble in them. Our government dabbled and we shall pay for decades to come.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 12/20/2012 1:40:27 PM (No. 9076345)
Money is always the excuse for political screw ups. `If we only had more `resources`, i.e. $$$$$$, this would not have happened. Same old tired political excuse. Kerry, like Shrillary, is so schooled in the art of lying, he`ll fit right in at State. Instead of listening to Clinton`s shrill deadpan voice, we`ll be subjected to Kerry`s upper crust snobbish New England drawl.
We`re in a country that just overthrew its dictator by dragging him in the streets and sodomizing him and the State Dept/WH never thought to beef up security. Obama never has a problem finding money to throw at his union buddies but foreign security in a hotbed outpost is forgotten.
A warm bucket of spit comes to mind when thinking of the fools who inhabit the halls of DC.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kens, 12/20/2012 1:53:35 PM (No. 9076360)
You think she´s going to sober up and face the music in a congressional committee? I. Don´t. Think. So.
She will string this out to resignation day and then ride off into the sunset as a private citizen who will never be compelled to testify. Ever.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/20/2012 2:26:11 PM (No. 9076422)
I once worked for a complete idiot at an organization, and we went to a national convention to present our reasearch findings. We we scheduled at 8 AM, and I was well prepared. My idiot boss, at 7 AM, used sign language of sorts to tell me that he had laryngitis, and that I had to do the full presentation. (He was not such a complete idiot that he didn´t know he was unprepared.)
I thought of that event, which happened back in 19777, when I read about Hillary.
Her excuse will be more complex, but she will have one.
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Now they want our jewellery,
paintings and furniture
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Canada Free Press, by Anna Grayson
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Posted By: draggingtree- 3/2/2013 3:32:06 PM
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London, England - A new wealth tax is being proposed by the leftist wing (The Liberal Democrats) of our coalition government that will come with unprecedented powers to enter our homes and root through our personal possessions to value rings, necklaces, paintings and furniture, anything that might raise more taxes. If we refuse to be inspected or get our own valuations wrong, we would be facing fines, maybe even a jail sentence. This brainchild was conceived by the Lib Dems for their next election manifesto and is part of a series of measures planned to tax the better off.
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Obama: Marxist Revolutionary
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Canada Free Press, by Michael Oberndorf
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Posted By: draggingtree- 2/23/2013 11:40:04 AM
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As most real conservatives know, Obama, by his own admissions, appointments, associates, and actions, is a hard-core, 21st century, Marxist revolutionary. This means that while he has no real plan for what his utopian, pie-in-the-sky collectivist state would look like, or how it would survive as an economic entity, he is dedicated to destroying our existing free, constitutional, capitalist republic to start the process. It also means that like all Marxists, archaic and modern, his primary enemy is what Marx called the bourgeoisie – the Middle Class. As those who went to school while actual history
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Obama’s Speeches Chilling
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Canada Free Press, by J.D. Longstreet
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Posted By: draggingtree- 2/22/2013 10:30:17 AM
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The crowd was roaring. The lone man, ramrod straight, in his impeccable brown uniform would step forward toward the lectern, then pause and let his eyes wander over the thousands of up turned faces—all staring at him, waiting for him to speak. And they waited—and they waited. (Snip) A full sixty seconds would expire before that man would take the one remaining step to the lectern, and begin speaking. (snip) Those of you reading this now, if you are near my age, know exactly of whom I speak
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Mexico admits 27,000 missing;
Human Rights Watch protests crisis
of ‘disappeared’
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McClatchy, by Tim Johnson
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Posted By: draggingtree- 2/21/2013 1:13:17 PM
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico said Wednesday that it had records of more than 27,000 cases of “disappeared people” that it would make public soon in an effort to clarify the circumstances under which they vanished. Lia Limon, the country’s deputy interior secretary for human rights, acknowledged the cases hours after Human Rights Watch issued a scathing report that called Mexico the Western Hemisphere’s hot spot for “enforced disappearances,”
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The President Is Raging Against
a Budget Crisis He Created
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Wall Street Journal, by JOHN BOEHNER
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Posted By: Draggingtree- 2/20/2013 12:34:52 PM
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A week from now, a dramatic new federal policy is set to go into effect that threatens U.S. national security, thousands of jobs and more. In a bit of irony, President Obama stood Tuesday with first responders who could lose their jobs if the policy goes into effect. Most Americans are just hearing about this Washington creation for the first time: the sequester. What they might not realize from Mr. Obama´s statements is that it is a product of the president´s own failed leadership.
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You Don’t Negotiate With
Terrorists – or Democrats
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Canada Free Press, by Erik Rush
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Posted By: draggingtree- 2/15/2013 6:00:06 PM
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Leaving aside for the moment the likelihood that parties and party politics in America will become moot within the next few years (owing to the emergence of a single party or the country’s dissolution into civil war), conservatives and libertarians are finding themselves at an unpleasant crossroads. While some observers gave up on the leadership of the Republican Party long ago, it is now becoming apparent to rank-and-file Republicans that the GOP leadership and its prominent operatives are wholly complicit in the fundamental transformation of America.
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Texas Ranked Top Exporting State for 11th Consecutive Year
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Office of the Governor Rick Perry, by Staff
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Posted By: draggingtree- 2/11/2013 1:55:35 PM
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Texas is ranked as the number one exporting state for the 11th year in a row, according to 2012 annual trade data released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce. "The fact that Texas is ranked the nation´s top exporter for the 11th year in a row further demonstrates that our strong economic climate provides a broad range of opportunities for businesses to succeed," Gov. Perry said. "Our longstanding commitment to holding the line on taxes, snip
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Rick Perry does California a favor
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, by Editorial
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Posted By: draggingtree- 2/11/2013 1:00:11 PM
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry was scheduled to be in California the start of this week. The Associated Press reported the governor planned to meet with executives in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Orange County. Gov. Perry´s office said he would meet with leaders in the high-tech, biotech, financial, insurance and entertainment industries. The visit follows a modest radio ad campaign launched last week – which then spawned nationwide media attention – aimed at promoting the Lone Star State´s lower taxes and friendlier business climate. snip
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Panetta to propose military
pay cut after Obama raised
federal officials pay
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: draggingtree- 2/6/2013 2:20:54 PM
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Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reportedly believes the military should receive a pay cut in order to respond to the budget cuts facing the Pentagon — a position that might strengthen the Republican push to reverse President Obama’s executive order raising the salary of Vice President Joe Biden and other federal officials. “Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a one percent increase in 2014,” CNN reports, explaining that Panetta is “effectively decreasing troop salaries next year . . . The decision comes as the secretary is stepping up the rhetoric about dire cuts at the Pentagon if sequestration goes into effect.”
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The Constitution? What’s That?
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Canada Free Press, by J.D. Longstreet
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Posted By: draggingtree- 2/4/2013 10:57:45 AM
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The dictionary tells us that a constitution is a law, or compilation of laws, determining the fundamental political principles of a government. The people of the United States have a constitution. Now, I know this will come as a shock to many, but we actually DO have a constitution, which was written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states.
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Statement by Gov. Perry on President
Obama´s Executive Actions
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Real Clear Politics, by Gov. Rick Perry
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Posted By: draggingtree- 1/16/2013 5:26:05 PM
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Gov. Rick Perry released the following statement regarding President Obama´s executive actions: "The Vice President´s committee was appointed in response to the tragedy at Newtown, but very few of his recommendations have anything to do with what happened there. "Guns require a finger to pull the trigger. The sad young man who did that in Newtown was clearly haunted by demons and no gun law could have saved the children in Sandy Hook Elementary from his terror.
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Whether by Gun or Abortion,
Murder Is Murder - Period
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American Thinker, by W.A. Beatty
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Posted By: draggingtree- 1/14/2013 11:24:39 AM
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) plans to introduce (or has already introduced) gun-control legislation in the 113th Congress, ostensibly to protect the lives of children, and to curb mass murders, like the one that occurred in Newtown, CT. At the same time, Feinstein is very pro-choice and supports taxpayer funding for abortions. She opposes bans on partial-birth abortion. She has spoken about the constitutional right to an abortion and, in 2003, on the Senate floor, spoke in support of Roe v Wade. She, in 2005, opposed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. snip
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We Are Living in
a Dying Country
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 4:53:10 PM
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RUSH: Folks, I don´t know how else to categorize this. We are living in a dying country. I don´t know how else to categorize what´s happening -- 88,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate, because of a terrible statistic, is down to 7.6%. The number of people in this country who are not working is shameful. Ninety million Americans are no longer in the workforce. Ninety million. People not in the labor force grew by 663,000, and now 90 million. That´s the labor force participation rate. This is 1979 levels.
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Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney
General´ Comment Was a Gaffe
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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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Hillary Clinton Would Not
´Clear the Field´ for 2016
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
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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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´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
her high-maintenance hairdo
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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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Hillary Clinton: The clock is turning
back for women in America
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:25:20 PM
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained to the Women in the World summit in New York today that the clock is turning back for women in America. Clinton praised her own mother for helping empower her to success and marveled at the opportunities that her own daughter Chelsea has pursued. But Clinton warned that there is still so much to do to promote women´s rights in America. "As I look at all these young women that I am privileged to work with, or know through Chelsea, and its hard to imagine turning the clock on them," Clinton said.
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White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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The Deafening Silence that
Signals Our Demise
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Townhall, by Diana West
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Posted By: Drive- 4/5/2013 11:56:32 AM
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Get ready for the last straw. First, though, I´d like to suggest that anyone reading this column in a local newspaper or news site pat the editor on the back for publishing what in our neo-medieval world of fear amounts to a forbidden column. Yup, I am about to say something about the Great Barack Obama Identity/Eligibility Scandal again. I know that this is one rich and urgent topic that doesn´t see the light of day in certain so-called news outlets -- and I say that from the experience of watching my own syndicated columns
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Trayvon Martin´s parents
settle wrongful death claim
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Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:15:25 PM
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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