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House to vote on "fiscal cliff" tonight
CBS News, by Stephanie Condon
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/1/2013 8:41:01 PM
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| The House will hold a straight vote on the "fiscal cliff" bill passed by the Senate overnight - a major step in finally averting several effects of the "cliff." If the bill passes the House, it moves on to President Obama for his signature, ending weeks of fighting about how to deal with the tax hikes and spending cuts that began hitting the country today. It wasn´t easy getting to this point today in the House. After meeting with the Republican conference and listening to members´ concerns, House Speaker John Boehner presented them with two options, a GOP leadership aide said:
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Once again, like 0bama fashion, ram through a bill of such untold consequences, while the GOP [in control of the House], cry like little girls and pull their skirt over their heads.
Shameful.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 1/1/2013 9:09:44 PM (No. 9093799)
Vote it down. Up yours Obama.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 1/1/2013 9:20:11 PM (No. 9093818)
Already sent an email to my rep. I will not vote for him again if he votes in favor of this legislation.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GreatPlains, 1/1/2013 9:33:12 PM (No. 9093843)
Reid already said if any changes are made to the Senate bill , he will not bring it to the floor.
And tomorrow after the stock markets tank and everyone´s taxes go up - House Republicans are left holding the bag.
Much to the glee of Obama and the Democrats.
That sounds like a plan.
Thursday at noon, the 113th Congress is sworn in, with a slimmer Republican majority in the House.
And a larger Democrat majority in the Senate.
Holding out until Obama and Reid break down and
agree with the Tea Party is..never...going ... to happen.
If Republicans controlled all 3 branches , this would be an entirely different situation and conversation.
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PSA test leads to further
procedures, harms: study
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Reuters, by Genevra Pittman
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 11:50:02 PM
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New York - Most older men with prostate cancer found by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests and biopsies opted for treatment in a new study - even if signs pointed to their disease being slow-growing and not immediately life-threatening. Still, among men with high PSA levels, only about one-third ended up getting a biopsy to determine if they had cancer at all, researchers found. (Snip) For their new study, Walter and her colleagues analyzed insurance claims and medical records for almost 300,000 men, age 65 and older, who were screened for prostate cancer through the VA in 2003.
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Saudi King to Obama: Boston
Bombers Belonged to
‘No Religion at All’
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PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 6:10:40 PM
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Saudi King Abdullah reached out to President Obama to express condolences for the Boston Marathon bombings and say that the attackers had “no religion,” according to the Saudi Press Agency. “In his own name and on behalf of the people and government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the monarch expressed profound sorrow and pain for the death and injury of some innocent people as a result of the two terrorist acts in Boston, describing the perpetrators of the explosions as belonging to no religion at all and that no ethics or values ever accept this deed,
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Who´s Playing Politics
With the Boston Bombing?
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National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 5:23:30 PM
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Stop. Just stop. For the love of all that is still sane and civil about American politics, please don´t make the Boston Marathon bombing a talking point. The vast majority of Democrats and Republicans are so far heeding President Obama´s call for a period of bipartisanship. “We are Americans united in concern for our fellow citizens," he said Monday evening. But there are outliers. The question is whether others will follow, and how soon. Former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., warned on MSNBC that the "sequestration" spending cuts may force Boston to cut important services to pay
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Red Cross chief criticises
US drone use in Pakistan
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 3:15:44 PM
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Geneva - Red Cross chief Peter Maurer on Tuesday condemned US drone strikes outside areas officially engulfed in armed conflict, warning against a creeping expansion of the definition of what constitutes a battlefield. Washington’s secretive and controversial use of drones was not a problem in itself, said Maurer, as in the context of an armed conflict drones are considered legitimate weapons. “But if a drone is used in a country where there is no armed conflict…there is a problem,” the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross told reporters in Geneva, urging the “very restrained use” of
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‘Kill all Muslims’: Fox News pundit’s
‘sarcastic’ Boston bomb tweet
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Al Arabiya [UAE], by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 2:13:49 PM
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A right-wing media pundit from the United States has called for all Muslims to be killed in a ‘sarcastic’ tweet made in response to the Boston Marathon bombings. Erik Rush, a regular on Fox News, appeared to attribute blame to Islamic extremists following yesterday’s blasts, in which at least three people were killed. “Let´s bring more Saudis in without screening them! C´mon!,” he wrote on Twitter. Another Twitter user asked, “Are you Already Blaming Muslims??” – to which Rush reportedly responded: "Yes, they´re evil. Let´s kill them all." Rush later said his tweet was “sarcastic”,
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North Korea´s war threats may be
aimed at stifling domestic discontent
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Guardian [UK], by Andrei Lankov
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 1:50:34 PM
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North Korea is a remarkable country. How else would a small state with no economy to speak of manage to create a massive media panic and remain in the headlines for a couple of weeks in a row? The question remains though: if Pyongyang is not about to launch a nuclear strike on the continental United States – and it clearly is not – what has it been up to for the past three weeks? One aim of this political theatrics is rather clear: the North Korean government wants to remind the world of its existence and demonstrate that it is cheaper to make a deal than sanction it.
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Suit Seeks to Block
Arkansas Abortion Law
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New York Times, by Erik Eckholm
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 1:33:20 PM
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Supporters of abortion rights on Tuesday filed a challenge to the new Arkansas law banning most abortions at the 12th week of pregnancy, calling it a “violation of over 40 years of settled United States Supreme Court precedent” and a threat to “the rights, liberty and well-being of Arkansas women and their families.” When it was adopted last month, with the legislature overriding a veto by Governor Mike Beebe, a Democrat, who called it “blatantly unconstitutional,” the law was the country’s most stringent limit on abortion. Later in March, North Dakota pushed the limit back further, to six weeks
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Bombings End Decade
Without Terror in U.S.
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New York Times, by Scott Shane
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 1:19:38 PM
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Washington - The bombing of the Boston Marathon on Monday was the end of more than a decade in which the United States was strikingly free of terrorist attacks, in part because of far more aggressive law enforcement tactics in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (Snip) Only in 2009, after 13 people were killed in shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas, did the number of fatalities in post-9/11 terrorism on American soil rise into double digits in a single year. That was a sharp contrast with the 1970s, by far the most violent decade since the tracking began in 1970, the database shows.
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Obama Calls Bombings
an ‘Act of Terrorism’
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New York Times, by Mark Landler
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 1:05:45 PM
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Washington - President Obama said on Tuesday that the bombings at the Boston Marathon were being investigated as an “act of terrorism,” though he said law enforcement authorities did not know whether it was the work of foreign or domestic groups or individuals. (Snip) It was the president’s first reference to the bombings as a terrorist attack, after a cautious first response on Monday, in which Mr. Obama did not use the word “terrorism,” even as White House officials confirmed that they were treating it as an “act of terror.” But after a morning briefing from the F.B.I. director,
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Fact-Free Crusades
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Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Thomas Sowell
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 12:54:12 PM
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Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders? Think about all the states, communities within states, as well as foreign countries, that have either tight gun control laws or loose or non-existent gun control laws. (Snip) The dirty little secret is that gun control laws do not actually control guns. They disarm law-abiding citizens, making them more vulnerable to criminals, who remain armed in disregard of such laws. In England, armed crimes skyrocketed
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What Times op-ed from Gitmo left out
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New York Post, by Geoff Earle
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 12:34:09 PM
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Washington - Guantanamo Bay detainee Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel penned an anguished op-ed for The New York Times yesterday about his suffering behind bars for 11 years — but there was no mention that he was allegedly picked up at Tora Bora in Afghanistan and is believed by US intelligence to have been among a group of hardened fighters protecting Osama bin Laden. (Snip) But a once-secret Pentagon document put out by WikiLeaks — and posted on a Times Web site chronicling all the detainees — paints a very different picture of Moqbel as a devoted member of al Qaeda’s fighting
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Kermit Gosnell and Reproductive Care
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New York Times, by Andrew Rosenthal
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/16/2013 1:13:53 AM
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What does the trial of a Philadelphia doctor who is accused of performing illegal late-term abortions by inducing labor and then killing the fetuses have to do with the debate over legal abortion? Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said today that the Kermit Gosnell trial proves that federal funds should not be used for abortions — an especially odd conclusion to draw given that riders attached to appropriation bills already prohibit the use of federal funds for abortions, except in cases of rape or incest. (Snip) But the effort to use this case to “prove” that abortion is wrong, is wrongheaded.
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White House snub to Thatcher:
Obama won´t send envoy
- and leaves it to her old
allies from the Reagan era
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by James Chapman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:50:39 PM
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Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed ‘surprise and disappointment’ last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral. Whitehall sources have revealed that the U.S. delegation at tomorrow’s service in St Paul’s Cathedral will be led by two Reagan era secretaries of state: James Baker and George Shultz. Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either by Vice President Joe Biden or wife Michelle. The Queen’s decision to attend
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Are We Being Compromised
by Barack Obama´s Murky Past?
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American Thinker, by James A. Lyons
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 6:18:58 AM
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Since he first became a presidential candidate, President Obama must have spent millions of dollars in legal expenses to combat dozens of so-called "birther" challenges seeking the original documents pertaining to his birth. As president, he famously issued an electronic document on the White House website in 2011; the document purported to be his long-form birth certificate, though it is apparently a forgery. In addition, he has taken great pains to hide the paper trail of passport records, college transcripts, and other data -- all of which a prospective employer might require of a job applicant.
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Gitmo Is Killing Me
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New York Times, by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 8:29:32 AM
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ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.
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Feds seek suspects, motive
in Boston bombings
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Associated Press, by Jimmy Golen
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/16/2013 6:53:44 AM
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BOSTON -- The bombs that blew up seconds apart at the finish line of one of the world´s most storied races left the streets spattered with blood and glass, three dead, including an 8-year-old boy, more than 140 wounded and gaping questions of who chose to attack at the Boston Marathon and why. Federal investigators said no one had claimed responsibility for the bombings one of the city´s most famous civic holidays, Patriots Day. But the blasts among the throngs of spectators raised fears of a terrorist attack. President Barack Obama was careful not to use the
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Lawyer, judge erupt in
anger in Gosnell trial
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Joseph A. Slobodzian
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Posted By: LComStaff- 4/16/2013 7:02:04 AM
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He is known only as "Baby Boy B," a fetus estimated to be 28 weeks old, found frozen in an altered one-gallon plastic water jug in Dr. Kermit Gosnell´s West Philadelphia abortion clinic. His passing went unnoticed and undocumented, but on Monday, prosecution and defense lawyers struggled to get Philadelphia´s chief medical examiner to say whether he was stillborn or killed by Gosnell after being born alive during an abortion.
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NBC Reporter Luke Russert
Speculates On Boston
Explosions’ Link To 1993 Waco Siege
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/15/2013 5:18:48 PM
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In light of the explosions that have rocked Boston on Patriots’ Day, during the city’s annual marathon, NBC reporter Luke Russert took to Twitter to speculate that today’s horrific events could possibly be related to the 1993 government siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas — an incident often attached to conversations about “right-wing terrorism” and anti-government violence. “I was at Fenway Park w my dad and @mikebarnicle during Waco which was on Patriots Day in 1993. Speculating on possible link,” Russert tweeted following the explosions.
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Obama: ‘People shouldn’t
jump to conclusions’ about
Boston Marathon bombing
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/15/2013 9:45:50 PM
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President Obama pledged that the United States would punish anyone responsible for the explosions at the Boston Marathon today, but he said that “people shouldn’t jump to conclusions” about the tragedy. “We still do not know who did this or why and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before they have all the facts,” Obama told reporters during a statement from the White House. “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice,” he added. Two explosions occurred today near the finish line of the Boston Marathon,
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Breaking: Obama to make
statement from White House
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/15/2013 5:58:09 PM
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President Barack Obama will deliver a statement Monday at 6:10 p.m. ET from the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. As seen in the photo, President Barack Obama spoke Monday on the phone with FBI Director Robert Mueller to receive an update on the Boston explosions. Seated with the President are Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. A White House official said earlier the president has been notified of the explosions. "His administration is in contact with state and local authorities.
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Praises Obama’s
Reaction To Terror, Says Bush Dis-
appeared for ‘Couple Weeks’ After 9/11
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/16/2013 3:38:34 PM
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MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid told the host of Now, Alex Wagner, that she thought President Barack Obama’s response to the attack on the Boston Marathon on Monday was powerful and comforting in a way that President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, was not. She accused Bush of being unavailable to the American people for the “first couple weeks” after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Reid told Wagner that the president’s statement actively combatted the intention of the terrorists, which is to make their targets feel “discombobulated.” “Having, sort of
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Mark Kelly threatens to back
challenger to Flake over gun votes
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The Hill [DC], by Daniel Strauss
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 4:33:26 PM
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Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), is threatening to back an election challenge against Sen. Jeff Flake if the Arizona Republican votes against legislation to expand background checks. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Tuesday, Kelly said he would back an opponent to Flake if the "right candidate" was available and if the senator failed to support a background check bill, according to reports. Flake, who is not up for reelection until 2018, has been close to Kelly and Giffords. But Kelly said the issue of control trumped their ties.
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Meredith Baxter, Patty
Duke to Play Lesbian
Couple on Upcoming ´Glee´
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Breitbart´s Big Hollywood, by Breitbart News
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/15/2013 11:12:19 AM
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Two veteran TV actresses may join the cast of Fox´s Glee after their upcoming appearance as a kindly lesbian couple. Meredith Baxter, known for being the All-American Mom on Family Ties, and Patty Duke who soared to fame in her self-titled series, will offer guidance to a gay character considering popping the question to his partner. According to a Friday report at E!, Oscar winner Patty Duke and longtime television star Meredith Baxter will play a lesbian couple. Not only that, regular character Blaine played by Darren Criss will propose to
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CBS: Saudi Man In Custody
Was Tackled By Bystanders
At Boston Marathon
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Business Insider, by Jim Edwards
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/15/2013 8:16:52 PM
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The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS. Senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director of the FBI, reported this: There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go. There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go. He is a Saudi national who was near the scene of the blast. When the blast happened he began to run. Now, in context, a lot of people began to run.
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