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Meet the New Class: The Senate
Swears in a Historic 20 Female Senators
ABC News, by Sunlen Miller
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/3/2013 7:43:19 AM
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| Today the Senate will make history, swearing in a record-breaking 20 female senators – 4 Republicans and 16 Democrats – in office. As the 113th Congress is sworn in today on Capitol Hill, ABC "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer has an exclusive joint interview with the historic class of female Senators. Diane Sawyer´s complete interview will air on World News this evening. "I can´t tell you the joy that I feel in my heart to look at these 20 gifted and talented women from two different parties, different zip codes to fill this room," Sen. Barbara Mikulksi, D-Md., said
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury, 1/3/2013 7:59:01 AM (No. 9096053)
They shouldn´t even be allowed to vote, let alone run for Senate. *runs away*
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
VeteranAmerican, 1/3/2013 8:00:59 AM (No. 9096059)
We are so hosed
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 1/3/2013 8:02:06 AM (No. 9096060)
Heck, that´s nothin´- The House swears in its first admitted bi-sexual. It´s historic, I tell ya.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jackson, 1/3/2013 8:08:43 AM (No. 9096070)
FTA "...that women´s styles tend to be more collaborative," You see, men are different than women. Except when they´re not. And don´t you dare mention it. That is sexist. But then women are "less confrontational" except when they are not. I love the logic of women!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rather Read, 1/3/2013 8:15:23 AM (No. 9096081)
I´d love a woman candidate for president. A CONSERVATIVE woman. But I don´t think Michelle Malkin is running. Maybe Mia Love? I can dream can´t I?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
revdeppisch316, 1/3/2013 8:15:24 AM (No. 9096082)
Like I said above--Dear God-- saw a preview-- the View on Steroids!!!
Women´s Rights, (reproductive) Better Budgeters-- Whay can´t we all get along-- All of them think we´ll have a female candidate for pres in 2016.
Way too much estrogen!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Udanja99, 1/3/2013 9:45:47 AM (No. 9096269)
Leftist gimmecrat women are not real women.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pomom, 1/3/2013 10:13:39 AM (No. 9096349)
It amounts to 20 more people on the hill, preening before the cameras and working on their re-election immediately. feh
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lhlande, 1/3/2013 10:24:32 AM (No. 9096372)
Alright ladies, let´s see what you got!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 1/3/2013 10:26:53 AM (No. 9096381)
Ditto #1. I´m tired of the Chickification of America. Noticed that men seem to be predominant announcing the Rose Bowl Parade and women are at NASCAR and football games. Tired of it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
tomanderson61, 1/3/2013 11:10:11 AM (No. 9096485)
Sorry to be un-PC folks, women gave this election to Obama.
Between gutless brain-dead liberal men and "emotion driven" goofball women, we will continue to have horrible issues running this country. I feel sad for smart, conservative women, almost as bad as I feel for black and gay conservatives.
Let´s not forget the "feminist" treatment of Bachman and Palin, and the complete ignoring of Mia Love by women, not to forget the astonishing gushing of women´s groups over the useless Hillary Clinton.
Voting should be restricted to male landowners who are employed, or own their own business, and pay taxes.
Discuss.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
nimby, 1/3/2013 11:11:32 AM (No. 9096486)
Everything about this administration is "historic". Here is one more for you A to Z: Historic debt under this presidency.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 1/3/2013 11:43:21 AM (No. 9096545)
Reading many of these posts on this and the other identical thread of this article it is easy to see why the GOP loses the women´s vote in Presidential elections. For a minute I thought it must be 1913, not 2013.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Italiano, 1/3/2013 11:48:14 AM (No. 9096552)
#13, it´s no coincidence that the Country is circling the drain largely as a result of that brain-dead "womens´ vote."
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/3/2013 11:49:04 AM (No. 9096553)
I`m sure the addition of Elizabeth Warren will raise the character level of the senate - /s
Now that the 112th Congress is history, Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick is now free to appoint Bwarney`s Fwank as interim Senator from Massachusetts.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Tom Kilbride, 1/3/2013 1:47:15 PM (No. 9096710)
Time to repeal the 19th amendment.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
tomanderson61, 1/4/2013 12:30:18 PM (No. 9098464)
#13, open your mind for a second.
Are you better off as a society for what feminism has brought us?
What was our divorce rate in, to use your number, 1913?
What was the abortion rate?
How many women do YOU know who vote on candidates based on their ability and record, and their looks do not have, say, 70-90% of the reason for voting?
How many women in this country believe that Republicans have waged a war on women?
Aside from our advances in medicine, technology and human rights, 1913 socially looks a whole lot better to me now.
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State Department diplomat with
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 1:30:07 PM
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A young diplomat from River Forest was among five Americans killed Saturday in an explosion in Afghanistan, according to her family and the U.S. State Department. A sixth American was killed in a separate attack in eastern Afghanistan. Anne Smedinghoff was 25, said her father Tom Smedinghoff, who was reached by phone. "She was doing what she loved and she was doing great things," her father said. "We´re just in total shock." In remarks in front of an audience of consulate employees today at the Consulate General in Istanbul, Secretary of State John Kerry said
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President Obama Plays Golf
for Second Weekend in a Row
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WASHINGTON — President Obama went out for a round of golf Saturday afternoon, his second weekend in a row to hit the links at a course at Joint Base Andrews. The president golfed with White House aides Marvin Nicholson, Joe Paulsen, and Michael Brush. Last Saturday, the president played golf at the same course with Nicholson, Brush, and friend and Chicago businessman Marty Nesbitt. The outing marked his first time on the golf course since the sequester cuts went into place on March 1. The president also took in the Syracuse-Marquette NCAA tournament basketball game
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Boston Herald, by Margery Eagan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:50:09 PM
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No doubt there are parents who have frank, frequent, open and easy discussions with their teens about sex. I’ve never met any. I do know parents, however, who were stunned to find their 15-year-old’s birth control pills in her pocketbook. Or who came home early to discover junior and a girl they’d never met frantically buttoning up. Or who found out — when their children were grown — what really went on when Meghan said she was sleeping over at Ashley’s. Such sobering tales of teens snookering mom and dad caused mixed emotions in me — a solidly pro-choice
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Amid school changes,
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Associated Press, by Bridget Murphy
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:26:19 PM
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Last fall, Ginnette Powell traveled from her home in Boston´s Dorchester section to her old middle school in South Boston - a journey of just two miles, but one that covered a huge emotional distance. Finally, she was able to leave the painful past behind. Powell endured the explosive battle over desegregation in Boston in the 1970s. Tears come to her eyes when she talks about how it took her decades to return to the place where she never felt safe as an African-American seventh-grader."It was scary because of what you were going into, getting bricks thrown at your bus.
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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History was made at Dealey
Plaza long before the
JFK assassination
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Dallas Morning News, by David Flick
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:13:43 PM
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A few years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lindalyn Adams was escorting visitors on a bus traveling down Elm Street near Dealey Plaza. “I was pointing out the John Neely Bryan cabin and the Old Red Courthouse, and suddenly I realized the whole bus was leaning towards the right as we were going close to the Texas School Book Depository, and the women [were] pointing and saying, “Is that? Is that? Is that?’” Adams recalled during an oral history interview. She knew, of course, what “that” meant. “That” was where Kennedy had been shot.
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WashPost Page One ´Scoop´:
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:39:52 AM
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Here´s today´s sign the Washington Post is a Democrat rag. This story is on A-4: "Health-care law may backfire for some on Medicaid: Expansion threatens to oust thousands in states with generous programs." This story is on A-1: "Democrats seek infusion of new faces." Paul Kane´s front-pager passed along the DCCC´s new strategy of finding "problem solvers" that...don´t know how to solve problems yet. The central character is Kevin Strouse, a former Army Ranger with no set positions on the issues. "Immigration? Tax policy? ´Certainly I have a lot of research to do,´
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Central Jersey bracing for noisy,
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Star Ledger [Newark,NJ], by Mark Spivey
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:31:18 AM
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They’re big. They’re ugly. They’re noisy. And they’re coming. So get ready. The blockbuster brood of the periodical cicada, large insects that emerge en masse from the ground in 17-year intervals across the northeast, is on its way — and New York City’s largest public radio station is encouraging residents in Central Jersey and beyond to help track the invasion. “The whole idea came from our news director, Jim (Schachter, of Summit), who lives in New Jersey — he promised his wife that they would move from their home before the 17-year cicadas came back,”
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As Navy rape case unravels,
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Los Angeles Times, by Kim Murphy
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:27:22 AM
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The night began like many at Boorda Hall, a five-story barracks at Naval Station Great Lakes, the Navy´s premier training base on the shore of Lake Michigan in Illinois. Somebody announced a party, and the hard drinking and beer pong began. A 21-year-old Marine lance corporal, so drunk on rum and Mountain Dew she was slurring her words, went to look for Kyle Antonacci, a Navy seaman she´d been dating off and on. Antonacci soon texted his friend Mike Pineda to help him deal with her. Both men had sex with her that night. But what distinguished May 8, 2009,
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Kerry: Slain Foreign Service
officer ´smart, capable, eager to serve´
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Carlo Muñoz
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 8:53:39 AM
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A U.S. Foreign Service officer was killed and four others wounded in Afghanistan while carrying out a goodwill mission in the eastern part of the country. The State Department team was delivering books to an Afghan school in the Qalat district of Zaul province when their convoy was hit by a suicide bomber, Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday. "She was everything a foreign service officer should be: smart, capable, eager to serve, and deeply committed to our country and the difference she was making for the Afghan people," Kerry said of the slain official.
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Louisville beats Wichita
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 9:25:34 PM
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ATLANTA – Luke Hancock came off the bench to score 20 points, walk-on Tim Henderson sparked a second-half rally with a pair of monster 3s and Louisville advanced to the NCAA title game Saturday night, escaping with a 72-68 victory over Wichita State. As the final buzzer sounded, a Louisville player tossed the ball high into the air and injured Kevin Ware stood up, thrusting his arms above his head. It was the 15th straight victory for the top-seeded Cardinals (34-5), who will play the winner of Syracuse-Michigan for the national title Monday night.
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Keystone pipeline opponents
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The Keystone XL Pipeline has emerged as a major issue in the Massachusetts special U.S. Senate election, with environmental groups committing nearly one-third of the $1.25 million in outside money already spent on campaigns. The biggest spender so far is the League of Conservation Voters, which has already spent more than $545,000 to help elect Democratic candidate and Rep. Ed Markey, who has a strong pro-environment platform. “Our field campaign is resonating with voters across Massachusetts,” said Navin Nayak, a political specialist for the group. “The people of Massachusetts want climate change champion Ed Markey representing them.”
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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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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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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 Would Not
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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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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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Hillary Clinton: The clock is turning
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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
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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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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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Trayvon Martin´s parents
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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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