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GOP Fumbled Fiscal Cliff,
But Still Can Win
End-Game By Going
On The Offense
Investors Business Daily, by Lewis K. Uhler And Peter Ferrara
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 1/3/2013 8:13:00 PM
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| The fiscal cliff deal has saved most Americans from losing their Bush-era tax cuts, prevented millions of taxpayers from being swept into the meat grinder of the Alternative Minimum Tax and deferred a mindless, across-the-board reduction in our defense capabilities until more deliberative action can be taken. But the real story of the cliff was how it was handled by President Obama and House Republicans, and what lessons can be learned for future negotiations on tax and spending reform. The fiscal-cliff game ball was fumbled by House leadership. They were up against a team whose quarterback had
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mainelysane, 1/3/2013 8:17:04 PM (No. 9097317)
HOPELESS!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
uno, 1/3/2013 8:19:10 PM (No. 9097324)
We certainly deserve better than the reckless, feckless, mindless, spineless poles we´re saddled with...that´s fer sure!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury, 1/3/2013 8:29:14 PM (No. 9097328)
We got nobody but a few talk show hosts and bloggers.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ricktutt, 1/3/2013 8:48:09 PM (No. 9097349)
They will continue to fumble the ball, I´m very disappointed. Until somebody in the Republican party grows a spine we will continue to get what we get, a s__t sandwich!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/3/2013 9:05:43 PM (No. 9097367)
I find them all quite offensive.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ConradNY, 1/3/2013 9:20:35 PM (No. 9097379)
What they need to do is pass a budget and debt ceiling extension together and refuse to compromise or pass continuing legislation. Our real fiscal cliff is the trillions of dollars being flushed down the toilet by Obama.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
thomthomp, 1/3/2013 9:45:33 PM (No. 9097405)
GOP? Offense? Does not compute.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kanphil, 1/3/2013 10:46:04 PM (No. 9097453)
Two cans I´d like to see kicked down the road are Boehner´s and McConnell´s.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Cleanhousein2012, 1/4/2013 12:01:17 AM (No. 9097545)
ThemGOP doesn´t get it. We don´t trust them anymore. We don´t believe them anymore. We have lost all confidence in them.
Useless.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/4/2013 4:16:30 AM (No. 9097663)
Congress continues to fund programs that have no authorization? I wonder how many there are since the article didn´t say.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/4/2013 9:10:35 AM (No. 9098026)
They don´t have the cahones, can´t buy them, can´t find them...Obie will step all over them again and they will run and hide.
Fire all of them and start over!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BadgerBill, 1/4/2013 6:23:54 PM (No. 9099047)
What #´s 7,11 said.
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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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Were bombs full of ball-bearings?
Surgeons pick wicked shrapnel
out of victims who have lost
multiple lower limbs
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by Lydia Warren*
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:40:20 PM
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The Boston Marathon bombs may have been packed with ball bearings, which could explain why so many victims lost feet, calves and ankles in the horrific explosions, it was revealed Monday night. Surgeons at hospitals across the city are reportedly pulling the vicious pieces of metal shrapnel - popular with makers of improvised explosive devices the world over - from the bodies of many of the 138 victims who were wounded in the twin blasts. Horrifying photos and witness accounts from the tragedy revealed that many victims had one or both lower limbs blown off entirely.
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Deadly Blasts Rock Boston
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Wall Street Journal, by Jennifer Levitz*
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:27:26 PM
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BOSTON—Two deadly explosions ripped through a crowd at the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 110, once again raising the specter of terrorism on American soil. At about 2:50 p.m., some three hours after the winners had crossed the finish line but while thousands more runners were still on the streets, two bombs exploded 50 to 100 yards apart near the course´s end in the city´s crowded Back Bay section, Boston Police said. Panicked spectators fled the scene as smoke from the blasts filled the air, sirens wailed and exhausted, disoriented runners and
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Chris Matthews: ´Normally´
Domestic Terrorists ´Tend
to Be on the Far Right´
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NewsBusters, by Scott Whitlock
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:13:14 PM
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Just hours after explosions rocked the Boston Marathon on Monday, Chris Matthews speculated, "Normally domestic terrorists, people, tend to be on the far right." He then reconsidered and suggested, "...That’s not a good category, just extremists, let’s call them that." During live coverage, the Hardball host highlighted a possible explosion at John F. Kennedy´s presidential library and thought this could be a personal attack on the Democratic Party: "...But going after the Kennedy Library, not something at Bunker Hill, not something from the Freedom Trail or anything that kind of historic,
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Two explosions near finish line
of Boston Marathon, footage
shows bombs planted
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Australi, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:11:09 PM
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PRESIDENT Obama has warned the United States ´not to jump to conclusions´ after two blasts killed two and wounded more than 120 in Boston this morning. The White House does not yet know who planned and carried out the explosions but is handling the incident as "an act of terror," a White House official said. The New York Post reported a bomber was seen on CCTV footage and that a Saudi national - aged 20 - has been placed under armed guard with burn wounds in an undisclosed Boston hospital. However, Boston police
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Terror in Boston
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:00:47 PM
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The scenes on Boylston Street Monday—an explosion, then screams and confusion, followed by another blast and more carnage, all captured on camera—were horrifying. And all too familiar. We don´t know, as of last night, who planted the bombs along the finish line of the Boston Marathon. At least two people were killed and dozens wounded. We do know that another open Western city has suffered the modern scourge of a mass attack on innocents. Boston´s police commissioner, Ed Davis, wasn´t ready on Monday afternoon to label it an act of terror. President Obama didn´t use the word "terror" in his
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Child aged EIGHT among two
dead as ´suspect´ is held after
TWO bombs explode at race finishing
line, leaving 132 more injured
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by Beth Stebner*
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 7:51:40 PM
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At least two people have been killed and up to 132 people have been injured as two bombs exploded almost simultaneously near the finish line of the Boston Marathon today, leaving behind a scene of carnage and putting the nation on edge. It was revealed that an eight-year-old child was one of the two people confirmed dead - after the twin detonations ripped through the cheering crowds lining Boston´s streets at around 2.50 p.m. Witnesses reported scenes of utter ´pandemonium´ in the seconds after the devices exploded on Boston´s Boylston Street sending thousands of runners and
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Why Millennials
Should Hate Tax Day
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Evan Feinberg
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 7:23:35 PM
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Today marks Tax Day, when the IRS gets to collect outstanding bills or mercifully give us back money they never should have taken in the first place. Either way, the millennial generation has a lot to be angry about. That´s because young Americans are paying higher taxes with little to no economic opportunity to show for it. Wages for individuals under 35 years of age are $6,813 lower than a decade ago. The effective unemployment rate for 18- to 29-year-olds is 16.2%, which leaves one out of every six young adults currently jobless.
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Another Missile Defense Sellout
— This Time To China
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 7:15:45 PM
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National Security: Our secretary of state tells the Chinese we´ll restrain missile defense activities in Asia in exchange for their help in reducing the threat of a nuclear North Korea. Isn´t this where we came in? In a news conference after meetings with China´s top leaders on Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would reduce its missile defenses in Asia if North Korea abandoned its nuclear weapons program. Well, at least he didn´t bow. In response to North Korea´s threat to fire some of its latest missiles, including the road-mobile Musudan, amidst news
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Jordan extremist praises
Boston bombing
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Associated Press, by Jamal Halaby
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 7:13:58 PM
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AMMAN, Jordan — The head of an extremist Jordanian Muslim Salafi group said early Tuesday that he was "happy to see the horror in America" after the explosions in Boston. "American blood isn´t more precious than Muslim blood," said Mohammad al-Chalabi, who was convicted in an al-Qaida-linked plot to attack U.S. and other Western diplomatic missions in Jordan in 2003. "Let the Americans feel the pain we endured by their armies occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and killing our people there," he said early Tuesday. Al-Chalabi served seven years in prison for his part in the foiled attack. His group is outlawed in Jordan.
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Balanced Budget Amendment´s
Time Has Come At Last
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Lewis K. Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 7:11:05 PM
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More than 30 years ago, on Aug. 4, 1982, a Republican majority Senate passed with 69 votes the Tax Limitation/Balanced Budget Amendment (S.J. Res. 58) proposed by President Reagan (with the skillful and prodigious aid of a newly-minted senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch). The amendment would have required Congress to adopt a budget each year in which outlays were no greater than receipts, and then stick to that budget. That requirement could be waived by a vote of 60% of the whole number of each house of Congress or by a simple majority of each house
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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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Mark Levin: ‘Fascist’ GOP
congressman is trying to
have his show pulled off air
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/14/2013 9:22:21 AM
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On his Friday show, syndicated talk show host Mark Levin said that a Republican congressman is attempting to persuade one of his affiliates to remove his show from the airwaves. Although Levin would not offer the congressman’s name on air, he has been a vocal critic of various members of the House Republican leadership in the past. But Levin called the situation “fascism.” “Well, it has come to my attention that there is a Republican congressman out there who doesn’t like what I’ve been saying,” Levin said. “It has come to my attention that there is a
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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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Why Aren’t More People
Repelled by the Left?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 6:12:20 AM
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Here is something I don’t understand: liberals are often revealed as vile, vulgar hatemongers–not all of them, of course, but far too many–yet they never seem to pay a penalty at the polls. Why is that? Margaret Thatcher’s death has been the latest occasion for the Left to show its true stripes. All across the U.K., there have been demonstrations–vulgar at best, and violent at worst. In Bristol, lefties celebrating a Thatcher “death street party” started fires, destroyed property and battled police: This evening in Trafalgar Square, liberals have turned out for a long-planned celebration of Thatcher’s death:
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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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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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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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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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Exclusive: Newtown shooter
Adam Lanza taunted and beaten
by fellow students when he
attended Sandy Hook Elementary
School, relative reveals
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New York Daily News, by Matthew Lysiak & Larry Mcshane
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/14/2013 10:33:17 AM
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Newtown killer Adam Lanza’s mother considered suing Sandy Hook Elementary School after teachers turned a blind eye to beatings from his classmates, a family member claims. The relative, speaking to the Daily News, claimed that mass murderer Lanza was taunted and attacked by fellow students at his childhood alma mater. “Nancy felt fiercely protective of him,” the relative said. “She was convinced the school wasn’t doing enough to protect Adam. It made her irate.” Nancy Lanza — gunned down by her 20-year-son to start his Dec. 14 rampage — even tagged along with Adam to school
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Rubio Offers Full-Throated
Support for Immigration Bill
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New York Times, by Brian Knowlton
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/14/2013 5:33:09 PM
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The impending introduction of legislation to overhaul the country’s badly strained immigration system received an extraordinary endorsement on Sunday from Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, who, after holding back for weeks, appeared on no fewer than seven television talk shows to explain and defend a plan that he said would be “a net positive for the country, now and in the future.” It was a striking show of confidence from Mr. Rubio, one of eight members of a bipartisan Senate group that has been crafting a plan to provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants;
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Is media bias to blame for lack
of Gosnell coverage?
Or something far more banal?
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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Posted By: mitzi- 4/14/2013 10:03:20 PM
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Is media bias to blame for lack of Gosnell coverage? Or something far more banal? The trial of Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell would seem to have all the elements of a spectacular news story: shocking allegations, horrifying visuals, sympathetic victims. Yet until late last week, much of the national media was silent as testimony about Gosnell’s alleged “house of horrors” abortion clinic rolled out. Much of the media attention outside Philadelphia, in fact, centered on how little media attention the story was receiving outside Philadelphia.
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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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