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Pelosi on Raising Debt
Ceiling Unilaterally: ‘I
Would Do It in a Second,
But I’m Not the President´
Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/4/2013 2:25:46 PM
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| House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that she would raise the debt limit unilaterally “in a second” if she were president of the United States. Pelosi and other Democrats have suggested that the president could bypass Congress and unilaterally raise the debt ceiling by invoking the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which states, “The validity of the public debt of the United States…shall not be questioned.” During her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill, Pelosi was asked about whether she would urge President Barack Obama to do so to address the debt limit, which will
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Comments:
King 0bama sure doesn´t need any encouragement. He will probably do it anyway.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/4/2013 2:28:40 PM (No. 9098657)
This would be a clear violation of the Constitution. I hope Obama tries it.
Pelosi shows her stupidity and her disdain for LAW.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nosillod, 1/4/2013 2:32:59 PM (No. 9098663)
I am sure that she would have been just as happy had President Bush done that while she was Majority Leader. /s
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrYules, 1/4/2013 2:33:38 PM (No. 9098665)
This "administration" is not about "law". It is about power.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/4/2013 2:48:20 PM (No. 9098687)
"Section 4 confirmed the legitimacy of all United States public debt appropriated by the Congress" It says that it is regarding debt appropriated by Congress--NOT the President. So, that means both the House and Senate have to okay the spending to make it legitimate.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MsZzroyal, 1/4/2013 2:50:12 PM (No. 9098688)
Pelosi, than would put pork in a bill to give her hubby´s tuna factory a couple billion dollars.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/4/2013 3:12:52 PM (No. 9098719)
Could this be why Tim Geitner announced that he would leave Treasury before the debt deadline? Geitner understands that Obama will issue an executive order raising the debt ceiling, as Pelosi suggests. Pelosi has never had an original thought, so WH must have planted this unconstitutional idea in her small brain. Geitner wants to avoid spectacle, so he departs before the crucial discussions are even started.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/4/2013 3:22:30 PM (No. 9098729)
I have no doubt whatever that she would.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 1/4/2013 3:34:21 PM (No. 9098744)
#1 obama could declare the Constitution null and void and NOTHING would be done about it. A case could be made that he already has.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SouthSanAntonio, 1/4/2013 3:42:04 PM (No. 9098756)
#8 is just a little early.
NØbama won´t delcare the Constitution null and void until he gets to flip at least one or two conservative justices on the Supreme Court, which gives the lie-berals the majority.
Then he can do it with their full blessing that that action is ´´constitutional´´ (the last time they have to worry about that).
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40, 1/4/2013 4:16:59 PM (No. 9098805)
Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment (validity of public debt) is clearly focused on obligations of the Confederacy which were not binding on the US or any component states. It has little to do with authority to raise the US debt limit which has been clearly outlined in the Constitution. Pelosi is smoking something illegal as usual.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/4/2013 4:52:59 PM (No. 9098876)
The validity of the debt issued is not being questioned. It´s the authority to issue new debt above the debt ceiling that is the issue. Obama has no such authority.
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Pictured: The emotional moment Obama
visits best friend of tragic Boston
Marathon bombing victim
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 5:57:05 PM
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President Obama has visited the bedside of dozens of Boston Marathon bombing victims, including Karen Rand - who lost her best friend in the horrific blasts. After attending the interfaith service in Boston on Thursday morning, he visited with hospitalized victims still recovering from the devastating twin blasts. Miss Rand was one of them. She was waiting near the finish line with her best friend Krystle Campbell to cheer on Karen´s boyfriend when the first explosion hit. Krystle was killed in the blast. Karen will survive.
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Obama: ´He Started Calling
Me Reverend Obama´
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 3:42:28 PM
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President Obama thanked Boston marathon volunteers earlier today: "Now, I’m not going to speak long," Obama told the assembled crowd. "I’m just -- he started calling me Reverend Obama, so I know -- (laughter) -- I know I was -- I don´t want to go on any longer than I need to. The main message, in addition to just giving -- having a chance to shake some hands and give some hugs, is just to say how proud the whole country is of you -- (applause) -- how grateful we are -- how grateful we are that
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Biden: ´The President Is Already
Lining Up Some Additional Executive
Actions´ for Guns
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 3:24:20 PM
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Joe Biden says the president of the United States is preparing to take "executive actions" to deal with guns. BuzzFeed reports: Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control fight Thursday that President Obama will be announcing new executive actions on gun violence in the days after the Senate voted down a gun violence bill. On a conference call with "stakeholders," Biden told gun control advocates that the fight is not over and that eventual action on gun control will come. Press were not invited to the conference call; a participant provided BuzzFeed with access.
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House Dems rip ´shameful´ Senate
GOP for blocking gun bill
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 3:06:42 PM
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House Democrats on Thursday morning blasted Senate Republicans for blocking progress on gun control legislation Wednesday. "Yesterday was a shameful day," said Rep. Elizabeth Esty, who represents Newtown, Conn. "I´m outraged that 46 senators prevented a compromise to reduce gun violence, which 92 percent of the American people support." Esty was referring to the 54-46 vote on a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks on gun purchases. While a majority supported that language, 60 votes were needed to attach it to the gun control bill. "Forty-six senators ignored the voices of the courageous Newtown families, who have paid
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EIB Interview: Why, Senator Rubio?
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RushLimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 2:57:44 PM
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RUSH: We welcome back to the program Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. I think he just hustled to our microphones here from a Senate vote, correct? RUBIO: Yeah, we did. Still votin´ on the gun legislation. RUSH: Gun legislation. Senator, I know your time is limited here. I know you´ve got a very busy day. Let´s get started. I must tell you: I just don´t understand this, Senator. I don´t understand why we´re doing something that the Democrats are salivating over. I´ve never agreed with Senator Schumer about anything and I´m being
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Senator: Climate Change Must
Be ‘Right Behind Immigration
and Gay Rights As An Issue´
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 2:45:32 PM
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, “It´s our task to make sure that climate change lines up right behind immigration and gay rights as an issue where the Republicans see that if they stick with this, they’re going to run off the cliff like lemmings." He also claimed, “The polluting industries own Congress. So there really has to be, in my view, as a predicate, there has to be strong executive action.” “So it´s absolutely key that we all put pressure on the White House to take
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House approves cybersecurity
overhaul in bipartisan vote
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz & Jennifer Martinez
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 2:40:37 PM
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The House on Thursday approved cybersecurity legislation that sets up a framework for companies and the federal government to share information about threats. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), H.R. 624, was approved in a 288-127 vote despite ongoing fears from some lawmakers and privacy advocates that the measure could give the government access to private information about consumers. Ninety-two Democrats voted with Republicans in favor of the bill and just 29 Republicans opposed it. The bill secured enough votes to override a veto.
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Bloomberg Bemoans Special Interests
in DC, Threatens to Punish Senators
Who Won’t Do What He Says
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FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 2:33:03 PM
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Fresh from buying three local elections, Bloomberg is going national with the same tactics. He’s spending a whole bunch of money to influence the political process while bemoaning the control that special interests have over politics. By special interests, Bloomberg means the NRA, which has nearly 5 million members. That’s more than 10 times the number of people who voted for him in the last mayoral election. (The fact that in a city of 8 million, a little over a million could even be bothered to come out and vote says it all.) It’s also 100 times
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Gaffe: Kerry cites Boston Red
Sox favorite ‘Sweet Adeline’
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 2:17:58 PM
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Secretary of State John Kerry praised Yankee Stadium for recognizing the city of Boston after the horrific bombing that occurred at the Boston Marathon on Monday. “This is unusual but a couple of days ago at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees posted the Boston Red Sox logo and they sang ‘Sweet Adeline’ after the third inning I take, but it was a great tribute to the way America comes together,” the former U.S. Senator of Massachusetts said proudly. The Boston Red Sox favorite, of course, is Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’ traditionally played during
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Postmodern Prudes
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Townhall, by Victor Davis Hanson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 1:18:34 PM
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More than 500 people were murdered in Chicago last year. Yet Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel still found time to berate the fast food franchise Chick-fil-A for not sharing "Chicago values" -- apparently because its founder does not approve of gay marriage. Two states have legalized marijuana, with more to come. Yet social taboos against tobacco smoking make it nearly impossible to light up a cigarette in public places. Marijuana, like alcohol, causes far greater short-term impairment than does nicotine. But legal cigarette smoking is now seen as a corporate-sponsored, uncool and dirty habit that leads
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Pelosi: ‘We’re just not taking no
for an answer’ on gun legislation
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Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 1:11:09 PM
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WASHINGTON — After the Senate failed to pass universal background checks for gun buyers Wednesday afternoon, Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the House would push forward with its own version of the legislation. “We’re just not taking no for an answer,” she vowed. “We were so disappointed,” Pelosi said of Wednesday night’s vote, when the Senate failed to get the 60 votes necessary to pass an amendment proposed by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. The amendment was hoped to have been a compromise
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
surges to top of GOP 2016 list
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/18/2013 1:06:12 PM
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He doesn´t get the attention of the Sunday talk shows, or Washington´s political elite, but the Midwest´s dragon slayer, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, is emerging in some Republican circles as the surprising favorite to win the GOP nomination for president in 2016. Untainted by scandal, far from Washington´s voter-frustrating gridlock, and reinvigorated by his victory over foes who staged a recall vote, the conservative Walker is also viewed as the best candidate to sop up the Midwest white vote which, had Mitt Romney done better there, would have catapulted him into
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control
despite 90 per cent support. Truly,
he is a lame-duck president
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:42:40 AM
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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Obama angrily denounces
gun-rights groups as willful liars
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/17/2013 6:37:42 PM
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President Obama angrily blamed the defeat Wednesday of his centerpiece gun-control proposal on lies spread by the National Rifle Association, calling it “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” “The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Mr. Obama said in the White House rose garden about 90 minutes after the vote. “It came down to politics.” As he spoke, Mr. Obama was surrounded by family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Also with him was former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Boston Marathon bombings
present new test for Obama
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Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/17/2013 6:01:37 AM
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Authorities on Tuesday revealed little new information about the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, the most high-profile bombing on U.S. soil in more than a decade and a tragedy that presents a new test for President Obama. Obama, like all Americans, is standing by, waiting for answers as to who planted two bombs improvised from pressure cookers at the finish line of the storied race, and why. Three Americans were killed in Monday´s attack and more than 170 others were injured. "Anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror," Obama said,
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Senate rejects background checks
on gun purchases in 54-46 vote
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Hill [Washington,DC], by Alexander Bolton
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 4:41:19 PM
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The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Begich (Alaska) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) voted against it. Reid supported the measure but voted against it to preserve his ability to bring the measure up again. GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk
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A growing sense that we´re not
getting the truth about Boston bombing
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted
down gun legislation ‘out of fear’
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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CNN: Pressure Cooker Bomb
´Right Wing´ Signature
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Lee Stranahan
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/17/2013 8:56:39 AM
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An article published on CNN´s website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a ´signature´ of ´right-wing extremists.´ The article was co-written by Jennifer Roland and Peter Bergen. Bergen is the CNN ananlyst made the claim that right-wing extremists could be behind the bombing less than two hours after it took place. The article says (emphasis added) :A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told CNN that pressure cooker bombs have also been a signature of extreme right-wing individuals in the
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A Stirring Send-Off For
the Iron Lady – And No
One Missed the Obamas
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PJ Media, by Mike McNally
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 11:39:38 PM
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After all the controversy – it was too much, and too expensive; it would be marred by protests – this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war prime minister. Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin
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Let’s hope the Boston Marathon
bomber is a white American
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SALON, by David Sirota
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/17/2013 7:38:32 AM
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As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.
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Obama: Gun lobby ´lied´ about
background check bill
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 6:09:57 PM
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Washington — President Barack Obama says the Senate’s opposition to a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers marks a “shameful day” in Washington. He says a minority of senators decided “it wasn’t worth it” to protect the nation’s children. Obama spoke in the Rose Garden shortly after the Senate vote rejecting a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers. (Snip) The president pinned the blame for the measures failure, though five Democrats also opposed the plan. He also said the gun lobby and its allies “willfully lied” about background check bill.
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Misinformation and Anxiety in
Boston Terrorism Investigation
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PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 10:38:32 PM
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Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday’s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon. The anxiety stemming from the attack and the stream of inaccurate news about it is further freighted, moreover, by the FBI’s confirmation that two letters addressed to top political officials — President Obama and Senator Richard Wicker (R., MS) — tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison. As noted below, a man identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the mailings. Early this afternoon, massive confusion
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