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America: The Kardashian Years
American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By:DW626, 1/13/2013 5:40:33 AM
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| Life in the Time of Low Information Voters I used to love American popular culture. I found it rich, diverse and endlessly amusing. These days, I rarely go to the movies or plays and cannot bear to watch television. Even the radio with its repetitive, uninformative news snippets annoys. Our popular culture has moved from family favorites like Your Show of Shows, The Wonder Years, and I Love Lucy to the minute by minute coverage of celebrities not known for their wit, charm, or beauty,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
BirdsNest, 1/13/2013 6:25:51 AM (No. 9113628)
If the whole Kardashian clan vaporized, the world and our country would be on a path of improvement. I cannot fathom why ANYONE evens gives 2 hoots and a holler for that crowd.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
vwlarry, 1/13/2013 7:29:36 AM (No. 9113685)
Clarice, I love you.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chillijilli, 1/13/2013 7:35:17 AM (No. 9113691)
Does anyone remember that it was the Kardashian father who gave refuge to OJ Simpson as he fled the police? It was Kardashian who carried the infamous garment bag which many thought held the bloody clothes or murder weapon. I think he was divorced 4 times before he died @ age 59. Can we expect a stable family, with this kind of role model?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Truthfetish, 1/13/2013 7:37:46 AM (No. 9113694)
MUST READ. (Clarice is always ´must read.´)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
floridagator, 1/13/2013 7:44:39 AM (No. 9113702)
With all due respect #4 and webmaster, nothing with the name "Kardashian" in the title is a must read. Ever. Even from Clarice. No exceptions.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
vesicant, 1/13/2013 8:45:21 AM (No. 9113783)
On the contrary, I date the start of American decline from I Love Lucy.
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The Patriot Code, 1/13/2013 9:31:22 AM (No. 9113869)
I date 1962 as the beginning of the end for America. It´s the year that Madalyn Murray O´Hair successfully forced prayer out of public schools.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smcchk, 1/13/2013 9:35:49 AM (No. 9113873)
Bracing, as always,, Clarice.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
loosecannon1, 1/13/2013 9:47:46 AM (No. 9113889)
Excellent work. Yes, a must read. And, the title is appropriate.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 1/13/2013 10:44:14 AM (No. 9114005)
The K family take up a whole channel, it seems like. I have yet to watch them and change the channel Most of the expensive comcast programs are old as the hills and it would be nice to be able to pick just the ones that you want to watch and discard the rest. I never could stand I Love Lucy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
tulipwood, 1/13/2013 10:54:29 AM (No. 9114017)
It has gotten so bad that I can no longer watch a movie with a ´star´ in it. Their very presence takes away from the story.
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a man over thirty, 1/13/2013 11:16:15 AM (No. 9114075)
When television is full of Honey Boo-Boos and Kim Kardashians and The Houswewives of Newark, the pop culture has become a slimy stopped-up toilet bowl. And the race to the absolute bottom is not over yet.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
geronimo, 1/13/2013 11:43:33 AM (No. 9114135)
OT: I don´t know where to post this so I´ll stitch it on to this thread and hope Staff will be lenient.
Ms. Lucianne and her staff deserve our highest praise for their untiring work seven days a week, not just weekdays.
There are other sites who are puffed up with their own importance, whose listings are two days late and linger several days after that, who don´t seem to understand that on weekends many people have more time for these online sites than they do during the week.
Ldotters can come here any day and every day and find pages that are fresh, relevant and thought provoking. Thanks!
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chicodon, 1/13/2013 11:53:17 AM (No. 9114152)
For me the genesis of today´s societal rot was The President´s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1969. Because they determined that pornography, in any form, was not detrimental we are now surrounded by it. From Gangsta Rap to Jersey Shore to violent video games to Bill Maher to XXX INTERNET. The Kardashians are just a symptom.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dante, 1/13/2013 12:19:19 PM (No. 9114205)
People who find the slightest challenge too difficult love to wallow in stupidity, now they have a culture which embraces them instead of shaming them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kendet1946, 1/13/2013 12:28:33 PM (No. 9114229)
I heard this Kardashian chick talk on the radio once. Upon hearing that voice, I had a hard time visualizing her as an adult woman.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
fire_mission, 1/13/2013 12:37:08 PM (No. 9114242)
“All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”
John Adams
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WAN2, 1/13/2013 12:46:56 PM (No. 9114256)
Throughout human history, free people prosper into decadence. Pick ANY television channel and watch for an hour, commercials included, and not know it is over.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
starboard, 1/13/2013 1:10:13 PM (No. 9114321)
What number 7 said.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
suncitypro, 1/13/2013 2:52:52 PM (No. 9114463)
Bimbos don´t succeed in public unless people like Feldman write about them.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Mike6, 1/13/2013 2:59:30 PM (No. 9114470)
I believe the end started when Jack Kennedy and LBJ were elected in 1960 thru voted fraud in Chicago and Landslide LBJ Texas. Democrats drove casino workers to the polls and gave them ten dollar bills and whiskey bottles, how the SEIU union goons in 2012 elected Obama. Richard Nixon knew about this fraud but he was a gentleman, and he did not want to upset the country, so he said nothing.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 1/13/2013 3:50:20 PM (No. 9114517)
The beginning of the end of America was with the implementation of Social Security. The demise accelerated with Johnson´s great society. The capstone is the failure of the educational system.
Follywood now represents the real America as it exists.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Aria, 1/13/2013 3:58:57 PM (No. 9114530)
The Kardashians are actually examples of fulfilling the American dream - unfortunately they´ve found great success for no good reason, they didn´t help anyone, they don´t create anything but their own fame.
The problem really is more us than them.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
real fifi, 1/13/2013 6:07:37 PM (No. 9114659)
I quite agree that publicity is their life blood, sun city, but there´s nothing in this article about them. It is about the nature of present American culture.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Felixcat, 1/13/2013 6:34:17 PM (No. 9114690)
I´m not a fan of what the Turks did to the Armenians, but there is one family that I wish they....
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ArtieC, 1/13/2013 9:19:35 PM (No. 9114832)
The comments here are the reason I stick primarily to TCM and Nat Geo channels. Nothing else on worth watching.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
eorsc, 1/13/2013 9:25:33 PM (No. 9114837)
Let´s just begin by getting rid of Mama K. Johnson´s "Great Society" is into the 4th generation of unwed mothers and "fatherless" children. And they all vote for democrats.
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: DW626- 4/7/2013 5:45:47 AM
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In one of his more well-publicized gaffes, Vice President Biden said of John McCain: "Look, John´s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." Actually, of course, it´s a four-letter word, and it was his job and the president´s to create a climate for job expansion, and they failed. The evidence is now overwhelming: they have created the worst employment climate in decades.
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White and Wrong in Philly
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American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke
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Posted By: DW626- 3/21/2013 6:54:24 AM
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When your article inspires a big-city mayor to refer your case to a "human-relations commission," you know you´ve hit a nerve. And when that article is the recent "Being White in Philly" piece by liberal Robert Huber, you know it doesn´t take much truth to hit that nerve. That´s the scary part. Huber´s article contains mostly tepid examples of whites´ negative experiences with blacks and primarily black neighborhoods, such as a Philadelphia resident whose grill was stolen from her backyard but "blames herself" for not fencing it in. Its tone is basically apologetic, absolving a drug dealer of responsibility
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Boehner Says He ´Absolutely´ Trusts Obama - We Are in Trouble Now
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American Thinker, by W.A. Beatty
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Posted By: DW626- 3/20/2013 7:14:08 AM
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Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), on March 17, 2013, on ABC´s This Week, said that he "absolutely" trusts Obama. Boehner also said that he and Obama have a good relationship, and that they are "open with each other ... honest with each other." I know it sounds unbelievable, so watch this 22-second video. Where to start? Well, how about these specific examples of Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama not being "absolutely" trustful? I´m sure AT readers can think of others. Obama Reneging on Promises and Telling Out-and-Out Lies:
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Israel has a Government, Mr. President
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American Thinker, by Shoshana Bryen
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Posted By: DW626- 3/15/2013 5:21:45 AM
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That´s something to remember when you arrive there next week. Israel has a government, elected by its people in a free, fair, open and democratic election. Multiple parties representing widely divergent points of view met a wildly diverse electorate through free media and open debate. This is no stultified two-party affair with a libertarian insurgency. Israel will be the only country you visit in the region, this time or any other, that has a fully democratic system. Do not be swayed by the "apartheid" slander. Citizens of Israel are Jews, Moslems, Christians, and Druze, each with religious and non-religious elements.
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Why Florida Persists in the Zimmerman Prosecution
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American Thinker, by Jack Cashill
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Posted By: DW626- 3/11/2013 5:59:34 AM
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Prodded by a president with a weakness for racial agitation and enabled by a politically complicit media, the State of Florida persists in a prosecution that can come to no good end. The defendant is neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. The charge is the second-degree murder. The potential outcomes range from major injustice, if Zimmerman is convicted, to mayhem in the streets, if he´s acquitted. And the state plods on as though the angels were on its side. They are not. The witnesses to the February 2012 shooting of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin are proving even more troublesome
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Rand Paul Shifts Political Orbit
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American Thinker, by Jonathon Moseley
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Posted By: DW626- 3/8/2013 6:43:00 AM
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The political world changed its orbit Wednesday as Rand Paul seized the spotlight in his March 6 filibuster. Rand Paul -- not this author´s favorite before -- is probably now the 2016 front-runner for president. But the difference results from fundamental changes in substance. How can one day be that big of a deal? Because Rand Paul demonstrated a reproducible, winning formula. It was as if Ronald Reagan were granted just one day to come back to Earth to remind the Party of Lincoln of "how it´s done." Rand demonstrated a repeatable formula that all Republicans can copy.
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Barack Obama: The Man Behind the Mask
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American Thinker, by Steve McCann
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Posted By: DW626- 3/4/2013 5:30:13 AM
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Sixty-three months ago Barack Obama officially declared his candidacy for President. Only now are some among the so-called media and ruling elites in America slowly awakening from their self-induced infatuation and beginning to understand who he is. It has become difficult to ignore the overt intimidation, demagoguery and deliberate falsehoods spewed forth by Obama relative to sequestration -- a miniscule cut in the growth of federal spending. However, any cursory examination of his past reveals that these tactics are second nature to the man who currently occupies the Oval Office.
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Who´re you going to Trust: The Stock Market or the Media Innumerates?
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: DW626- 3/3/2013 5:27:59 AM
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Years ago, when I used to play poker with some guys, I played a hand in which across the table from me was someone who looked as though he had a straight flush. He kept pumping up the bidding and everyone folded but me. When we finally showed our hands he had nothing. "You don´t know what you´re doing," he yelled. "Any good player would have folded! Why did you stay in?" he shouted angrily. "Because you curled your lip and reacted furiously when I stayed in. Someone with a winning hand would never do that."
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The Bating Game: Obama Doubles Down
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: DW626- 2/24/2013 3:49:57 AM
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By law, on Friday the executive must begin to cut $85 billion from federal spending. Though, as is his wont, the president is blaming the Republicans for what he claims is a draconian measure. No less a Washington chronicler of events than Bob Woodward of the Washington Post considers that a gross distortion of the truth [T]he automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of [Treasury Secretary nominee Jack] Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors -- probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.
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How the Left Dupes Conservative Voters
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American Thinker, by J. R. Dunn
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Posted By: DW626- 2/19/2013 6:21:13 AM
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Too little serious conservative analysis of the 2012 presidential campaign has yet appeared. This is understandable. The results of the election were disheartening to the point of shock. The campaign defied all historical precedent, all commonsense interpretation. The Romney ticket should not have lost and did not deserve to lose. The Democrats, fielding the least worthy ticket in the past century -- and that´s saying something -- did not deserve to win. The reasons they did are myriad and complex. But before we get too far down the road, there is one lesson that has to be grasped:
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Doing the Chicago Shakedown, Starring the Jacksons
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American Thinker, by J. Robert Smith
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Posted By: DW626- 2/18/2013 6:25:21 AM
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No, I´m not talking about Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael (God rest Michael´s tortured soul). I´m talking about the Chicago Jacksons, Jesse Sr. and Jesse Jr. The Jackson 5 in their heyday gave plenty: music, entertainment, and joy to their fans. The Chicago Jacksons are another story. Jesse Sr. (The Right Reverend) and his son (the erstwhile congressman) have done a lot more taking than giving. "Taking" may be too charitable a word. Shaking down and wheedling may be better descriptors for the Chicago Jacksons´ acts.
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A Black Father in the House
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By now you likely have heard that Chris Rock considers Barack Obama America´s father. If that is true, then would somebody call Child Protective Services and find us foster parents! For Chris Rock, America´s true Founding Fathers were disappointingly white. I suspect that whatever the color of America´s Founding Fathers might have been, they would not have approved of having a failure like Obama among their esteemed membership. Thought the Founding Fathers had many flaws, they were smart enough to eliminate the self-indulgent institution of slavery from America´s future.
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone Call from Obama - report
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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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 weighs on growth
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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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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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´Mickey Mouse Club´ star Annette Funicello dies at 70
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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