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World War II: A Short History
& Engineers of Victory
Daily Express [UK], by John Lewis-Stempel
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/28/2013 4:02:19 AM
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| Norman Stone is the bad boy of British historians. Whereas most British history profs are of pinkish hue, politics-wise, Stone is an unrepentant Right-winger.[Snip]Pithy, opinionated, preposterously readable, an afternoon on the sofa should see you through from cover to cover and Stone´s book fires off illuminating facts as a Catherine wheel showers sparks. Could there be a better anecdote to illustrate the technological brilliance but economic bankruptcy of Hitler´s Thousand Year Reich than this? In 1945, to save fuel, the Luftwaffe´s jet fighters had to be towed to the airfield by oxen. The anecdote that the civil servant who officiated
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
uno, 1/28/2013 6:00:06 AM (No. 9143518)
In 1945 the economic bankruptcy of Hitler´s Thousand Year Reich than forced the Luftwaffe´s jet fighters to be towed to the airfield by oxen.
In 2013 our military and space program has been dragged to (if not over) the fiscal cliff by asses!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DaddyO, 1/28/2013 7:01:29 AM (No. 9143555)
If hitler was allowed to run up trillions of dollars in debt year after year he´d probably still be in power.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40, 1/28/2013 8:08:10 AM (No. 9143611)
If one seemingly small decision - installing the Merlin engine in the P-51 was not made in time, the world would be a radically different today. The Nazis would have built 30,000 Me262 jets rather than the 3,500 they barely managed.
The air umbrella over Germany would be practically impregnable for several years and history would flow in a different direction.
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A storm from the sun:
Astronomers watching
for potential catastrophe
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Bo Peterson
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/12/2013 6:33:51 AM
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The sun blew up Thursday night. It threw off a giant plume of gas and matter that wowed the people watching. Meanwhile, astronomers around the world warily monitored the “giant prominence.” The plumes tend to cause solar storms, and big plumes can cause big storms. [Snip] A large enough storm could create power surges that would wreak havoc on the electric power grid, disable communication systems and satellites among other damage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Cellphones wouldn’t work. Neither would radar or navigational gear. Lights wouldn’t turn on. Computers couldn’t connect online.
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Harry´s the fall guy! Prince
takes a tumble at volleyball
game with wounded U.S.
service members as he
kicks off Warrior Games
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Daily Mail [UK], by Rebecca English
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/12/2013 6:04:01 AM
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Prince Harry has expressed his concern at the ´visual impact´ of wind farms at a reception during his American tour--echoing the views held by his father. The younger prince questioned the merits of the turbines while speaking to Susan Reilly, chief executive officer of Renewable Energy Systems Americas, at the drinks reception. Meanwhile, as he played a game of sitting volleyball yesterday, Prince Harry fell flat on his back with a decidedly unroyal hoot of laughter. Dressed in combat camouflage fatigues and desert boots, the third in line to the throne took his fall in good humour, laughing and joking
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Actor son is set to make
Clint Eastwood’s day
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Daily Express [UK], by Mike Parker
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/12/2013 5:57:46 AM
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Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood’s illegitimate son Scott is set to follow his father after landing a major television role as a rebel cop in a new police drama for major US network NBC. Scott Eastwood, 27, who was disowned by his father until he was in his teens, will play tough Chicago officer Jim Barnes who bears an uncanny similarity to renegade cop Dirty Harry, made famous by Eastwood senior in the Seventies. Studio bosses will introduce Barnes to American viewers on Wednesday in the final episode of the current series of top-rated show Chicago Fire.
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Gurkhas sharpen up knife skills
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Daily Express [UK], by Marco Giannangel
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/12/2013 5:50:50 AM
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With the motto “must draw blood”, the Gurkha’s khukri knife has made the Nepalese soldier one of the fiercest and most feared in the world. Now the British Army has reintroduced formal khukri training for its brigade of Gurkhas after a gap of more than 50 years. The initiative, which sees a khukri package added to the Gurkha combat infantryman’s course, will teach new recruits arriving from Nepal how to properly wield the knife, develop a soldier’s aggression and ultimately instruct them how to kill on the battlefield. [Snip] In 2010, a private from the 1 Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles
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Fury as EU sneers
at Falklanders over
right to stay British
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Daily Express [UK], by Marco Giannangeli
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/12/2013 5:42:58 AM
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Andrew Rossindell hit out over a Spanish MEP’s grovelling comment to Argentine politicians in Buenos Aires during trade talks. Daniel Filmus, head of Argentina’s Foreign Affairs Committee, called on members of an EU delegation to press Britain to begin talks about sovereignty of the South Atlantic islands. Last night angry Mr Rossindell, a member of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “The EU is encroaching on foreign affairs in a way that I find absolutely outrageous.” He urged David Cameron to rush through the promised referendum on the EU before the next Parliament to help put a stop to
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Prince Harry meets fellow soldiers
wounded in war after paying
tribute to the nation´s fallen
at Arlington Cemetery
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Daily Mail [UK], by Rebecca English
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/10/2013 6:20:16 PM
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Prince Harry has said he wants to be a champion of ´wounded warriors´--servicemen and women who have been injured in combat--and today he had his first assignment in the U.S. as he toured one of the country´s largest military medical centers. Harry´s visit to the the Walter Reed National Military Center in Maryland came on the second day of his week-long U.S. tour, which kicked off with visits to Capitol Hill and the White House yesterday, before he paid his respects to fallen soldiers at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia this morning. Dressed in his Army Air Corps fatigues and desert
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UK withdraws some
embassy staff from Libya
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BBC News [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/10/2013 4:45:52 PM
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The UK has withdrawn some embassy staff in Libya in response to "ongoing political uncertainty", the Foreign Office says. [Snip] Armed militias have recently been blocking access to ministry buildings to push their political demands. However, the UK embassy remains "open as usual", including for consular and visa services. Last month a car bomb exploded outside the French embassy in Tripoli, wounding two French guards and several residents. It was the first major attack on a foreign embassy in the Libyan capital. The Foreign Office currently advises against all but essential travel to Tripoli and against
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After Benghazi revelations,
heads will roll
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BBC News [UK], by Mark Mardell
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/10/2013 10:40:00 AM
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There´s new evidence, obtained by ABC, that the Obama administration did deliberately purge references to "terrorism" from accounts of the attack on the Benghazi diplomatic mission, which killed four people including the US ambassador to Libya. Conservatives have long maintained that the administration deliberately suppressed the truth about the attacks. This is the first hard evidence that the state department did ask for changes to the CIA´s original assessment. Specifically, they wanted references to previous warnings deleted and this sentence removed: "We do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qa´ida participated in the attack." There´s little doubt
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Half of families
suffer in hospital
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Telegraph [UK], by Claire Carter
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/10/2013 10:13:44 AM
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Patients routinely struggle to get the treatment they believe they need and experience rudeness, neglect and in some cases physical abuse, according to polling by YouGov. Despite tens of billions of pounds being invested in the NHS, 46 percent of respondents said they thought standards of care had declined over the past ten years, while just 20 percent thought standards had risen. Sixteen percent said they had personally experienced poor care, while another 30 percent said their relatives had suffered poor care in the past decade--a total of 46 percent. Of these, 43 percent--or around one in five of all
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Send for Boris,
Britain´s Ronald Reagan
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Telegraph [UK], by Iain Martin
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/10/2013 7:20:24 AM
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Another day, another deranged report on the future of Heathrow. This time it is the Transport Select Committee suggesting that London´s main airport be extended to four (four!) runways, doubling the airport´s size and blighting the lives of millions of people who live in West London. [Snip] It is--once again from the current political class--the sheer lack of ambition and vision that it is so depressing. Extending Heathrow rather than looking for a proper long-term solution is simply corporatist defeatism. As though all the airline industry has to do is launch another of its interminable public affairs campaigns and the
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My immigrant family were proud to
assimilate. I despair that too
many today expect Britain
to adopt THEIR culture
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Daily Mail [UK], by Melanie Phillips
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/10/2013 6:51:47 AM
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Like most people, I did not see 9/11 coming. But the moment the Twin Towers collapsed, I realised the West was facing something different from ordinary terrorism or war by one state on another. This was more akin to a cancer in the global bloodstream. It had to be fought with all the weapons, both military and cultural, at our disposal. ‘This is where the world divides,’ I wrote. ‘Are you for us or against us? Are you prepared to do everything it takes to stand against terror, or are you going to succour it by word or deed?
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Earthquake: Did Carney
Presser End MSM Monolith?
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PJ Media, by David Steinberg
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/10/2013 8:54:15 PM
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The most notable takeaway from Jay Carney’s incomprehensible Friday appearance had little to do with his Klingon grammar. Carney does not represent the historical value of the event – you should be wise to forget his performance, and instead take note that he was flanked by the entire room, without exception. Do not underestimate the significance: the Obama administration has not faced such an onslaught of truth-seeking since he took office in 2008, and further, no Democratic administration has been charged from all sides like this in recent memory. That press conference was unthinkable just days ago
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Carney Blames Romney for
Politicizing Benghazi
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/10/2013 9:49:16 PM
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Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney blamed Mitt Romney and Republicans for “politicizing” the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Harkening back to a Mitt Romney press conference on September 12, 2012, which addressed the Benghazi attacks only in passing while focusing instead on the assault on the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Carney suggested that Romney had tried to target the innocent Obama administration for telling the truth about Benghazi. “Republicans, again, in this ongoing effort that began in the hours after the attack when Mitt Romney put out a press release to try to take political
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Benghazi Whistleblower Attorney:
Congress Must Subpoena Hillary
Clinton to Testify Again
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/10/2013 10:05:44 PM
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Earlier today, we learned about a bombshell report that said the CIA´s Benghazi talking points were changed 12 times, with extensive input from the State Department. It comes after State Department whistleblower Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was shocked when he saw Susan Rice blaming a protest for the attack on numerous talk shows. Martha MacCallum discussed the next steps in the investigation of what happened in Benghazi with Hicks´ attorney, Victoria Toensing. At this point, she thinks "it´s about time" that House Republicans start issuing subpoenas,
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Benghazi Coverup Uncovered
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: DW626- 5/12/2013 5:24:55 AM
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BBC has apologized for its coverage of the Benghazi murders; ABC has unraveled the mendacious tale of the talking points ´ genesis and the Congressional hearings this week have dramatically established the administration´s elaborate lies about how our ambassador and his brave defenders were murdered and its failure to protect them. Maybe now the press will feel it´s okay to get off their duffs and report how a thoroughly incompetent administration, motivated solely by self-interest, left our ambassador and others to be murdered and then lied about it with consequences to us all.
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The Benghazi Lie
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National Review Online, by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/10/2013 5:16:17 PM
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Shortly before last November’s election I took part in a Fox News documentary on Benghazi, whose other participants included the former governor of New Hampshire John Sununu. Making chit-chat while the camera crew were setting up, Governor Sununu said to me that in his view Benghazi mattered because it was “a question of character.” That’s correct. On a question of foreign policy or counterterrorism strategy, men of good faith can make the wrong decisions. But a failure of character corrodes the integrity of the state. That’s why career diplomat Gregory Hicks’s testimony
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CBS anchor Pelley:
Journalism´s house is on fire
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Associated Press, by David Bauder
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/11/2013 3:52:34 PM
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NEW YORK— Top CBS News anchor Scott Pelley delivered a tongue-lashing to fellow journalists on Friday, urging them to worry less about the "vanity" of being first on a story and more about being right. "This has been a bad few months for journalism," Pelley said. "We´re getting the big stories wrong over and over again." The "CBS Evening News" anchor made the criticism while accepting a journalism award named for broadcast executive Fred Friendly from Quinnipiac University. He didn´t exempt himself, noting that during early reporting of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre last December he mistakenly reported
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Rep. Pelosi knocks Republicans´
´obsession´ with Benghazi attack
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The Hill, by Sam Baker
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/11/2013 2:19:01 PM
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Congressional Republicans are using their Benghazi investigation as political "subterfuge" to distract from other issues, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Saturday. Pelosi said it´s important to find out what happened in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But the right is taking it too far, she said in an interview with MSNBC´s Melissa Harris-Perry. "The obsession that some of my Republican colleagues have in the House doesn´t look like it´s on the path to really finding a solution, but just to keeping an issue alive," she said.
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Report: Patriots coach Bill Belichick
´hates´ Tim Tebow as a player
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CBS News, by Ryan Wilson
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/10/2013 10:10:49 PM
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It´s been 11 days and counting since the Jets cut ties with Tim Tebow and 13 months since they traded for him. Much of the conversation in the past week and a half has been about which teams -- if any -- would be interested in the former Heisman Trophy winner. The usual suspects include Tebow´s hometown Jacksonville Jaguars, but new general manager David Caldwell has said in no uncertain terms that Tebow isn´t an option (laudatory commercials from local lawyers notwithstanding). The other, less conventional landing spot: New England. Coach Bill Belichick sees value where other talent evaluators don´t
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Former Nixon aide claims he
has evidence Lyndon B. Johnson
arranged John F. Kennedy´s
assassination in new book
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/11/2013 12:33:02 PM
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Esteemed Republican strategist and lobbyist Roger Stone writes in his upcoming book that former president Lyndon B. Johnson set up John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Stone also writes that Richard Nixon and Johnson had a documented relationship with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer, years before he shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters in 1963. Stone, who worked for Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 and later served in the Nixon administration, writes that Johnson, a congressman at the time, instructed Richard Nixon, also a congressman at the time, to hire Ruby onto
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In Dublin, former US President
Carter calls on EU to start labelling
products from ‘illegal’ settlements´
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European Jewish Press, by Yossi Lempkowicz
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/11/2013 7:46:55 AM
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DUBLIN -Former US President Jimmy Carter said in Dublin “the EU should move to introduce proper labelling of goods produced on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.” (snip)It could therefore introduce a clear labelling of products made in Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law,” he added. Ireland currently holds the rotating EU presidency until end of June. Mary Robinson said this was not “an anti-Israel move,” but rather “a concrete step, supported by many of our Israeli friends, to revive the hope of a future state of Palestine
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On Dixie Chicks, NPR and WashPost
Slam ´Cowardice´ of Country-Music
Industry, Backward Fans
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/11/2013 10:16:06 AM
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The new Natalie Maines record is continuing to spur music writers to slam the "cowardice" of the country-music industry and the stuffiness of the country-music audience in the aftermath of Maines trashing President Bush at a London concert on the eve of the Iraq war. On the NPR show "Fresh Air" on Wednesday, music critic Ken Tucker insisted Maines was just ahead of where the majority would arrive on Bush´s wrong-headedness: TUCKER: When Natalie Maines remarked from a London stage in 2003 that the Dixie Chicks were, quote, "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas,"
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Prince Harry Visits America, But
ABC Proclaims the Obamas to be
´Washington´s Royalty?´
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NewsBusters, by Scott Whitlock
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/10/2013 9:57:40 PM
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Britain´s Prince Harry arrived in Washington on Thursday, but ABC declared the Obamas to be "Washington´s royalty." On Friday´s Good Morning America, reporter Lama Hasan recounted the prince´s visit to the White House and an event with Michelle Obama. She hyped, "And then there was this: A clandestine visit with the First Lady that brought a little British glamour to Washington´s royalty. " The segment then cut to a clip of the First Lady. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] If the Obama´s are "Washington´s royalty," what does that make the Kennedys? On February 15, 2010, GMA´s George
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