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Tragedy for oil magnate T.
Boone Pickens as his grandson,
21, dies after suspected
´heroin and Xanax overdose´
Daily Mail (UK), by Staff
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/29/2013 8:14:51 PM
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| The 21-year-old grandson of wealthy oil and gas titan T. Boone Pickens died today from a suspected drug overdose. Thomas Boone Pickens IV was taken to a hospital in Fort Worth, Texas from his off-campus apartment in a private vehicle around 9:30 a.m. The friend who drove him there said Pickens wouldn´t wake up and it´s possible he had been dead for hours. Sources told NBC Dallas that an overdose was thought to be the cause of death after witnesses told police that Pickens injected heroin and took the prescription pill Xanax in the hours before his death.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
cartcart, 1/29/2013 8:16:25 PM (No. 9147302)
I hope he was not running around with any of the Kennedy clan. This sounds like them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
dman, 1/29/2013 8:25:00 PM (No. 9147313)
Sad. Sympathies and prayers for the Pickens´ loss. All the money in the world means little in a time like this. Every parent´s and grandparent´s heartbreak.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ivehadit, 1/29/2013 8:25:34 PM (No. 9147318)
So sad. I feel his pain and feeling of helplessness with family members´ addiction.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/29/2013 9:15:06 PM (No. 9147372)
#2, that´s very true, re: all the money in the world... and it was also not enough money to keep this kid from endangering his own life in the dead-end world of dangerous narcotics.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/29/2013 11:29:45 PM (No. 9147573)
Condolences to the family.
There but by the grace of G-d, goes anyone´s son. No one is exempt today. Hopefully, Pickens will use this tragedy and his money to revamp drug laws in due time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 1/30/2013 1:21:53 AM (No. 9147685)
The children of the rich seem to be short-lived. Perhaps it´s only because they get publicity.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jj1319, 1/30/2013 1:54:46 AM (No. 9147700)
#5, decree does not a disease make.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Grumpy Yee, 1/30/2013 8:58:17 AM (No. 9148075)
Drug addiction is not a disease but it is a disease of choice. Choosing to take drugs because it´s fashionable, trendy, and socially acceptable is the disease of weak minded and lazy, thrill seeking people who in my own word have money to burn because of the silver spoon in their mouths. I can express sorry for T. Boone Pickens, but I can also express anger for his parents who doted on him and let him make choices that lead to his death. Unfortunate that money used to buy drugs did not buy common sense. Sorry T. Boone but your grandson made some very poor choices and has paid the ultimate price for them-he died.
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Atheists up in arms over Bible
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Washington Times [DC], by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/13/2013 3:49:10 PM
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Atheists are outraged that a Bible sits right next to the mayor’s desk, inside a Pinellas Park City Council chamber, and they’re demanding its removal. City officials, however, say that’s a no-go. The Bible’s been there for more than 30 years, and laws don’t prohibit its presence, The Blaze reported. The book was an Oct. 19, 1975, gift to council members from the Kiwanis club, and it’s been a traditional fixture ever since. Freedom From Religion Foundation officials say they don’t care. They sent a letter to city officials, saying the Bible needs to go because it violates
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Clinton confidante at center
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Washington Times [DC], by Guy Taylor
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A longtime confidante of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton who reportedly played a key role in the State Department’s damage-control efforts on the Benghazi attack last year is also named in accusations that department higher-ups quashed investigations into diplomats’ potential criminal activity. Cheryl Mills, who served in a dual capacity in recent years as general counsel and chief of staff to Mrs. Clinton as secretary of state, was accused of attempting to stifle congressional access to a diplomat who held a senior post in Libya at the time of the attack. Now she has become the
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Fox5 DC, by Audrey Barnes
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WASHINGTON - D.C. police have been warning bicyclists since March not to ride the Metropolitan Branch Trail alone. And they stepped up patrols on the trail then too. But it didn´t stop a group of teenagers from knocking a 37-year-old Silver Spring man off his bike Tuesday and savagely beating him. Runner Ben Miles was stopped in his tracks by the aftermath. "There were lots of police cars, a fire engine, an ambulance, and there was a guy sitting over there next to the wall, and his face was covered in blood.
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Colorado wildfire destroys
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United Press International, by Gabrielle Levy
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/13/2013 3:21:56 PM
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The Black Forest fire raging northeast of Colorado Springs is now the most destructive in Colorado State history. El Paso County Sheriffy Terry Maketa said at least 360 homes are complete losses and another 14 already damaged, pushing the damage past the record set by last year´s Waldo Canyon fire which destroyed 347 homes. The fire has now burned 15,000 acres. Continuing difficult conditions kept firefighters from containing the blaze, with little prospect for containment anticipated on Thursday. Maketa said efforts were being concentrated on stopping the west and northwest movement,
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Pelosi: Late-Term Abortions
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/13/2013 1:42:12 PM
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At a Thursday press conference, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi condemned a bill that would prohibit abortions during the final four months of pregnancy with exceptions for when the life or physical health of the mother was at stake. Asked what the moral difference is between what Dr. Kermit Gosnell did to babies born alive and aborting those same infants moments before birth, Pelosi refused to answer. "As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this," Pelosi said. "This shouldn´t have anything to do with politics."
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Susan Allen introducing kids
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard
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With the Reagan presidency slowly being squeezed out of grade school history classes by more topical subjects, fans of the Gipper are pushing the country to remember the 40th president for his rich life story and historical impact. The latest effort comes from Susan Allen, wife of former Sen. George Allen, who just penned a grade school book, "The Remarkable Ronald Reagan: Cowboy and Commander in Chief." Richly illustrated by Leslie Harrington and already headed to schools and homes thanks to Scholastic´s purchase of 10,000, Allen said her book about long-time family friend Reagan is meant to inspire
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Politico, by Mackenzie Weinger
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Fox News chief Roger Ailes on Wednesday slammed the IRS as “arrogant” and said he wants to know what President Barack Obama was doing on the night of the Benghazi attack in his acceptance speech for the 2013 Bradley Prize. Ailes delivered remarks for winning the $250,000 award — he said he would donate the money to a charity for senior citizens — at the Kennedy Center and addressed the IRS scandal, Benghazi and how Fox News covers currents events. According to the speech posted on FoxNews.com, Ailes said the network reported on the deadly attack
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/13/2013 12:23:47 PM
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Ralph Nader last week had some harsh words for the current President of the United States. Appearing on Democracy Now!, Nader asked host Amy Goodman, "Has there been a bigger con man in the White House than Barack Obama?" (video follows with transcript and commentary): AMY GOODMAN: Let’s go to President Obama in February in his State of the Union address calling on Congress to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 an hour from $7.25 and to automatically adjust it with inflation. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation
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Roger Ailes wows conservatives
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/13/2013 12:16:52 PM
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Roger Ailes, the chairman and architect of the Fox News Channel, picked up a $250,000 award from a conservative foundation Wednesday night at the Kennedy Center, and served up some red meat to the largely conservative crowd gathered to honor him. The prize came from the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation, which honored Ailes and three others with its 10th annual Bradley Prize for promoting public policies consistent with the foundation’s conservative mission (the group’s goals include school choice, welfare reform and limited government). Ailes delighted the full house by slamming President Obama, and liberals in general, in his acceptance speech.
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Lindsay Mills and other pole
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HONOLULU- Sisterhood is indeed powerful, at least when it comes to pole dancers. Attendance was sparse at the Waikiki Acrobatic Troupe’s regular Wednesday night workout. The open practice in a dingy exercise studio at University of Hawaii, Manoa, can get upward of 60 performers. But this week was different.(Snip) "The pole dancers said they’re not coming tonight,” said Richard Criley, one of the founders of the 39-year-old acrobatic troupe, as he prepared to practice his handstands in the near-empty Studio 4. “They are not showing up out of respect for her.”
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/13/2013 12:04:44 PM
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American spying snitch Edward Snowden ingratiated himself to Chinese hosts, singing like a canary about US hacking efforts aimed at Hong Kong and mainland institutions, according to published reports today. Snowden spilled his guts to the South Morning China Post and said the National Security Agency has been regularly targeting Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China since at least 2009. He showed the English-language daily documents that allegedly chronicled his hacking claims. “Last week the American government happily operated in the shadows with no respect for the consent of the governed, but no longer,”
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On Tuesday Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) cited "Biblical compassion" as a reason to support the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill. Rubio told CBN that he supports the bill because “[o]ur faith has always been about compassion and it compels you to do something. "Now, we have an obligation to be responsible to our country and not do anything that hurts America but also our faith calls us to compassion. If you took compassion or the principle of compassion out of the Bible, it would be in tatters because it’s all over the place.” Mark Tooley, President of the Institute
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New York Post, by S.A. Miller & Geoff Earle
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WASHINGTON — The State Department has hired an alarming number of law-enforcement agents with criminal or checkered backgrounds because of a flawed hiring process, a stunning memo obtained by The Post reveals. The background problems are severe enough that many of the roughly 2,000 agents in State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security can play only limited roles in agency efforts to police bad conduct and prosecute wrongdoers. The problems in the bureau are the latest revelation in an exploding scandal that also involves accusations that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail
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Senator Barbara Boxer celebrated the rekindling of talks about gun-control legislation after a shooting at Santa Monica College last Friday. “Every single time something like this happens, I think this does give us wind at our back,” Boxer said on MSNBC over the weekend. On Friday, a gunman opened fire on the school’s campus in the state of California, killing six people, including the gunman. She said she does “worry about” the failure of the legislation after the Sandy Hook shooting last year, but knows that gun-control supporters “never give up.”
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Bill Clinton Wins
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Washington Free Beacon, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/12/2013 9:03:51 AM
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Former President Bill Clinton was awarded “Father of the Year” this morning at a reception at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. Clinton received the award from the National Father’s Day/Mother’s Day Council. According to the nonprofit’s website, the award is presented to fathers who have achieved professional success while serving as role models to their children. Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, was on hand to present her father with the award and had this to say: “My father has never stopped being an example for me,
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Bush More Popular than Obama
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Guardian [UK] & Associated Press, by Spencer Ackerman
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The Obama administration was facing renewed pressure over the secrecy of its surveillance programs, as a group of US senators demanded it reveal how it interprets the laws that underpin them and foreign governments expressed growing concern. A bill, to be introduced in the Senate on Tuesday, would force the US government to disclose the opinions of a secretive surveillance court that determines the scope of the eavesdropping on Americans´ phone records and internet communications. Separately, a leading member of the Senate intelligence committee came close to saying that James Clapper,
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Rubio votes with Democrats to kill
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., voted with Senate Democrats today to kill an amendment by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that would have required the federal government to secure the border first before granting legalization to currently illegal immigrants. All four Republican members of the bipartisan Gang of Eight immigration group voted for Majority Leader Harry Reid’s, D-Nev., motion to table the Grassley amendment. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who said she would vote for the underlying bill this Sunday, voted with her Republican
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Weekly Standard, by John McCormack
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/13/2013 1:42:12 PM
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At a Thursday press conference, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi condemned a bill that would prohibit abortions during the final four months of pregnancy with exceptions for when the life or physical health of the mother was at stake. Asked what the moral difference is between what Dr. Kermit Gosnell did to babies born alive and aborting those same infants moments before birth, Pelosi refused to answer. "As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this," Pelosi said. "This shouldn´t have anything to do with politics."
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Rand Paul to Illegals: ‘We Will
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/12/2013 11:20:06 AM
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In his prepared text for a speech he is delivering today at the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) said to illegal aliens who want to live and work in the United States: “[W]e will find a place for you.” Paul also said he envisions today’s illegal aliens becoming additional “taxpayers.” “Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers,” said Paul. Illegal aliens working in the United States
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GOP Rep. Franks says rate of
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Elise Viebeck
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/12/2013 1:38:26 PM
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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that the incidence of pregnancy caused by rape is "very low," prompting criticism from Democrats who said the GOP is waging a "war on women." Franks made the comment during a committee mark-up of his late-term abortion ban bill, which is expected pass the House next week. The Republican lawmaker was arguing against a Democratic amendment allowing rape and incest victims to procure abortions. As written, the bill only exempts women whose lives are in danger. "You know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low," Franks said.
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Tim Kaine gives speech in Spanish to
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Washington Post, by Ed O´Keefe
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/11/2013 10:48:56 PM
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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) made history Tuesday, becoming the first senator of the modern era to deliver a Senate floor speech entirely in Spanish as he explained his support for a bipartisan immigration bill up for consideration. Over the course of a 14-minute speech, Kaine said he wanted to use the Spanish-speaking skills he learned working in Honduras in order to explain aspects of the bill to the roughly 40 million Spanish speakers living in the United States. “El senado ha comenzado un debate histórico sobre una reforma migratoria comprensiva,” Kaine said at the start of his remarks.
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