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Abandon ‘the Children’
Weekly Standard, by Meghan Clyne
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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/3/2013 4:11:56 AM
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| Politicians are not known for originality. In their public speech, most cling to the security of clichéd stock phrases the way toddlers hold fast to threadbare blankets. Thus Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney posed before an enormous national debt clock and intoned that the nation’s “debts get passed on to our kids.” Speaker of the House John Boehner addressed the opening session of the 113th Congress by professing: “In our hearts, we know it is wrong to pass on this debt to our kids and grandkids.” On the eve of President Obama’s second inauguration, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell warned
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lilo, 2/3/2013 7:20:06 AM (No. 9155361)
Republicans have a lot of explaining to do? There may have been some good points in the article, but it was poisoned by the author blaming republicans for using the children while totally ignoring the other party.
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All the Banality That’s Fit to Print
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Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 1:22:09 PM
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I rarely read editorials by the New York Times anymore, not because they’re liberal (Michael Kinsley is liberal and worth reading) but because they’re banal. I was reminded of this when I actually did read a recent Times editorial, in this case one titled “The Republicans’ Benghazi Obsession.” The editorial is worth referencing only to make a broader point, which is the dangers that can happen to journalists when they begin to view themselves as on a team rather than as individuals dedicated to unearthing truth (the role of reporters) or deepening the public’s understanding of issues
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The Yellow Prose of Texas?
Secession Movement Blooms in Fiction
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Wall Street Journal, by Miguel Bustillo
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 8:24:28 AM
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In the real world, Texas remains very much a part of the United States. But in the world of fiction, several authors have released books in the past year depicting the Lone Star State as a breakaway republic rebelling against shenanigans in Washington. It´s the start of a literary subgenre: secessionist fantasy. "The Secession of Texas" by Darrell Maloney of San Antonio envisions an independent Texas with its own border patrol, guarding against people trying to sneak into the country illegally—from Oklahoma. "Lone Star Daybreak" by Erik L. Larson of Houston tells the story of recruits
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What About Clinton’s IRS?
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Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 6:10:54 AM
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Memories: I always thought the number of Bill Clinton enemies audited by his Internal Revenue Service was a bit high to be coincidental.* When Clinton accuser Paula Jones was audited in 1997, Clinton’s press secretary Mike McCurry denied White House involvement: ”None whatsoever” … “We may do some dumb things from time to time but we are not certifiably insane,” Mr. McCurry said. ”The I.R.S. and the I.R.S. solely is the one that makes decisions about the enforcement of tax laws.” We now know, of course, that you don’t need direct White House involvement to politicize the IRS,
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Kerry: A pavlovian peace-processor
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New York Post, by Benny Avni
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 6:06:01 AM
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That sure didn’t take long. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Moscow counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, launched a new peace initiative for Syria on Tuesday; on Wednesday, Russia — ouch — undermined President Obama’s policies there. Just another week in the Kerry follies. The longtime Massaschusetts senator spent decades grooming himself to be America’s top diplomat. (Just visualize him rehearsing in front of the mirror.) He was praised as one of the most qualified nominees ever to head Foggy Bottom when his dream was finally realized Feb. 1. Regrettably, the tools of diplomacy that he’s practiced all those years
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As Ohio women remained in captivity,
alleged abductor´s life crumbled
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CNN, by Michael Martinez
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 5:55:55 AM
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- It was a breezy summer day in Cleveland about a decade ago when Michelle "Shorty" Knight put on eyeglasses, blue shorts and a white T-shirt and went to see her cousin. Though she was 21, Knight became easily confused by her surroundings. Still, no one thought twice about her visiting family on that day in August 2002. Her mother believed that she suffered a mental disability. Even knowing that, what could go wrong? After all, the cousin lived near Lorain Avenue. But that day would be the last time the mother ever saw Knight. Her grandmother believed Knight
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Benghazi victim´s mother wishes
Hillary Clinton happy Mother´s Day
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 5:51:02 AM
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Pat Smith, the mother of one of the victims of the Benghazi consulate attacks, went on the Huckabee show Saturday to deliver a message to Hillary Clinton. "I want to wish Hillary a happy Mother´s Day," she said. "She has her child. I don´t have mine because of her." Huckabee asked Smith if she was somewhat comforted by the congressional hearings about the attacks last week. "Absolutely not," she said. "I am still waiting to answers to just about everything."
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Pearl Harbor burial an American tale
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Boston Herald, by Joe Fitzgerald
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 5:46:50 AM
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The rage over the burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s remains was a fascinating study in how we regard the bodies that housed the spirits and souls of those who’ve departed. Sometimes we spread their ashes over sites of nostalgic remembrance, as if to posthumously maintain a visceral connection. Sometimes we adorn their graves with flowers, perhaps adding an inscription on their tombstones to convey a parting thought. On one such heart-shaped stone it was recently chiseled, “Absent from the body, present with the Lord.” But cemeteries can stir darker emotions, too, such as vows to “dance on your grave.”
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An Outlaw Tax Collector
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National Review Online, by Editors
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 5:28:11 AM
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On March 22, 2012, IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee, which was inquiring as to whether the agency was targeting tea-party groups and other conservative organizations filing for tax-exempt status. He firmly and repeatedly denied that any such thing was happening. “There’s absolutely no targeting,” he said. A little over a year later, the IRS confirmed that it was in fact improperly targeting not only tea-party groups but also Jewish religious nonprofits and organizations inspired by Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project. Lori Lerner, the IRS official in charge of tax-exempt organizations,
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Bloomberg Terminal Scandal Makes
Bunga Bunga Parties Seem Quaint
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Daily Beast, by Stuart Stevens
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 5:06:41 AM
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It’s the sort of overblown abuse of power we like to laugh at in other countries, confident it could never happen here. A multi-billionaire, dissatisfied with being just a business tycoon, starts a media division, brands it with his name and starts to gobble up competition and talent. Then he decides to run for office, knowing his opposition will do the good-citizen thing and stay within the established public-finance law, considered a national model of good government. He plays by his own rules, changing parties not because his politics have changed but because otherwise
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Wider Problems Found at IRS
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Wall Street Journal, by John D. McKinnon & Siobhan Hughes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 4:58:08 AM
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The Internal Revenue Service´s scrutiny of conservative groups went beyond those with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names—as the agency admitted Friday—to also include ones worried about government spending, debt or taxes, and even ones that lobbied to "make America a better place to live," according to new details of a government probe. The investigation also revealed that a high-ranking IRS official knew as early as mid-2011 that conservative groups were being inappropriately targeted—nearly a year before then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told a congressional committee the agency wasn´t targeting conservative groups.
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Hidden in Immigration
Reform: Bio-Metric Data
Base of All Adult Americans
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PJ Media, by Rick Moran
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 4:55:24 AM
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This is beyond Orwellian, entering a dystopian fantasy dreamed up by H.P. Lovecraft and featuring some Cthulian nightmare. Deep within the diseased bowels of the 800 page immigration reform bill is a profound threat to privacy in the US; an authorization for the Department of Homeland Security to create a bio-metric data base of every adult male in the US. Does this info come to us via some hysterical, far right wing website? Actually, it’s the tech site Wired that is sounding the alarm: The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national
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Benghazi: The Video Vanishes
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PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/13/2013 4:49:48 AM
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The dam really is breaking on Benghazi with even reliable Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein offering criticism of the administration on Meet the Press Sunday. Will she go under the bus too in the next Jay Carney press briefing, as have the State Department and the CIA? Hard to say, but here’s what the California senator said: “I think this is a cautious administration,” Feinstein told host David Gregory. ”But this is one instance where, you know, it was what it was. And you saw it.
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McCain Defends Obama Against
Impeachment For Benghazi, Will
‘Give President Benefit Of The Doubt’
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Mediaite, by Jordan Charlton
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/12/2013 8:07:37 PM
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Senator John McCain, who famously defended his then presidential opponent Barack Obama against an islamaphobic supporter during a 2008 campaign rally, defended President Obama once again on ABC’s This Week Sunday, cautioning his Republicans colleagues to cool it with talk of impeaching the President over the Benghazi attacks and its aftermath. In response to Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) invoking the “I word,” McCain called for caution: “With all due respect, I think this is a serious issue,” McCain told guest host Martha Raddatz. “I will even give the president the benefit of the doubt
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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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Watch out for Petraeus
in Benghazi scandal
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Washington Times, by Joseph Curl
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/12/2013 7:35:15 PM
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Call it “Oval Office Couch Syndrome.” By the second term “inside the bubble,” presidents have completely lost touch with reality: Aides and confidants conspire to keep the chief executive insulated from the real world — the bad news, the worse press coverage. They think it’s their job, and lounging on the Oval Office couches, they nod along with the president’s every musing. But this presidency has taken OOCS to new heights — Mr. Obama has only a few trusted aides, and occasional leaks from the West Wing show a paranoid president suspicious of nearly everyone around him.
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Study: Black students suspended
more often than others
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USA Today, by Brett M. Kelman
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/12/2013 1:59:12 PM
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Black students are suspended more than three times as often as their white classmates, twice as often as their Latino classmates and more than 10 times as often as their Asian classmates in middle and high schools nationwide, a new study shows. The average American secondary student has an 11% chance of being suspended in a single school year, according to the study from the University of California Los Angeles Civil Rights project. However, if that student is black, the odds of suspension jump to 24%.
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IRS targeted groups critical
of government, documents
from agency probe show
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Washington Post, by Juliet Eilperin
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/12/2013 10:35:53 PM
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At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials singled out for scrutiny not only groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their name but also nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general. The documents, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide with knowledge of the findings, show that the IRS field office in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status decided to focus on groups making statements that “criticize
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Joe Klein: Hillary´s ´One of the
Most Experienced Candidates We´ve
Ever Had Running for President´
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/12/2013 3:42:58 PM
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"Everybody knows that she´s one of the most experienced candidates we´ve ever had running for president. She practically doesn´t have to say it." So said Time magazine´s Joe Klein about Hillary Clinton on Sunday´s syndicated Chris Matthews Show (video follows with transcript and commentary): JOE KLEIN: But also, they made a decision at that point that a lot of the people in Hillaryland really regret. They went with experience rather than the notion of change. “Hey, he isn´t the only change candidate - I´m a woman.” And she never did that. This time, everybody knows that she´s
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Covering for Obama
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New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/12/2013 6:25:07 AM
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Politics! Politics! They’re playing politics in Washington! Pretending to be modern Paul Reveres, Democrats and their media handmaidens are doing their damnedest to diminish the Benghazi revelations with the cheapest trick in town. While there is always pungent hypocrisy when one gang of politicians accuses another gang of playing politics, the current phony outrage from the Obama Protection Society is exceptionally putrid. After all, the whole saga of Benghazi — before, during and after the terror attack — reflects nothing so much as the ultimate expression of Barack Obama’s politics.
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The Power Of Drudge: A Little
Civics Lesson For Janet Napolitano
And Barack Obama
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Forbes Magazine, by Ralph Benko
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/12/2013 11:33:58 AM
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Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is on the list of potential Democratic presidential candidates compiled by the extraordinarily astute Prez16.com . As a cabinet secretary (and as a potential, if dark horse, presidential nominee) Madame Secretary should refrain from slurring the Drudge Report, as recently she did, a slur Drudge, confidently, featured. Drudge is no fan of Napolitano. He regularly tweaks her as “Big Sis” (presumably an allusion to George Orwell’s “Big Brother”). Drudge is one of the most powerful — and widely respected — forces in the news business today.
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Report: Top IRS officials knew
in 2011 that conservative
groups were targeted
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Washington Post, by Josh Hicks and Ed O´Keefe
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/11/2013 11:12:26 PM
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An inspector general’s report due for release this week says senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew that agents were targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny as early as 2011, nine months before the IRS commissioner assured Congress the targeting was not happening. The report is certain to raise questions about the timing of the IRS’s disclosure of the targeting on Friday, how high up were the officials who knew about the practice, and whether anyone outside the agency was aware of it. Details of the inspector general’s audit, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide
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Soledad O´Brien: ´OK, white
person, this is a conversation you
clearly are uncomfortable with´
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/13/2013 2:14:38 PM
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Soledad O´Brien, recently yanked from her morning show "Starting Point" on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation´s black-white division. O´Brien, just named a distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard´s Graduate School of Education, told the school´s Institute of Politics that she´s often confronted by whites who want to take issue with her documentaries on race in America. "People would sometimes, when I give speeches, stand up and say, ´You know I think your black America documentaries (are) divisive.
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Sanford victory shows adultery,
lies can´t trump party loyalty
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Los Angeles Times, by Robin Abcarian
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 5/13/2013 12:01:45 AM
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It would be too easy to make fun of the good Christian voters of South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District who saw fit to return their disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford to the office he once held. I won’t do it. Well, maybe just a little. Sanford, whose political rise was fueled by his conservative principles and focus on family values, did not stay true to his wife. But in the end, the voters in South Carolina’s 1st stayed true to him.(Snip)“Obviously, there´s a vulnerability to me now that people respond to," Sanford told
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Smitten teen girls stir
up #FreeJahar mania
for Boston Marathon
bombings suspect
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New York Post, by Candace M. Giove
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/12/2013 8:59:10 AM
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This love is terrifying. Thousands of American teen girls are crushing on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 — and leading a social-media movement to exonerate him. The swooning teens will not accept allegations that the college kid — whom they refer to by his nickname, “Jahar” — and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, killed three and maimed hundreds by setting off bombs at the April 15 race. While some scrawl the hashtag “#FreeJahar” on their hands with markers, an 18-year-old in Topeka, Kan., is going to the extreme — she wants Dzhokhar’s words inked on her arm forever.
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