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My Kingdom for a Corpse
New York Times, by Gail Collins
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Posted By:jackson, 2/7/2013 9:17:17 AM
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| Richard III is staging a comeback. A skeleton identified as the last Plantagenet king of England was recently discovered underneath a city parking lot in Leicester. Richard III fans feel as though this is the start of a totally new career chapter. “Now we can rebury him with honor,” said Philippa Langley, a leading figure in the Richard III Society, which is dedicated to the rehabilitation of the 15th-century monarch, who’s lived on in history as the villain in a Shakespeare play. Doing a round of TV interviews,
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Gail is back and stupider than ever. She even mentions Mitt´s dog-on-roof again in this lame attempt at humor. I saw "corpse" in the headline and thought maybe she was going to bite killer Obama. Silly me.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 2/7/2013 9:41:29 AM (No. 9163358)
OK, I get it. This was a sophomoric attempt at humor. Gail, please quietly collect your Socialist security check and leave us alone.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GringoinQuito, 2/7/2013 10:38:49 AM (No. 9163498)
Very funny, Gail. You POS!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fpeay, 2/7/2013 10:55:24 AM (No. 9163531)
Why are we disseminating this garbage? Not funny, not informative, not well-written: can´t think of a reason unless it is to bless the world with the news that the crap parfait NY Times has a rotating cherry position filled today by Gail Collins. How nice for Gail.
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PoliticalJunky, 2/7/2013 11:01:33 AM (No. 9163546)
Well this was a waste of my time and eyesight. She certainly seems to be upset about this. She repeats the little princes story. No doubt Richard did put them in the tower but he did not need to kill them, having had them declared not eligible to take the throne. The more likely culprit probbly was Henry VII (father of Henry VIII) who defeated John and took his throne ending the Plantagenet dynasty and commencing the Tudor dynasty. He would have been looking to make a clean sweep of anyone with a claim.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 2/7/2013 11:11:18 AM (No. 9163568)
Unless a real lullapalooza shows up here tomorrow, this is my nominee for the silliest article of the week. Was Collins drunk when she wrote this?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rosefenn, 2/7/2013 12:04:05 PM (No. 9163739)
Shakespeare merely immortalized the "official" Tudor spin on Richard. Now this loon is spewing the "oficial" line on Romney. This wonderful and amazing archaeological discovery is ignored and snarked as usual by a "writer" for the Times. They have no reverence for anything.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dbdiva, 2/7/2013 12:47:56 PM (No. 9163876)
Agree with #5. Gail needed to find some way to write something snarky about Mitt Romney and so since Richard III is currently in the news she figured this was the perfect opportunity. Bless her heart, she´s such a twit.
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Posted By: jackson- 3/13/2013 10:15:19 AM
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Posted By: jackson- 3/12/2013 9:02:50 AM
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Posted By: jackson- 3/8/2013 8:48:19 AM
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CBS New York, by Staff
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Posted By: jackson- 3/8/2013 8:17:18 AM
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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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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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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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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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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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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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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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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