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Scope of Doctor´s Money Ties
to Menendez Exceeds $1 Million
Roll Call, by Eliza Newlin Carney
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 2/12/2013 5:43:45 AM
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| Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen has given more than $1 million directly and indirectly to Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and committees supporting him over the course of their friendship, new disclosures show. His West Palm Beach, Fla., company, Melgen Vitreo Retinal Eye Center, donated a combined $103,500 to the Democratic Party committees in four New Jersey counties in the weeks leading up to the November election, the Newark Star-Ledger has reported. The Star-Ledger quotes Union County Democratic Chairwoman Charlotte DeFilippo saying that, having been told her committee needed additional funds, Menendez “said he’d see what he could do,
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Comments:
How would an ophthalmologist accumulate that kind of money?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 2/12/2013 5:57:01 AM (No. 9171392)
Hee hee!
I´m loving watching this puerco´s ears getting twisted.
Rheeeee! Rheeee!
Go eat some of them rinds, hoggie.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/12/2013 7:26:50 AM (No. 9171503)
No mention of the underage girls in Dominican Republic.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Former lurker, 2/12/2013 7:40:26 AM (No. 9171526)
Menendez reportally had less then $200,000. When he repaid the cost of some of the flights with the generous Doctor. There must be an offshore bank account somewhere with the Senator´s name on it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
realrep, 2/12/2013 9:44:53 AM (No. 9171768)
It will just be a matter of time before Dr Melgen is singing the Web Hubbell song, ´I get time with a little help from my friends.´
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 2/12/2013 9:55:03 AM (No. 9171805)
We get exactly the level of government ethics that we tolerate. We the people have been grossly negligent in overseeing our elected officials. A US senator taking bribes and having sex with underage children is a pox on all of us.
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A Benghazi bombshell
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Washington Post, by Marc A. Thiessen
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/8/2013 5:45:43 AM
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The Obama administration wants to consign the Benghazi terrorist attack to the history books, but this week three State Department officials will tell Congress that the Obama administration’s version of history is false — and that the falsehoods it told the American people were willful and deliberate. One of the whistleblowers, Mark Thompson, deputy coordinator for operations in the State Department’s counterterrorism bureau, was in direct, real-time communication with people on the ground during the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Libya, before he was locked out of the room. Yet despite his firsthand knowledge of how the attack
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Meet the Most Important
Ted Cruz Birther: Ted Cruz
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New Republic, by Noam Scheiber
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/8/2013 5:29:43 AM
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If it wasn’t obvious beforehand, it became clear last week that Ted Cruz is likely to run for president. On Wednesday, the freshman senator’s advisors spilled the beans about his thinking on 2016 to National Review (short version: highly doable), and Friday Cruz showed up in the critical primary state of South Carolina to speak at the state GOP’s “Silver Elephant Dinner.” Which raises a question conspiratorial liberals have been waiting to ask of a Republican since at least 2008: Is Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father,
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Draft proposal unveiled
for bombing aid fund
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Associated Press, by Steve LeBlanc
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/7/2013 11:27:47 AM
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BOSTON — The families of those who lost loved ones and individuals who suffered double amputations or permanent brain damage in the Boston Marathon bombing would receive the highest payments from a fund created to help people injured in the twin blasts, according to a draft proposal of payouts from the One Fund Boston, which has already taken in more than $28 million in donations. The fund administrator, Kenneth Feinberg, unveiled the draft proposal at a public meeting Monday at the Boston Public Library, across the street from the bombing site.
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How to Find a Most
Wanted Terrorist
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Accuracy in Media, by Cliff Kincaid
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/7/2013 11:23:27 AM
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We have seen in the Boston bombings case how terrorists depend on a network of sympathizers. But the Russian connection remains a mystery. The press should follow up on the Russian angle to the Islamic terrorist bombers story before President Obama gets carried away with cooperating with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The assumption by the media that the former KGB officer is genuinely interested in helping the U.S. solve its Islamic terrorism problem should be subjected to scrutiny. After all, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been identified by KGB defectors as a Russian agent.
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The Plantation President
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/7/2013 8:33:58 AM
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“I always knew that it would have to be a black president who was approved by the elites and the media. Any black person who says something that is not the prescribed things that they expect from a black person will be picked apart. Pick anyone who’s decided not to go along with it—there’s a price to pay. So I always assumed it would be somebody that the media had to agree with.” — Justice Clarence Thomas on the election of Barack Obama as the first black president. Is Barack Obama a slave? And is the liberal media his white massa?
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The Sanford-Colbert Busch
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Politico, by Alex Isenstadt
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/7/2013 6:09:18 AM
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South Carolina’s suspense-filled special election between Republican Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch comes to a close Tuesday — and it’s anyone’s guess how it will end. Will enough Republicans hold their noses and vote for Sanford, despite their misgivings about his personal conduct, to put him over the top? Or are there enough energized Democrats in the heavily GOP district to carry the day for Colbert Busch? Colbert Busch seemed to be in the driver’s seat a week ago, but the late momentum has been with Sanford. The race is now so close — a weekend survey
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The best anti-Obama
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The Week, by Marc Ambinder
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/7/2013 5:08:46 AM
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President Obama has single-handedly kept thousands of American workers in their jobs by spawning dozens of best-selling books about how awful he is. He can ignore almost all of them, and so can you, if your goal is to learn something new about the Obama presidency. But every once in a while, a book comes along that it would be foolish for Obama, or anyone else, to disregard. Vali Nasr´s The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy In Retreat, is the most trenchant criticism of the Obama administration I´ve yet read. Nasr was an adviser to diplomat Richard Holbooke
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Mediaite Learns: ‘Vast Majority
Of National Advertisers Now Refuse
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/6/2013 4:21:05 PM
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As we reported earlier this morning, Rush Limbaugh is allegedly in the midst of a battle with Cumulus Media, the distributor of his radio show. The company’s CEO has blamed ad revenue losses on the conservative talkers’ controversial 2012 “slut” comments about Georgetown student Sandra Fluke. Mediaite’s own sources confirm that the ad troubles in connection with Limbaugh’s show are, indeed, severe. In fact, one source within the radio advertising world with direct knowledge of the ad buys on Limbaugh’s show confirms the extent of the problem: “The vast majority of national advertisers now refuse
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eBay’s $35 Million Mess
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Time, by Harry McCracken
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/6/2013 5:59:41 AM
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Jim Edwards of The Business Insider has a long, fascinating piece on eBay’s top two affiliates — one earned $28 million in commissions for sending customers to the auction site, the other $7 million — and how eBay eventually concluded that they were defrauding the company: Affiliate marketers place ads or links for eBay on their own networks, or on other people’s sites, and they collect a cut of any sale the online auction company generates from them. eBay has about 26,000 of them, or more, at any one time, feeding traffic to its auctions.
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The 5 major developments
in the Boston Marathon
case over the weekend
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CNN, by Holly Yan
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/6/2013 5:44:51 AM
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As one bombing suspect recovers in a prison hospital and cemeteries reject the body of the other, a whirlwind of new developments are swirling around the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings. Here are five major developments that took place over the weekend and what´s expected to happen next in the case: 1. One suspect appears in court One of the three friends accused of helping Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two suspects, cover up his alleged crime is due in court for a bail hearing Monday. Robel Phillipos, 19, is accused of making false statements
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The rest of the Chesimard story
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Washington Examiner, by Gregory Kane
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/6/2013 5:40:38 AM
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Just how bad do folks at the FBI think our memories are? Last week the FBI added Assata Shakur to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists. She´s the first and only woman to achieve such a dubious distinction. Shakur is also known as Joanne Chesimard, the name the FBI uses when referring to her. In the 1960s, she joined the Black Panther Party, a radical African-American organization that then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover designated as the greatest internal threat to the security of the nation. After things in the BPP went south (more on that later), Shakur/Chesimard was said
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Hillary Clinton — culpable for
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 5:14:14 AM
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When it first became clear that the CIA’s Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. After all, it served President Obama’s political purposes to claim, at the height of a political campaign in which he was taking credit for the fall of al Qaeda, that the death of a U.S. ambassador was down to spontaneous outrage over a video, rather than pre-planned terrorism. It turns out, however, that the State Department was the prime culprit. It was State that pushed back hard against the original talking points.
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Republican probe of Benghazi
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 6:52:16 AM
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Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.
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Turning on Obama
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Amerian Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 6:19:30 AM
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If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks
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Seattle to melt buyback guns
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Associated Press, by Staff
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The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
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Sanford gets second chance:
On political scrapheap 4 years ago,
ex-governor wins 1st district seat
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South
Carolina special election
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News,
a persistent voice of media
skepticism on Benghazi
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 5/7/2013 11:01:43 PM
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From the start, the Obama administration’s account of what happened in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year didn’t quite square for Sharyl Attkisson. So the veteran CBS News reporter dug in, and kept digging. The result: Attkisson has been a persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story. On the air and online, Attkisson has questioned the administration’s timeline and its response. (Snip) While other media, particularly Fox News, have been similarly skeptical about the official narrative about Benghazi, Attkisson and CBS might put the story in a different light. As a much-decorated reporter from a news
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Dem Sen: Second Amendment Not
Meant For Citizens To Take Up
Arms Against Government
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/7/2013 9:28:03 AM
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on states nullifying federal gun laws: I mean, let´s look at the context of nullification. Nullification was last used by Southern states to try to eviscerate Civil Rights legislation, to try to prevent states from basically enforcing desegregation and frankly, I think history will look back on this round of nullification as kindly as it did on the last round. It is laughable also because it is a total bastardization of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not an absolute right, not a God given right, always had conditions upon
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