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Obama’s ´bipartisan´ State of the Union
paints Republicans as anti-science,
job-hating Neanderthals
Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 2/13/2013 8:42:06 AM
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| There was a slightly surreal context to this year’s State of the Union.[Snip] The State of the Union repeated a lot of the same themes of the past few years. That’s because a lot of Obama’s promises remain unfulfilled and are still reliant on slipping them through a hostile Congress. Take his signature pledge to raise the minimum wage to $9, which he insisted will stimulate the economy and create jobs. Back in 2008, Obama said he’s raise the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2011. Likewise, we got a retread on cutting the deficit, slashing unemployment
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
civilservant, 2/13/2013 8:49:10 AM (No. 9173750)
I am by no means the most educated person.
But even I know that $9.50 minimum wage means people will then be able to go eat from the McDonald´s $2.00 value menu, as the $1.00 menu will cease to exist.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 2/13/2013 8:49:19 AM (No. 9173752)
Does anyone really care about what he said?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
plex, 2/13/2013 8:54:29 AM (No. 9173768)
The minimum wage issue is very similar to the corporate income tax issue. These twits with no economic knowledge we have elected seem to believe that companies can print money. They never ask where companies get their money. The answer is of course from their customers. Raise the minimum wage, raise prices. Raise taxes, raise prices. Wage increase must come with productivity increases or prices must rise. Econ 101 (well... today the probably teach "Krugman" economics which make no sense).
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 2/13/2013 9:05:14 AM (No. 9173794)
Neanderthals...takes one to know one.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 2/13/2013 9:15:09 AM (No. 9173822)
I liked what Rubio had to say about it. He said he wanted people to make MORE than $9 per hour. However, he wanted the money to come from growth in industry- not from government mandate.
Obama and the democrats would be happy to have a permanent ´´peasant class´´ to cater to and rile up at election time. Class warfare works better when you have more poor people.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 2/13/2013 9:51:41 AM (No. 9173913)
Higher minimum wage means more unemployed workers and more over worked employees. A task or job is worth to an employer only what that employer is willing to pay and not one dime more. All that is going to happen is that the employer will require that existing employees take on the additional tasks.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 2/13/2013 11:30:25 AM (No. 9174090)
So far as I have been able to observe the entire nation is ignorant about any and all science. It is a shameful thing when ´humanities´ are more prized than realities among the masses. It leads to the decisions that have been made through ´feelings´. More than shameful; the state of affairs is pitiful.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
web, 2/13/2013 12:16:02 PM (No. 9174166)
Democrats just don´t seem to understand the simple concept of a BUDGET. They apparently think that if they don´t have an approved budget, why, then they can spend all they want.
Us common folks don´t have such a luxury of unlimited income. We have to live within a budget, and business owners don´t last long if they don´t. You can raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, and your employees will then live much better lives... but you will only employ half as many employees as you would if the wage was $10 an hour. A quarter as many if it was $5 an hour, etc.
We wouldn´t have the need for higher wages if the leftists weren´t constantly raising the CostOfLiving through government and environ-mental regulations. Cheap energy is the basis for cheap everything.
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Inside North Korea: No ads, no
planes, no internet, no mobiles,
no 21st Century... A rare dispatch
from deep within the lunatic rogue
state enslaved by Zombie and Sons
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Daily Mail [UK], by John Sweeney
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/14/2013 6:32:05 AM
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Down, down inside the Pyongyang Metro stands a statue of the Eternal Ruler of North Korea, Generalissimo Kim Il Sung – dead these past 19 years but still calling the shots. Brainwashing cast in bronze. The regime’s florid propaganda blares from loudspeakers: ‘The pure white snows of our sacred mountains’ artillery will wipe the filthy enemy from existence.’ Or something like that. [Snip] I’ve reported from Ceausescu’s Romania, Saddam’s Iraq, Gaddafi’s Libya, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the Ayatollahs’ Iran – but after eight days undercover in North Korea, I believe this regime is the most frightening tyranny of all.
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S.C. unemployment agency
to lay off 100
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Seanna Adcox
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/14/2013 4:14:41 AM
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COLUMBIA—South Carolina’s unemployment agency will lay off 100 employees in June as part of a statewide reorganization that directs anyone seeking jobless benefits to use its upgraded online system, the agency’s interim director announced. John Finan said the Department of Employment and Workforce will eliminate one-on-one help with unemployment claims on June 10, and the number of local offices offering job training and other re-employment services will shrink. Exactly how many of those 56 offices remain open past June will depend on decisions made by the state’s 12 workforce investment boards, he said.
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Beloved family at heart
of the grandest funeral
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Daily Express [UK], by Kirsty Buchanan & Marco
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/14/2013 4:01:14 AM
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A single half-muffled bell will toll from St Paul’s to greet the funeral cortege of Baroness Thatcher on Wednesday. In front of the coffin, Michael and Amanda Thatcher will lead the procession for their beloved grandmother. They will carry on cushions the Order of the Garter and the Order of Merit, two of the highest honours the Queen can bestow. [Snip] The ceremonial funeral, meticulously planned by the former prime minister, reveals her profound Christian faith. A strong Methodist upbringing was the bedrock from which Lady Thatcher built her political creed of self-reliance and personal responsibilty.
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Scales don´t lie: people in the south
are NOT the fattest in the country
...and apparently they´re more truthful too
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Daily Mail [UK], by James Daniel
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/14/2013 3:13:29 AM
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With some of America´s tastiest, yet unhealthiest food, it´s no wonder that for years, many have deemed people from the South to be amongst the fattest in the nation. [Snip] But a new study from the University of Alabama in Birmingham says that the South is not as fat as the rest of the world would have us believe. The journal Obesity, says that there’s a higher concentration of obese people in the Midwestern states of Minnesota, Kansas and North and South Dakota. The northern region of the country appears to have about 41 percent obesity compared to 31 percent
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Ukip is closing in on a
massive breakthrough
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Daily Express [UK], by Patrick O´Flynn
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/13/2013 7:17:07 AM
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So what will be remembered as the biggest political event of spring 2013? Naturally the death of Lady Thatcher must be the prime candidate. But there is another that has thus far consumed only a tiny proportion of the column inches that have rightly been expended on the passing of the Iron Lady yet may have more pro found and longerlasting consequences. I speak of the rise and rise of Ukip. The Eastleigh by-election, in which Ukip sensationally beat the Conservatives to second place, has of course registered in the national political consciousness.
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We´re in love with
Margaret Thatcher
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Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/13/2013 6:53:55 AM
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For what it´s worth I think the BBC has no business censoring the music charts--even if it involves a song as insensitively timed and crassly-chosen as Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead! a) we should do everything we can to discourage this idea the BBC has of itself as a branch of the Nanny State. [Snip] But it´s OK. We have an even better chance of getting our own back, now. By going head-to-head against the scuzzballs with a song of our own: I´m In Love With Margaret Thatcher originally released in 1980 by ska-punk band The Notsensibles.
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Dr Kermit Gosnell: truly horrifying
allegations of the murder of babies
that the US media are playing down
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Telegraph [UK], by Damian Thompson
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/13/2013 6:48:01 AM
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This is written in haste, at the end of a day full of meetings. But British readers must know about the case of Dr Kermit Gosnell, which has been played down in the American media – possibly because the allegations of a homicidal abortion doctor don´t fit into their pro-choice narrative. The following quotes are taken from Conor Friedersdorf´s report in The Atlantic. You will need a strong stomach, but I urge you to read it all. The grand jury report in the case of Dr Kermit Gosnell, 72, is among the most horrifying I´ve read. "This case is about
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´We´re being inundated´: Vigilante Group
uses secret cameras to record the flow
of illegal immigrants across the border
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/13/2013 6:36:15 AM
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A group of private citizens have documented using motion-detector cameras illegal immigrants crossing the border into the United States. The group, Secure Border Intelligence, also has recorded audio conversations between Border Patrol pilots and agents on the ground which they say document the how porous the border is with Mexico. ´We haven´t been in that area for hours... we´re being inundated where we´re at,´ one drone pilot says of the border. [Snip] And in another recording, a helicopter pilot reports: ´We´re going to need another person over here, we´ve got about 50 bodies out there.´
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Tories build secret alliance with
Eurosceptics behind Merkel´s back
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Telegraph [UK], by Bruno Waterfeld, Jeevan Vasagar
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/12/2013 10:37:17 PM
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David Cameron arrived in Germany for talks with Angela Merkel on Friday evening as his Conservative allies planned a secret deal with German Eurosceptics backing his bid to loosen Britain´s European Union membership. Talks between the Tories and the new Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD), an anti-euro party, came to light as the Prime Minister and his family flew to Germany as the personal guests of the Chancellor at the castle of Meseberg, her country retreat. The invitation for Mr Cameron to bring his wife Samantha and his children, Nancy, nine, Elwen, seven, and Florence, two, to stay in the
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The wonders of wild garlic
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Telegraph [UK], by Bee Wilson
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/12/2013 10:31:43 PM
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Its flavour may be more gentle than a conventional clove, but wild garlic adds a sweet pungency to many springtime dishes. Last spring a friend left a carrier bag hanging on my door. I could smell what was inside before I looked. She had returned from Wales with armfuls of wonderful wild garlic: green, lush and overwhelmingly pungent. Foragers have long known of wild garlic, also known as ´ramsons´ or ´ramps´ (Allium ursinum). In 1972 in Food for Free, Richard Mabey noted that ´for those who like their garlic strong, ramsons will prove magnetic´.
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The Golf World Is Outraged That
Tiger Woods Didn´t Get Disqualified
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Business Insider, by Tony Manfred
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 4/13/2013 1:56:27 PM
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Pro golfers, golf writers, and TV commentators are up in arms that Tiger Woods was only given a 2-stroke penalty for his illegal drop on the 15th hole yesterday. Tiger said last night that he dropped his ball two yards behind his previous spot, clearly violating the rule that you must drop "as nearly as possible" to your original spot. Golf people are not happy about it. They say that the new rule is B.S. (or it´s at least being misinterpreted), and Tiger should DQ himself to save the integrity of the game.
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Mark Levin: ‘Fascist’ GOP
congressman is trying to
have his show pulled off air
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/14/2013 9:22:21 AM
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On his Friday show, syndicated talk show host Mark Levin said that a Republican congressman is attempting to persuade one of his affiliates to remove his show from the airwaves. Although Levin would not offer the congressman’s name on air, he has been a vocal critic of various members of the House Republican leadership in the past. But Levin called the situation “fascism.” “Well, it has come to my attention that there is a Republican congressman out there who doesn’t like what I’ve been saying,” Levin said. “It has come to my attention that there is a
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From Dehumanizing Word
Games to Gosnell
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National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 6:07:01 AM
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In Philadelphia, at a human abattoir on Lancaster Avenue, is where it ends, not where it starts. It starts with the perversion of language. It starts when the icons of a dissipated culture reduce a baby to a “fetus.” From there, Yeats’s blood-dimmed tide rolls rapidly in. Before long, a baby is not a person but a punishment, as President Barack Obama framed the matter in his familiar off-the-cuff iciness. Of course, to describe newborn children in their boundless possibilities and wonder would be to acknowledge, foremost, their humanity. That is why, instead, abortion enthusiasts must grope for words
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Obamacare Architect: Affordable
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 9:51:16 PM
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, said on Tuesday that the healthcare law, set to go into full effect in less than eight months, is “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress” and “is just beyond comprehension.” Rockefeller said he is concerned that early missteps with implementing the healthcare overhaul may cascade into confusion and chaos. The law, said Rockefeller, is “so complicated and if it isn’t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse.” Rockefeller’s consternation echoes comments made earlier this
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Philly Abortion Clinic
Workers Saw Few Options
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Associated Press, by Maryclaire Dale
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 7:28:32 PM
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They say they were just doing what the boss trained them to do. But eight former employees of a run-down West Philadelphia abortion clinic now face prison time for the work they did for Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. And Gosnell, 72, is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive. In testimony at the capital murder trial this past month, an unlicensed doctor and untrained aides described long, chaotic days at the clinic. They said they performed grueling, often gruesome work for little more than minimum wage,
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The Decline of Obama
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Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 5:13:17 AM
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With President Obama, there’s always a catch. In the 2014 budget he announced last week, Obama proposed a more accurate way of calculating the inflation rate for annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security. It’s a technical change in pursuit of honesty and good government. And if adopted, it would cause benefits to grow more slowly, though almost imperceptibly so. Republican leaders in Congress ought to be delighted since they had “championed”—Obama’s word—the idea in the first place. Then came the catch. The president’s price for adopting this gentle reform was hundreds of billions in new tax increases.
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1,500 Page Immigration Bill to Drop
One Day Before Only Hearing?
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Breitbart Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 4:29:08 PM
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According to an ABC News report, senators from the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform are expected to drop their bill, estimated at around 1,500 pages, on Tuesday, mere hours before the only scheduled Senate hearing on the topic. “A bipartisan group of senators plans to introduce its long-awaited immigration bill on Tuesday, Senate sources confirmed to ABC News,” Jim Avila and Jordan Fabian wrote on Friday. “Four Democrats and four Republicans, known as the ´Gang of Eight,´ wrapped up months of hard-fought negotiations this week and will put forth a bill that includes a pathway
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Tip Line: Did Your Editor Spike
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/13/2013 11:58:10 PM
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Few Americans can not answer this question: who is the worst domestic mass murderer in United States’ history? Due to the United States media, most are aware that Timothy McVeigh slaughtered 168 people with a bomb in 1995. Most Americans also know the names of our three most monstrous serial killers: “The Green River Killer” Gary Ridgeway, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy. The U.S. media is again responsible for the general awareness of these men; these stories deserved — and received — national attention due to our common interest in personal safety, the rule of law
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Why Aren’t More People
Repelled by the Left?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 6:12:20 AM
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Here is something I don’t understand: liberals are often revealed as vile, vulgar hatemongers–not all of them, of course, but far too many–yet they never seem to pay a penalty at the polls. Why is that? Margaret Thatcher’s death has been the latest occasion for the Left to show its true stripes. All across the U.K., there have been demonstrations–vulgar at best, and violent at worst. In Bristol, lefties celebrating a Thatcher “death street party” started fires, destroyed property and battled police: This evening in Trafalgar Square, liberals have turned out for a long-planned celebration of Thatcher’s death:
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Senate plan would make clogging
left lane a ticketable offense
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Tampa Tribune, by Bill Cotterell
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Posted By: Hazymac- 4/13/2013 11:04:13 AM
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TALLAHASSEE - Picture this: You´re in the left lane of the interstate, driving a little below the speed limit, when some guy zips up behind you and swerves past you on the right. Then you notice the blue lights flashing. You´re savoring the satisfaction of seeing a trooper actually nab an aggressive driver — until you realize it´s you he´s pulling over. This could happen, if not very often, under a major transportation package expected to be taken up in the Senate Appropriations Committee next week. Introduced by Sen. Jeff Brandes, a St. Petersburg Republican, the bill is a 173-page
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Exclusive: Newtown shooter
Adam Lanza taunted and beaten
by fellow students when he
attended Sandy Hook Elementary
School, relative reveals
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New York Daily News, by Matthew Lysiak & Larry Mcshane
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/14/2013 10:33:17 AM
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Newtown killer Adam Lanza’s mother considered suing Sandy Hook Elementary School after teachers turned a blind eye to beatings from his classmates, a family member claims. The relative, speaking to the Daily News, claimed that mass murderer Lanza was taunted and attacked by fellow students at his childhood alma mater. “Nancy felt fiercely protective of him,” the relative said. “She was convinced the school wasn’t doing enough to protect Adam. It made her irate.” Nancy Lanza — gunned down by her 20-year-son to start his Dec. 14 rampage — even tagged along with Adam to school
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