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Americans for Prosperity Set to Clash Against Rove´s Super PAC
Big Government (Breitbart), by Tony Lee
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Posted By:mikkins2, 2/18/2013 11:33:27 AM
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| Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group that has fiercely supported free market principles and embraced the Tea Party movement, is considering getting involved in Republican primaries next year, which could pit the group against Karl Rove´s recently-created super PAC. Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, said the group will consider threatening GOP lawmakers in primaries who increase spending or taxes. After Rove created his "Conservative Victory Project," many conservatives felt the group was meant to wage war against Tea Party candidates.
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Comments: Time to take the party back.
Got Tea?
I am Sarah Ted Palin Cruz!
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 2/18/2013 11:38:04 AM (No. 9182977)
Well, I am not "Sarah Ted Palin Cruz", whatever that might have meant. However, I say welcome to any group whose intent is to field good candidates for us. What´s not to like?
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olcap, 2/18/2013 11:50:09 AM (No. 9183011)
Saying they are "considering" getting involved in republican primaries, isn´t very encouraging. What are they "considering"? Are they "considering" that, since Rove´s chosen candidates won´t be conservatives, but RINOs, they maybe able te extort some cash from Rove´s group to stay out of it?
Don´t trust any of the hucksters that are gong to come along, based on Rove´s (and the GOP´s) determination to move the party to the left. They are just as crooked, don´t give two squats about this country, (just money), and will waste our time in taking BACK the country.
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SheikYerBooty, 2/18/2013 11:56:41 AM (No. 9183026)
Karl Rove and his fellow RINO statists aren´t the answer to the problem, They are the problem.
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Malia2012, 2/18/2013 12:02:39 PM (No. 9183043)
What #1 said. In the past, the demonrats were the targets being challenged by members of the GOP... now not so much... IMHO, there is nothing to celebrate about "groups" "clashing" against fellow Republicans who are ALL trying to get Republicans Elected, rather than dems. Good grief!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
gabula, 2/18/2013 12:37:08 PM (No. 9183131)
I would gladly trade McCain and Lindsey for two more like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and other conservatives.
Gabula
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
absalom, 2/18/2013 12:42:22 PM (No. 9183142)
#4. Your comment goes to the heart of the matter. The fight ain´t between R´s; it´s between those who are principled conservatives first and insist the GOP stand for something; and those R hustlers like Rove whose laser like focus is on ´winning´ for no particular purpose. You´re smart enough to understand this.
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MissMolly, 2/18/2013 1:04:48 PM (No. 9183177)
How patronizing, #6.
I don´t have to guess who gets to decide which are the acceptable candidates. I believe I will decide for myself and my decision will not be based on which PAC sent money.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DanvilleBill, 2/18/2013 1:07:18 PM (No. 9183184)
I asked Flounder about this insane GOP civil war and he said:
"Wow! This is great!"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kahunavol, 2/18/2013 1:17:26 PM (No. 9183199)
I would like to have some choice in candidates too, why should Rove and the party elites be the ones who continue to foist candidates on the rest of us?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
italianlooks, 2/18/2013 1:20:13 PM (No. 9183205)
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Oscar Pistorius murder charge: Reeva Steenkamp’s iPad ‘intrinsic part’ of police investigation Telegraph [UK], by Aislinn Laing
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Posted By:earlybird, 2/18/2013 11:25:36 AM
Police in South Africa are treating the iPad of slain model Reeva Steenkamp as “an intrinsic part” of their investigation amid reports that a late-night message from a rugby player might have sparked a row with boyfriend Oscar Pistorius that led to her death. The iPad was reportedly found on the bedroom floor of Mr Pistorius’ home after Miss Steenkamp was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday morning. Francois Hougaard, the South African national team rugby player at the centre of the rumours, who was friends with both Mr Pistorius, 26, and Miss Steenkamp,
Comments: Note to Staff: As with many Telegraph articles, the first sentence of the article is under the headline, above the photo and byline.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply 1 - Posted by: italianlooks, 2/18/2013 1:17:39 PM (No. 9183201)
Lets just muzzel this now!
Rome is burning and we are shooting ourselves in the foot. It appears to me the Party has been infiltrated by the left to cause havoc!
Clean up your act and move on! Beat the enemy that is in front of us..The President and the lame Democrats in both houses! Enough!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
absalom, 2/18/2013 1:29:30 PM (No. 9183227)
#7. Wasn´t patronizing Malia at all, just stating something that should be obvious. Sure, the choice of candidate is one´s own and always has been. That´s hardly the point. For far to long the voters have chosen between Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the result is self-evident; nothing changes. Surely you must have noticed by now?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dman, 2/18/2013 1:50:28 PM (No. 9183281)
Better for Americans for Prosperity to put their resources toward a new party. The GOP elites will wag their fingers with dire warnings of Democrat dominance - but they ignore that a new party without the "party of the rich" albatross would also draw from the Democrats. The two-party big-tent status quo simply no longer works. There´s a middle-class vacuum to be filled. The ideal multi-party system is where no party, including the Democrat party, commands an absolute majority. Then "compromise" must occur on a candidate-by-candidate and issue-by-issue basis, not once every four years. Electoral and legislative success would depend on coalitions of the various parties. The NY Conservative party (which endorses conservative GOP candidates and issues) is a template.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ben Around, 2/18/2013 2:29:05 PM (No. 9183357)
#12 What you want is a parliamentary government. I say pull the plug on the "me too" Republican Party and start a party that believes in the traditions that made America great: free markets and self relience.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
IdahoSky, 2/18/2013 2:31:01 PM (No. 9183360)
Fascinating. I was very open about supporting Romney/Ryan and I am still dismayed that America seems intent upon voting its own self-destruction. Now it appears Republicans are following suit. As of this moment, I have no dog in this hunt. I thought we would all hang together or hang separately. Perhaps it doesn´t matter. I am pretty well convinced America is a left of center country these days. Knock yourselves out and wake me when the grown-ups return (if there are any left).
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
tisHimself, 2/18/2013 5:17:55 PM (No. 9183623)
We nominated a presidential candidate whose PAC was run by a Rove protege and that PAC concentrated its efforts in late 2011 and the primary season on silencing good candidates and muting substantive discussions. Negative ops and planted stories-- a scorched earth policy which won a nomination and coordinated a loss of almost unbelievable proportion against a very defeatable candidate. Now it is claimed that all good candidates are welcome, but that somehow group think focusing on principles and ideologies is somehow patronizing and counterproductive, er, um, unless Karl Rove and his are deciding who the good candidates are, and which ones ought to be weeded out.
Apparently it all depends on whose ox is being gored.
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Time to Secede… From the GOP
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Canada Free Press, by Chip McLean
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Posted By: mikkins2- 3/24/2013 9:51:55 AM
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Is there anyone remaining with an IQ above room temperature who actually believes that the Republican Party believes in limited government, as defined by the U.S. constitution? If so, they have either been hibernating or have been in complete self-denial. Every election cycle the Republican Party counts on its “conservative base” to dutifully turn out and mark their ballot for whatever candidate has been selected by the GOP leadership. We are told ad infinitum that doing so will keep the Democrat liberal demons from furthering their agenda. The inside-the-beltway establishment has been chanting this mantra for years
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Former Bush Adviser Continues Crusade Against Palin, Conservatives
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: mikkins2- 3/9/2013 6:44:54 AM
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Former George W. Bush chief political strategist Matt Dowd continued to try to diminish Sarah Palin and conservatives by once again making false claims about the former Alaska governor. On Sunday´s "ABC´s This Week," Dowd assailed CPAC for, in his mind, lessening its credibility by inviting conservatives like Palin and not liberal Republicans favored by the northeastern elite like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. “CPAC, to me, has totally diminished its credibility as an organization,” Dowd said
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The Unofficial Merger of the GOP and Democrat Party!
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Canada Free Press, by A.J. Cameron
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Posted By: mikkins2- 3/4/2013 8:46:39 PM
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People continually complain that with the different faces who have disgraced the Offices of the President and Vice President, the one hundred (100) seats within the Senate and the four hundred thirty-five (435) seats within the House of Representatives, nothing improves for the masses, only for those who are elected and special interests. This is frustrating and we need to assess why, so we can change this ‘continuing resolution’. It appears that the GOP and the Democrat Party have merged.
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Republicans are losing the spending argument
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Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake
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Posted By: mikkins2- 2/27/2013 3:36:33 PM
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For the past several years, congressional Republicans have focused relentlessly on a single message: Washington — led by President Obama — is spending too much money, and it needs to stop. But according to new Washington Post-ABC News polling, that laser-like focus isn’t helping Republicans win the argument over federal spending — with 67 percent of those tested disapproving of the “way Republicans in Congress are handling federal spending.”
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Why Sarah Palin? Why Ted Cruz?: ´Nationalists´ and ´Federalists´
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The Hill (Washington, DC), by Bernie Quigley
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Posted By: mikkins2- 2/27/2013 3:09:40 PM
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Demographics are destiny. Nothing else makes history. When the changes ahead are shipped into denial is when chaos and disaster ensue. And the potential disasters America faces today do not come from global warming, nuclear weapons, the Russians, the hippies or the rednecks. They come from the economic division of America between the red states, which are rising in capital and prosperity, and the left and right coasts, which are receding in economic power. Demographer Joel Kotkin well outlines the transition in a Wall Street Journal essay yesterday title, “America’s Red State Growth Corridors.”
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Congressman Takes No [Bleep] From Obama
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American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer
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Sophomore U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, graduated first in his class at West Point, graduated from Harvard Law School, had a hugely successful career in the aerospace industry, and also has a think-tank background. He may be a seriously rising star. Anyway, he put out a self-explanatory press release that is a beauty to behold. Take that, Mr. Obama! Today, White House Spokesman Jay Carney asked during a press briefing what Congressman Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, would say to defense workers facing furlough because of the President’s sequester plan. The following is his statement:
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Spending kudzu
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Human Events, by John Hayward
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Posted By: mikkins2- 2/26/2013 9:29:04 PM
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Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has been front and center during the latter days of the sequestration showdown, which is good, because he literally wrote the book on government waste. He produces a new edition of his “Wastebook” every year, chronicling the most absurd abuses of taxpayer money. It is wise for Republicans to bring up these horror stories when Obama is racing around the country and insisting that a 2.3 percent reduction in the rate of government growth means we can’t have firefighters or border security. Coburn’s Wastebook should be every American’s indispensable manual
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A Conservative Provocateur, Using a Blowtorch as His Pen
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New York Times, by Jim Rutenberg
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Posted By: mikkins2- 2/24/2013 10:05:43 AM
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At 11:42 a.m. on Feb. 14, a conservative online magazine called The Washington Free Beacon posted a dispatch about a speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2007 in which it said he called the State Department “an adjunct to the Israeli foreign minister’s office.” The report was based on “contemporaneous” notes an attendee posted online. An hour later on the floor of the United States Senate, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina urgently cited that statement as another reason to delay Mr. Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary.
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What Our Leaders Wrought: Boehner Cries and Obama Lies
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Town Hall, by John Ransom
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Posted By: mikkins2- 2/24/2013 9:49:09 AM
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twfox wrote: Jan. 24,2013 - Bobby Jindal urges the GOP to "stop being the stupid party"---hmmmm. And now you knuckle draggers want to call the Presidents supporters stupid? Good luck with that! - The Big, Big Government Push Dear Comrade Fox, You apparently don’t know the context in which Jindal was talking about “stop being the stupid party.” What Jindal is referring to are the candidates who made bizarre comments during the election, like Todd Akin the Missouri Republican, who said this about the odds of getting pregnant from rape: “From what I understand from doctors, that´s really rare.
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The Banality of the RINOs
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American Spectator, by Matt Purple
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Posted By: mikkins2- 2/23/2013 6:45:11 AM
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I’m told we’re living in a Moderate Moment. After Mitt Romney lost the election, moderate Republicans started emerging from every corner of the country, from Northwest Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Virginia. It was time, they declared, for calm voices to prevail in the Republican Party. The Tea Party, the right-wing, the “Conservative Entertainment Complex” — all this must be cast overboard for the GOP to win again. The latest iteration of this came in Wednesday’s Washington Post from columnist Kathleen Parker:
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Why Republicans won’t win a sequester showdown with President Obama: A GOP response
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Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza
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Posted By: mikkins2- 2/20/2013 7:44:04 PM
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Earlier today we posited that Congressional Republicans held a losing political hand when it came to a showdown over the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts — aka the sequester — set to automatically kick in on March 1. We got a fair number of responses from Republicans who argued with the premise –insisting that under our logic the GOP should simply capitulate to Obama on all matters due to the fact that the president is the more popular figure with the public at the moment. Tony Fratto, a former Bush Administration spokesman and now a partner at Hamilton Place Strategies
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Gingrich: Why Rove and Stevens are plain wrong
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Human Events, by Newt Gingrich
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Posted By: mikkins2- 2/20/2013 9:45:21 AM
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I am writing this newsletter in a very direct, no baloney, effort to get across how much trouble we Republicans are in and how real the internal party fight is going to be. I strongly support RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’ effort to think through the lessons of 2012 and develop a better path for the Republican Party. However there are going to be some very powerful opponents to any serious rethinking of Republican doctrines and strategies. It is appalling how little some Republican consultants have learned from the 2012 defeat. It is even more disturbing how arrogant their plans for the future are.
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Former British prime minister Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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Obama says he´s ´determined as ever´ for gun bill
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Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 10:27:49 PM
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone Call from Obama - report
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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The most shocking news you won´t see in the MSM today
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/9/2013 11:49:09 AM
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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´Mickey Mouse Club´ star Annette Funicello dies at 70
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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White House: Planned GOP gun filibuster cowardly
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Special ops veterans’ group calls for select probe of Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook victims to D.C. on Air Force One so they can back gun control in person
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain blast Cruz for threatening filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping, Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused of raping adopted children will face trial
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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