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The Growing Tyranny
of the Political Elite
American Thinker, by Jeffrey Folks
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Posted By:magnante, 2/27/2013 9:07:30 AM
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| Recently, the White House released a photo of the president shooting skeet. But where´s the snap of him fishing for bass? Apparently the White House felt compelled to portray Obama as a marksman in light of the widespread pushback over the administration´s gun control agenda but felt no urgency to defend the prospect of the EPA´s potential regulation of lead in fishing weights. Yet the agency seriously entertained just such a ban last year. What´s next? The lead in barbells?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 2/27/2013 9:11:51 AM (No. 9198641)
It´s time for a Constitutional Convention to be called to neuter the Federal government.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bubby, 2/27/2013 9:20:49 AM (No. 9198663)
#1 I´m not in favor of that because the leftists would take over that convention and would make all the changes they would like and the Republicans would once again just roll over. How about we just enforce the Constitution as it currently exists? I would like to see a balanced budget amendment and an amendment that would require all legislation passed by Congress be applicable to members of Congress. No more special treatment for retirement or healthcare or anything else they get what they give us.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WAN2, 2/27/2013 9:27:52 AM (No. 9198678)
Although correct, Mr. Folks is too optimistic. Our Ship of Fools has sailed. Ah, all free (prosperous) people turn lazy and end up preferring "safety" to freedom.....and getting tyranny.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 2/27/2013 10:58:35 AM (No. 9198887)
I do not know what a political elite is.
There has been no evidence that an elite (the best of the best) exists in politics. There are nothing other than hacks governing in the government. At the very least a true elite in government would be trained in the principles
of ruling from childhood. There is no such person in the U.S.A.
At least not in government.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/27/2013 11:18:17 AM (No. 9198955)
The ´Let them eat cake´ crowd will face the same fate as the French Elites...wait for it...wait for it.............
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pickle1, 2/27/2013 11:23:30 AM (No. 9198976)
It will backfire on them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque, 2/27/2013 1:51:09 PM (No. 9199279)
#4 I think thats a good question. I suspect that the real answer is kept in confusion because once its determined who or what actually directs the power that overrules an otherwise egalitarian society, they will become the targets for reprisal or retirement. Is Pelosi part of that elite? Are Hollywood starlets? Is it the mainstream media? Defining what makes the elite who or what they are will be very useful.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Susannah, 2/27/2013 2:25:13 PM (No. 9199344)
#5, why would you want someone "trained in the principles of ruling since childhood"? Ruling is what kings do, and they are in fact trained from childhood to rule. But this isn´t supposed to be a monarchy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
KTWO, 2/27/2013 2:42:11 PM (No. 9199370)
"elite" should not be confused with "privileged" or ´rulers´, etc.
To me an "Elite" would be someone, in or out of government, who has personal influence or access to politicians and authorities.
As such the "Elite" might not win every time but he/she has an excellent chance to avoid any serious setbacks.
The Kennedys would be my example. They seem to have escaped consequences for dozens of nasty acts.
The key is influence. You might not win but you have a much better chance. Much, much better.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
goose, 2/28/2013 4:27:57 PM (No. 9201436)
Last night on "Triggers" there was an episode about combat shotguns. I must have watched more than 100 rounds fired. And, gee whiz, not one of them made a muzzle blast like the one in the photo of Obama "skeet shooting." Imagine that!
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Jerry Brown excuses government
incompetence: ´Sh*t happens´
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 5/8/2013 11:17:21 AM
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A massive screw-up by the state of California is being brushed off by Governor Jerry Brown with a barnyard expression: "Sh*t happens." The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, a multi-billion dollar endeavor, turns out to have used faulty bolts to fasten the bridge to its pier. "A third out of 96 threaded steel rods -- 3 inches thick and 9 to 24 feet long -- snapped in early March after crews tightened them down with nuts."
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Curious plea for mercy
for Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 5/8/2013 9:25:41 AM
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No, it´s not the Onion, it´s the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune that bring this statement of support and plea for mercy for former Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. Katherine Skiba writes: Asking for mercy for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote to a federal judge last month calling Jackson intelligent, charming and entertaining - the "highlight of our karaoke nights." The correspondence from Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio) was among 14 letters made public Tuesday as Jackson and his wife, former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, await sentencing July 1.
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Is there anything related
to Benghazi that could get
the president impeached?
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American Thinker, by Rick Moran
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Posted By: magnante- 5/7/2013 8:45:51 AM
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Short answer - not yet. For all the words spread around recently about impeaching Obama over Benghazi, there is a curious ommission made in every single article and blog post I´ve read that advocates or predicts that Obama will be impeached. They all seem to be missing the words "high crimes and misdemeanors." Yes, I know - that silly Constitution seems to get in the way of our fun. But in order to impeach a president, you can´t just connect a few dots and proclaim conspiracy. There must be proof - hard proof
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Boycott Mike Lupica?
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American Thinker, by Trevor Thomas
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Posted By: magnante- 5/6/2013 12:04:41 PM
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Ah yes, where better to get insightful and intelligent social commentary than from George Costanza´s favorite sports writer. ESPN´s Mike Lupica just couldn´t help himself when it came to the recent NRA convention in Houston. In his column today he managed to insult not only NRA members, Sarah Palin, and Wayne LaPierre, but millions of gun-loving Americans as well. (snip)Will advertisers for the sporting giant that is ESPN get the same kind of pressure over Lupica´s comments--which insult millions--as did Rush´s advertisers? Will there be calls for ESPN to fire Lupica?
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The man behind the
Benghazi cover-up?
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American Thinker, by Ed Lasky
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Posted By: magnante- 5/5/2013 8:58:22 AM
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Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has a must read column regarding the Benghazi cover-up by White House officials CIA career officials clearly and repeatedly identified Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-linked Islamic terrorists as the culprits behind the murder of four Americans. Of course, this would cause embarrassment for the Obama team, especially in the few weeks before the election. They had been boasting for years that Al Qaeda had been decimated(snip)Ben Rhodes should be called to account for trying to divert blame away from Islamic terrorists and the Obama team members whose feckless negligence led to the Benghazi massacre.
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Academic warmists celebrate book burning
at San Jose State University
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 5/4/2013 10:35:03 AM
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At the San Jose State University Meteorology Department, they´d rather burn books than read them, if their faith in the gospel of man-made global warming would be challenged by the contents. That is the message conveyed on the Department´s own website (archived here) with the picture below which was published there along with this explanation: This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland Institute {this or this }. The book is entitled "The Mad, Mad, Made World of Climatism". SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the
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Dangerous Times: Europe´s New
Crypto Cults Don´t Hate Islam
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American Thinker, by James Lewis and Justine Aristea
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Posted By: magnante- 5/4/2013 8:19:10 AM
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There is something strange about the fast-rising European "crypto fascist" movements. They are peas in a pod -- with similar political programs, and similar nationalist and anti-capitalist rhetoric. They all hate the two Satans of Iranian propaganda, Israel and America. Yes, the Persian Gulf supplies 40% of Europe´s oil and therefore has vast political power in all the countries where the cryptos operate. But they are realy monomaniacal about Israel (snip) Most peculiarly, all those anti-foreigner movements don´t have a bad word to say about 50 million Muslims who now populate the capital cities of Europe. Not one bad word.
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MSM face Benghazigate dilemma
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 5/2/2013 9:46:03 AM
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For the moment only Fox and conservative media are covering the revelations of a Benghazi whistleblower, limiting knowledge of the disturbing revelations to perhaps a third of the public, if that. The vast pool of low information voters will never know that there is anything to be concerned about regarding the slaughter of four Americans and the apparent lies and cover-up that has followed from Obama administration. And neither will the medium information voters who get their news solely from MSM outlets. (snip) The biggest risk the MSM face is that this story will explode
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First Black President
Makes Racist White Woman´s
Dream Come True
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American Thinker, by M. Catharine Evans and Ann Kane
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Posted By: magnante- 5/2/2013 7:59:58 AM
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Is Barack Obama really black? His love affair with the taxpayer-subsidized abortion provider Planned Parenthood suggests he has it in for his own people. Why doesn´t he care that PP´s founder was a radical racist eugenicist Last Friday, Obama became the first sitting president to address a Planned Parenthood national conference. In his introductory remarks, Obama paid homage to a "health clinic" (one of his many euphemisms) which opened in Brooklyn "nearly a hundred years ago." Since he was being careful with language, Obama didn´t bring up PP´s founder, Margaret Sanger
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One for the Citizens
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American Thinker, by J.R. Dunn
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Posted By: magnante- 5/2/2013 6:54:20 AM
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Before we get too far away from the Marathon bombing, it needs to be acknowledged that this was yet another incident in which the average American proved crucial. It wasn´t overweight and aging police Tac squads, lumbering around in their armor through a shut-down city, clumped together as perfect targets for an IED, crowded four to a doorway as they spoke to residents, with no sign of lookouts or adequate cover. The Boston PD was lucky they were not up against trained terrorists.
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´Any race except Caucasian´
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 5/1/2013 9:30:25 AM
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Oops! A casting call for a new host of a children´s program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the taxpayer supported, government-owned television and radio network of Canada, accidentally told the truth, when it specified "any race except Caucasian." (snip) The head of the casting agency which got the contract said: "We were asked to seek a cast of diversity. We mistakenly took that to mean that the production was not seeking Caucasian actors.
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The most bizarre prediction
of global warming doom ever
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/30/2013 9:52:46 AM
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When apocalyptic religious cults like Warmism fail the reality test, their devotees get desperate and unintentionally start producing self-parodies. The mass slow-mo mental implosion can be hilarious. We have just such an instance involving a group of House Democrats. The victim mentality is leaping to the rescue for global warming. (snip) Global warming can make you a whore!
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Hillary Clinton — culpable for
Benghazi from beginning to end
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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
attacks turns to Hillary Clinton
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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
into peace bricks
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM
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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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Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman
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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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Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up
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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
implies a right to health care, education
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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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