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Budget Cuts Could Force Army
and Marines to Cut 200,000 Troops
Weekly Standard, by John McCormack
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 2/27/2013 5:35:23 PM
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| Many conservatives and Republicans are greeting the looming sequestration spending cuts with a collective yawn. "The much-ballyhooed ´sequester´ is a cut of $85 billion in a nearly $4 trillion federal budget. Good, let’s do it," writes one contributor to National Review Online´s symposium on sequestration. It´s true that sequestration is a tiny cut to total federal spending. But it is also true that sequestration is a major cut to defense spending. According to the House Armed Services Committee, the 2011 Budget Control Act (the law that imposed both
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 2/27/2013 5:48:52 PM (No. 9199653)
The only cut we are not hearing about is how obama(D-Kenya) is going to have to skimp on his vacation packages.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
alpha91c, 2/27/2013 5:54:11 PM (No. 9199662)
There is enough waste in military procurement, and other areas that they don´t have to cut personnel. That being said, the military could certainly afford o cut it´s excessive number of general officers and their staffs. The U.S. military has way to many chiefs and not enough indians. Anyone that has spent several years in our military shoul be able to tell horror stories about waste and inefficiency.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/27/2013 5:54:16 PM (No. 9199663)
"I´ve been geesed!"
(response: "That´s ´goosed´."
" I can count. "
Hat Tip to Groucho who always more sense to me than Carl.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
snakeoil, 2/27/2013 6:22:28 PM (No. 9199691)
Why not exempt the military and order an across the board pay cut for all non military personnel from the guy who shovels bear poop in the national parks to the First Kenyan in the White House?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pomom, 2/27/2013 6:36:30 PM (No. 9199709)
Having worked for the military for 35 years, I´ve seen how they´ve handled budget cuts in many ways. First, they freeze all hiring and reduce numbers by attrition (no replacement when someone leaves or retires).
Then they freeze everyone´s budget. No increases, no computer purchases, no travel, none. They find billions this way and this talk about cutting troops, etc, is pure d. bull.
To find the 34 billion, the U.S. should FIRST cut off funding to the U.N., then shut the foreign aid spigot, followed by firing of all those Czars that Zippy hired. Fixed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dipi, 2/27/2013 7:09:12 PM (No. 9199751)
The Liar-in-chief is lying through his teeth.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hotrod, 2/27/2013 7:20:49 PM (No. 9199761)
B.S. X 1000!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
voxpopuli, 2/27/2013 9:20:11 PM (No. 9199908)
he promised medvedev he´d give him what he wanted after his re-election..
our country..
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/27/2013 11:22:07 PM (No. 9200100)
Isn´t the ultimate goal to castrate the military and all things American ?
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The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy
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Wall Street Journal, by Andy Kessler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 8:02:09 PM
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It has been said that an actuary is someone who really wanted to be an accountant but didn´t have the personality for it. See who´s laughing now. Things are starting to get very interesting, actuarially-speaking. Federal bankruptcy judge Christopher Klein ruled on April 1 that Stockton, Calif., can file for bankruptcy via Chapter 9 (Chapter 11´s ugly cousin). The ruling may start the actuarial dominoes falling across the country, because Stockton´s predicament stems from financial assumptions that are hardly restricted to one improvident California municipality.
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The GOP´s Gun Control Misfire
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:57:30 PM
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´This is about these families and families all across the country who are saying, ´Let´s make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down,´" President Obama declared Monday, in unusually demagogic remarks even by his standards. He added, "What´s more important to you: our children, or an A-grade from the gun lobby?" Mr. Obama is lapsing into such crude appeals—support his gun-control agenda or suborn mass child murder—because he knows his real problems aren´t the gun lobby. They´re members of his own party who answer to law-abiding voters who support Second Amendment rights.
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Syrian militant group
unites with al-Qaida in Iraq
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Associated Press, by Ryan Lucas
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:22:44 PM
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BEIRUT -- Al-Qaida´s branch in Iraq and the most powerful rebel extremist group in Syria have officially joined ranks against President Bashar Assad to forge a potentially formidable militant force in the Middle East. The merger of the Islamic State in Iraq and Jabhat al-Nusra forms a new entity that could be an even stronger opponent in the fight to topple Assad and become a dominant player in what eventually replaces his regime. The new group, called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, underscores the growing confidence and muscle of Islamist radicals fighting on the rebel side
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It Takes A Village Idiot To
Say Kids Belong To State
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:19:54 PM
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Family: An MSNBC contributor revisits the statist notion that while you gave birth to your children and feed and clothe them, they are only on loan to you by their true parent — a benevolent and all-knowing government. Melissa Harris-Perry, an African-American professor at Tulane, has endorsed the concept of human ownership by the state, something we thought history would teach her is a bad thing, saying in a promo for MSNBC that "we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their
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Air Force One Becomes
Politicized Gun Control Tool
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:14:23 PM
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Corruption: Flying Newtown victims´ families on Air Force One to lobby Congress is an obvious abuse of presidential power. Can Republicans now give Fast and Furious victims´ families taxpayer-funded flights to Washington? Saul Alinsky disciple President Obama knows well that lies are often an indispensable tool. Breitbart´s A.W.R. Hawkins last week noted that in his book "Rules For Radicals," Chicago´s Marxist father of community organizing wrote of refraining from destroying a politician by revealing embarrassing facts of his private life. "But just when his followers thought there might be something noble about the radical," Hawkins pointed out, "Alinsky instructed them:
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Obama Yearns To Have The
Absolute Power Of A King
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:06:17 PM
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Imperial Presidency: Rather than celebrate our country´s unique heritage of limited government, the president complains that he´s constrained by the Founders. Here´s a man hungry for raw power. Just so that we won´t be accused of taking his comments out of context, here they are: "The government is us," President Obama said Wednesday in Denver. "These officials are elected by you. ... I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. It´s a government of and by and for the people."
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What Dead Kids?
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National Review Online, by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 6:10:35 PM
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There used to be a formulation of cynical news editors to determine American news priorities for mass murder. It ran something like: 1,000 dead Bangladeshis = 100 dead Italians = 10 dead Americans. So how many dead American babies does it take to make the news? I wrote two-and-a-half weeks ago about the U.S. media’s determination to ignore a story that’s inconvenient to their biases. But, given the gun-banners’ ceaseless grief-feasting on Sandy Hook, at some point doesn’t the corpse count in Philadelphia merit maybe, oh, a thousandth of the attention?
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Rappers, Stars Ask Obama to Ease
Drug Policy, Reform Prisons
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 5:36:45 PM
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A list of rappers and stars, including Russell Simmons, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Kim Kardashian, and many more, have written an open letter to President Obama to ask that he ease the nation´s drug policy. They also ask that prison policy be changed, too. "During your presidency you have made important steps and you now have the opportunity to leave a legacy by transforming our criminal justice system to an intervention and rehabilitation based model. Many of those impacted by the prison industrial complex are among your most loyal constituents," they write. "Your
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Abortion doctor on trial, but media
not interested; pro-lifers see bias
in Philadelphia case
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Washington Times, by Valerie Richardson
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 5:34:47 PM
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The trial details are nothing short of sensational: A doctor accused of killing seven newborns and a young woman at a filthy Philadelphia clinic strewn with body parts and described as a “slaughterhouse.” It’s big news in Philadelphia, but nationally, not so much. The lack of coverage is a problem for a growing chorus of conservative and media critics, who allege that the scant national media attention can be attributed not to the courtroom drama but the politics of abortion. Dr. Kermit Gosnell was an abortionist, meaning that any coverage of the trial risks painting
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Report: Gun Vote Thursday
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 5:30:00 PM
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Harry Reid announced today that there will likely be a gun vote on Thursday. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) likely has the votes on gun control legislation to clear its first procedural hurdle -- a victory for the gun control community, though one that hardly guarantees the bill´s passage," reports the Huffington Post. "The majority leader announced on Tuesday evening he would submit for a vote the bill to expand background checks, implement a federal trafficking statute, and enhance school safety measures. That would set up a Senate vote on Thursday." The Huffington Post suggests Reid has the support he needs:
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Gay Infertility? Don´t
Laugh, Folks
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 5:23:30 PM
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RUSH: Gay infertility. It is... (chuckles) It´s about mandated insurance coverage for the inability to have babies. I know you´re scratching your head. "Wait, wait, wait. There´s no such thing as ´gay infertility.´" Oh, yes, there is now. The language doesn´t mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn´t mean anything anymore. Language doesn´t mean anything. So if a bunch of activists want to create the concept of "gay infertility" and then tax all the rest of us to compensate them for the fact that they can´t have babies, then that´s gonna happen. You haven´t missed anything yet.
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Democrats Owe Hillary in 2016
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 5:19:11 PM
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RUSH: Now, earlier in the program, I spoke about Mrs. Clinton. She has been given a $14 million advance to write a book (ah, it´ll be ghostwritten) on her years as secretary of state. I think the title ought to be What Difference Did I Make?" Because if you go around the world, everywhere she´s gone as secretary of state is a disaster. Benghazi, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Syria, Latin-American countries. What is there to write home about about US foreign policy? We don´t stand for freedom around the world. We don´t look
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Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
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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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The most shocking news
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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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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
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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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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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´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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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
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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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Associated Press, by Staff
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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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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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Why Is White House
Stonewalling on Benghazi
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Rep, Dana Rohrbacher
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 7:13:10 PM
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More than six months since Ambassador Christopher Stevens was assassinated by terrorists in Benghazi, the Obama administration is still trying to keep a lid on information about the attack. Congress and the American people need to know what happened the night of Sept. 11, 2012. Who did the killing and what was their motive? Why wasn´t help sent? And why did the administration lie about who was responsible? Members of Congress have asked hundreds of questions at hearings conducted by several investigative committees, but many of the most significant have been left unanswered. Information detailing what happened before, during and
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