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Boehner to curb codels due to sequester
Washington Post, by Paul Kane
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/28/2013 1:58:45 AM
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| House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) is curbing taxpayer funding of congressional trips abroad as part of the belt-tightening prompted by automatic spending cuts that begin Friday, according to Republicans. In a Wednesday meeting with his Republican Conference, Boehner told the lawmakers that delegations headed abroad are forbidden from using taxpayer-funded military aircraft once the cuts take affect, according to Republicans in the room. This includes trips to review ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, severely limiting lawmakers ability to visit the war regions. The cuts, commonly known as the sequester, will trim $85 billion from federal spending
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 2/28/2013 2:46:35 AM (No. 9200215)
Uhhh... we do have teleconferencing. Every notebook computer has a camera these days.
Washington, welcome to the real world.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
kono, 2/28/2013 3:02:00 AM (No. 9200217)
Will the ´sequester´ curb distribution of free cell phones by Obama?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
OBX Pete, 2/28/2013 3:16:48 AM (No. 9200224)
Now, if somebody would put an end to ALIbama´s daily flights in his big airplane we would be on the way to saving some big bucks.
How about it Boehner, can´t congress cut off funding for this extreme waste of taxpayer´s money??
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/28/2013 3:40:29 AM (No. 9200234)
You´ll be ticked off to know that Alibama is exempt from any cuts.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/28/2013 3:57:14 AM (No. 9200247)
This is te kind of superficial crap Boehner does all the time which really has little real world savings. It´s just like getting rid of earmarks.They haven´t gotten any points from the publican over that and it could be hurting republicans re-election chances.
If boehner wants to do something constructive to get rid of waste,the number one way to do that is repeal Bacon Davis that funnels a lot of government work to union thugs.If small business got some of these contracts,you´d see a huge economic expansion.All the unions do is line their own pockets with the money and take forever to finish the job.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jntsrgn, 2/28/2013 6:30:22 AM (No. 9200339)
Explain to me why any member of the House who only represents one district in one State would even need to travel abroad?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 2/28/2013 6:53:06 AM (No. 9200365)
I guess we should be happy that Boehner doesn´t have as bad a tin ear as Obama does #5. Congresscritters and Senators may represent only one district #6 but they vote on stuff that impacts EVERYone in the country, not just their own district. Voters need to start realizing that and bug every member of congress when they are wanting to do something stupid.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 2/28/2013 7:34:48 AM (No. 9200420)
Greta is just on fire about waste in government and I bet even the good guys dread her call to appear on her show. Darrell Issa was on last night, among others. It´s amazing to hear them tell what is spent. I know they have hearings but you never hear of any results.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 2/28/2013 11:04:09 AM (No. 9200878)
But Obie and the missus will still be calling up Taxpayer One and Taxpayer Two like taxis, to cat around the country, the world.
"It´s only (their) money!"
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MIT cop killed was ‘born
to be a police officer’
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Boston Herald, by Fiona Molloy, Frank Quaratiello*
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 3:34:28 PM
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Sean Collier was born to be a cop say those who knew the 26-year-old MIT police officer who was shot dead last night by the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Collier, of Somerville, had only been on the job for a little more than a year, but he had worked as a civilian employee with the Somerville Police Department for about five years and was in line for a job as a police officer there, according to MIT Police Chief John DiFava and Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone. “Sean was one of these guys who really
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Neighbors: They seemed like nice kids
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Inga Saffron & Trudy Rubin
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.– The Inman Square section of Cambridge feels like a small town, with a mix of students and immigrants living in blocks of triple-decker houses, a Boston classic. But on Friday morning, the calm of the neighborhood was shattered. At 8 a.m., police rousted residents from bed, ordering them to evacuate. The brothers Tsarnaev, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, lived on Norfolk Street. Police cordoned off the area in a two-block radius and were reportedly searching their apartment for explosives. Crowds of residents, clustered at barricades, kept a nervous watch of the police activity. Before noon, police
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AGE AND BEAUTY: Former
President George H.W. Bush
poses with 2013 Houston
Texans cheerleaders
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New York Daily News, by Adam Edelman
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 3:10:16 PM
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Who says beauty doesn´t come with age? Former President George H.W. Bush proved the two go hand in hand after being tapped to announce the 2013 cheerleading squad for the Houston Texans football team. The 88-year-old Bush was all smiles as he hand-delivered roses to the team’s newly selected cheerleaders at the Texans’ training facility in Houston. The frail former leader remained in a wheelchair for the event, but flashed an ear-to-ear grin and American-flag socks that matched the skimpy garments of the cheerleaders as he posed for photos with the bevy of bouncy beauties surrounding him.
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CNN’s Amanpour Hoped ‘Beyond
Hope’ the Boston Bombing
Suspects Weren’t Mideast Muslims
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NewsBusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 3:03:36 PM
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Dave Weigel at Slate reported from an awards dinner Tuesday night for the leftish Arab American Instiute about the crowd´s discomfort with the notion that the Boston assailants would turn out to "look like them." (That, I think, would mean Middle Eastern and Muslim, although AAI president James Zogby describes himself as a Maronite Catholic.) They tried not to say it out loud, he said, but then CNN´s Christiane Amanpour, there to receive an award, said it for them. "How many of us feel this burden of association and hope beyond hope that this doesn´t turn out
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Report: ‘Boston bomber could
have been deported’
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 2:39:30 PM
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One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon faced deportation in 2009 after being convicted of a domestic violence charge but was allowed to stay, according to a government watchdog. “Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old killed in a wild shootout with police, was a legal U.S. resident who never the less could have been removed from the country after a 2009 domestic violence conviction,” Judicial Watch reports based on an unnamed source. Judicial Watch pointed out another coincidence: the other suspect in the bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, received U.S. citizenship on September 11, 2012,
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Study: Boston, New England at
Greatest Tsunami Risk in US
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U.S. News & World Report, by Jason Koebler
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 2:35:59 PM
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An increase in seismic activity in the North Atlantic suggests that New England is most at risk of suffering the effects of a tsunami in the near future, according to a Boston College seismologist. Over the past year there have been 12 small earthquakes at the edge of the continental shelf – about 170 miles east of Boston – with the most powerful being a magnitude 4 quake that occurred April 12, 2012, says John Ebel, of Boston College´s Weston Observatory, which studies earthquakes. "I can´t put a number on the chances of it happening,
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A nation of promiscuous prudes
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Washington Times [DC], by Victor Davis Hanson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 10:52:24 AM
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More than 500 people were killed in Chicago last year. Yet Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel still found time to berate the fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A for not sharing “Chicago values” apparently because its founder does not approve of same-sex marriage. Two states have legalized marijuana, with more to come. Yet social taboos against tobacco smoking make it nearly impossible to light up a cigarette in public places. Marijuana, like alcohol, causes far greater short-term impairment than does nicotine. But legal cigarette smoking is now seen as a corporate-sponsored, uncool and dirty habit that leads to long-term health costs for society
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Boston marathon bombs:
dead bomber ´didn´t have
a single American friend´
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Telegraph [UK], by Alex Spillius
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 10:28:46 AM
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died overnight in a dramatic shoot-out with police on the streets of Boston, said he was a Muslim who had given up alcohol and tobacco and worried about a lack of moral standards in the world. "God said no alcohol,” he told a photographer. "There are no values anymore… people can´t control themselves." As of 14.45 GMT on Friday, his brother 19-year-old Dzhokhar was the subject of an intense manhunt in Boston and surrounding areas, after the brothers shot a policeman and injured a university security officer.
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Incredible picture of Boston
terrorist on the run standing
beside eight-year-old victim
Martin Richard with the bomb
at their feet
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Daily Mail (UK), by Simon Tomlinson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 9:35:23 AM
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A haunting image emerged today showing one of the suspected Boston bombers lurking right behind eight-year-old Martin Richard moments before planting the explosive that killed him. The suspect, named today as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, is seen just feet away from youngster while holding a rucksack believed to contain one of two bombs which killed three and injured 176 others. Martin had been waiting to give his father a big hug to congratulate him for finishing the race, but was blown up when the twin blast ripped through the city centre on Monday.
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Russia´s Putin calls Boston
attack ´disgusting´
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Los Angeles Times, by Sergei L. Loiko
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 9:31:03 AM
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MOSCOW- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday began a U.S.-Russian youth hockey game opening the world championship competition by declaring a minute of silence for the casualties of the Boston bombings and the West, Texas, explosion. “In recent days, terrible tragedies that claimed lives happened in the country from which the team of our competitors today came: the terrorist act in Boston and the explosion at a Texas plant,” Putin said in televised remarks in the southern city of Sochi. “The Boston terrorist act actually took place during a sports competition, which makes this crime especially disgusting.”
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ABC News Producer Describes
‘Heart-Stopping’ Encounter
With Police: They ‘Thought
I Might Be The Suspect’
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/19/2013 9:12:12 AM
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Amid reporting on the breaking story in Watertown, Massachusetts, as the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing — who has been identified — remains at large, ABC News shared a related story about one of their own colleagues. ABC News producer Megan Chuchmach described her encounter with officers who were suspicious of her backpack and thought she could be a suspect.“I was walking with my camera trying to get a better sense of where the SWAT teams were all congregating when all of a sudden, three officers…with their guns drawn, forced me to the ground,
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Texas Tea Party Groups Unite
for West, TX Explosion Victims
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Breitbart Big Government, by Staff
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Immediately following news of the devastating explosion of a fertilizer plant in the rural Texas town of West, the nearby Waco Tea Party began organizing efforts to help those affected. The group’s president, Toby Walker, called a local hotel and secured a room for the wives and families of first responders. Wives and mothers began to receive updates from the front lines as they charted a course of action for the following day. Local distribution centers were identified and the conservative networks were activated to volunteer and help operate the collecting, sorting, and distribution of needed items.
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control
despite 90 per cent support. Truly,
he is a lame-duck president
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:42:40 AM
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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Obama angrily denounces
gun-rights groups as willful liars
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/17/2013 6:37:42 PM
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President Obama angrily blamed the defeat Wednesday of his centerpiece gun-control proposal on lies spread by the National Rifle Association, calling it “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” “The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Mr. Obama said in the White House rose garden about 90 minutes after the vote. “It came down to politics.” As he spoke, Mr. Obama was surrounded by family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Also with him was former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Suspect 1 dead, search is on
for suspect 2 in Watertown
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA] & Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 4:15:42 AM
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Boston--FOX 25 has confirmed suspect #1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead and the search for suspect #2 is ongoing. FOX 25 has confirmed through sources that suspect #1 is dead and police are searching for suspect #2. Mass. State Police asked Watertown residents not to answer the door unless it is an announced police official. Police in Watertown, Mass., began searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday. Local reports say the suspects threw and
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Boston Marathon bombs: live
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Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 6:52:32 AM
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Latest 11.42 (06.42) The two suspects may be foreign nationals, according to NBC´s Pete Williams. Quote They were legal permanent residents... They were in this country legally, at least a year. They appear to be from Turkey, possibly Chechens from Turkey. That seems to be the nationality here. We´re told they were not students, in their early twenties. One 20, one 21. We don´t have their names yet. The Associated Press has also said the suspects are from Russian region near Chechnya, and had lived in the US at least one year. 11.25 (06.25) A woman in Watertown has snipers
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Senate rejects background checks
on gun purchases in 54-46 vote
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Hill [Washington,DC], by Alexander Bolton
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 4:41:19 PM
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The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Begich (Alaska) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) voted against it. Reid supported the measure but voted against it to preserve his ability to bring the measure up again. GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk
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A growing sense that we´re not
getting the truth about Boston bombing
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted
down gun legislation ‘out of fear’
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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A Stirring Send-Off For
the Iron Lady – And No
One Missed the Obamas
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PJ Media, by Mike McNally
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 11:39:38 PM
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After all the controversy – it was too much, and too expensive; it would be marred by protests – this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war prime minister. Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin
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Obama: Gun lobby ´lied´ about
background check bill
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 6:09:57 PM
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Washington — President Barack Obama says the Senate’s opposition to a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers marks a “shameful day” in Washington. He says a minority of senators decided “it wasn’t worth it” to protect the nation’s children. Obama spoke in the Rose Garden shortly after the Senate vote rejecting a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers. (Snip) The president pinned the blame for the measures failure, though five Democrats also opposed the plan. He also said the gun lobby and its allies “willfully lied” about background check bill.
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Misinformation and Anxiety in
Boston Terrorism Investigation
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PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 10:38:32 PM
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Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday’s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon. The anxiety stemming from the attack and the stream of inaccurate news about it is further freighted, moreover, by the FBI’s confirmation that two letters addressed to top political officials — President Obama and Senator Richard Wicker (R., MS) — tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison. As noted below, a man identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the mailings. Early this afternoon, massive confusion
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Top Dem sees ´train wreck´
for Obama health law
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Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 4:11:03 PM
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WASHINGTON -- A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama´s health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he thinks it´s headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama´s health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense. Baucus is the first top Democrat to publicly voice fears about the rollout of the new health care law, designed to bring coverage to some 30 million uninsured Americans through a mix
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