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Why Is America Facing
Economic and Societal Turmoil?
American Thinker, by Steve McCann
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Posted By:magnante, 3/11/2013 8:41:19 AM
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
locarno, 3/11/2013 9:22:13 AM (No. 9219008)
Hope this becomes a ´Must Read´. A very factual and frank assessment of where we´re at in this country. I´m surprised the author doesn´t dig into the media´s role in this disaster we now call the US Government. Without their incessant cheerleading of everything Marxist, and denigration of everything Patriotic, we may have had a chance to save the republic before it became too late.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mickturn, 3/11/2013 9:25:56 AM (No. 9219014)
Simple...an incompetent Congress and President and Takers that are adicted to free stuff, any more questions?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine, 3/11/2013 9:33:19 AM (No. 9219034)
At the risk of sounding totally stupid, I had no idea at the time what G8 was. Now it sort of makes sense. My take is all this upheavel has been well planned for years. Soros does want to rule the world, right?
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clizbe1, 3/11/2013 10:21:02 AM (No. 9219128)
How do the adults reach the bleacher sitters with their ten cent bag of Obama popcorn? You must remember these are the GIMMIE class. They are dead from the neck up! They are happy with their meger lives. All the talk radio conservitaves are preacing to the choir.The Gimmies are not the least bit interested in becoming informed. A republic as founded is designed for the informed voter.I am afraid that only GOD can resolve this dilemma
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hardright, 3/11/2013 10:26:13 AM (No. 9219139)
Because that´s what Obama wants. It´s his goal to destroy this country and with the help of the msm is succeeding.
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veritas4ever, 3/11/2013 10:45:37 AM (No. 9219181)
Can you say Barack HUSSEIN Obama?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rambo77, 3/11/2013 10:55:24 AM (No. 9219206)
Pride. Pure and simple. If we instill national pride in our children we will have a proud nation. We must show the world thru personal example that we are the best. Wave the flag, show your patriotism, be a proud American. Stand up for your flag and country.
Real corn-ball...but is works and is what it takes to get that pride rolling again!
We all have to do it!!
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stablemoney, 3/11/2013 10:55:32 AM (No. 9219208)
This country is not going to work. The productive and responsible will have to move somewhere else. Look at a congressional committee hearing, look at the representatives, and get ready to pack.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lasvegaslou, 3/11/2013 11:28:41 AM (No. 9219289)
Too late, folks. We have already lost most if not all freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. If you think you have freedom of speech in this country try going through one single day saying what you really think about everything you see, encounter and experience. You won´t last the day. You will be in jail, hospital or dead before dark.
How many law abiding citizens have been locked up for supposedly violating some screwy law that, contrary to the Second Amendment, infringes on your Constitutional rights?
I´ve just reached the Second Amendment. The list goes on and on. PC rules!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
octrojan, 3/11/2013 11:34:48 AM (No. 9219298)
Remember the quote to the effect that all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing?
We´re declining because "good men" and women stand by and whine instead of acting. Last election is a case in point. "Mittens" ran a bad campaign, blew the GOTV and had a weak message as a mushy moderate--but that shouldn´t have mattered. If we really cared, he´d have won.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
usmc2489, 3/11/2013 11:57:00 AM (No. 9219345)
One word -- "Entitlements"!!!! "You Owes Me" mentality.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
O.S. Banker, 3/11/2013 12:26:35 PM (No. 9219399)
I disagree with two of the author´s premises.
First, the Founders did anticipate this situation and that is why there was a literacy component for suffrage. Second we have had the catastrophe that Europe suffered in the First and Second World Wars, ours was called the American Civil War.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Muguy, 3/11/2013 12:31:15 PM (No. 9219415)
Economics are in trouble because we have embraced the "fairness" of socialism paid for by over taxing the producers and subsidizing those who feel "entitiled" as created by those in government shopping for votes to stay in power.
Societal breakdown is because we have turned our face away from God Almighty. We have lost our moral compass and the media has cast the religious as moral zealots who are the enemy of the godless who do whatever they will and the government will take care of them.
We have become what the Founders sought to avoid although there are still plenty of good people out there--but it is now ridiculed to stand up on moral grounds against the media favored "pop culture" heros like the Kardashians and Honey Boo Boos.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bob913, 3/11/2013 12:50:58 PM (No. 9219464)
Why Is America Facing Economic and Societal Turmoil?
Democrats!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ASAvet, 3/11/2013 1:16:07 PM (No. 9219516)
Democracies do not survive without an informed electorate. The US electorate is mostly populated with idiots.
I recall an editorial in the WSJ after the 2008 election - we have now entered the age of "idiotocracy."
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MSM Benghazigate
cofferdam breached
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 5/10/2013 11:08:06 AM
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The thread is starting to unravel on the fabric of lies surrounding the Benghazi 911 incident woven by the president, his secretary of state, and their political appointees. An important step is that ABC News has broken the story that the talking points fingering mobs enraged by the video were the result of no less than 11 revisions taking out references to Al Qaeda. This brings the MSM into the story. Even MSNBC was covering ABC´s story this morning.
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What if two guys named Koch
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American Thinker, by Silvio Canto
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Posted By: magnante- 5/10/2013 11:05:17 AM
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The left is going into irrational overdrive because the Koch brothers may buy the LA Times: "Common Cause, Daily Kos, Free Press and Courage Campaign are among the groups protesting the sale to the conservative financiers, calling them "radical right wing ideologues." A sale of the company is considered imminent." We hear that "half" of the staff will quit! I guess that must be the "half" of the staff still working there after all of the job cuts in recent years.
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Will CBS News disgrace itself over
Sharyl Attkisson´s honest reporting?
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 5/9/2013 9:49:04 AM
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Sharyl Attkisson has distinguished herself with skeptical inquiry into Obama administration stories on Fast and Furious and Benghazigate, and perhaps as a result is reportedly in trouble with her bosses at CBS News. Dylan Byers of Politico reports: CBS News...has grown increasingly frustrated with Attkisson´s Benghazi campaign. CBS News executives see Attkisson wading dangerously close to advocacy on the issue, network sources have told POLITICO.(snip) This leak to Politico by CBS news execs comes in the wake of an admiring profile in the Washington Post of Attkisson
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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
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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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Obama´s Demeaning
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American Thinker, by Janice Shaw Crouse
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As a presidential speech writer for the first Bush White House, I am always very interested in what presidents say in their formal speeches. They know, of course, that their remarks will be widely covered by the press, studied by analysts, and influential in contemporary political debates. For that reason, presidents rarely speak off-the-cuff, and their every word is carefully chosen for exactly the message the White House wants to convey to the public. Their graduation speeches, like all presidential addresses, go through many drafts and are reviewed by high-level administration officials
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White House struggles to respond
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Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/8/2013 11:24:14 PM
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The White House on Wednesday stood by its story that the Obama administration remained unsure exactly who was responsible for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi nearly five days after it occurred even though new revelations show Ansar al-Sharia’s direct involvement. Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya and a self-described whistleblower, testified before a Congressional committee Wednesday that the body of Ambassador J. Christpher Stevens was missing for hours during the attack after being dragged out of the diplomatic post in Benghazi.
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Latino student group says eating
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Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Robby Soave
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/9/2013 6:12:54 PM
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Northwestern University continued to stumble over diversity issues this week as Mexican students voiced disagreement with a campuswide letter that advised students not to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by engaging in racially-offensive activities, such as eating tacos and drinking tequila. The letter was sent to students via e-mail, and published in The Daily Northwestern last week. Leaders of Alianza, a Latino student group, and the Associated Student Government called on students to remember that Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico’s victory over France in the Battle of Puebla. It is not a day to throw a sombrero-themed party, they said.
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Benghazi: Incompetence,
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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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White House hopes under fire
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Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:37:55 AM
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She weathered Whitewater. She made it past Monica ?Lewinsky. Now Hillary Clinton is hoping to beat the rap on Benghazi and make it to the White House. The Clinton political machine is in full campaign mode already, preparing for 2016 and hoping voters forget by then that she had a key role in the Obama administration’s handling of the terror attack. But that’s becoming more difficult as the GOP appears to be laying the groundwork for tying Clinton to Benghazi and making sure it stays front and center in the next campaign.Some of the testimony from State Department whistleblowers
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Exclusive: Benghazi Talking
Points Underwent 12 Revisions,
Scrubbed of Terror Reference
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ABC News, by Jonathan Carl
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/10/2013 6:54:20 AM
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When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the document were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story. ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensive edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.
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Pelosi: Sequestration Preventing Me
from Visiting Troops on Mother´s Day
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:55:08 AM
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"Every year for the past few years, on Mother´s Day, I´ve gone--I´ve taken a delegation--into Afghanistan or Iraq, we´re alternating now, now Afghanistan--for Mother´s Day to say thank you to our moms and, by the way, our grandmothers, who are serving there. Some young grandmothers. But, nonetheless, grandmothers. To also thank all of our troops for what they do to protect America´s families. I won´t be going this particular weekend because we don´t have--you know, under sequestration, we don´t have codels."
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Did Beck Cross the Line? Yes.
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Commentary, by Jeffrey S. Tobin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/9/2013 6:28:23 AM
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Fans of Glenn Beck are complaining about what I wrote yesterday about his speech at the National Rifle Association convention, where he used a giant image of Michael Bloomberg photoshopped into what appeared to be an image of Hitler with his arm raised in a Nazi salute and wearing an armband. The Beck crowd now tells me that it wasn’t Hitler’s picture into which the New York mayor was transposed but that of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. They say that means I owe Beck an apology along with the Anti-Defamation League and others who were also outraged by it.
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John McCain Wants to
Blow Up The Cable Industry
As We Know It
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Business Insider, by Jay Yarow
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/9/2013 1:19:00 PM
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John McCain is going to release a bill that would dismantle cable as it´s currently constructed, Brenden Sasso at The Hill reports. The legislation would force cable companies and satellite TV providers to give consumers an option to pick and choose which channels they get. This is called "à la carte programming," and it´s long been a dream of consumers who only want a handful of channels. McCain tried to introduce similar legislation in 2006 and it went nowhere.
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Benghazi Eight Months Later
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National Review Online, by Ted Cruz
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/8/2013 8:09:28 PM
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On September 11, 2012, terrorists attacked our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and murdered four Americans, including our ambassador. Eight months later, we have learned some of what happened, but many questions remain.(Snip)What we do know leads to the inescapable impression that before, during, and after the Benghazi attacks, there was confusion and paralysis at the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House.
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Report: Muslim cleric invited
to pray over fallen SEALs
damns them during service
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Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 5/9/2013 6:23:57 PM
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The families of Navy SEALs killed in an August 2011 shoot-down of a helicopter in Afghanistan spoke at a press conference Thursday morning, citing a number of grievances, including an allegation that the Pentagon invited a Muslim cleric who “disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen.” In addition to blasting the Obama administration for the mission and for an official investigation they deemed a cover-up, the families complained that “military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen
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IRS Apologizes for Targeting
Conservative Groups
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Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/10/2013 11:14:39 AM
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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews. Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington. Many conservative groups complained during the election
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