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What Went Wrong With Bernard Lewis?
American Thinker, by Andrew Bostom
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Posted By:ScarletPimpernel, 3/17/2013 9:55:19 AM
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| I spent an hour with my colleague, the prolific author Robert Spencer, discussing Bernard Lewis, nonagenarian doyen of Islamic Studies. [Snip] Accrued over a distinguished career of more than six decades of serious scholarship, Bernard Lewis clearly possesses an enormous fund of knowledge regarding certain aspects of classical Islamic civilization, as well as valuable insights on the early evolution of modern Turkey from the dismantled Ottoman Empire.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 3/17/2013 9:59:32 AM (No. 9229225)
Over and over again, the attempt to bring Western-style democracy to Islamic states has been a abject failure in the end. Our good will fantasies about bringing freedom to Muslim countries will only continue to fail. Indeed, in Islam, even the concept of freedom in Islam means "slavery". Islam is the complete antithesis of Western Civilization and thought, what it means to be human. There is only darkness and misery, and it is an existence devoid of beauty and joy. Our founders also had some things to say about Islam, and none of it was complimentary.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman, 3/17/2013 10:49:43 AM (No. 9229294)
Scholars? Apparently, only God can save us from scholars and politicians. Islam is NOT a religion. It is a totalitarian political and cultural movement tarted up as a religion. Geroge W. and his "religion of peace"... never mind. I´m about to say something really nasty.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Distorted, 3/17/2013 11:35:12 AM (No. 9229377)
The proof of this pudding is still in the eating, and it cannot be denied that the goal of Islam is to make us the meal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 3/17/2013 11:52:33 AM (No. 9229416)
I´ve always had a keen interest in a very similar subject and I ever comforted by the fact that we Cro-Magnons won that battle for survival, too.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ebuilder, 3/17/2013 4:45:28 PM (No. 9229753)
The cultural war we are in must finally be understood as a religious war. The Uglies, who closed America´s mind succeeded in destroying meaning in 2 generations when they left us with "nothing matters and what if it did?" Freedom, based in Submission [Islam] or shape shifting Fairness is Slavery for all but the slaveholders. To survive today, we need another Lone Ranger -- a type of charming hero and friend of man who is not a living concept in any non-Christian country. Or any Ivy League university.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
woofwoofwoof, 3/17/2013 5:35:25 PM (No. 9229840)
Bostom is very unfair to Lewis.
Read Lewis himself from Bostom´s link.
Good grief.
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Unanswered Prayers
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PowerLine, by Scott Johnson
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 4/3/2013 8:00:09 PM
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As far as I am concerned. Mark Sanford’s win over Curtis Bostic in South Carolina’s First Congressional District GOP runoff represents an unanswered prayer. Sanford continues to combine his mastery of therapeutic psychobabble with an ill-fitting Christian overlay that should be a dead giveaway, as Sanford himself all but acknowledged last night. Sanford is, of course, on a journey of discovery — make that a very long journey, involving the false modesty of the royal we: “It’s been a very long journey. And in that journey I am humbled to find ourselves where we find ourselves
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West Virginia sheriff Eugene Crum
reportedly fatally shot inside
car at ´point blank´ range
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FOX News, by Staff
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 4/3/2013 3:07:53 PM
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The Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was gunned down inside his vehicle after a car drove up and shot him at ‘point blank’ range, The West Virginia Gazette reported. Mingo County Office of Emergency Services head dispatcher Willis Spence says the shooting occurred in Williamson within a block of the Mingo County Courthouse. A state official says the suspect, a male, is custody and had to be taken to a nearby hospital after being shot. There was a brief pursuit by police immediately after the shooting, WVMetroNews.com reported, and the suspect reportedly opened fire on police
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Dr. Carson Banned from a
Commencement Speech?
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National Review Online, by John Fund
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/29/2013 7:46:48 PM
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Ben Carson, the noted pediatric neurosurgeon, has become the target of a petition by Johns Hopkins students who want him removed as the medical school’s commencement speaker this spring. Dr. Carson became a media sensation in January when he questioned Obamacare and progressive taxation in a speech to the National Prayer Breakfast as President Obama sat just a few feet away from him. With his new prominence, Carson has apparently also riled some liberals, including these Johns Hopkins students.
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CDC: 110,197,000 Venereal
Infections in U.S.; Nation Creating
New STIs Faster Than New
Jobs or College Grads
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/27/2013 4:18:41 PM
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According to new data released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 19.7 million new venereal infections in the United States in 2008, bringing the total number of existing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S. at that time to 110,197,000. [Snip] The STI study referenced by the CDC estimated that 50 percent of the new infections in 2008 occurred among people in the 15-to-24 age bracket. In fact, of the 19,738,800 total new STIs in the United States in 2008, 9,782,650 were among Americans in the 15-to-24 age bracket.
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Israel fires into Syria after
Golan attack on troops
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Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/24/2013 10:48:57 AM
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Israel said it fired into Syria on Sunday and destroyed a machinegun position in the Golan Heights from where shots had been fired at Israeli soldiers in a further spillover of the Syrian civil war along a tense front. [Snip] Israeli forces "destroyed a Syrian machine gun nest that fired twice in the last 24 hours on Israeli patrols operating to safeguard the border," the spokesman, Ofir Gendelman, said on his Twitter page.
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Police Departments Beg And Barter
For Ammo While DHS Buys Up
1.6 Billion Rounds In Past Year
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Cybercast News Service, by Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/22/2013 11:14:06 AM
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The nationwide shortage of ammunition has left many police departments scrambling to get their hands on the necessary rounds - with some even bartering among each other. [Snip] Police Chief Cameron Arthur of Jenks, Oklahoma says, "Ammunition and assault weapons in general have skyrocketed...In addition to the fact, not only is it a lot more expensive, but the time to get it could be six months to a year, or in some cases even longer."
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Please Do Not Adjust Your Child
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American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/22/2013 6:43:12 AM
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Of all the arguments public-school advocates have used to hoodwink generations of parents into condemning their own children to years of state-controlled subservience training, one of the most successful is that without public schools, children cannot be properly "socialized," and will therefore be ill-prepared for life in the "real world." [Snip] The basic premise of the argument for public schools as necessary tools of socialization is that learning to get along, or fit in, with children one´s own age is a vital life skill. Is it?
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Missing dogs, ritualistic killing
confound Idaho officials
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Reuters, by Laura Zuckerman
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/22/2013 6:16:42 AM
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The mysterious disappearance of about 30 dogs in southern Idaho has baffled animal control officials and raised concerns among dog lovers after a German shepherd was found with its head crushed in a suspected ritual killing. The missing canines range widely in size, breed and age. "The dogs seem to vanish into thin air," said Debbie Blackwood, director of the animal shelter in Twin Falls, Idaho. Officials say some 30 dogs have gone missing in recent months in Twin Falls and nearby communities in an agricultural region in south-central Idaho known as the Magic Valley.
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Karl Rove and Republican Decline
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American Thinker, by Steve McCann
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/21/2013 9:50:35 AM
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Not since 1984 and the landslide victory of Ronald Reagan have the Republicans had a more winnable election than the 2012 presidential election. Yet the Republican Establishment managed to lose to the worst and most vulnerable President in modern history, with historically poor approval ratings, unemployment averaging over 8.7% during his entire first term, a stagnant economy and someone who ran the smallest and most absurd of all possible re-election campaigns.
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For One Chicago Police Officer,
The Job Became Too Much
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WBBM-TV [Chicago, IL], by Mike Parker
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/19/2013 8:03:25 PM
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The Chicago Police Department is one of many around the nation that now accepts that law enforcement officers, like America’s combat soldiers, suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. CBS 2’s Mike Parker profiles a family that believes one of their own — a third generation cop — was afflicted with PTSD when he took his own life last month. [Snip] Toward the end, he told his family he was “overwhelmed” by what he was experiencing on the job: the bodies, the violence and especially crime’s effect on children. He told his family those kids had no way out and no hope.
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Torrance Police Crack Nationwide
‘Gypsy’ Theft Ring Targeting
Apple, Electronic Stores
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CBS Los Angeles, by Staff
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/18/2013 3:13:08 PM
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Torrance police have cracked a nationwide shoplifting ring that reportedly targeted Southland stores selling high-priced technology. Four Chicago residents [Snip] pleaded not guilty last week to multiple counts of conspiracy to commit commercial burglary and grand theft. The suspects, who are members of a Polish “gypsy family,” have allegedly admitted to detectives that they are responsible for 17 thefts that netted more than $3 million in stolen electronics and merchandise, KNX 1070´s Jon Baird reported.
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Christians, here´s why we´re
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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Broadcasters worry
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
Call from Obama - report
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Is going gluten-free
healthier for everybody?
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The Week, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 11:28:27 AM
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Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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