May 2013
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“And yet as our fight enters a new phase, America’s legitimate claim of...”
– President Obama speaking on US counter-terrorism policy.
This is not the first time the President is asking Congress to limit his powers. Is Congress listening?
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“That is who he is. The handwringers and bed wetters in the D.C. punditocracy...”
– Jon Favreau, President Obama’s, now ex, speechwriter, who, I think, understands the President very well.
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Taking Gandhi's name in vain
WASHINGTON: Mahatma Gandhi should be turning in his grave after being invoked by the American gun lobby in its fight for the right to bear arms. A maverick gun enthusiast who has asked 1000pro-gun supporters to march across the Potomac carrying loaded rifles on July 4 has pledged to respond “with satyagraha” if he and his supporters are met with force, as the capital police has...
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Leaks, Bombs And Double Agents: More On That AP...
The Justice Department’s subpoena of Associated Press phone records as part of an investigation into what Attorney General Eric Holder has called “a very grave leak” to the news agency has set off a political firestorm on Capitol Hill, but there’s a lot to the AP story published a year ago that started it all.
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But, as NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston reports,...
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Notes on a Trumped Up Scandal: The IRS fiasco...
Noam Scheiber at The New Republic writes: Democrats can’t say it; Barack Obama can’t say it; and the IRS certainly can’t say it, so here goes: The only real sin the IRS committed in its ostensible targeting of conservatives is the sin of political incorrectness—that is, of not pretending it needed to vet all the new groups that wanted tax-exempt status, even though it mostly just needed to vet...
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“Let’s stop this facade that we are a beacon of tolerance. I don’t...”
– Seema Jilani reports on her racist encounter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human...”
– http://www.positivelypositive.com/2013/05/01/seeing-a-whole-new-world-through-the-power-of-words/
April 2013
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“It’s a legal oddity that doesn’t get talked about much: if you’re an American on the federal Terrorist Watch List, you can’t buy an airplane ticket, and you’re likely to have quite a bit of trouble at the border, but you can still buy an assault rifle.”
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Gun Control Fight Finally Lays to Rest the...
“What Obama did in the four months between Newtown and Wednesday’s Senate defeat showed some of the greatest presidential guts in U.S. history, says Peter Beinart.
Why did he do it? In part because the Obama-as-timid meme was always a lie. Timid politicians don’t oppose the Iraq War when virtually every other nationally ambitious Democrat is supporting it. Timid politicians don’t challenge...
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev read his Miranda Rights →
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What you need to know about why the Boston bombing suspect hasn’t been read his Miranda rights http://t.co/4TmW22qzVm
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@BostonGlobe: Official: Marathon bombing suspect in custody, another remains on the loose http://t.co/rjVrYlDRuo
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Great News From California. State Senate Passes...
SACRAMENTO — A package of some of the most restrictive gun control measures in the nation advanced in the state Senate on Tuesday after tearful testimony from victims of firearms violence and opposition from gun-owner groups including the National Rifle Assn.
After a nine-hour hearing that saw support from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the Senate Public Safety Committee approved...
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Heartfelt thanks to the first responders at today’s tragedy in Boston, and all other tragedies. They are whom we turn to in times of need, but whom we neglect when things are going well.
I am glad my tax dollars go to support them.
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White House LIVE The President will be addressing... →
Join me in watching it LIVE from the White House
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Thoughts and prayers to Boston. Be safe and be...
And before we know any details, best not to speculate about who did this.
For up to date news you can follow the Boston Globe twitter account @BostonGlobe
If you can donate blood, it’s needed: http://www.redcrossblood.org/locations/boston-donation-center (link may be slow, so be patient)
Update: Boston Police is asking people not to go out and donate blood today. Urging people to stay...
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New Research Confirms Gun Rampages Are Rising—and...
” Public shooting rampages have spiked in particular over the last few years
Many of the attackers were heavily armed
None of the shootings was stopped by an ordinary citizen using a gun”
Mother Jones: http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mass-shootings-rampages-rising-data
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President Obama "should have run for president of...
Charles Pierce writes: Watching the administration’s momentum fade on [the gun issue] is to see a president presented with the final, practical refutation of the speech that made him famous. It turns out there is a red America and a blue America. It turns out that there is a conservative America and a liberal America. It turns out that the things that divide us are stronger than the things...
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Gun vote set for Thursday as Democrats beat back...
Washington Post reports: The Senate will hold the first key procedural vote on a bill to curb gun violence Thursday as more than a half-dozen Republicans announced that they will join with Democrats to stop any attempt to block popular legislation drafted in response to a deadly shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
The vote would formally start the the most wide-ranging and ambitious...
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Blocking a healthy gun safety debate on the Senate...
To all these people coming out of the woodwork to lecture me about 2nd amendment rights… as you know, there have been plenty of debates on how the amendment should be looked at. I’m on the side of putting “well-regulated” to the forefront. It’s incomprehensible to me that a debate on the issue not even be allowed on the floor! You talk about “protecting the...
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