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Balloon Juice: Early Morning Open Thread: Immigration Reform, Maybe (Tom Toles via GoComics.com)On the glass-half-full side, Gail Collins, in the NYTimes:… Mainstream Republicans have been super-energized to do immigration reform ever since the Hispanic vote went against them in the last election. Democracy does wo...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:30am -07:00T (400 words)
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Betsy's Page: Cruising the Web In the Obama view of government, the President is not responsible for what is done by the government because the government is so large he can't know what is going on. This is a dangerous view of accountability in government.If the scandal is showing any...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 4:45am -07:00T (1413 words)
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The Astute Blogger: JAPAN'S NIKKEI PLUNGES 7% ON WEAK CHINA DATA AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM BERNANKE THAT THE FED CAN'T MAKE "QE-TERNAL" CNBC:[CHINA], the world's second largest economy grew at its slowest pace in three years over January to March, said economists. The flash HSBC Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) for May that was released on Thursday slipped to 49.6, falling under the key 5...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 6:00am -07:00T (403 words)
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The American Prospect: The Ted Cruz Immigration Shuffle
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National Journal’s Beth Reinhard has a great look at Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s transformation from pro-immigration policy advisor for George W. Bush, to right-wing, fire-breathing opponent of reform.
When he was working...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 8:16am -07:00T (398 words)
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The Astute Blogger: STOCKHOLM RIOTS CONTINUE... (will Swedes become victims of the Stockholm Syndrome, or will they fight back?) A fourth night of unprecedented riots in Stockholm has seen unrest spread, with a restaurant and up to 40 cars burnt, police told the BBC. Three police officers were hurt as rioters threw stones and directed laser pointers at emergency services. The worst...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 6:00am -07:00T (212 words)
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Doug Lamborn for Congress - Award winning Congressman: Where Do These Herbal Vitamins and Herbal Supplements Result from Herbal vitamins, herbal nutritional supplements and herbal health supplements have grown in popularity over the recent decades to say the least. We have seen them and hear about them every single day but where do these nutritional supplements result from?...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:03am -07:00T (460 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Drone Strikes Policy Shift
Yesterday, in a letter to Congressional leaders signed by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the Obama administration said that in addition to Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was targeted and killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Y...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 6:18am -07:00T (534 words)
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Althouse: "9-year-old slams Rahm over Chicago schools." Drudge has been linking to this item at Salon:
"We are not toys, we are not going down without a fight ... This is racism," boy tells mayor over closures
We're expected to think wow, what a great kid.
I've watched the video, and my reaction is: Ad...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:01am -07:00T (285 words)
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Doug Lamborn for Congress - Award winning Congressman: Forex Secret Protocol Trading Methods Exactly what is the contrast between a prosperous forex traders and a failure trader? Can it be because that we now have some forex Secret Protocol trading techniques that the successful traders have along with the failures don’t?
Before we arrive a...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:03am -07:00T (572 words)
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Doug Lamborn for Congress - Award winning Congressman: Forex Secret Protocol Trading Method Exactly what is the contrast between an excellent forex traders along with a failure trader? Could it be because that you have some forex Secret Protocol trading techniques that the successful traders have along with the failures don’t?
Before we ar...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 6:18am -07:00T (570 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Elections Have Consequences Sometimes good ones.The Ellwood City Ledger's Eric Poole describes what's going on in Ellwood City regarding that Nativity Scene that keeps popping up (Note: there's lotsa names floating in Poole's paragraphs so I've bolded them all for clarity):During a ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:00am -07:00T (414 words)
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Balloon Juice: O-Prom-A Here’s Mr. Obama on his way to the senior prom (Time, via Gawker). Considering that he graduated in the late 70s, the outfits are far less embarrassing than one could have hoped. My husband is only a bit younger than the president, and the suit he w...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 8:30am -07:00T (187 words)
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The American Prospect: A Week of Bleak Metaphors
This was going to be the week when we learned what last week meant, which is turning out to be true in a way we didn’t anticipate barely 72 hours ago. We were going to learn whether last week was the beginning of a crisis that would fatally wound if ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:46am -07:00T (1171 words)
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The American Prospect: The New New Haven
Major Ruth became a civic leader because he made a promise to his neighbor, Brian Wingate. Both had moved to the Beaver Hills section of New Haven, Connecticut, in 2003. A neighborhood of aging single--family homes that had seen better days, Beaver Hil...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:01am -07:00T (2379 words)
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The American Prospect: Queers Bash Back
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Members of the LGBT community and their supporters gather to protest a string anti-gay attacks, including the fatal shooting of 32-year old Mark Carson on Saturday.
On the oak-lined streets of the West Village in New Yor...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 8:16am -07:00T (1090 words)
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