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The Moderate Voice: Salinger vs. Murphy -The Press Secretary and the Movie Star
Returning en route to Tokyo after the assassination (fifties.web.com)
1964 was the “Let Us Continue” election. Americans, still shocked and numb from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy a year before, were solidifying their tribute...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 7:45pm -07:00T (1899 words)
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The Moderate Voice: NSA aims to declassify data on thwarted terror attacks
NSA aims to declassify data on thwarted terror attacks (via AFP)
The National Security Agency plans to reveal details Monday about terror plots it says were thwarted by surveillance, part of an effort to assuage concern about is secret online snooping....
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:15pm -07:00T (64 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Silence Isn’t That Golden Says Supreme Court
Dividing along traditional conservative liberal lines in a 5 to 4 decision the United States Supreme Court today ruled that silence can be used against you even before you are advised of your Miranda rights.
The ruling dealt with a 1992 murder conviction ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:15pm -07:00T (357 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Charles Vanik,Other Half of Jackson/Vanik Deserves Accolades
Historic Tidbit: I have noted in my below piece that Democrats Tom Ashley and Charlie Vanik both came to the House in 1954 and left in ’80, after 26 years of service. Vanick left voluntarily, while Ashley retired. 1992 was the Republicans turn. Fell...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 2:45pm -07:00T (1243 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Right Wing Freak-Out Over White House Tweeting Photo of Obama with Water Gun
The right wing never stops at nothing to manufacture scandal after scandal. The latest freak-out is over the White House releasing a photograph of President Obama and his daughter, Sasha, playing with water guns by pool during her birthday party at Camp D...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 1:30pm -07:00T (190 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Quote of the Day: On Sarah Palin’s Return to Fox
Our political Quote of the Day comes from Salon’s Joan Walsh who, in a piece on Sarah Palin’s star rising again among conservatives, notes Palin’s return to Fox News and what it means:
Palins return to Fox shows that Roger Ailes knows...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 12:15pm -07:00T (256 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Quote of the Day: On Sarah Palins Return to Fox
Our political Quote of the Day comes from Salon’s Joan Walsh who, in a piece on Sarah Palin’s star rising again among conservatives, notes Palin’s return to Fox News and what it means:
Palins return to Fox shows that Roger Ailes knows...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 11:15am -07:00T (256 words)
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The Moderate Voice: ‘Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped’: Snowden
‘Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped’: Snowden (via AFP)
Rogue intelligence technician Edward Snowden said on Monday that the US government would not be able to halt his revelations about its secret surveillance programs. “All I...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 10:00am -07:00T (64 words)
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The Moderate Voice: What Superman Tells us About America … and About Ourselves (El Mundo, Spain)
What is it about the ‘man of steel’ that makes him such an enduring figure for Americans? For Spain’s El Pais, columnist lvaro Vargas Llosa writes that Superman embodies three items that are embedded in the American psyche: Religion, ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 10:00am -07:00T (397 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Voter Law
The United States Supreme Court by a vote of 7-2 has ruled that the Arizona law requiring voters provide proof of citizenship is unconstitutional.
The case at hand was Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
The majority ruling was written by Jus...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 10:00am -07:00T (352 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Those Magnificent Men and Women in their Hurricane Hunting Machines
Like clockwork it is hurricane season again.
And like clockwork, the skilled and courageous men and women from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (WRS) at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi are literally flying into the eye of the storm ag...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 8:45am -07:00T (1182 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Doom of Immigration Reform? Boehner Wont Back Bill Without Majority GOP Support
If you had doubts that the Republican Party would really put itself into a position where it seemed to squelch immigration reform — the kind of immigration reform that many Hispanic groups would consider comprehensive immigration reform — it p...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 8:45am -07:00T (498 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Vibrant Wyoming Democrats Put Kennedy Over Top In 60
Throughout the Bush Presidency, Dick Cheney joked several times that he had “delivered” the state of Wyoming’s three electoral votes to the ticket. He joked that while Wyoming was among the most safely Republican states in the nation, ev...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 7:30am -07:00T (2087 words)
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The Moderate Voice: CNN Poll: Obama Drops 8 Points in One Month
An array of controversies and scandals (and controversies over whether some scandals are scandals) has now taken it’s toll on President Barack Obama: a new CNN poll finds his approval rating has dropped 8 points. But the bad news for Obama gets wors...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 7:30am -07:00T (781 words)
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The Moderate Voice: New Snowden leak: NSA, Britains GCHQ, eavesdropped on foreign leaders
The newest leak from Edward Snowden: NBA, Britain’s GCHQ, eavesdropped on foreign leaders. The Snowden hits keep coming. Details on the latest HERE.
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Dateline: 2013-06-17 7:30am -07:00T (23 words)
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