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From National Review
Wow. The Daily Beast?s Dan Gross unloads on the Twitter-verse:
It?s all very confusing. If Tina Brown pushed Howard Kurtz out, is Kurtz ?better? than Brown or is this a case ?better-on-better? abuse?
And I?m trying to figure out when Twitter is ?at its best.? I?d say maybe during the Iranian protests a few years ago. The support for those seeking democracy in Iran was pretty good. But, of course, the Iranian regime probably said at the t ... Quick Read |
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From National Review
You can read the full transcript here, or my summary below:
Syria chemical weapon use? What red line?
Benghazi witnesses want to testify but are blocked? No idea what you?re talking about.
Did the CIA, FBI, DHS, etc. do everything they could to stop Boston? Hey, guys, this is ?hard stuff.?
Has Russian been helpful? Yes! I even talked to President Putin.
The hunger strike at Gua ... Quick Read |
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From National Review
From today?s press briefing:
Q Jay, on Syria, some questions are being raised about whether the Syrians actually used sarin on their people. What confidence does the United States have in this evidence? And can you characterize what exactly the evidence is in any way and what standards you?re trying to meet in terms of establishing it?
MR. CARNEY: We have established with varying degrees of confidence that chemical weapons were used in limited fashion in Syria and the agent is sarin, ... Quick Read |
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From National Review
For real. Here?s what the White House tweeted last night:
RT if you agree: We can?t afford to cut job-creating investments in science and education. pic.twitter.com/D9xDgdCfhZ
And here?s the picture. . .
Yes. Support a generation of risk takers who borrowed their ideas from the mind of Sherwood Schwartz. What?s next? A White Ho ... Quick Read |
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From National Review
Here?s a list of topics I hope Conan O?Brien jokes about at tonight?s White House Correspondents? Dinner. I mean, what?s funnier than major news stories on how the whole world is falling apart?
French troops begin their withdrawal from Mali. But not to fear, the UN is sending 13,000 peacekeepers. I hope they test the peacekeepers for cholera this time.
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From National Review
The rapper turned columnist for the Miami New Times has figured out ?terrorism? in America:
Americans Caused Boston Marathon Tragedy
And. . .
Once everything cools down again, we?ll go back to bickering with one another about who?s better, conservatives or liberals. Meanwhile, the next terrorist ? domestic or foreign ? will be ... Quick Read |
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From National Review
I wasn?t a huge fan of this year?s White House Correspondents? dinner, but I?ve given up criticizing the actual event itself ? or similar events ? as they are now a fixture of our political discourse and aren?t going away. So instead, why not judge them on a metric we are more likely to agree on: Was the host funny?
In my opinion, no. Conan O?Brien was a dud.
Here?s one example:
?The guys from Duck Dynasty are here. It can can only mean one thing: the guys from Storage Wars said no.?
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From National Review
From today?s Washington Post:
More than a dozen Maryland state prison guards helped a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Thirteen female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to gang leaders, prosecutors said. The officers were charged Tuesday in a federal racketeering indictment.
The indictment described ... Quick Read |
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From National Review
This piece from today?s Dallas Morning News is probably the best summary I?ve read yet on the oversight issues surrounding West Fertilizer Co. The opener:
Texas? environmental agency knew in 2006 that West Fertilizer Co. was handling 2,400 tons a year of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate in a warehouse near schools, houses and a nursing home, documents show.
The notation in a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality permit form apparently raised no concerns, either internally or with ... Quick Read |
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From National Review
Tom Friedman is quick to bash U.S. infrastructure in the course of idiotic columns on the miracle of wi-fi on China?s trains and the like, but he?s yet to write on last weekend?s earthquake in Sichuan. A disaster that?s killed nearly 200 people and set off a wave of protests against the government. Remember when Friedman wanted ... Quick Read |
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