Thursday, June 26, 2014

In the news, Sunday, June 1, 2014


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MAY 31      INDEX      JUN 02
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from ABC News (& affiliates)

V. Stiviano, the woman at the center of the Donald Sterling controversy, was assaulted by two men in New York City Sunday, her lawyer told ABC News. But no police reports have been filed, and New York Police Department officials said officers did not respond to any incidents involving Stiviano.

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from The Atlantic (CityLab)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

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from Breitbart

DID THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE TRADE FIVE TERRORISTS FOR A TALIBAN SYMPATHIZER?
In 2010, The Taliban claimed U.S. soldier Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had converted to Islam and had taught them bomb-making techniques.

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It is now five years since the Great Recession officially ended, but these CNNMoney readers still don't feel they've fully recovered from the downturn.

Bowe Bergdahl, U.S. soldier held in Afghanistan, freed in swap

Fellow soldiers call Bowe Bergdahl a deserter, not a hero

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
from The Daily Caller

Why Adam Carolla Is Anti-Obamacare But Pro-Death Panels

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from Daily Mail (UK)

Love, honour and inflate: Get married in this blow-up church ... (let's just hope the marriages are more permanent)
Complete with a steeple and stained glass-effect windows this inflatable church is the perfect venue to host a wedding - just so long as your guests aren't wearing stiletto heels. Standing at 12 feet tall and 12 feet long inside, there is enough space in the inflatable church for up to 60 guests - with pumped-up pews, altars and organs also on offer to complete that wedding day feel. The church is easily and swiftly assembled - fully inflated and ready for action within two hours - and then taken down in 30 minutes.

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from Fox News (& affiliates)

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from The Heritage Foundation

Why D-Day Matters
By James Carafano

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from The Hill

Top officials dodge deserter questions
Top Obama administration officials on Sunday avoided question about whether Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was released by the Taliban in exchange for five detainees on Saturday, deserted the Army.

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from Huffington Post
from Independent Journal Review

American Soldier Who Served With Freed POW Casts Doubt on Official Story; Fears Reprisal From Obama Administration
rly Saturday it was announced by the administration that the only American prisoner of war in Afghanistan was released in exchange for 5 Guantanamo Bay terrorists being set free to Qatar.

It’s Great Fun to Watch Ted Cruz Tear Apart Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration

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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)

Chaos as Casey Kasem is taken to hospital

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from POLITICO

In Earnest: The backstory
White House senior aides made two Air Force One manifests for President Barack Obama’s trip to Europe next week — one with outgoing press secretary Jay Carney on it and one with the principal deputy press secretary, Josh Earnest. The move confused aides planning the trip, but also helped prevent the shakeup from leaking until Obama — who wanted to make the public announcement himself — surprised reporters in the briefing room to let them know Earnest would be replacing Carney at the podium.

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from PreventDisease.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

7 Spices that help you lose weight
[via PositiveMed]

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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)

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from The Telegraph (UK)

Bowe Bergdahl: a darker story behind the release of America's last prisoner of war
America celebrates the release of a young soldier who allegedly abandoned his post after growing disillusioned with the war in Afghanistan.

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from USA Today

V. Stiviano caught on video making racist comments
V. Stiviano, who recorded the now-infamous conversation with Donald Sterling that caught the disgraced NBA owner making disparaging remarks about African Americans, might have to defend her own racist comments.

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from The Washington Post (DC)

Mixed reaction to Bergdahl’s recovery by service members who consider him a deserter
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s recovery after five years in captivity has rekindled anger among some of his military peers over how he came to fall into enemy hands and the price the United States has paid to get him back.

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from Yahoo News


Bloomberg calls for stricter gun laws in wake of Isla Vista rampage
"I don't know what you were like when you were in college, but my recollection of college 50 years ago is kids just should not have guns on campus."

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