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It was just ten days ago that Stephen Hayes of  The Weekly Standard  reported “fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults” last September on U.S.

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Late Friday, after the Heritage Foundation reportedly  considered seeking the counsel  of an outside PR firm to deal with damage to their brand, researcher Jason Richwine, who coauthored the  deeply  fl awed  immigration report pushed by the right-wing think tank,  resigned  his position. His error seemingly had nothing to do with the poor quality of that document, exemplified by the  bipartisan ,  panideological , critiques of the study, as his coauthor Robert Rector is seemingly still employed at Heritage

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A gaffe according to the oft-repeated definition is getting caught saying something you actually believe. Last week Harvard Professor and Daily Beast contributor Niall Ferguson offered an ” unqualified apology ” after remarking that the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes should be ignored because of his purported sexuality. In the  Harvard Crimson  he seems to withdraw at least the “unqualified” nature of his remorse  claiming  ”not for one moment did I mean to suggest that Keynesian economic as a body of thought was simply a function of Keynes’ sexuality.” According to the economist, “nor can it be true–as some of my critics apparently believe–that his sexuality is totally irrelevant to our historical understanding of the man.” Ferguson goes on to state “Keynes’ sexual orientation did have historical significance.

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John Bolton has long been the id of the conservative foreign policy movement — saying what all of his right wing brethren would not dare even mumble in polite company. He continued that trend yesterday on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News program, telling the host during a discussion of theadministration’s reaction to the September 11, 2012,attack on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya: I’d have to say for the good of the country, I hope it is a cover up rather than the alternative, which is the Obama administration was so blind to the reality of the threat of Islamic terrorism, the continued threat from Al Qaeda… If that’s the problem there’s no cure for it. If it was merely a political cover-up then there can be a political cost to pay

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Wall Street Journal  columnist Peggy Noonan attacked President Obama for “having a problem with the levers of power” after the Senate failed to pass background checks for gun sales despite the legislation receiving majority support — the final vote was 54-46, with 41 Republicans voting against the measure.

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On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys opened fire on their high school in Littleton, Colorado. Using weapons purchased from private dealers at a gun show, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and one teacher and wounded 21 others. The massacre stood as the most deadly school shooting in U.S.

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On Thursday, gun reform proponents overcame a key hurdle in the Senate after 68 senators — including 16 Republicans — voted to proceed to a comprehensive package that expands background checks for gun purchases, increases penalties against gun trafficking, and invests in school safety. The senate will consider the measure next week using an open debate process that will allow senators to offer amendments to the underlining bill. Sen.

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Kermit Gosnell, currently on trial for murder, appears to be a monster.

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Right-wing media are encouraging Republican senators to filibuster gun violence prevention legislation, continuing a long history of trying to influence GOP politics through recommended obstructionism. Gun Violence Prevention Legislation Added To Legislative Calendar Washington Post : Senate Gun Violence Prevention Legislation Includes “Universal Background Check System; Stricter Federal Criminal Laws For Gun Trafficking; And Provisions To Improve School Safety.” A March 21 Washington Post article reported that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) placed gun safety prevention legislation on the legislative calendar.

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Zev Chafets wants you to know that some of Roger Ailes’s best friends are black. He makes that point repeatedly throughout his latest tome, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, the product of a year of unprecedented access to Roger Ailes, his employees at Fox News, and his friends and family. The result is largely an amalgamation of anecdotes that lets its subject off the hook for the most controversial aspects of his 40-year career, either by whitewashing them from the record entirely or by deflecting the reader with misdirection.

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