Sunday, September 18, 2011
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Women, the unfunny sex
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National Post [Canada], by Christopher Hitchens
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Posted By: MissMolly- 9/18/2011 8:07:23 AM
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Be your gender what it may, you will certainly have heard the following from a female friend who is enumerating the charms of a new (male) squeeze: “He’s really quite cute, and he’s kind to my friends, and he knows all kinds of stuff, and he’s so funny …” (If you yourself are a guy, and you know the man in question, you will often have said to yourself, “Funny? He wouldn’t know a joke if it came served on a bed of lettuce with sauce bearnaise.”) However, there is something that you absolutely never hear from a male friend
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What NY-9 Portends
for the Jewish Vote
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American Thinker, by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
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Posted By: Judy W.- 9/18/2011 7:53:26 AM
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Many have commented on the rebuke of President Obama reflected in the Republican victory in NY-9, a district with a 3-1 Democrat registration. The pro-Israel Orthodox Jewish community in the Brooklyn and Queens sections of the district displayed its pent-up horror over Mr. Obama's never-ending derisive and hostile attitude toward Israel and its frustration over the passing, by mostly Democrats, of a law in New York State bestowing marital sanctity to homosexual unions. The Orthodox have never been morally comfortable with the zealousness with which New York Democrats have pushed and whitewashed abortions,
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Michele Bachmann HPV:
More Factual Gaffes Than Any
Other Republican Candidate
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International Business Times, by Maggie Astor
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Posted By: MissMolly- 9/18/2011 7:50:12 AM
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Michele Bachmann has made more factual gaffes than any of the other Republican presidential candidates, according to PolitiFact.com, a nonpartisan Web site that vets public officials' statements. Of the 35 Bachmann statements that PolitiFact.com had vetted as of Friday, only 14 percent were rated true or mostly true. Nine percent were rated "half true," and 77 percent -- more than three-quarters -- were rated mostly false, false or "pants on fire," a category reserved for assertions that are not only inaccurate but "ridiculous," according to the editors of the Web site.
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N. Korean claims
of famine don’t add up
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New Strait Times (Malaysia), by Md Nasrudin*
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Posted By: Zarin- 9/18/2011 6:55:10 AM
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Reports of starvation and food shortages in North Korea are perpetually surfacing with constant appeals for food assistance. Md Nasrudin Md Akhir and Lee Ee Wern ask if the country is really seeking help for its people or is there an agenda behind its food appeal North Korea appears to be heading towards the same condition in the 1990s that led to a famine and resultant five per cent loss in population. Although records may have indicated a resurgence in food levels since the last decade of the 20th century, international aid has provided a significant supplement
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Rick Perry’s quiet friendship
with cervical cancer patient
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McClatchy Newspapers, by Bud Kennedy
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Posted By: MissMolly- 9/18/2011 6:21:32 AM
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FORT WORTH, Texas - She was 31, and her last wish was to save girls from cervical cancer. Now, four years after her death, Heather Burcham is making headlines and saving lives again - this time, in the middle of Gov. Rick Perry’s Republican presidential campaign. When Perry was dogged by opponents and reporters last week about his short-lived 2007 order requiring girls to be vaccinated against HPV, he never mentioned Heather.But in her last months of life, long after legislative pressure had forced him to rescind the order, he phoned and visited her in Houston,
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Israel Under Siege
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New York Post, by David Harsanyi
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/18/2011 6:14:54 AM
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In 1993, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the forerunner to Fatah, signed on to the Declaration of Principles with Israel. The agreement, brokered by the United States, said the parties would engage only in bilateral negotiations to reach any agreement on the final status of a Palestinian state. This week, in the august body where Zionism was once declared racism, where “human rights” councils are regularly led by the world’s most impressive Jew haters and votes condemning Israel are more common than any other, Mahmoud Abbas,
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Barack Obama, Flim-Flam Man
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/18/2011 6:03:39 AM
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Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has an important column in which he argues that the Solyndra fiasco is not just a garden-variety scandal, but a criminal fraud that should land someone, inside and/or outside of the Obama administration, in the slammer. The facts are very bad. Solyndra was a money-loser from beginning to end. Its business model was untenable. The Bush administration turned it down for funding. Its owners wanted to do a public offering; for that purpose, they had to have their books audited and a report written by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
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Today’s Special: Rocket Launchers
(from a Fast and Furious Dealer Near You)
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Big Government, by AWR Hawkins
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/18/2011 6:00:15 AM
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When the news of Fast and Furious first broke months ago, President Obama and Attorney General Holder remained almost completely mute on the subject. When they finally addressed it, it was to say they hadn’t heard of Fast and Furious until May 2011 (eighteen months after it started). Slowly, however, as this ceased to satisfy questioners, they incorporated the simple assertion that neither of them had authorized walking guns into Mexico nor had they possessed detailed knowledge of the stateside inner-workings of the operation.It’s ironic that their answer went from
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Bad News for Obama
From the New York Times
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Fox News, by Bernard Goldberg
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/18/2011 5:54:30 AM
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But February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn’t take one more step. "American Pie" - President Obama got his own bad news on the doorstep at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It came not in February but September – on page one of The New York Times no less. Under a headline that read, “In Poll, Support for Obama Slips Among Base,” this is how the story began: “President Obama’s support is eroding among elements of his base, and a yearlong effort to recapture the political center has failed to attract independent voters,
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Obama hopes his 'next
inauguration is warmer' than first
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USA Today, by David Jackson
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Posted By: MissMolly- 9/18/2011 5:50:29 AM
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Republicans are attacking him publicly. Democrats are second-guessing him privately (and sometimes publicly). But rest assured, Barack Obama is confident he's got five-and-a-half more years in the White House. "Here's one thing I know for certain," Obama told Democratic donors last night in Washington. "The odds of me being re-elected are much higher than the odds of me being elected in the first place."The president then told the crowd about one supporter's wish for him: "That my next inauguration is warmer than the last one."
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Don’t Mourn the
Death of Percy’s GOP
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Commentary, by Jonathan S. Tobin
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Posted By: MissMolly- 9/18/2011 5:46:53 AM
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The death on Saturday of former U.S. Senator Charles Percy at 91 was noted today in a laudatory obituary in the New York Times. Percy had a distinguished career in business and served three terms in the Senate from Illinois as a Republican. The Times quoted a scholar from the liberal Brookings Institution lamenting the fact that members of the GOP today are nothing like Percy. But that ought to be a cause for celebration. He is best remembered today as the exemplar of a type of Republican that is now extinct: a liberal establishmentarian
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GM workers to get
$5,000 signing bonus in deal
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Chicago Sun-Times, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 9/18/2011 5:46:16 AM
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Detroit - The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses and the possibility of sweeter profit-sharing checks as part of a new four-year contract with General Motors Co., two people briefed on the talks said Saturday. The deal reached late Friday also includes a $2 to $3 an hour pay raise for entry-level workers over the life of the contract and guarantees more union jobs, the people said. (Snip) The GM deal will serve as a template for contracts to be negotiated with Chrysler Group LLC and Ford Motor Co. It would set the pay and benefits for 112,500 U.S. auto workers.
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GOP presidential hopefuls
descend on Florida
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Susan Ferrechio
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/18/2011 5:40:30 AM
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The Republican presidential candidates will descend on Florida this week for a series of high-profile events, including their third debate in as many weeks and a straw poll that for the first time will measure their standing with crucial Sunshine State voters. The center of attention at Thursday's Fox News-Google debate is once again expected to be Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The newest candidate in the field fared well in his first debate two weeks ago, but took a pummelling from the other contenders last week after he replaced former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the GOP front-runner.
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The New Civil Rights Leaders
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American Spectator, by Rishawn Biddle
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/18/2011 5:33:26 AM
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Quick: Who are the nation's most relevant civil rights leaders? Neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton fit the bill. And it isn't Benjamin Todd Jealous, the far lesser known president of the increasingly irrelevant National Association for the Advancement of Black People. These days, civil rights leadership can be claimed by folks such as Geoffrey Canada, CNN commentator Dr. Steve Perry, and Gwen Samuel. Each one is taking on the biggest concern among black families -- and families throughout the nation overall -- in this century: the reform of America's lackluster traditional public schools. As head of the Harlem Children's Zone,
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Don’t Forget Obamacare
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Weekly Standard, by James C. Capretta
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/18/2011 5:30:40 AM
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Obamacare’s individual mandate—requiring that all Americans purchase government-approved health insurance beginning in 2014—has always been the law’s most vulnerable provision. It is incredibly unpopular, and not just among conservatives. Polls consistently show that a large majority of the electorate opposes it, including a good portion of registered Democrats.It is not hard to see why. Conservatives worry that the mandate, which compels all Americans to buy a particular product whether they want to or not, involves an unprecedented assertion of federal power. Many middle-of-the-road voters don’t trust the federal government to do anything well,
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Obama's Solyndra scandal
reeks of the Chicago Way
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Chicago Tribune, by John Kass
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/18/2011 5:21:03 AM
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The Solyndra scandal cost at least a half-billion public dollars. It is plaguing President Barack Obama. And it's being billed as a Washington story. But back in Obama's political hometown, those of us familiar with the Chicago Way can see something else in Solyndra — something that the Washington crowd calls "optics." In fact, it's not just a Washington saga — it has all the elements of a Chicago City Hall story, except with more zeros. The FBI is investigating what happened with Solyndra, a solar panel company that got a $535 million government-backed loan with the help
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Siemens to quit nuclear industry
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BBC News, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 9/18/2011 5:14:47 AM
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German industrial and engineering conglomerate Siemens is to withdraw entirely from the nuclear industry. The move is a response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March, chief executive Peter Loescher said. He told Spiegel magazine it was the firm's answer to "the clear positioning of German society and politics for a pullout from nuclear energy". "The chapter for us is closed," he said, announcing that the firm will no longer build nuclear power stations. A long-planned joint venture with Russian nuclear firm Rosatom would also be cancelled,
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Strauss-Kahn says he just
made advances at author
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 9/18/2011 4:41:33 AM
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Paris - Dominique Strauss-Kahn told police he made a pass at a young French author in 2003 but has denied her rape allegations, as the former IMF chief prepares to speak publicly about the sex scandals that have beset him. The 62-year-old Socialist politician, who returned to France this month after the collapse of a rape investigation against him in New York, was interviewed by French police on Tuesday over Tristane Banon's allegations. According to an official who is close to the inquiry and spoke anonymously, Mr Strauss-Kahn denied the claim by Banon, 32,
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30-minute Leaf chargers
soon will trickle into TN
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Tennessean [Nashville], by G. Chambers Williams III
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Posted By: Ribicon- 9/18/2011 1:36:29 AM
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The first of 30 fast chargers for electric vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf will be installed in Tennessee next month, with the rest to follow by the end of the year as the automaker ramps up deliveries of the car in 15 states. Only a handful of the high-speed 440-volt chargers, considered by some auto experts to be a key to consumer acceptance of battery-operated vehicles, have been installed in the United States, and those are all on the West Coast.(Snip) Ecotality, a California-based firm that received a grant from the U.S. Energy Department
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We must not bring back the cane
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Telegraph [U.K.], by Jenny McCartney
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Posted By: PageTurner- 9/18/2011 12:53:40 AM
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Half of parents, and nearly a quarter of pupils, would support the return of the cane or smacking for the most disruptive schoolchildren, according to a YouGov survey last week. I suppose that when people respond to such questions, one must believe that they mean what they say. But I can’t help feeling that the answer is born out of sheer desperation to see the teacher in control of the class again – rather than an aggressive teenager with five o’clock shadow and a buzzing mobile, or worse, in his hand.
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Libyan NTC troops forced to retreat
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/18/2011 12:30:24 AM
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Forces of the new Libyan regime were forced to retreat after earlier pushing deeper into Sirte, hometown of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi, in the deadliest of three days of fierce clashes. Rocket, sniper and heavy artillery fire on Saturday left at least 24 National Transitional Council fighters dead and more than 40 wounded, including a French freelance videographer. (Snip) "We don't even have five per cent of Sirte because we just go in and out," said Abdul Rauf al-Mansuri, one of those taking up arms for the new authorities.
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Nato strikes 'kill 354',
says Gaddafi's spokesman
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Independent [UK], by Kim Sengupta
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/18/2011 12:28:01 AM
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Nato air strikes during Friday night killed a total of 354 people in the loyalist stronghold of Sirte, Colonel Gaddafi's birthplace, the former spokesman for the Libyan regime claimed yesterday. The bombing of the city's main hotel and an apartment block left 700 injured with 89 others missing, according to Moussa Ibrahim, who is believed to be in the city currently under siege from rebel forces. There were no independent means to verify the report (Snip) Mr Ibrahim, one of the few members of the former regime – along with Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam – who has continued
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Drug deaths now outnumber traffic
fatalities in U.S., data show
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Los Angeles Times, by Lisa Girion
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/18/2011 12:22:06 AM
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Propelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States, a Times analysis of government data has found. Drugs exceeded motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death in 2009, killing at least 37,485 people nationwide, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Snip) Public health experts have used the comparison to draw attention to the nation's growing prescription drug problem, which they characterize as an epidemic.
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Obama is 'ramping up his God talk'
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USA Today, by Cathy Lynn Grossman
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/18/2011 12:17:16 AM
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President Obama is "ramping up his 'God talk' for the re-election campaign," says political scientist John Green, senior fellow at the Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life. But Green and two other experts who track religious rhetoric in presidential politics speculate this strategy to connect with evangelical voters may not work for Obama. Green points out, Obama didn't talk much about faith during his first two years in office and this has left 40% of Americans wondering just what, exactly, is his faith commitment. Now he is ramping up this kind of language and using it in the right
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Watchdogs to pressure Obama
after Solyndra, LightSquared
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jordy Yager
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/18/2011 12:12:23 AM
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Watchdog groups are ramping up pressure on President Obama’s transparency record after two potential scandals involving his administration’s use of political pressure to help donors secure federal money. The two emerging scenarios appear to bear a tinge of cronyism for Obama’s administration and could severely hurt the president in his 2012 reelection bid if he doesn’t move to strengthen transparency and whistleblower protection laws, according to political experts and the watchdog groups. (Snip) Both companies have executives who have given large amounts of money to Obama in recent years -- although LightSquared pointed out that its top executives have given
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