Doctor and Assistant Charged in $10 Million Oxycodone Operation - NYTimes.com

Doctor and Assistant Charged in $10 Million Oxycodone Operation - NYTimes.com: "For a certain price, according to the authorities, he would write prescriptions for oxycodone, a powerful painkiller, even if the “patient” never stepped foot in his office at the Itzamna Medical Center in the Gramercy neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. On an average day, he would write 11 fraudulent prescriptions and charge $125 per prescription, the authorities said on Thursday.

Dr. Castro’s office assistant, Patricia Valera, also had a secret."

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Stock Market News, Business News, Financial, Earnings, World Markets - CNBC

Stock Market News, Business News, Financial, Earnings, World Markets - CNBC: "Record-Smashing Quarter: Dow Posts Best Q1 Since 1998, S&P 500 Ends Above 2007’s Record Close
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Republican Congressman Attacks Sasha And Malia Obama | ThinkProgress

Republican Congressman Attacks Sasha And Malia Obama | ThinkProgress: "CALLER: When I see the First Lady and the beautiful girls going off to the Bahamas waving goodbye to us, it’s really hard to stomach. When we’re tightening our belts, either all of us should do it or none of us should do it. This, I am pretty tolerant, I always have been, I usually shut my mouth. This is not acceptable.
KING: Carla, you’re on point and on the mark all the way through. […] You’re right on the president. He needs to show some austerity himself. Instead he wanted to tell America how bad it was going to be. […] We’ve got the president doing these things. He sent the daughters to spring break in Mexico a year ago. That was at our expense, too. And now to the Bahamas at one of the most expensive places there. That is the wrong image to be coming out of the White House."

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Rachel Maddow: Veterans place pressure on White House to end VA backlogs

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Watch: Aerial footage of Whidbey Island landslide - CBS News Video

Watch: Aerial footage of Whidbey Island landslide - CBS News Video: "Watch: Aerial footage of Whidbey Island landslide
Almost 20 homes have been evacuated, following a major landslide on Whidbey Island, Washington. It is not clear exactly what caused the slide and there was no rain in the area overnight. Officials say the hillside is continuing to slide."

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Newtown family forms lasting bond with Conn. State Trooper - CBS News Video

Newtown family forms lasting bond with Conn. State Trooper - CBS News Video: "Newtown family forms lasting bond with Conn. State Trooper
Tonight on the "CBS Evening News," Scott Pelley speaks with Jenny and Matthew Hubbard -- the parents of Newtown victim Catherine Hubbard -- and Connecticut State Trooper Ed Vayan, who was assigned to aid the family following the tragedy.

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ND Gears up for Legal Dispute on New Abortion Laws - ABC News

6 Weeks?? - you can't hear the heartbeat with a stethoscope at 6 weeks.

ND Gears up for Legal Dispute on New Abortion Laws - ABC News: "The Republican governor signed three anti-abortion measures on Tuesday — including one banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, or when a heartbeat can be detected. By doing so, Dalrymple positioned his oil-rich state as a primary battleground in the decades-old fight over abortion rights.

Within minutes of signing the laws, unsolicited donations began pouring into the state's lone abortion clinic to help opponents prove the new laws are unconstitutional. The governor urged lawmakers to set aside cash for an inevitable legal challenge."

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North Dakota Governor Signs Strict Abortion Limits - NYTimes.com

Pretty serious deal here!

North Dakota Governor Signs Strict Abortion Limits - NYTimes.com: "FARGO, N.D. — Gov. Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota approved the nation’s toughest abortion restrictions on Tuesday, signing into law a measure that would ban nearly all abortions and inviting a legal showdown over just how much states can limit access to the procedure.

Mr. Dalrymple, a Republican, signed three bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in Bismarck. The most far-reaching law forbids abortion once a fetal heartbeat is “detectable,” which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Fetal heartbeats are detectable at that stage of pregnancy using a transvaginal ultrasound."

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US Treasury Tax Receipts Record - Business Insider

Good stuff!

US Treasury Tax Receipts Record - Business Insider: "I monitor the Treasury's daily data on federal tax receipts and deposits for individual and payroll taxes as well as for corporate income taxes. The daily data obviously are very volatile so I smooth them out with 260-day moving sums, which closely track the Treasury’s monthly data on a 12-month sum basis. The Treasury’s deposits of withheld income and employment taxes rose to a new record high on March 22. Corporate income tax receipts are the highest since February 2009."

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Scalia On Gay Marriage: 'When Did It Become Unconstitutional?' - Business Insider

Great exchange, 

.. and Scalia is a political hack!

Scalia On Gay Marriage: 'When Did It Become Unconstitutional?' - Business Insider: ""We don't prescribe law for the future," Scalia said. "We decide what the law is. I'm curious, when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868? When the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted?"
Olson countered that with a question of his own, bringing up two past high-profile cases involving discrimination.
"When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages? When did it become unconstitutional to assign children to separate schools?" Olson asked."

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Top Conservatives Promise 'DEFCON 6' If The Supreme Court Overturns California's Gay Marriage Ban - Business Insider

Totally makes sense!
Top Conservatives Promise 'DEFCON 6' If The Supreme Court Overturns California's Gay Marriage Ban - Business Insider: ""This idea that some people have that the court is going to settle the issue in the Republican Party — it's going to do the exact opposite," Deace added. "It's going to raise the issue to Orange Threat Level, it'll be DEFCON 6…It will become the defining litmus test.""

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Alito Compares Gay Marriage To Cell Phones, Internet - Business Insider

What a genius!

Alito Compares Gay Marriage To Cell Phones, Internet - Business Insider: ""Traditional marriage has been around for thousands of years. Same-sex marriage is very new," Alito told Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, according to court transcripts."

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Justice Kagan Takes Down The Procreation Argument - Business Insider

Justice Kagan Takes Down The Procreation Argument - Business Insider: "JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, suppose a State said, ... Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?
MR. COOPER: No, Your Honor, it would not be constitutional.
KAGAN: Because that's the same State interest, I would think, you know. If you are over the age of 55, you don't help us serve the Government's interest in regulating procreation through marriage. So why is that different?
MR. COOPER: Your Honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that ... both parties to the couple are infertile, and the traditional —
(Laughter.)
JUSTICE KAGAN: ... I can just assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage.
(Laughter.)"

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Here's The Full Transcript Of The Supreme Court Arguments On California's Gay Marriage Ban - Business Insider

Here's The Full Transcript Of The Supreme Court Arguments On California's Gay Marriage Ban - Business Insider: "The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage.
Here is the full transcript of the arguments, courtesy of the WSJ: "

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Obama announces first female Secret Service director - CBS News

BAM!

History.

Obama announces first female Secret Service director - CBS News: "President Obama today announced he will appoint as the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service 30-year veteran agent Julia Pierson, signaling his desire to change the culture at the male-dominated agency, which has been marred by scandal.

In her 30 years with the Secret Service, Mr. Obama said in a statement, Pierson "is eminently qualified to lead the agency that not only safeguards Americans at major events and secures our financial system, but also protects our leaders and our first families, including my own. Julia has had an exemplary career, and I know these experiences will guide her as she takes on this new challenge to lead the impressive men and women of this important agency.""

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Wolfowitz Says U.S. Botched Iraq War - The Daily Beast

Wolfowitz Says U.S. Botched Iraq War - The Daily Beast: "It’s not quite a mea culpa, but Paul Wolfowitz, the former deputy Pentagon chief who called for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, admits that the U.S. botched parts of the invasion and allowed the country to spiral out of control. There “should have been Iraqi leadership from the beginning,” Wolfowitz told The Sunday Times, and the U.S. shouldn’t have excluded so many former Baath Party members from the reconstruction process. But that’s as far as he’ll go: the war itself, he says, was still a good idea. If we hadn’t ousted Hussein, “We would very likely either have had to go through this whole scenario all over but probably with higher costs for having delayed.”"

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Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook

CHECKOUT THE HEAT MAP!
Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook:

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Michele Bachmann: Repeal Obamacare Before It 'Literally Kills' People (VIDEO)

Michele Bachmann: Repeal Obamacare Before It 'Literally Kills' People (VIDEO): "Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is worried Obamacare is going to kill someone.

During a floor speech Thursday, Bachmann called on the House to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, passed three years ago.

"Repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens," Bachmann said."

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Daily Caller Denies Paying For Prostitutes' Robert Menendez Claims

I don't know - they may have paid!
Daily Caller Denies Paying For Prostitutes' Robert Menendez Claims: "The Daily Caller's editor-in-chief, Tucker Carlson, denied Friday that his news site paid Dominican lawyer Melanio Figueroa to find women who would lie about having sex with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), an allegation that had surfaced in a Washington Post article.

"It seems clear to me Figueroa is under pressure to change his story," Carlson said in a statement provided to The Huffington Post. "What I know for certain is this claim is a lie. The Daily Caller never paid anyone, was never asked to pay anyone and of course never would pay anyone for this story.""

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PolitiFact | Kevin McCarthy says federal government has more revenue now than ‘any other time’

PolitiFact | Kevin McCarthy says federal government has more revenue now than ‘any other time’: "The government will pull in 16.9 percent in 2013, lower than the average over the last 40 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That’s not more money than at "any other time," as McCarthy said.

What about in 2015, when the government is projected to bring in 19.1 percent?

That’s still lower than revenue as a percentage of GDP in seven years of the last 40 — also not more money than at "any other time."

Federal revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product

1981: 19.6 percent
1982: 19.2 percent

1997: 19.2 percent
1998: 19.9 percent
1999: 19.8 percent
2000: 20.6 percent
2001: 19.5 percent
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How more than $8 billion in US taxpayers' money went to waste in Iraq - CSMonitor.com

How more than $8 billion in US taxpayers' money went to waste in Iraq - CSMonitor.com:
During the course of the nine-year US presence in Iraq, at least $8 billion – or 13.3 percent of US reconstruction spending – was wasted, according to the final report released today by the Special Investigator General for Iraq Reconstruction.

The report, entitled Learning From Iraq: A Final Report From the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, offered a detailed assessment how $60 billion in American taxpayer money was spent in Iraq during the war. Of that sum, about $25 billion went to training and equipping the Iraqi security forces, while the remainder went an array of development projects ranging from infrastructure construction to governance improvement programs.

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FactCheck.org : ‘Record Revenues’

FactCheck.org : ‘Record Revenues’: "But it’s misleading to talk about revenues in nominal dollars. Economists prefer to view historic revenues as percentages of GDP. In fiscal 2013, federal tax revenues are projected to equal 16.9 percent of the nation’s economy, which is below the post-World War II average of 17.7 percent.

For more on Republican revenue claims, please see our Feb. 28 piece, “Boehner’s Revenue Reach.“"

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Michele Bachmann pushes for highway project, but steers clear of ‘earmark’ label - Burgess Everett - POLITICO.com

Michele Bachmann pushes for highway project, but steers clear of ‘earmark’ label - Burgess Everett - POLITICO.com: "A moratorium on congressional earmarks isn’t stopping Rep. Michele Bachmann from pushing for federal funding for a home-state highway.

The Minnesota Republican held an event in St. Paul for expanding Interstate 94 in her district, and has been lobbying the House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) to fund $25 million for the project. A Minnesota newspaper quoted her this week saying the initiative was gaining “traction” with the chairman. "

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Mike Crapo Attending Liquor Company Fundraiser - Business Insider

SAY WHAT.... ALERT!!!!!!

Mike Crapo Attending Liquor Company Fundraiser - Business Insider: "Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who was arrested late last year for drunken driving, will be attending a fundraiser on Thursday hosted at a house owned by Diageo,"
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George Bush Has Painted Over 50 Puppies, And His Teacher Says He'll Go Down In History As A 'Great Artist' - Business Insider

From President of the USA to Doggie artist!

George Bush Has Painted Over 50 Puppies, And His Teacher Says He'll Go Down In History As A 'Great Artist' - Business Insider: "After an online hacker got his hands on self-portraits of former President George W. Bush in the shower, Fox News Atlanta tracked down his art teacher, Georgia-based painter Bonnie Flood.

Flood, who spent a month in Florida teaching Bush and his sister, says that the former President is a gifted artist and prolific painter of dogs — apparently, "he's painted over 50 pictures of dogs." "

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Irking N.R.A., Bush Supports The Ban on Assault Weapons - New York Times

Irking N.R.A., Bush Supports The Ban on Assault Weapons - New York Times: "At issue is a measure to be introduced by Senate Democrats on Thursday to continue the ban. Groundbreaking 1994 legislation outlawing the sale and possession of such firearms will expire next year unless Congress extends it, and many gun-rights groups have made it their top priority to fight it. Even some advocates of gun control say the prohibition has been largely ineffective because of its loopholes."

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Five Dark Horse Republican Candidates Who Could Launch A Surprise White House Bid In 2016 - Business Insider

This is a great list except for VA's Cuccinelli!
Five Dark Horse Republican Candidates Who Could Launch A Surprise White House Bid In 2016 - Business Insider:

1. Dr. Ben Carson: 
2. U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.):
3. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: 
4. U.S. Sen. Tim Scott:
5. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas):

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Bobby Jindal Just Killed Decades of Republican Tax Policy - Businessweek

Bobby Jindal Just Killed Decades of Republican Tax Policy - Businessweek: "Do you hear that? No? Listen closer. There. That. That, coming from Louisiana, is the sound of the end of trickle-down economics. Economists have known for a while that personal marginal tax rates, and in particular those on the rich, don’t seem to have much of an effect on the economy. As we wrote in September, even Reagan’s economist did not find any evidence that the Reagan recovery had come from the Reagan administration’s personal income tax cuts. Over the last four years, apostate Republican thinkers such as Bruce Bartlett and David Frum began to agree. Then most of America did. Even a group of CEOs of major corporations came around to the idea that raising tax rates on the rich would not hamper growth."

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Paul Ryan Budget Hikes Taxes For Middle Class: Study - Business Insider

Paul Ryan Budget Hikes Taxes For Middle Class: Study - Business Insider: "The CBBP followed up on a study released Friday by the Tax Policy Center, which concluded that Ryan's budget would add $5.7 trillion to the deficit. The Tax Policy Center also suggested that Ryan's budget presented the same problem as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's tax plan during the campaign. It found that the Ryan plan could not both trim the deficit and enact sweeping tax cuts on all income groups.
The CBBP's report, meanwhile, goes further on the TPC's implication and flatly states that Ryan's plan budget could not close the $5.7 trillion gap without a massive tax hike for middle-income earners."

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Tea Party Lashes Out Over RNC Autopsy - Business Insider

Tea Party Lashes Out Over RNC Autopsy - Business Insider: "The Republican National Committee's sweeping recommendations to reshape the party following its disastrous performance in 2012 are already facing fierce resistance within the conservative movement, fueling the escalating struggle between the GOP Establishment and its grassroots base. "

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Limbaugh: Obama Appointee Perez Hugo Chavez, Basically - Business Insider

What if!!

Limbaugh: Obama Appointee Perez Hugo Chavez, Basically - Business Insider: "Limbaugh's concern is based on Perez's work as as the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, which has drawn criticism among Republicans in the past.
Last week, the department's inspector general concluded in a report that Perez gave incomplete testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights when he said the department’s political leadership was not involved in the decision to dismiss three defendants in a lawsuit the Bush administration brought against the New Black Panther Party.
But the Department of Justice dropped the charges before Perez had been confirmed as a member of the department, and the IG also concluded that Perez did not "intentionally mislead" the commission in his testimony. "

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Compassionate Conservatism Is Back

GOS - should love this!

Compassionate Conservatism Is Back: "Compassionate Conservatism Is Back"
The 98-page, breast-beating report released Monday morning by a Republican National Committee subcommittee opens by telling the party not to look back: "It is no wonder that Republican policies can seem stale; they are very nearly identical to those ordered up by the Party more than 30 years ago. For Republicans to design an agenda that applies to the conditions of 1980 is as if Ronald Reagan designed his agenda for conditions that existed in the Truman years," it quotes two former Bush aides, Ari Fleischer and Michael Gerson, as saying.
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CIA And M16 Spy Agencies Knew Iraq Didn't Have WMDs Before 2003 Invasion - Business Insider

CIA And M16 Spy Agencies Knew Iraq Didn't Have WMDs Before 2003 Invasion - Business Insider: "Fresh evidence is revealed today about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein's foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction."

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Marxists Infiltrated The Catholic Church, And Four Other Crazy Things We Learned At CPAC | ThinkProgress

Wow!

Marxists Infiltrated The Catholic Church, And Four Other Crazy Things We Learned At CPAC | ThinkProgress:

1. Marxists Control The Catholic Church. Fringe fundamentalist Cliff Kincaid’s organization America’s Survival is handing out a brochure warning Roman Catholics that the church “has been compromised philosophically — not only by infiltrators from the homosexual movement and Marxists. but by adherents of the so-called ‘New Age’ philosophy.” So vast is the communist infiltration within the Catholic Church, one “Catholic insider” told the organization that the bishops “made a deal with the devil to get Obamacare passed.”

2. The UN Will Take One-Quarter Of America’s Land. The American Jobs Alliance, a conservative business advocacy group, is handing out hundreds of fliers warning attendees of the dangers posed by the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an undeniably controversial free trade agreement that the United States is currently negotiating with a handful of South Pacific nations. Instead of reasoned criticism however, AJA sounds the alarm over Sharia Law, and claims that the Partnership “cedes 1/4 of U.S. to Foreign Control. A quarter of the entire U.S. land area will fall under UN court jurisdiction.”

3. Marriage Equality Must Be Opposed.  

4. George Soros Controls Everything.  

5. Puerto Rico’s Statehood Referendum Was Rigged. 

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Which Politicians Are in the Tea Party's Crosshairs? - The Daily Beast

Which Politicians Are in the Tea Party's Crosshairs? - The Daily Beast: "Far-right Republicans are mounting primary challenges and foiling the GOP establishment’s hunt for electable candidates. David Freedlander on who will face the Tea Party’s fury next."

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At CPAC, Calls for Fresh Ideas Are Followed By The Same Stale Shtick - The Daily Beast

At CPAC, Calls for Fresh Ideas Are Followed By The Same Stale Shtick - The Daily Beast: "At CPAC, Calls for Fresh Ideas Are Followed By The Same Stale Shtick"

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At CPAC, Sarah Palin Shows She's Still Got It

At CPAC, Sarah Palin Shows She's Still Got It: "They like her, they still really like her. Sarah Palin had the CPAC crowd on its feet Saturday afternoon with a speech full of folksisms, one-liners about President Barack Obama, attacks on Karl Rove, and a couple wildly popular sips from a Big Gulp stashed in the podium before she came on stage."

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Fox News Ponders FLOTUS Becoming VPOTUS Which Would Make Obama SGOTUS

Fox News Ponders FLOTUS Becoming VPOTUS Which Would Make Obama SGOTUS: "Warning: This segment might make you dizzy."

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The "Crazy" Things Wayne LaPierre Said At CPAC 2013

The "Crazy" Things Wayne LaPierre Said At CPAC 2013: "The “Crazy” Things Wayne LaPierre Said At CPAC 2013
Surprisingly, CPAC did not play Patsy Cline as LaPierre exited the stage."

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Sequestration Impact on National Parks - C-SPAN Video Library

Sequestration Impact on National Parks - C-SPAN Video Library: "John Garder from the National Parks Conservation Association talked about the impact of sequestration on National Parks across the country, including the measures parks are facing due to budget cuts, such as road closures, .. Read More" 'via Blog this'

Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study | Reuters

Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study | Reuters: "The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.

The war has killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may have contributed to the deaths of as many as four times that number, according to the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University."

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Stunner: Sen. Rob Portman backs same-sex marriage - CBS News

Wow - I can't tell which one.
- CMP
Stunner: Sen. Rob Portman backs same-sex marriage - CBS News: "Portman told The Cincinnati Enquirer his evolution on the subject began in 2011 when his son, Will, then a freshman at Yale University, told his parents he was gay."

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Berkshire's BNSF to test using natural gas to power locomotives -WSJ | Reuters

Berkshire's BNSF to test using natural gas to power locomotives -WSJ | Reuters: "Top U.S. railroad BNSF Railway Co, one of the largest users of diesel fuel in the United States, plans to test using natural gas to power its locomotives this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday."

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Republican Congresswoman Likens Regulations Of For-Profit Colleges To The Holocaust | ThinkProgress

The gang of crazies!

Republican Congresswoman Likens Regulations Of For-Profit Colleges To The Holocaust | ThinkProgress:
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) compared efforts to regulate the for-profit college industry to the Holocaust during a speech Tuesday. Speaking at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Foxx invoked a famous Holocaust maxim in order to defend for-profit colleges against increased scrutiny. “They came for the for-profits, and I didn’t speak up,” the North Carolina congresswoman said.

Insider Higher Ed has the details:

In criticizing the private college presidents, Representative Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who leads the subcommittee on higher education, adapted the famous statement from the German theologian Martin Niemöller on Germans who ignored Nazi persecution. (“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.”)

“‘They came for the for-profits, and I didn’t speak up…’” Foxx said. “Nobody really spoke up like they should have.”

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Paul Krugman Bankruptcy Story False, Spreads - Business Insider

Damn!
Paul Krugman Bankruptcy Story False, Spreads - Business Insider: "Krugman responded to the mix-up this morning, writing on his blog that he knew of the fake news item and was asked about it by a Russian television station. He wrote that he did not address it on his blog because he "wanted to wait and see which right-wing media outlets would fall for the hoax."
"Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go give a lavishly paid speech to Friends of Hamas," Krugman quipped, referring to Breitbart's recent invention of a group purportedly tied to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that ended up not actually existing."

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Sunday Talk Interviews Show Why Jeb Bush Will Never Be President - The Daily Beast

Do we really want to entertain this??  The first Bush was not reelected, the second one was tied to rabid conservatives who ended up not liking him - two filed Bushes.  Do we really want to play this game again looking for a different result?

Sunday Talk Interviews Show Why Jeb Bush Will Never Be President - The Daily Beast:

On five talk shows Sunday morning, Jeb Bush reminded America why he’ll never be president: it’s hard to distance yourself from your own last name.

Unfortunately for Jeb, history is written by historians. Three times since 2009, pollsters have asked them to rank American presidents, and in those rankings, W. has come in 36th, 39th, and 31st. Only Millard Fillmore, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson, and James Buchanan rank lower. Ordinary Americans agree. Three times since George W. Bush left office, pollsters have asked the public to rank recent presidents. And three times, W. has ended up second to last, ahead of only Richard Nixon.

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Breitbart Site Duped by Fake Paul Krugman Bankruptcy Story - Truthdig

Breitbart Site Duped by Fake Paul Krugman Bankruptcy Story - Truthdig: "A Breitbart.com editor fell hook, line and sinker for a satirical story that claimed economist Paul Krugman had filed for personal bankruptcy after accumulating more than $7 million in debt. In a since-deleted March 11 post, editor at large Larry O’Connor ridiculed the Nobel Prize winner for handling his own finances so poorly, evidently unaware that the article had originated from the satire site The Daily Currant."

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Police officers involved in fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray placed on administrative duty

Police officers involved in fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray placed on administrative duty: "e two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in East Flatbush have been placed on administrative duty.
According to investigators, Kimani Gray was acting suspiciously while with a group of friends outside 473 East 52nd St. late Sunday night. They say Gray was shot several times after pulling out a loaded revolver on two undercover cops."

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Report: John Paulson May Move To Puerto Rico To Avoid A Big Tax Bill - Business Insider

Report: John Paulson May Move To Puerto Rico To Avoid A Big Tax Bill - Business Insider:

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Journalist Exposes Republicans For Including Obama's Policies In Ryan's Budget | ThinkProgress

Journalist Exposes Republicans For Including Obama's Policies In Ryan's Budget | ThinkProgress: "RYAN LIZZA (NEW YORKER): Did you vote against the fiscal cliff deal?
CHAFFETZ: Yeah, I did.
LIZZA: Is this budget going to assume the $600 billion in new revenues in that fiscal cliff deal?
CHAFFETZ: Well, we haven’t gotten to the final product. Paul has not yet released it. It potentially will [...] But look, at the end of the day you’ve got to put numbers on a piece of paper and achieve balance. So I think there’s a mix there…
LIZZA: Speaking to America’s frustration, Republicans voted overwhelmingly against a deal that raised $600 billion in revenue, and now it sounds like they’re going to put out a budget that pockets that $600 billion and put that up for a vote. So I think that paradox is — is a little difficult to understand."

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Unemployment at 4-Year Low as U.S. Hiring Gains Steam

Awesome!

The economy picked up speed in February, creating jobs at a pace that would substantially lower the unemployment rate. But Washington could put a stop to that.

Even as analysts hailed a better-than-expected jobs report on Friday that pointed to an acceleration in growth, they warned that stronger employment gains are being put at risk by sequestration, the automatic spending cuts being imposed by the federal government.

“They’re doing their best to get in the way,” Nigel Gault, chief United States economist at IHS Global Insight, said of lawmakers and other officials. “But the good news is that the economy is carrying plenty of momentum going into sequestration.”

The Labor Department reported that the economy added 236,000 jobs in February as the unemployment rate sank to 7.7 percent, down from 7.9 percent in January and the lowest level since December 2008.

Wall Street expected no more than 165,000 additional jobs in February, and the surprise helped lift the Dow Jones industrial average to another new nominal record, its fourth for the week. It closed at 14,397.07.

The Unemployment Rate Is Below 4 Percent For People With A Bachelor's Degree - Business Insider

The Unemployment Rate Is Below 4 Percent For People With A Bachelor's Degree - Business Insider:
"The national unemployment rate fell from 7.9 percent to 7.7 percent this week, after a strong Non-Farm Payrolls report.
But the unemployment rate differs greatly for people with different levels of education."

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Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years, Study Says - NYTimes.com

Of course!!

Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years, Study Says - NYTimes.com: "Global temperatures are warmer than at any time in at least 4,000 years, scientists reported Thursday, and over the coming decades are likely to surpass levels not seen on the planet since before the last ice age."

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Sen. Patrick Leahy unveils gun trafficking bill - John Bresnahan and Reid J. Epstein - POLITICO.com

Sen. Patrick Leahy unveils gun trafficking bill - John Bresnahan and Reid J. Epstein - POLITICO.com: "Sen. Patrick Leahy unveils gun trafficking bill"

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Poll: Asian voters lean Democratic - Kevin Cirilli - POLITICO.com

Poll: Asian voters lean Democratic - Kevin Cirilli - POLITICO.com: "A new poll found that Asian-Americans lean Democratic, but that they are not strongly committed to either the GOP or the Democratic Party.

Fifty-seven percent of Asian-Americans lean Democratic, compared with 28 percent who lean Republican and 13 percent who are independent, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. The remaining are undecided or did not respond."

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Mass. gets $44M Health & Human Services grant to test health care innovation plan - Boston Business Journal

Mass. gets $44M Health & Human Services grant to test health care innovation plan - Boston Business Journal: "Massachusetts is one of six states to win a three-and-a-half year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support the transformation of the health care delivery system with the goal of improving quality and lowering costs. The funding is provided by provisions of the federal health reform law."

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Sequester: White House Warns Of State Cuts - Business Insider

Sequester: White House Warns Of State Cuts - Business Insider: "Less than a week before across-the-board cuts start to kick in as a result of the sequester, the White House warned on Sunday of the state-by-state effect of the cuts. "

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Gun Used To Stop Crime - Business Insider

Gun Used To Stop Crime - Business Insider:

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