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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Benghazi decision 'surely is a Clinton protection operation'
Charles Krauthammer told viewers Tuesday on "Special Report with Bret
Baier" that the State Department's reinstatement of four officials who
had been put on leave after the Benghazi attacks illustrates the
Department's refusal to hold anyone accountable.
"This is the definition of how to conduct a stonewall," Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor, said of Secretary of State John Kerry's decision to put the officials back to work.
"The new Secretary of State looks at this and says, essentially, these people were not responsible, or they don't really carry any accountability - they are back on the job, as you say, without ever missing a paycheck, and no one is held responsible."
Krauthammer added, "whatever the intent was, it surely is a Clinton protection operation, in effect."
"This is the definition of how to conduct a stonewall," Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor, said of Secretary of State John Kerry's decision to put the officials back to work.
"The new Secretary of State looks at this and says, essentially, these people were not responsible, or they don't really carry any accountability - they are back on the job, as you say, without ever missing a paycheck, and no one is held responsible."
Krauthammer added, "whatever the intent was, it surely is a Clinton protection operation, in effect."
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Cruz Renounces Canadian Citizenship
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who was born in Canada to a mother who held U.S.
citizenship, said he has no problem renouncing his citizenship to the
Great White North, even though there appears to be no legal reason for
him to do so, reports ABC News.com.According to most legal scholars and Cruz himself, the Texas senator is 100 percent American and his Canadian citizenship is a mere technicality that would not prevent him from a possible Presidential run in 2016.
Still, Cruz said he’s ready to sever ties with Canada.
“Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship,” Cruz said.
“Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator, I believe I should be only an American.”
Over the weekend, Cruz released a copy of his birth certificate to the Dallas Morning News, which showed he was, in fact, born in Calgary, Canada, on Dec. 22, 1970.
An expert in Canadian law concluded that meant “he’s a Canadian.”
A spokesperson for Cruz initially denied the senator’s Canadian’s origins.
“Sen. Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.
“To our knowledge, he never had Canadian citizenship, so there is nothing to renounce.”
Many believe Cruz announced his intention to renounce his so-called Canadian citizenship as a way to appease those who might be uncomfortable with his place of birth.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
New White House 'Butler' Film Criticizes Reagan
A biographer of former President Ronald Reagan said some scenes in "Lee
Daniels' The Butler" may amount to what he describes as "Hollywood
malpractice" if they turn out to be based on anything other than facts.Paul Kengor, who wrote two books about the late president: "The Crusader" and "God and Ronald Reagan," took particular issue with a scene in which Nancy Reagan invites White House butler Cecil Gaines and his wife to a dinner party only for the couple to feel out of place, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"The screenwriter and makers of this film better have some hard evidence for this," Kengor told the publication. "I hope they have at least some quotes somewhere from the butler saying he felt like a prop. If they don’t, then they should be ashamed of themselves. If they don’t, then this is Hollywood malpractice."
Other biographers of the nation’s 40th president have also slammed the film, which opened widely on Friday and is based on the story of Eugene Allen, an African American who worked at the White House for more than three decades, from 1952-1986. He is named Gaines in the film, a role that is played by Forrest Whitaker.
Kengor also told the Reporter that the film appears to depict President Reagan as racially insensitive and indifferent to apartheid.
“Ronald Reagan was appalled by apartheid, but also wanted to ensure that if the apartheid regime collapsed in South Africa that it wasn’t replaced by a Marxist-totalitarian regime allied with Moscow and Cuba that would take the South African people down the same road as Ethiopia, Mozambique, and, yes, Cuba,” Kengor said. “Clearly, blacks in South Africa lost rights under apartheid, but Communism was a far greater infringement . . . In Communist nations, people were literally lined up and slaughtered — and starved — on mass scales. Has everyone forgotten this?”
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Jane Richard
Jane Richard is just seven years old, but she bears the scars of the
Boston marathon bombing attack that killed her brother, eight-year-old
Martin. She is missing her left leg below the knee. The family has now
released a picture of little Jane smiling and standing on her crutches. 
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