Online headline: "Explosions send sweeping panic throughout Cairo"

Online headline: "Putin Withdraws Request To Use Force In Ukraine"

Online headline: "More Kidnappings Reported In Nigeria"

Online headline: "Shots fired as jet lands in Pakistan"

Online headline: "Scores killed in Afghanistan clashes"

Online headline: "ISIS advances, Maliki keeps troops in Baghdad"

Online headline: "After Opening Way to Rebels, Turkey Is Paying Heavy Price"

Online headline: "North Korea slams U.S. movie on leader assassination plot"

Online headline: "Peace on Hold as Kidnapping of Israeli Teens Divides Palestinians"

Etc, etc, etc:
In the late 50s, the Kingston Trio captured the world in song:
They're rioting in Africa
They're starving in Spain
There's hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain.

The whole world is festering
with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans
The Germans hate the Poles.

Italians hate Yugoslavs,
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like
anybody very much!

But! We can be thankful
and tranquil and proud
that man's been endowed
with a mushroom-shaped cloud.

And we know for certain
That some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off
and we will all be blown away!

They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us Clinton is encouraging companies to train and hire young people
Will be done by our fellow man.

Not much has changed......

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One of the biggest questions asked about the IRS scandal has been why does it seem that mainstream American's are not interested. I don't think that's a fair question . Half of Americans only contact with IRS is through their tax preparer, and half of Americans get refunds from having either overpaid during the year, or qualify for child or tax credits given to lower income workers, so they have no clue as to the invasive nature of IRS.

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HuffPost headline: "Hillary Clinton to announce youth jobs" -- Poof! The problem is solved!

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Instant replay: "HuffPost headline: "Hillary Clinton to announce youth jobs * Hillary Rodham Clinton is encouraging companies to train and hire young people, offering a new jobs pitch during her family's annual domestic policy summit as she considers another presidential campaign. * 10 companies, including The Gap, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Marriott, Corning, Ernst & Young, Lifeway Foods, MDC Partners, Salesforce.com and Symantec." -- "Clinton is encouraging companies to train and hire young people"? Good grief.. Hillary Clinton has zero-zip-nada influence nor impact on these companies hiring anyone for a job.. it's what these companies DO! Besides, what does Hillary even know about jobs?

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A Home Owners Association in Florida has filed a $100.00 per day fine against a veteran who is displaying an American flag in a flower pot on his front porch. The HOA has even filed a lien against him to collect the fine. When I first read it, I went and checked my HOA covenants.. it could happen....

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Online quote source: " “The past is the past. Don't let it kill you. Get over the bad things that happened. It's gone. People change. Memories remain. But it's time to move on.” - Unknown " -- Hmmm.. bet this will not be cited doing a Black History Month lesson.

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Online story: "Nancy Pelosi lashed out at San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone for wanting to attend the March for Marriage event in DC. * Pelosi harshly lectured Archbishop Cordileone over his attending the event. She in fact called the March for Marriage event the Archbishop was attending “venom masquerading as virtue.” She also saw fit to include in her criticism her belief that some of the March for Marriage attendees show “disdain and hate toward LGBT persons.” She quoted Pope Francis, the current pope, to the Archbishop: “If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?” * Bill Donohue (President of the Catholic League), who called Pelosi a “rabid foe” of the Catholic Church’s teachings on abortion, contraception, and marriage, stated: "When gays go naked in the streets of San Francisco, and mock Catholicism in patently obscene ways, Pelosi is never offended. What offends her is her archbishop’s public defense of the Church’s teachings on marriage. Nice to know what her moral compass looks like." -- Hmmm, looks like Pelosi puts the Democratic Party mantra above the Catholic Church, but what's new?

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Online story: "During the regular "Inside Politics" segment of Tuesday's New Day on CNN, Ron Fournier of the National Journal declared that he was "naive" last year in giving the Obama administration the "benefit of the doubt" over the IRS scandal, and called for an independent prosecutor to investigate as he reacted to the recent congressional testimony of IRS commissioner John Koskinen * The one thing both these scandals have in common is, for a party that wants to establish the fact that good government can do good things, they're now giving the public two choices. One, either we're incredibly incompetent, both the the IRS and with the V.A. scandal, or we're crooked. Pick your poison. It's not a good place to be. * " -- Whoa! Be still my heart!

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Online headline: "Obama goes to Chipotle in Denver" -- Hmmm, and with a complete entourage of Secret Service agents... hmmm, wait a minute... didn't Chipotle just make a big to-do about posting it's "NO GUNS Allowed" policy?

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You know... Around October 10, the Republicans should propose a bill that strips the IRS of its power to enforce OObamaCRAP enrollment. Let the Democrats vote against it just prior to the elections.

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Should the military ban recruits with exposed tattoos? Do tattoos affect a soldiers performance? On first look, the answer to both is probably a "no", but there are issues bigger than personal tastes. Does the military just put out a list of unacceptable tattoos and take its chances on fending off lawsuits for discrimination, or just say " no" to all skin art that just detracts from the "professional image" the American soldier. I just have the vivid image of Trayvon Martin's dad's gang identifying neck tattoo that he had modified for TV appearances when ha had to appear as a concerned "dad".

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Online story: "Vice President Joe Biden plans on relying solely on taxpayers to fund his retirement. * Biden declared on Monday that he had neither a savings account, nor any stocks to pay off his golden years. * “I have no savings account, but I have a great pension and a great salary,” Biden told the crowd at the White House Summit on Working Families." -- Good grief..neither our president nor VP has any experience at creating a real job for themselves or anyone else (other than appointments)..No wonder they are so glad to support a higher minimum wage and OObamaCRAP and mandatory perks for entry level employees.

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Doesn't Joe Biden need to be the Poster Child" for term limits and Congressional pension reform?

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Yesterday, I made some observations about the Manchester Expressway overlay. I thought of a couple of more things that "the committee" must have overlooked. How about requiring the CFD & CPD get permission before turning on lights and sirens, and access gates to keep nonresidential traffic to a minimum?

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That NY Democrat Primary race between Rangel and Espaillat appears to be too close to call at this point. Rangel went on stage to say he wanted "to sweat it out" with his supporters. Moments later, the stage buckled under the weight of the congressman and more than a dozen elected officials who wanted to stand near him. Maybe that was an omen.....maybe we're just wishfully thinking there's "Hope and Change" in the Democratic Party heirarchy.

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Did you see what happened in the Mississippi Republican Senate runoff? Even though the challenger got more votes in the primary, not enough turned out during the runoff, and the incumbent won.. again. Columbusites.. make sure you get out and vote July 22nd for John Thomas in his runoff with Wells.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "When you compare G.W. Bush to George Washington’s war service, remember that George Washington did not join the National Guard, avoid the war and then skip the Guard meetings." -- If a LIV wants to talk about the military experiences (or lack of such) of our presidents, then he should start on Clinton and the Mosgued man.. in fact, that should occupy his time until his death.

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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Would the Ledger-Enquirer’s management/editors please write an editorial stating professional journalism’s theory and practice to explain the wisdom of featuring almost daily crime stories on the front page?" -- Hmmm, wonder which of Mayor Obamalinson's staff sent this one in?

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You know.. Mayor Obamalinson will probably be out soon blaming HB60 for the expense of having to move the security check point from outside her Council Chamber to the front doors. Sorry, but that expense will be solely on her as it's her choice to do this. The sad thing is that no security check point is going to stop anyone with a sick motive to bring a gun into the Service Center. No security guards are "ready" for a sicko on a mission who already expects to be challenged.

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From the L-E's "Today in History" feature: " In 2009, death claimed Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, California, at age 62." -- Hmmm.. poor Farrah Fawcett... she'll always play second fiddle.. be the "plus 1", when it comes to commemorating deaths on June 25th.

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L-E headline: "SCHWOB MEMORIAL LIBRARY * Columbus State’s library expands digital access to journals * Approximately 14,000 online scholarly journals available to students, faculty" -- Hmmm.. and why aren't all Georgians granted access to the source? Should not all taxpayers be able to access what we pay for? To cite Hillary, "what difference does it make" whether you're enrolled in or employed by a state institution?

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Whoa! Remember the sob story about the little girl who's face was mangled by her grandfather's pit bull being asked to leave a KFC restaurant? New evidence seems to point at the story was a scam, a hoax perpetrated by the girl's family to extract sympathy and money. Seems the family has a donation website they wanted to spur traffic onto. Restaurant videos can show no time she was at the KFC as her grandmother claims. Let's pray for the little girl and her family.. pray the girl gets all she deserves .. and pray extra hard that the grandmother gets MORE than she deserves!

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L-E story: "Jay Leno no longer has “The Tonight Show,” but he’ll soon have a new honor to add to his resume. On Wednesday, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that the comedian will receive the 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. * “Like Mark Twain, Jay Leno has offered us a lifetime’s worth of humorous commentary on American daily life,” said Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein in the announcement. “For both men, no one was too high or too low to escape their wit, and we are all the better for it." -- Whoa! Is this not as hypocritical as liberalism can get? Mark Twain...the man who wrote "Tom Sawyer" & "Huckleberry Finn" classics which public schools no longer want to put on the shelves of their libraries has an award named for him and it's presented by one of the most liberal institutions in the world. Fact is, if the Kennedy Center announced is was giving Mark Twain his own award posthumously, every wacko group, every Rutgers' faculty member, and the Democratic Party would be out in protest.

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Online story: "The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton explained in a new interview why she left lucrative professions and opted for working with her family’s philanthropic foundation. ‘I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,’ she said. * Comparing her experience to the average millennial, the 34-year-old former first daughter defended jumping around to different careers — from consulting to a hedge fund to academia to journalism — before finding her true calling working with her parents." -- Good grief.. Chelsea probably believes her parents aren't well-off, too. Chelsea lives in a $10 Million dollar apartment, had a $2-$3 Million dollar wedding, accepts $600K from NBC as a part time second job to her work at her parents "tax shelter foundation" which let's them channel money to her in the form of a salary rather than paying the higher gift tax on just handing it over to her. and she "doesn't care about money"? She's a Clinton, and the only money she doesn't care about is the "other people's money" her parents have spent as they pleased.