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Citizen with Carry Permit Stops Violent Craigslist Robber

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Boston Bombers Funded by U.S. Taxpayers

Click Here: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Family Received Welfare

Click Here: Americans Funded Terror in Boston

Click Here: Report: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Dealt Drugs for Spending Money

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Immigration Reform a Bonanza for Democrats

Click Here: Immigration law would secure Democrat victories for generation.

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Obama Supports Internet Sales Tax

Click Here: White House Endorses Internet Sales Tax

Click Here: Harry Reid and Wal-Mart hope nobody will notice their online revenue raid.

“The drivers of this rush to tax the internet are Wal-Mart and other big retailers that can more easily absorb the costs of collection than can smaller competitors. Also
supporting the bill is Internet giant Amazon, which coincidentally now sells its
own tax compliance service to other merchants.”

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Burlington Iowa Mediapolis Obituaries West Burlington

Obituaries

Robert Dennis “Bob” Bell, 71, rural Sperry died Sunday, April 21, 2013

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How the FBI & Homeland Security Dropped the Ball

Click Here: One of the two brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombing was questioned by the FBI two years ago but dismissed as being no threat.

An official at the Department of Homeland Security said he was on the “radar screen” of agents in Boston from when he returned to the US to the end of autumn.

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Burlington Iowa Letters to Falcon West Burlington

Zoning & Texas Fertilizer Plant

Falcon:

Here’s a good overview of why the Texas Fertilizer Plant explosion caused so much death and destruction.

Seems they have no basic zoning laws in Texas regarding where industrial plant are located.

Hopefully the planned plant down in the Weaver area won’t be sitting within a few yards of a school zone, old folks home, housing area or a hospital as the one is Texas was.

Just why was it built so close to civilization when Texas has plenty of tumbleweed country to put up a possible explosive device factory.

Here’s a picture of the site in Texas right against the town:  Daily Kos: The wonder of libertarian zoning laws, West, Texas edition

How can something like this even happen in today’s world?

JO

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Alfred Ralph Oetken, 91, Burlington, died Friday, April 19, 2013

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Homeowner Finds Boston Bomber in His Boat

Click Here: Boston Bomb Suspect Captured Alive in Backyard Boat

A Watertown homeowner walked into his backyard and saw something amiss with his boat, “He looked and noticed something was off about his boat, so he got his ladder, and he put his ladder up on the side of the boat and climbed up, and then he saw blood on it, and he thought he saw what was a body laying in the boat,” a neighbor said. “So he got out of the boat fast and called police.”

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Republicans Wrong-Headed

Falcon:

Why are House Republicans moving quickly on a new bill to strengthen ObamaCare’s temporary insurance plan for people with pre-existing conditions.

Republicans should be working like hell to cut the funding for Obamacare since it’s the responsibility of the House to handle funding.  Why their trying to shore up part of it rather than bring it all down is beyond sanity.

AS