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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Cheat Sheet - The Coming Gay Marriage Witch Hunt

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June 19, 2014
'OUT OF FASHION'
Is this the new McCarthyism? With the battle over gay marriage all but over, some conservatives tell David Freedlander they fear being run out of public life for being on the losing side.
BOOTS ON THE GROUND
President Obama announced on Thursday that the U.S. is sending roughly 300 Green Berets to aid in the training of Iraqi forces. However, the president still has no plans to send U.S. service members for combat missions. In addition, the president is reportedly considering pressuring Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to resign to prevent the entire country from going up in sectarian flames.
EXCLUSIVE
Scores of student protesters opposing Egypt's military rulers have been disappearing—and those who manage to escape say they've been held in secret prisons and severely tortured for their activism. Jesse Rosenfeld reports from Cairo.
METHOD / MADNESS
Chain-smoking menthols and joking about Obama, Wu-Tang, and why he'll (probably) never do Half Baked 2, Dave Chappelle was back on stage to 'make enough money to disappear again.' Alex Suskind recaps the first night of Chappelle's eight-day run at Radio City Music Hall.
PREACH

Apparently it's not just the left up in arms over former Vice President Dick Cheney's op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. Wednesday night on Fox News, host Megyn Kelly took Cheney to task for writing that "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many." As Kelly pointedly told Cheney, "But time and time again, history has proven you got it in wrong as well in Iraq, Sir." She continued: "You said there was no doubt Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said we would be greeted as liberators. You said the Iraq insurgency was in its last throes back in 2005. And you said that our intervention meant extremists would have to rethink their strategy of jihad." Cheney responded that he "fundamentally disagrees" with her list, that everybody thought Saddam had weapons, and after the 9/11 attacks "it would have been irresponsible for us not to act." Kelly also took Cheney to task for criticizing the president over U.S. forces leaving Iraq, pointing out that it was former President Bush who signed the agreement having all troops leave by end of 2011, and that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was the one who did not want forces to stay behind.


AWFUL
Teacher Raped and Stabbed
Left alone with sex offenders in jail.
DON'T ASK
China Jails Anti-Corruption Activists
Asked about officials' money.
LONG WAIT
Bodies Recovered After 60 Years
Plane lost in Alaska.
SWEET RIDE
Harley-Davidson Getting an Electric Bike
Prototype comes out next week.
YES!
Chelsea Handler Headed to Netflix
First-ever streaming talk show for service.

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