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Fast Forward Chandra Levy’s Mother Admits Doubts About Jewish Intern’s Convicted ‘Killer’
The mother of Chandra Levy, the Capitol Hill intern who was murdered in 2001 has admitted in a new interview that she has doubts about whether the man convicted in her daughter’s murder is actually the killer. Susan Levy told CNN’s Anderson Cooper she is only 85% sure that Ingmar Guandique is the murderer. ‘I…
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Fast Forward Hours From Fiscal Cliff, No Sign of a Deal
The U.S. Congress comes back on Monday without a deal to avert the “fiscal cliff” and only a few hours of actual legislative time scheduled in which to act if an agreement materializes. Negotiations involving Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell appeared to offer the last hope for avoiding the across-the-board…
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Opinion Lukewarm Response to Anti-Palestinian Letter
Congressional efforts to shut down the Palestinian delegation office in Washington have garnered only tepid support. A letter, co-authored by the outgoing and incoming leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from both parties and calling on the President to close the PLO office in Washington, has closed on Friday with only 239 signatures. The…
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Israel News Congress May Pull Plug on PLO Over Statehood
Congressional supporters of Israel, seeking to punish the Palestinian Authority for its recent drive for recognition by the United Nations as an observer state, have set their sights on a conveniently local and long-standing target: the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington. Earlier in December, a legislative proposal to downgrade the status of…
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Opinion Revisiting a Soviet Jewry Milestone
The massive Soviet Jewry rally that took place in Washington 25 years ago on December 6 was a powerful event. The gathering of so many people who traveled great distances, raising a voice of Jewish conscience, of moral conscience, was unprecedented. The rally’s success remains a tribute to Natan Sharansky, one of the great heroes…
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Fast Forward Chef Has Solution to ‘Frankenfish’ Woes
The northern snakehead is known as “Frankenfish” and “rattlesnakes with fins,” and some chefs say one way to stop the predatory, fast-spreading fish is obvious – with a fork. With a reputation as fearsome as its name, the voracious snakehead fish has intruded throughout much of the Potomac River basin in Virginia and Maryland in…
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Life Missing from Petraeus Affair’s Coverage
Something important has gone unnoticed amid the chatter about the titillating revelations of an affair between four star General David Petraeus (he of the name worthy of the leader of ancient Greece’s military forces, never mind the United States’) and his fawning biographer, Paula Broadwell. And that is the fact that there was a tremendous…
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Opinion VA, FL Close But Leaning Dem; CO OKs Weed
Chuck Todd on MSNBC is saying Virginia and Florida are too close to call but look likely to go for Obama, because the counties still outstanding are generally Democratic-leaning. The call in Ohio by the networks was for the same reason, as Michael Barone explained rather patiently to Karl Rove on air at Fox: the…
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