Starbucks CEO: If You Support Traditional Marriage, We Don’t Want Your Business

Starbucks CEO: If You Support Traditional Marriage, We Don’t Want Your Business: "At the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, CEO Howard Schultz sent a clear message to anyone who supports traditional marriage over gay marriage: we don’t want your business. After saying Starbucks wants to “embrace diversity of all kinds,” he told a shareholder who supports traditional marriage that he should sell his shares and invest in some other company."

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Biden Spends $585,000 for One Night Stay in Paris While Airport Control Towers Are Being Shutdown

Biden Spends $585,000 for One Night Stay in Paris While Airport Control Towers Are Being Shutdown: "President Barack Obama’s sequestration has resulted in furloughs for TSA, Border Patrol and Customs agents.  It has cost our servicemen and women their promised tuition coverage."

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The Supreme Court Has Already Ruled on Homosexual Marriage

The Supreme Court Has Already Ruled on Homosexual Marriage: "In the nineteenth century, the courts agreed that it was necessary for the State to acknowledge the biblical requirement of monogamy over against polygamy (many wives). Marriage is by definition a union of one man and one woman."

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Cyprus Salvaged After EU Deal Shuts Bank to Get $13B - Bloomberg

Cyprus Salvaged After EU Deal Shuts Bank to Get $13B - Bloomberg: "Cyprus dodged a disorderly sovereign default and unprecedented exit from the euro by bowing to demands from creditors to shrink its banking system in exchange for 10 billion euros ($13 billion) of aid.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades agreed to shut the country’s second-largest bank under pressure from a German-led bloc in an overnight negotiating melodrama that threatened to rekindle the European debt crisis and rattle markets."

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Cyprus banks remain closed to avert run on deposits | Reuters

Cyprus banks remain closed to avert run on deposits | Reuters: "The president of Cyprus assured his people a bailout deal he struck with the European Union was in their best interests, but banks will remain closed until Thursday - and even then subject to capital controls to prevent a run on deposits."

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Picture of ‘martial law’ alarms forensic profiler

Picture of ‘martial law’ alarms forensic profiler: "A forensic profiler who worked on the disappearance of Natalie Holloway and the double-murder case against O.J. Simpson says he is becoming alarmed by some of the references President Obama is using."

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Superintendents Paid as Much as Corporate CEOs

Superintendents Paid as Much as Corporate CEOs: "Property taxes have continued to increase in many parts of the country throughout the recession because of rising costs to fund public schools. The increased costs are driven by the large salaries that many school superintendents receive, says Elizabeth MacDonald of Fox Business News."

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'Most Palestinians hate Obama'; US president gets heated reception in West Bank - Telegraph

'Most Palestinians hate Obama'; US president gets heated reception in West Bank - Telegraph: "The two presidential choppers landed in the Palestinian presidential compound in Ramallah twenty minutes ahead of schedule. The force of their landing blew plumes of dust and litter over thin lines of ceremonial guards and bagpipers saluting the arrival."

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Obama's Middle East policy in tatters: Column

Obama's Middle East policy in tatters: Column: "President Obama's first journey to Israel as president comes amid earth-shattering change in Middle East, much of it for the worse. The Arab Spring, which once raised hopes of freedom and dignity, has diverged onto the dark path of Islamist authoritarian rule. "

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Biden's One-Night Paris Hotel Tab: $585,000.50 | The Weekly Standard

Biden's One-Night Paris Hotel Tab: $585,000.50 | The Weekly Standard: "As it turns out, Vice President Joe Biden's London stay in February was not the most expensive part of his trip. A government document released on February 14, 2013 shows that the contract for the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand came in at $585,000.50."

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