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Tom Kostigen / fa-mag.com:
Harvard Professor Trashes Keynes For Homosexuality — Harvard Professor and author Niall Ferguson says John Maynard Keynes' economic philosophy was flawed and he didn't care about future generations because he was gay and didn't have children. — Speaking at the Tenth Annual Altegris Conference …
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Harvard's Niall Ferguson Blamed Keynes' Economic Philosophy On His Being Childless And Gay — Harvard professor and famous historian Niall Ferguson reportedly made some bizarre and offensive remarks about economist John Maynard Keynes at an investment conference yesterday.
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Niall Ferguson:
An Unqualified Apology — During a recent question-and-answer session at a conference in California, I made comments about John Maynard Keynes that were as stupid as they were insensitive. — I had been asked to comment on Keynes's famous observation “In the long run we are all dead.”
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Nycsouthpaw / BuzzFeed:
Harvard History Professor Reportedly Trashes John Maynard Keynes Because He Was Gay And Childless — At an investment conference in California, Niall Ferguson blames Keynesianism on the gay and barren. UPDATE: Ferguson apologizes. — John Maynard Keynes — Via: leftfootforward.org
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
Sources: U.S. believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria — (CNN) — The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials tell CNN. — U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most likely conducted …
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Boston Herald:
No one wants to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev — By: — A Worcester funeral home director was scrambling last night to find a cemetery that would bury the marathon bombings mastermind, as protesters jeered outside his door demanding that the bomber's body be shipped out of the United States.
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Fox News:
BENGHAZI: Names of ‘whistleblower’ witnesses revealed — Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff. But now Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi “whistleblowers” …
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald — A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case — The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because …
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
A march on Washington with loaded rifles — A gun activist is planning a massive march on D.C., with participants' rifles illegally slung over their shoulders — Libertarian activist and radio host Adam Kokesh is hoping to get 1,000 people to march on Washington on July 4 — armed with loaded rifles.
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Daily Mail:
Outrage after Democrats insult Nikki Haley's Indian heritage saying they'll send the Republican Gov. ‘back to wherever the hell she came from’ — Conservatives are outraged after a Democrat in South Carolina allegedly insulted Republican Gov. Nikki Haley's Indian heritage at a party gathering in Columbia on Friday.
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News-Record.com:
Voller: GOP is raping N.C. — N.C. Democratic Party Chairman Randy Voller told a room full of people at the Democratic Women of Guilford County's spring banquet Thursday that the GOP is raping North Carolina with its legislative decisions. — Voller said this afternoon that he meant …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. admits flaws in forensic testimony in Mississippi death-row case — The Justice Department has acknowledged flaws in forensic testimony by the FBI that helped convict a man in the 1992 slayings of two Mississippi State University students, and federal officials have now offered to retest the DNA in the case.
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Reuters:
Obama tells Mexicans a ‘new Mexico’ is emerging — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told the Mexican people on Friday that he sees a “new Mexico” emerging, with a deepening democracy and growing economy, and that Mexico and the United States should be viewed as equal partners.
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Sarah Palin gets standing O from NRA crowd — HOUSTON — Sarah Palin said Friday that the elite media would never let a Republican president get away with what Barack Obama has done in his push for new gun laws. — The former Alaska governor recalled that the national press “tore apart” …
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Palin fires up NRA crowd, hits Obama for using Newtown families
Palin fires up NRA crowd, hits Obama for using Newtown families
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Miketoole / CBS Boston:
CBS News: Boston Marathon Bomb DNA Does Not Match Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Wife — BOSTON (CBS) - Female DNA and fingerprints found on a bomb fragment recovered from the Boston Marathon attacks do not match the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, CBS News reported Friday.
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Investigators sharpen focus on Boston bombing suspect's widow
Investigators sharpen focus on Boston bombing suspect's widow
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