The flight lasted around 4 hr. 5 min., only a few minutes longer than originally expected. Chandler said he initially took the aircraft to an altitude of 10,000 ft. to perform basic handling checks and then gradually began testing different speeds at different configurations.
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When President’s Travel…An Africa Trip that could cost more than $60 Mil…..
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“This is what you need to support the American presidency,” Atkiss said of the requirements, “regardless of who the president is.”…..
Share on FacebookJustice Department wants a monitor for NYC’s stop-and-frisk changes if ordered…
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The Justice Department said if a judge finds New York police stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional, a monitor should be appointed to oversee changes.
Wednesday was the last day legal briefs could be filed in a class-action lawsuit in which the New York Police Department is under fire for allegedly targeting minorities in its controversial stop-and-frisk program, the New York Daily News reported….
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Some nonprofits are little more than fronts for fund-raising companies, which bankroll their startup costs, lock them into exclusive contracts at exorbitant rates and even drive the charities into debt. Florida-based Project Cure has raised more than $65 million since 1998, but every year has wound up owing its fundraiser more than what was raised. According to its latest financial filing, the nonprofit is $3 million in debt.
Share on FacebookWhite America under 5 years old will become a minority come next year…..
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The government also projects that in five years, minorities will make up more than half of children under 18. Not long after, the total U.S. white population will begin an inexorable decline in absolute numbers, due to aging baby boomers.
Share on FacebookNSA Head tells Congress their programs gets results……
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“We aren’t trying to hide it,” he said. “We’re trying to protect America. So we need your help in doing that. This isn’t something that’s just N.S.A. or the administration doing it on its own. This is what our nation expects our government to do for us.”
Share on FacebookBreaking….Jason Kidd is the new Nets coach…..
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“Jason is a proven winner and leader with an incredible wealth of basketball knowledge and experience,” King said. “This will be a natural transition for him to move into the role of head coach.”
Share on FacebookDo we need a Religious Liberty Amendment for the military?
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on June 12, 2013
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RedState thinks so….
The President doesn’t……
(What about the sepration of Church and State?)
Share on FacebookRun Against Obama Stuff for President starting now for lower tier Democrats?
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on June 12, 2013
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Maybe Obama will avoid the second-term curse, though the evidence so far isn’t promising. But if Obama somehow is still wildly popular at the time of the Iowa caucuses, then you as an outsider probably won’t stand a chance.
Share on FacebookNY State Regulator sound’s an alarm on Life Insurance Companies….
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Mr. Lawsky said that because the transactions made companies look richer than they otherwise would, some were diverting reserves to other uses, like executive compensation or stockholder dividends.
The most frequent use, he said, was to artificially increase companies’ risk-based capital ratios, an important measurement of solvency that was instituted after a series of life-insurance failures and near misses in the 1980s.
Mr. Lawsky [New York’s superintendent of financial services] said he was struck by similarities between what the life insurers were doing now and the issuing of structured mortgage securities in the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008…..
Share on FacebookMarco Rubio and his fellow Republicans….
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The attempted seduction of Senator John Cornyn by immigration reformers is akin to my effort to get Neil Patrick Harris, the best emcee ever of any awards show, to sing at my next birthday. No matter how much I offer him, he’ll turn me down.
Share on FacebookCoco in a pink bikini…..
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on June 11, 2013
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The Supreme’s have a lot of decisions to hand down…..
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on June 11, 2013
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…….an easy guide to the 22 cases left for the Supreme Court to decide before the end of its current term, organized by the month in which they were argued.
Share on FacebookOf Course the Russian’s would offer NSA leaker Snowden aslumn….
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on June 11, 2013
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Russia would consider granting asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
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