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"sent": "-- At least 84 Nigerian children have died after ingesting teething medicine that contained a solvent typically found in antifreeze, the country's health minister said Friday."
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"sent": "As an American, I am appalled by Dick Cheney and Dick Cheney relentless, pathetic and ultimately doomed effort to revise the history of Dick Cheney failures."
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "But as a Democrat, I am thrilled that an incompetent, dishonest and reviled figure is hell-bent on making Dick Cheney the face of the Republican Party, hogging the spotlight from rising stars like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio -- and eclipsing more honorable Republicans from the Bush era, like Colin Powell."
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"sent": "Dick Cheney's endless media appearances, including this remarkable interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, reveal a nearly sociopathic refusal to admit any error, express any remorse, apologize for any mistake."
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"sent": "And so let us review the Dick Cheney record: No vice president has done more damage to our country,"
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"sent": "In the first months of the Bush-Dick Cheney administration, Dick Cheney was ordered to convene a task force on terrorism."
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"sent": "Instead, Dick Cheney ignored the problem, a task force never met, and the warnings about an impending terrorist attack were ignored."
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"sent": "Later, instead of apologizing, Dick Cheney cravenly blamed the White House counterterrorism czar (PDF), Dick Clarke, who had tried to warn anyone who would listen that an attack was coming."
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"sent": "Richard Clarke was the head of the counterterrorism program in the run up to 9/11,Dick"
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"sent": "Dick Cheney obviously missed it."
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"sent": "Blaming the guy who did Dick Cheney job when you're the one who didn't do yours."
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"sent": "Need I mention that, as CEO of Halliburton, Dick Cheney opposed President Clinton's sanctions on the terrorist regime in Iran, calling the Clinton administration \"sanctions-happy\"?"
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"sent": "And Dick Cheney breezily defended doing business with the terrorists in Tehran -- through an overseas-based subsidiary -- explaining that \"the good Lord didn't see fit to always put oil and gas resources where there are democratic governments."
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"sent": "Need I mention Dick Cheney told Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill that \"deficits don't matter\"?"
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"sent": "One can debate whether Dick Cheney's misstatements were the result of willful mendacity or incompetence."
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"sent": "And America is weaker and poorer because of Dick Cheney."
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"sent": "Dick Cheney, however, has no room for such candid introspection."
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"sent": "Dick Cheney did not mention the death and devastation Dick Cheney brought to Iraq or that Dick Cheney and others ignored the terror threat before 9/11."
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"sent": "Dick Cheney didn't mention Dick Cheney votes in Congress against banning plastic guns or opposing the release of Nelson Mandela."
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"sent": "Other than that, Dick Cheney sees this man's life as a flawless, virtuous existence."
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"sent": "But here's the thing: Even after Dick Cheney shot Dick Cheney in the face, there's no indication Dick Cheney ever apologized to Harry Whittington."
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"sent": "Paul Begala says Paul Begala is appalled by Dick Cheney and Dick Cheney relentless effort to revise history .\n"
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"sent": "From there, it was off to the races, as Dick Cheney did and said anything to drag America into a war with Iraq."
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"sent": "The good folks at Vox have compiled a damning indictment of Dick Cheney's deep dishonesty about Iraq."
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"sent": "He said the lead 9/11 hijacker \"did go to Prague, and He did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service ..."
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"sent": "He said Saddam had \"an established relationship with al Qaeda."
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"sent": "Dick Cheney claimed there was \"irrefutable evidence\" Saddam had reconstituted Dick Cheney nuclear program."
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"sent": "Dick Cheney said Saddam \"had an established relationship with al Qaeda, providing training to al Qaeda members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs."
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"sent": "not even Vice President Aaron Burr, who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton 210 years ago."
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"sent": "When Dick Cheney turned 70, Dick Cheney was asked Dick Cheney greatest regret."
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"sent": "Were this man's life not for the tragedies of 9/11 and Iraq, perhaps the thing Dick Cheney would be remembered for was that Dick Cheney was the second vice president to shoot a man"
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"sent": ", albeit Dick Cheney's was in a hunting accident and Harry Whittington, thank God, survived."
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"sent": "Still, as a longtime quail hunter, I have no doubt Dick Cheney was in the wrong."
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"sent": "And Dick Cheney violated a cardinal rule: Dick Cheney was drinking before Dick Cheney picked up the gun."
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"sent": "In the interest of brevity, let me focus on a few lowlights: ."
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"sent": "several months before an attack."
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"sent": "Wrong, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report."
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"sent": "I believe the former."
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"sent": "But at a deeper level, it does not matter."
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"sent": "I know that powerful people don't like admitting error."
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"sent": "But Clinton did so in Clinton new book, candidly admitting that in voting for the Bush-Dick Cheney war in Iraq, \"I got the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq wrong."
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"sent": "A three-word oblique reference to a couple of drunken driving incidents a half century ago are the biggest regrets of this man's life."
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"sent": "I suppose being a sociopath means never having to say you're sorry."
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"sent": "An earlier version of this article incorrectly indicated an affiliation between the Washington Post and the independent news website Vox."
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"sent": "And that's just on Iraq."
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"sent": "Regardless of whether Dick Cheney is a liar or a fool, thousands of heroic American troops are dead."
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"sent": "Tens of thousands are injured."
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"sent": "By comparison, Facebook grew 228 percent, to 65.7 million users, during the same period."
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"sent": "Not every Twitterer is sympathetic to the site's troubles, though."
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"sent": "A lot of people come in, and A lot of people take that 'What are you doing?' question literally, and so A lot of people put very inane things on Twitter,\" he said."
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"sent": ": How do you feel about tweets and status updates?"
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"sent": "But for all the complaints, there seem to be just as many people who are almost excited about Twitter's growing pains."
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"sent": "It is inevitable that a Web site seeing Twitter-style growth would face some glitches and a backlash from early adopters, said Laura Fitton, a consultant and co-author of the book \"Twitter for Dummies."
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"sent": "Major news such as the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the Hudson River plane landing has broken over Twitter, and that's added to the site's popularity, she said."
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"sent": "Amy Gahran, who writes on social media at contentious.com, said the backlash against Twitter stems from the fact that people are uncomfortable with change."
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"sent": "we have made amazing progress from a technical perspective as far as accommodating this rapid growth goes and will continue to improve system and subsystem performance moving forward,\" Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a statement to CNN."
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"sent": "I blame Shaq,\" wrote Jessica Roy, a 21-year-old New York University student who goes by suchamessica on Twitter."
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"sent": "Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, or THE_REAL_SHAQ, has more than 470,000 followers on the site."
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"sent": "but in turn, they've taught me so much about working and remaining positive with the circumstances that you're dealt."
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"sent": "Seventeen of the 140 Central American immigrants from south Texas to San Diego were taken to the Boulevard station in eastern San Diego County, Ron Zermeno of the National Border Patrol Council said."
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"sent": "the Obama administration also will set aside $161.5 million this year for the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) programs in an effort to \"help stem migration flows as well as address the root cause of the migration,\" the White House said."
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"sent": "The children on the buses were apparently in the company of relatives or other adults, said an official with the National Border Patrol Council. '"
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"sent": "Mothers and their children on these buses have suffered through enough trauma."
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"sent": "Authorities estimate 60,000 to 80,000 children without parents will cross the border this year in what the White House has called an \"immediate humanitarian crisis."
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"sent": "You bring in all these children and all these children're going to take over our schools,\" Bel Reeves added."
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"ord": 56,
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"sent": "Crossroads of hope and fear: Stories from a desert bus station ."
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"sent": "PT Friday's lunar impact will be visible best in areas that are still dark, particularly in the Western United States."
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"sent": "the observatory is in Fremont Peak State Park, which is on a list of California parks that could close because of recent budget cuts."
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"ord": 48,
"sent": "we're not in Florida, we're not in Texas, we're not in Silicon Valley -- it's not something they're used to seeing."
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