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LIVE AT SIX: 04.05.13

Posted on | April 5, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
School Faces New Questions In Colorado Massacre

Murderous dirtbag and his attorney

Murderous dirtbag and his attorney

Did campus cops drop ball after his shrink said he posed threat?



Fukushima Reactor’s Cooling Plant Fails
EVERYBODY PANIC (no, don’t, really)


Hillary Signs Book Deal With Simon & Schuster
Memoir on SecState tenure to reap at least $500K advance



POLITICS
Senator Scott Brown (R-NH)? Maybe…

Former Senator Scott Brown watches a Pequot tribal drum ritual

Former Senator Scott Brown watches a Pequot tribal drum ritual

Former Massachusetts Senator doesn’t rule out challenge to Jeanne Shaheen

Alabama Legislature Votes To Pardon Scottsboro Boys

Poll: Majority Of Americans Favor Legalizing Pot; Also, Majority Don’t Understand How The Constitution Works


Obama Catches Bipartisan Flak For Kamala Harris Remark

Maryland Legislature Passes Tough Gun Control Law

Virginia Restaurant Offers Discount To Armed Patrons

Navy Embarrassed By Loss Of $300 Million Minesweeper

Senate GOP Staff Estimates Immigration Bill Could Cost Billions; Rubio Disagrees



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Up Slightly In Asia After Sharp Drop On US Jobless Claims, Supply Glut: NYMEX $93.44, Brent $106.50
Enron’s Skilling Could Get Early Release From Prison
HP Chairman Lane Steps Down, Two Directors Depart
“Loose Cannon” Yellen As Bernanke’s Successor Scares Bond Markets
Consumer Bureau Fines Mortgage Insurers $15 Million Over Alleged Kickbacks
Samsung Posts Near-Record 1Q Earnings On Galaxy Sales
Corzine Slammed In Freeh Report On MF Global Collapse
Treasuries Gain: 10-Year Yield Falls Below 1.8%
Jobless Claims At Four-Month High
Bank Of America’s New ATMs To Connect Customers With Live Tellers
T-Mobile Opens Pre-Orders For iPhone 5 At $99.99
Gartner: Microsoft Threatened As Smartphones And Tablets Rise
Hooray, The First Free DLC For “SimCity” Is…An Advertisement
Apple’s New Spaceship Campus $2 Billion Over Budget
Apple’s iMessage Encryption Trips Up Feds’ Surveillance
Google Fights US National Security Probe Data Demand
Five LinkedIn Tools Job Hunters Must Use
Google, Microsoft Turn Up Office Heat



SPORTS
Pac-12 Ref Coordinator Ed Rush Resigns Amid Probe

Pac-12 Commish Larry Scott: Rush'sactions "completely inapropriate"

Pac-12 Commish Larry Scott: Rush’s actions “completely inapropriate”

Allegedly offered refs inducements to toss or foul Arizona coach Sean Miller before the conference tourney

Caps Edge Islanders 2-1, Take Division Lead

Nuggets Rally After Gallinari Injury, Beat Mavericks 95-94

Pettitte, Rivera Salvage Win For Yanks Against BoSox

Jagr Scores In Boston Debut As Bruins Shut Out Devils 1-0

Thunder Win Battle Of West’s Bests, Top Spurs 100-88

Weak-Hitting Royals Win Behind Guthrie

Gaborik Already Paying Off For Columbus As Blue Jackets Beat Predators 3-1

Depleted Bulls Defeat Nyets 92-90

Twins Pound Tigers In 8-2 Victory

Nats Off To Clean Start With Sweep Of Marlins



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies, 70

Good night, sweet prince

Roger Ebert, 1943-2013, R.I.P.

“Roger Ebert loved movies. Except for those he hated.”
– Neil Steinberg
Dead of cancer after decade-long struggle

Christopher Abbott Leaves “Girls” After Suddenly Realizing It Sucks

Lindsay Lohan’s BFF Vikram Chatwal Busted For Drug Possession & Trafficking

Beyonce, Jay-Z Turn Heads In Cuba

Magic Johnson Opens Up About Gay Son EJ

Life Imitates Art: Lena Headley, Queen Cersei On “Game Of Thrones” Dead Broke With Less Than $5 In Bank

Jada Pinkett-Smith Addresses Open Marriage Rumors

Benedict Cumberbatch To Star In Del Toro’s “Crimson Peak”

Justin Lin Won’t Direct “Fast & Furious 7”

Iconic Hollywood Hotspot Sued Over Alleged Rapes



FOREIGNERS
Mumbai Building Collapse Leaves Dozens Dead
Anonymous Hacks Nork Social Media Accounts
Burma Religious Strife Spreads To Indonesia
U.S. Embassy Triggers Row With Egypt Over Jon Stewart Tweet Twitting Morsi
Group Claims South Sudan Gives Nonlethal Aid To Sudanese Rebels
And Now It’s A Crime To Hate The Sex Pistols
Philippines, US Open 29th Balikatan Joint Exercises
Egyptian Navy Seizes Ship Carrying Arms In Red Sea
Afghanistan Mission Ends For Kiwi Soldiers



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: I Told You So!
Michelle Malkin: The Open-Borders “Journalists” Who Banned “Illegal Immigrant”
Allahpundit: Democratic Gay Marriage Pool Update
Gateway Pundit: Shameless Liar Obama Claims Newtown Killer Used “Fully Automatic Weapon”
Power Line: Obama Doesn’t Know Anything About Guns Either
AmSpecBlog: New Connecticut Gun Laws In Depth, In Context
Weasel Zippers: Eric Holder Has Second Thoughts, Takes Pay Cut
Weekly Standard Blog: McAuliffe Tight-Lipped On Child Sodomy Case
NewsBusters: NYT Finds Another Republican For Gay Marriage…Ronald Reagan?
Via Meadia: Ahmadinejad – Media Darling?
Twitchy: Sad Obama Pines For Speaker Pelosi
Ed Morrissey: ADP March Jobs Report Shows 158K Growth In Private Sector
American Thinker: Obamacare Means Hiring Boom For “Navigators”
Mary Katherine Ham: Poll – Sequester Fallout Not Going Democrats’ Way
Protein Wisdom: Obama – “I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place”
Legal Insurrection: Five Signs Buzzfeed May Have Peaked
Riehl World News: Is The NRCC Poised To Copy Buzzfeed?
Lonely Conservative: Immigration Reform Could Cost $40 Billion A Year Just For Medicaid And Medicare


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Comments

3 Responses to “LIVE AT SIX: 04.05.13”

  1. richard mcenroe
    April 5th, 2013 @ 10:58 am

    Ah, Colorado. When seconds count, the police are just a month late…

  2. ChuckFinley
    April 6th, 2013 @ 1:10 pm

    The photo of Holmes and his lawyer is wrongly captioned “Murderous dirtbag and his attorney”. It should read “Murderous Muslim dirtbag and his attorney”. Please correct this oversight.

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