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Sununu blasts Jimmy Carter’s grandson for Romney’s ’47 percent’ trouble

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Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu on Tuesday responded to leaked tapes of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney insulting “47 percent” of the country by channeling the assorted villains on the late 1960s cartoon Scooby Doo who said that they “would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for…

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Jimmy Carter slams U.S. policy on drones, targeted assassinations

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Former US president Jimmy Carter has declared that drone strikes and targeted assassinations abroad have seen the country violating human rights in a way that “abets our enemies and alienates our friends”. In a stinging attack on US foreign policy, Carter said America was “abandoning its role as a champion…

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Jimmy Carter: Sudan ready to pull troops out of contested region

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By Ian Timberlake KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan says it is ready to pull its soldiers out of the contested Abyei region, former US president Jimmy Carter said after meeting Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir on Sunday. “He has notified the negotiators he’s ready to withdraw troops from Abyei, which we believe…

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Carter: Egypt polls ‘encouraging’ despite constraints

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CAIRO — Former US President Jimmy Carter, who is leading a delegation monitoring Egypt’s first post-revolt presidential election, said on Saturday the process was “encouraging” despite unprecedented constraints. “I would say that these (elections) have been encouraging to me,” he told a news conference in Cairo, but added that his…

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Jimmy Carter warns against war with Iran

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CHICAGO — Former US President Jimmy Carter warned against a possible war with Iran Monday as he decried his nation’s involvement in unjust conflicts at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Chicago. Carter, a naval veteran who served as Democratic president from 1977 to 1981, said that while…

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Jimmy Carter: ‘It is very fine for gay people to be married’

Former President Jimmy Carter. [Flickr user Grace/I'm Not That Girl]

Former President Jimmy Carter expressed his approval of same-sex marriage in an interview with The Huffington Post about his faith Monday evening. While discussing certain portions of The Bible, Carter was asked his thoughts on some people using scriptures as opposition toward LGBT individuals being allowed in church. “Homosexuality was…

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Carter: Gingrich knows how to appeal to racists

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Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of trying to appeal to racists in South Carolina. “I think he has that subtlety of racism that I know quite well, that Gingrich knows quite well, that appeals to some people in Georgia, particularly the right-wing,” he…

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Black Kids Are Kids, Too

I headed over to Townhall this morning, in much the same way you go the long way to rubberneck at the accident you heard about on the radio. Wait, I’m the only one who does that? Well, it was theoretical anyway…not that I’d ever do it…gotta finish this post up,…

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