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Today, the Obama administration is no longer attempting to capture men like these [terrorists] alive; it is simply killing them. This may be satisfying, but it comes at a price. With every drone strike that vaporizes a senior al Qaeda leader, actionable intelligence is vaporized along with him. Dead terrorists can’t tell you their plans to strike America.

— Marc Thiessen, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and author of Courting Disaster.

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Look at me when I’m talking to you!

–Florida State Senate Pres. Mike Haridopolos (R-Melbourne), addressing Fair Districts Florida Campaign Chair Ellen Freidin. Freidin had been testifying before Haridopolos’ committee for three hours on the need to redraw Florida’s districts to accurately reflect voter demographics (which in Florida favor Democrats), but was interrupted repeatedly by the senator, whose good looks and peevish manner have earned questions about his sense of entitlement and issues dealing with women, along with nicknames like Little Napolean and Pretty Boy.