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Watch: Dolphins Play with Waterboarder (VIDEO)

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No food stamps for junk food: Florida bill would ban buying sweets with food stamps

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Forbes Report: Miami is the most miserable U.S. city

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Kimmel: Newt Gingrich AD Attacks Florida After Loss

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Romney Glitter Bombed Twice in Minnesota, Calls it 'confetti' (VIDEO)

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Florida Crash Survivor Loses Family, Faces Deportation

A suburban Atlanta church reeling from the loss of a pastor and nearly his entire family in a Florida multivehicle wreck is now concerned that an injured survivor may face deportation.

Lidiane Carmo, 15, the sole survivor among her immediate family, came to the United States from Brazil when she was only 2, according to another pastor at International Church of the Restoration in Marietta. "She is like any regular American girl. (But) she wasn't born here," the Rev. Aron Amazonas said Wednesday. "She acts like an American girl. She almost can't speak the Portuguese language. She doesn't know the people there." Lidiane and five members of her family were part of a church delegation returning Sunday from a conference in Orlando, according to CNN affiliate WSB. Jose Carmo, pastor at the church; his wife, Adriana; and their daughter Leticia were killed, along with Jose Carmo's brother, Edsom Carmo, who was driving one of the church's vans, and a companion.

Lidiane, who remains hospitalized, learned Tuesday that her parents and sister had been killed, Amazonas told WSB. Church members are concerned that the teen may face legal troubles. "The Carmo family was in the United States illegally," said Alonso Oliveira, a family friend and pastor. "The family wanted to obtain legal status but had no laws to help them do so." The family stayed in the United States after their visas expired, WSB reported. Amazonas said the church's top priority is taking care of Lidiane and sending the bodies of the victims back to Brazil. "We are shocked with everything that happened with us and this lovely family. We are trying to give them the support they need," he said.

Representatives of the Brazilian government are consulting with the church about Lidiane's legal status. Amazonas was hopeful that the laws would permit the teen to stay in the United States. A local high school was holding a prayer vigil Wednesday night.
The pastor said the church has been promised financial assistance from Florida on the return of the remains. Members of the community also are assisting. The death toll from the string of crashes on Interstate 75 near Gainesville -- amid heavy smoke from a nearby brush fire -- has risen to 11 with the discovery of another body, the Florida Highway Patrol said. An additional victim was found in a Dodge truck, the Highway Patrol said in a statement Tuesday. The body was not immediately identified.

The National Weather Service warned that patchy smoke and fog may still be present in the area Wednesday. The smoke is from a brush fire at the nearby Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park. The Boardwalk Fire was 100% contained, but smoke could linger for months, Ludie Bond, wildfire mitigation specialist for the Gainesville area, said this week. Meanwhile, questions remain about the deadly crashes. The Florida Highway Patrol had reopened the section of I-75 where the crashes occurred barely half an hour before the pileup. The interstate was closed for about three hours earlier Sunday, after a pair of crashes late Saturday on I-75 and nearby U.S. 441, Highway Patrol Lt. Patrick Riordan said Monday. Troopers, the state Department of Transportation and the local sheriff's office reopened the road after determining that conditions were improving, he said. I-75 reopened at 3:26 a.m. Thirty-three minutes later, callers began to report chain-reaction crashes in both the north and southbound lanes.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has asked the state Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the circumstances behind the crashes.

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Chris Matthews Unloads on Mitt Romney in Epic Rant (VIDEO)

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Mitt Romney: 'I'm not concerned about the very poor'

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Matthews: Romney is ‘one of the bad guys’

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Gingrich: Romney Refused Kosher Food to Holocaust Survivors (AUDIO)

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The Daily Show’s 'Floridal Combat': Romney vs. Gingrich (VIDEO)

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Palin: Gingrich will ‘clobber’ Obama

By David Edwards
Sunday, January 29, 2012 14:03 EST

Failed Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin all but endorsed Newt Gingrich on Saturday, saying Florida voters should “rage against the machine, vote for Newt.”

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro asked the former Alaska governor how Gingrich could claim that he was not a Washington insider after being in Congress for 20 years, including serving as the Speaker of the House.

“Look at the players in the establishment who are fighting so hard against him,” Palin explained. “They want to crucify him because he’s tapped into that average, everyday tea party grassroots movement that has said enough is enough of the establishment that tries to run the show and tweak rules and laws and regulations for for their own good, and not for our nation’s own good. Well, when both party machines — and many in the media — are trying to crucify Newt Gingrich for bucking the tide, and bucking the establishment, that tells you something.

She added: “And I say, you know, you got to rage against the machine at this point in order to defend our republic and save what is good and secure and prosperous about our nation. … So, if for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for Newt. Annoy a liberal, vote Newt.”

Even though polls show otherwise, Palin insisted that Gingrich was also the candidate that had the best chance at beating President Barack Obama in the general election.

“I think that comes down to who can articulate their ideas, their solutions best,” she said. “And in a campaign, the way that you articulate that is in a debate. And I’ve appreciated, again, Newt Gingrich’s, his style in debates, his thinking, his way of explaining what it is that he stands for. So I think that in a debate, Newt Gingrich would clobber Barack Obama.”

Using violent rhetoric to describe how Gingrich would fair against Obama is nothing new for Fox News employees like Sarah Palin. Last week, Fox News host Steve Doocy claimed that Gingrich would “take off the head of the president” during a debate.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/29/palin-gingrich-will-clobber-obama/

Watch this video from Fox News’ Justice with Judge Jeanine, broadcast Jan. 28, 2012.

"Sheeesh, still like a finger nail on a Chalk Board!!!"By David Edwards Sunday, January 29, 2012 14:03 EST Failed Republican vice... more