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King submits DHS savings ideas to ‘supercommittee’

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Mark Rockwell

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Rep. Peter King

The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security submitted a list of deficit reduction suggestions to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction  –  also called the supercommittee  –  that he said could bring $1.2 trillion in savings over 10 years. 

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Mediocrity is king (Frédéric Filloux/Monday Note)

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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Mediocrity is king  —  Last week, the Huffington Post reached a new apex.  Viewed from France, where ads are localized, its home page carried a remarkably tasteful ad: a farting application for the iPhone (see below).  As prudery still rules in American media, you’ll notice that the farter’s exhaust aperture has been blurred.

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