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May 01, 2013

Outside View: America's most tolerated dangers
Washington (UPI) May 1, 2013
If asked, most Americans would agree that economic and financial chaos or a stunning terrorist attack by foreign jihadis possibly with nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction constitute among the gravest threats to the United States. But the United States faces other more immediate, yet tolerated, dangers that have done and are doing irreparable harm to the nation. Sadly, these dangers don't provoke enough public fury or even attention to motivate corrective action. These tolerated ... read more

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