So, what can I expect from an Obama Presidency, a Reid Senate, and a Pelosi House? The elimination of the Bush tax cuts will immediately raise my income taxes by 24 percent. This increase will impact our household income, based on my wife’s salary, and my retirement pension. The Obama tax plan will increase...
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Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, an officer in the United States Air Force Reserve, is the subject of two new investigations. Both center on whether Hartmann abused his power as the Legal Adviser to the Convening Authority in the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions. He no longer holds this position. The United...
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This past Thursday, the leading third party U.S. presidential candidates held a debate at the Cleveland City Center in Cleveland, Ohio. In attendance were Independent Ralph Nader, Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin and Libertarian Party nominee former Congressman Bob Barr. This is the first, and presumably last, debate between the three before the election...
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The Christian Science Monitor has announced plans to cease daily print publication. The newspaper employs 95 correspondents and 8 foreign bureaus and has won 7 Pulitzer Prizes, making it the most prominent newspaper to transition to online publication. It is due to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary later this month. The move has other...
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(The following article is based on several reports obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.) A multi-agency initiative to combat illegal exports of restricted military and dual-use technology from the United States has resulted in criminal charges against more than 145 defendants in the past fiscal year, with roughly 43 percent of...
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The State of Florida has a very interesting Constitutional provision, one that should be expanded to include the federal level: Lawyers are not permitted to run for non-judicial offices. The Separation of Powers Doctrine forms a delicate balance. The Judicial, Executive, and Administrative branches should operate independently of each other, with nothing invisibly orchestrating...
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Most everyone who has lived or spent time in New England knows of the adventures of the fictitious characters, “Bert and I.” These characters were created by Marshall Dodge and the stories told with Robert Bryan to enraptured audiences in the late 1960’s and 70’s. I was lucky enough to take in their memorable...
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At least thirteen bombs were set off in the northeastern state of Assam in India on Thursday. The blasts went off shortly before noon IST (UTC+5:30) at market places and government buildings in the state capital Guwahati and surrounding area. Reports say that so far 77 people have been confirmed killed and between 200...
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Actor David Tennant made an announcement Wednesday at the National Television Awards in the United Kingdom that he will end his time portraying the Tenth Doctor on the long-running BBC science fiction drama Doctor Who in 2009. The announcement came as part of Tennant’s speech accepting the outstanding drama performance award at the program....
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Studs Terkel, an Amercian historian, radio talk show host and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has died at the age of 96. His son, Dan Terkel, said he died peacefully in his Chicago, Illinois home. “My dad led a long, full, eventful, sometimes tempestuous, but very satisfying life. peaceful, no agony. This is...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota – Speaking to about 4000 people at the Minneapolis Convention Center Thursday night, former U.S. President Bill Clinton gave a speech exhorting audience members to support U.S. Presidential Candidate Barack Obama and Minnesota senatorial candidate Al Franken in the upcoming election on Nov. 4. “Barack Obama can lead us in changing the...
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Kay Hagan, a North Carolina State senator who is the Democratic challenger for Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole’s U.S. Senate seat, has filed a lawsuit accusing Dole of defamation and libel. The lawsuit spawns from an ad recently aired by the Dole campaign which accuses Hagan of attending a fundraising event hosted by the Godless...
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While presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain were campaigning in Pennsylvania, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that its fugitive operations teams based in Philadelphia detention and removal office arrested 37 fugitives, which included 14 with criminal records, during a targeted operation which ended last Sunday. During the operation an additional 62...
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During a Thursday stump speech in Sarasota, FL, Obama suggested that people wanting to keep their hard-earned money rather than hand it over to the taxman are “selfish.” After explaining how changing “our tax code†to take even more from the rich to give to the poor would “make sure that everybody’s got a...
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In the past two weeks the Zimbabwe economy has seen two really significant developments. The first is the total collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar and the second is the sharp deterioration in basic food supplies. On Tuesday a local banker told me that the cost of money transactions in Zimbabwe dollars now exceeded the...
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