Friday, January 27, 2012
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House: DOE sought federal
contracts for Solyndra
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/27/2012 7:15:07 PM
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House investigators say that one Department of Energy (DOE) official tried to aid Solyndra in procuring government contracts that could support the then-ailing company, while President Obama's campaign bundler -- and major Solyndra investor -- suggested that military contracts might be a "win win win" for DOE. The House Energy and Commerce Committee summarized the push to prop up Solyndra in two letters to Obama Administration officials. "Documents produced to the Committee show that Jonathan Silver, the Executive Director of the
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TRENDING: Space execs hope to rocket Romney
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CNN, by Kevin Liptak
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Posted By: Roberta- 1/27/2012 7:14:27 PM
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Eight former space executives threw their support behind Mitt Romney Friday, hoping to boost the candidate in a state with enormous stakes in America's space program. In an open letter, the leaders said Romney was the candidate best positioned to reignite a program they said had languished under President Barack Obama.
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Bill would block extra welfare
benefits for additional babies
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Union Leader [Manchester, NH], by Staff
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Posted By: nhchemist- 1/27/2012 7:13:12 PM
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CONCORD — New Hampshire taxpayers should not be paying for bad behavior, according to the prime sponsor of a bill that would cap the financial benefits of welfare recipients who have additional children while receiving state aid. The prime sponsor of House Bill 1658, Rep. Neal Kurk, R-Weare, told the House Finance Committee Thursday, “I think it is bad public policy for the state to pay for things we do not want to happen. It is good public policy to pay for things we do want to happen.”
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Biden claims Panetta was
only Obama adviser urging
a 'go' on bin Laden raid
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Fox News, by Justin Fishel
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/27/2012 7:11:39 PM
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Vice President Biden claimed Friday that Leon Panetta was the only member of the inner circle who definitively urged President Obama to green-light the raid on Usama bin Laden's compound, as Biden discussed new details about the behind-the-scenes deliberations. Biden, speaking to the House Democratic Issues Conference in Maryland, candidly admitted that he told the president not to go forward with the mission. Biden said at the time he thought the administration should do more to find out whether bin Laden was actually inside the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Describing the scene when Obama sought the
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Fading Gingrich falls behind in polls
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Reuters, by Jane Sutton
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Posted By: Roberta- 1/27/2012 7:07:05 PM
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Newt Gingrich struggled to regain momentum in the Republican presidential race on Friday as two new polls showed him falling behind rival Mitt Romney, who was seen as the winner of the final debate before the Florida primary. The White House contenders courted Florida's sizable Hispanic vote, many of them Cubans, with appearances on Friday at the Hispanic Leadership Network, where Romney received an unusually warm reception and the reaction to Gingrich was more sedate.
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Church-Burning Video Used to
Promote Atheist Event at Ft. Bragg
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Fox News, by Todd Starnes
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/27/2012 5:39:12 PM
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Atheists are using a music video that celebrates the burning of churches and synagogues to promote an upcoming atheist-themed festival at Fort Bragg. “Rock Beyond Belief” is scheduled to be held on the parade field at Fort Bragg in March. The event was created in part as a response to a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event that was held last year.(snip)Justin Griffith, who organized “Rock Beyond Belief,” said he was personally offended that a Christian evangelical event like “Rock the Fort” was held on the base. “We felt it was entirely inappropriate for anyone to say your current
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Democrats' strategy on Medicare: Let
Ryan, Republicans step in it again
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Mike Lillis
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/27/2012 5:32:03 PM
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House Democrats have a simple strategy as GOP leaders prepare to unveil a 2013 budget expected to include Medicare cuts akin to those proposed last year: Bring it on. "The strategy is to get out of their way and let them do it again," Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.) told reporters at the Democrats' annual Eastern Shore retreat. "There is overwhelming rejection of the abolition of the Medicare guarantee," Andrews added,
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MailOnline, the world's number one:
We're the biggest newspaper website
with 45.348 million unique users
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/27/2012 5:30:10 PM
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The Mail’s website MailOnline is now the world’s biggest newspaper website. According to new figures from Comscore, the ‘gold standard’ web measurement firm, in December 2011 MailOnline recorded 45.348million unique visitors. The next closest newspaper was the New York Times which had 44.787million unique users. The global survey also rated MailOnline well ahead of the BBC News website. According to Comscore, MailOnline had 5.3million visitors a day, while the BBC News service received just 4.25million. The result is another landmark in the evolution of MailOnline, which was already Britain’s most popular newspaper website by far.
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Obama loves oil! Not!
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National Post (Canada), by Peter Foster
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/27/2012 5:26:52 PM
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Nothing more clearly indicates U.S. President Barack Obama's economic muddledom and ideological stubbornness than the dog's breakfast of energy policies revealed in Tuesday's State of the Union address. The good news is that hydrocarbons are back (as long as you forget Keystone XL). The bad news is that "clean" energy isn't going away. Instead it's "all of the above." Without his nose growing visibly, the President claimed the government was behind the technological advances that led to the current shale gas boom, and even suggested that he might take credit for the rise in domestic oil production.
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High heels cause muscle
damage, change walk -
even after taken off
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CBS News, by Ryan Jaslow
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Posted By: Photoonist- 1/27/2012 5:18:09 PM
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Are you among the millions of women who wear high heels day after day? If so, a new study suggests you're probably causing permanent damaging to your feet and legs. It's no secret for those who wear high heels that it can be painful to walk in them. But researchers behind the new study wanted to delve deeper and see if heels cause long-term damage to the way women walk. (Snip) For the study - published in the Jan. 12 issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology - Cronin and colleagues put 9 "habitual high heel wearers" to the test
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'We have Schettino, but you have
Auschwitz’: the extraordinary row
between Il Giornale and Der Spiegel
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Telegraph [UK], by Will Heaven
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/27/2012 5:16:04 PM
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Earlier this week, Jan Fleischhauer opened his Der Spiegel column with the following words: "Hand on heart: is anyone surprised by the fact that the captain of the Costa Concordia is Italian? Can you imagine a German pulling a hit-and-run stunt like that, or a British captain?" The column that followed was more nuanced than you might think – national stereotypes, said Fleischhauer, are like gender stereotypes. They're not politically correct, but we encounter them every day. Germans, he said, would recognise an Italian figure like Captain Schettino from beach holidays in southern Europe. Now an Italian newspaper has returned
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Rockets hit Pakistan military
academy near
bin Laden compound
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Agence France-Presse & Newscore, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 1/27/2012 5:13:38 PM
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Abbottabad, Pakistan - Attackers on Friday fired rockets at Pakistan's top military academy, damaging its outer wall in a major security breach near the home where Osama bin Laden lived for years. No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack and it was unclear who fired the nine rockets from behind a mosque in mountains overlooking the Kakul academy, Pakistan's equivalent of West Point 30 miles from the capital. (Snip) Officials blamed terrorists for the attack, which came one day after Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, visited Abbottabad.
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Puerto Rico governor Fortuño endorses Romney
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: Roberta- 1/27/2012 5:11:27 PM
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño, one of the Republican Party’s rising stars, is endorsing Mitt Romney for president here Friday, potentially giving a boost to the former Massachusetts governor’s efforts to court Hispanic Republicans in the critical Florida primary. Fortuño plans to campaign with Romney at a Friday evening rally in Orlando, where he will make his endorsement official, according to a Romney campaign aide. In a statement, Fortuño said: “Mitt Romney is the one candidate who has the record, leadership, experience and pro-growth plan
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Fried food won't kill you –
ask any Spanish chef
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Telegraph [UK], by Xanthe Clay
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/27/2012 5:09:56 PM
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First there was the “French paradox”: how do those chaps over the channel eat so much fat and yet get so little heart disease? That was bad enough, one of the more irritating things about our neighbours, right up there with Gerard Depardieu. Now, a new study, published in the British Medical Journal hints at a “Spanish conundrum”. [Snip] The BMJ study of Spanish adults finds that “the consumption of fried foods was not associated with coronary heart disease or with all cause mortality”. Nor is this some half-hearted piece of research. It's a meaningful sample of 40,000 people.
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Blagojevich prosecutor leaving U.S. attorney's office
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Chicago Tribune, by Ameet Sachdev
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Posted By: tisHimself- 1/27/2012 5:05:55 PM
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Bringing down a governor or another high-profile defendant is one of those career-defining moments for prosecutors and usually hastens their exit from public service. So it goes for Reid Schar. Schar, the lead prosecutor in both corruption trials of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, will be leaving the U.S. attorney's office after 12 years, said three people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Poll shows Romney surging in Florida
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CBS News, by Brian Montopoli
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Posted By: Photoonist- 1/27/2012 5:05:19 PM
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Mitt Romney leads Newt Gingrich by nine points in a new poll of likely Republican primary voters in Florida, the latest sign that the former Massachusetts governor has reversed the momentum Gingrich gained following his South Carolina primary victory. The Quinnipiac University poll, released this morning, shows Romney leading Gingrich 38 percent to 29 percent, with Ron Paul following at 14 percent and Rick Santorum at 12 percent. The poll reflects a clear surge for Romney: In a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday, Romney led Gingrich by just two points.Romney's increased support comes from men in the Sunshine State, who've gone
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Mortgage modification program expanded to investors, others
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Chicago Tribune, by Mary Ellen Podmolik
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Posted By: tisHimself- 1/27/2012 5:00:57 PM
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The Obama administration on Friday announced it would significantly broaden the pool of consumers eligible for mortgage modifications by opening its program to owners of rental properties and homeowners burdened by medical and credit card bills and second mortgages. Under an expansion of the Home Affordable Modification Program, investors can seek mortgage loan modifications for rental properties, regardless of whether the home is occupied by a tenant or it is vacant but the owner plans to rent it.
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President Obama: ‘I make a mistake
every hour, every day,’
but am learning on the job
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New York Daily News, by Aliyah Shahid
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Posted By: Photoonist- 1/27/2012 4:53:58 PM
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President Obama says he makes mistakes 24/7. The commander-in-chief acknowledged that he second guesses himself constantly on the job during an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer on Thursday night. "I make a mistake, you know, every hour, every day," he said laughing. "There's always things that you're learning in the job. And I have no doubt that I'm a better President now than the day I took office just because you get more experience." (Snip) Obama's third year approval rating is among the lowest for Presidents. Since 1955, only Jimmy Carter's 37% was lower than Obama’s rating during his
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Gingrich professes shock at
Romney’s ‘dishonest’ debate performance
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Washington Post, by Amy Gardner & Philip Rucker
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Posted By: Roberta- 1/27/2012 4:37:13 PM
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MIAMI —Former House speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday that the reason he seemed less combative during Thursday’s televised debate was that he was shocked by what he described as rival Mitt Romney’s “totally dishonest” replies to several questions. In a telephone interview, Gingrich cited Romney’s remarks on immigration, his vote for Democrat Paul Tsongas in 1992 and whether he knew about an ad his campaign is running against Gingrich. “I think it’s the most blatantly dishonest performance by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen,” Gingrich said.
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Obama Education Secretary Arne
Duncan: Pay ‘great’ teachers $150k
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: Photoonist- 1/27/2012 4:36:52 PM
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday morning it’s time to hike teacher salaries, up to $150,000 annually if possible. (Snip) “Yes, I’ve been very radical on this,” Duncan said. “I think young teachers — we should double salaries. A starting teacher should make $60-$65,000 [a year]. A great teacher should be able to make $130, $140-$150,000 [a year]. Pick a number. We have beaten down educators. We have to elevate the profession. We have to strengthen the profession. We have to reward excellence. Great teachers, great principals make a huge difference in our nation’s
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The curse of Saul Alinsky
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Daily Caller, by Yates Walker
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Posted By: Photoonist- 1/27/2012 4:26:27 PM
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In recent months, pundits from across the political spectrum have reached a consensus: Obama has lost his mojo. Even Chris Matthews forlornly admits that the thrill is gone. (Snip) Obama seems to have misplaced his once-superhuman ability to connect, to uplift, to electrify, to rally the people toward a righteous common cause. In defense of the president, the criticism is unfair. He never really had that ability. Sure, the Barack of yore could occasionally deliver a line (though never extemporaneously). Once upon a campaign, Obama’s words soared off the stage, making knees go weak among his fervent, fainting followers. But campaigns
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Cedric the Entertainer Lashes Out
at Black Republican Woman
as ‘Wack, Black B*tch’
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Big Hollywood, by John Nolte
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Posted By: Photoonist- 1/27/2012 4:19:04 PM
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The price those the left label as apostates pay is always a high one. Their very identity is questioned, and these attacks are always ignored by the same MSM that labels facts, such as the record number of food stamp recipients under President FailureTeleprompter, as racist. (Snip) Crystal Wright is an accomplished commentator and writer who holds a Masters from Georgetown. But she just happens to be black and female and Republican, so therefore …. this gets fired out to nearly a quarter of a million people: Ms. Wright wrote about what happened at Freedoms Journal What’s curious is no
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Doggie door burglar prowls Montrose: Wiggles through
pet door and steals your stuff
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CultureMap [Houston, TX], by Whitney Radley
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Posted By: Four_Leaf Resident- 1/27/2012 4:12:27 PM
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Assume that Fido will keep strangers from sneaking into the house while you're away? Think again. A Houston burglar has slipped through the doggie doors of at least two Montrose-area homes since December, as KTRK Ch. 13 first reported. Ruth Woody, who lives near Montrose Boulevard and West Gray Street, was prepared with a security camera when the thief struck on Wednesday. Footage shows a man pacing around the family's backyard and talking on a cell phone (while an accomplice, possibly driving a white Ford, is on the lookout). The thief then crawls through the dog
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Congressional Black Caucus Chairman
Says ‘Racist Prep Schools,’
Not Teachers’ Unions, Hold Back Blacks
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Big Government, by Charles C. Johnson
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Posted By: Photoonist- 1/27/2012 4:12:19 PM
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Earlier this week, Congressmen Allen West and Tim Scott, former congressman J. C. Watts, congressional hopeful Star Parker, and other prominent black conservatives held the Black Conservative Forum to discuss blacks and the Republican Party. The forum, broadcast by C-Span, was well attended, though neither Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican National Committee bothered to show up. (Snip) Scott quickly showed the silliness of Cleaver’s question by pointing out that waiting for mythical racist schools to become non-racist would mean waiting forever because they don’t exist. I spent the better part of the morning going through Lexis-Nexis but I cannot
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Sorry, Newt. Only the debt
ceiling will reach the moon
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Orange County Register [CA], by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: supersid- 1/27/2012 4:10:51 PM
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Had I been asked to deliver the State of the Union address, it would not have delayed your dinner plans: "The State of our Union is broke, heading for bankrupt, and total collapse shortly thereafter. Thank you and goodnight! You've been a terrific crowd!" (Snip) But why stop there? Americans need affordable health care and affordable Master's Degrees in Climate Change and Social Justice Studies, so why not take everything that Warren Buffett's got? After all, if you confiscated the total wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans it would come to $1.5 trillion.
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