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During the last several weeks GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has spent a majority of time bashing Mitt Romney for his ties to Wall Street special interests and his low federal tax payments but now Gingrich says ...
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President Obama wants millionaires to pay higher tax levels and despite potential tax loopholes the President wants those taxes to be at least 30% of a millionaires earned income.
If that number sounds familiar it may be because ...
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GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released his tax returns following the first of two GOP debates in Florida and as suspected his tax rate is lower than that of many poor and middle class Americans.
In 2011 Mitt ...
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After an August earthquake left the Washington Monument with various cracks and other structural damage Congress agrees to pay $7.5 million to restore the project if the remaining $7.5 million could be raised by outside sources. Now ...
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told CBS' Face the Nation that Iran has still not made the decision to build a nuclear bomb. He said that time was running out as Iran is rushing for the scientific ...
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President Obama this week is expected to ask Congress for a $1.2 trillion increase to the national borrowing limit. The increase would be the third and final allowed under an agreement struck between feuding Democrats and Republicans ...
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The Intelligence world will have to settle for only $80 billion dollars this year. Congress has passed their latest spending bills which, while not actually cutting their budget, only keeps the spy world with the same budget ...
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The National Park Service has issued a report in which they state that the earthquake damaged Washington Monument has been subjected to extensive cracking and chipped stones near its peak, damage that has left the structure susceptible ...
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House Speaker John Boehner announced on Thursday that the GOP has struck a deal with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid to extend the payroll tax cut for two months.
The same deal was met just one week earlier ...
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WASHINGTON, DC - House Republicans on Tuesday rejected a payroll tax deal that would have extended the payroll tax holiday for two months, saving money for more than 160 million Americans heading into 2012. Instead House Reps. ...
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California Congressional Representative Darrell Issa, the fiery chairman of the House Governmental Oversight Committee, wants to know why the Obama administration is allowing Occupy Wall Street protesters to destroy $400,000 worth of landscaping and refurbishment by putting ...
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As the country splits into two separate ideologies, one is leaning more in favor of corporate power, while the other favors labor and the working class.
The latter got a victory in San Francisco, where minimum wage jumped ...
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While the American health insurance system is considered the worst in the Western world, it used to be most people were eligible for some kind of coverage through their workplace, spouse or other circumstances.
Now it seems the ...
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In addition to nabbing bin Laden, Qaddafi, ending the war in Iraq and arguably averting a global financial meltdown of even bigger proportions, you can add "quit smoking" to Barack Obama's list of accomplishments while in office.
Yes, ...
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Racing hottie Danica Patrick has put racing aside for a bit and headed to Washington.
The NASCAR rockstar admitted a passing knowledge of civics (joking she didn't fare well in school on "[her] Constitution test"), but the racer ...
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August marked the largest drop in consumer credit in almost a year according to a statement released by the Federal Reserve on Sunday.
The $9.5 billion decrease follows an $11.9 billion increase the previous month. The Feds also ...
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Job search engine SimplyHired.com, together with real estate resource Trulia.com, released an infographic depicting the best and worst places to find a job as related to finding a place to stay in the 50 largest US cities.
If ...
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Colorado Rockies pitcher Juan Nicasio is resting and recovering nicely after doctors performed C-1 vertebrae surgery on his neck after he was hit in the head by a line drive on Friday night.
Nicasio was struck in the ...
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Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, a proponent of the left and Ron Paul, a right leaning Congressman have one thing in common, they both believe that the debt ceiling deal offers nothing but false promises for the American ...
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Washington DC trumpet player Anthony Harley, better known as "Little Benny," has died at the age of 46.
Harley was influential in developing the "go-go" style of funk popular in the region:
The result was an incessant beat -- ...
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Massive quantities of snow that have fallen in Maryland have caused the collapse of a roof at one of the Smithsonian's buildings, though no artifacts are thought to be damaged.
The collapsed section of a roof and a ...
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Tennessee Senator Bob Corker's daughter Julia is unhurt after an incident in which she was forcibly removed from her vehicle in Washington D.C. last night during a carjacking.
Police believe the incident, which occurred near the Verizon Center at approximately ...
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