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  • Wal-Mart Black Friday Deals According to I4 News

    Apple iPad 2 16GB with Wi-Fi – $399 plus get a $75 Walmart Gift Card (One-Hour Guarantee) Emerson 32″ 720p LCD TV – $148 (One-Hour Guarantee) LG Blu-ray Player – $38 (One-Hour Guarantee) Nintendo Wii Console – $89 Compaq CQ58-bf9WM Windows 8 Laptop – $179 HP 2000-bf69WM Windows 8 Laptop – $279 Xbox 360 4GB…

  • Yes, Corporations Should Provide Healthcare.

    Yes, corporations have a moral and ethical (now a legal) responsibility to provide health insurance to their employees. There are 60 some corporations that have announced firings and reduced hours. Some have already fired employees citing Obama’s reelection and the Affordable Healthcare Act. I call Bullshit! Corporations have a legal and ethical responsibility to make…

  • Paul Ryan: Obama won because of ‘urban’ turnout | The Raw Story

    Former Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says that his party lost the White House in 2012 because so many “urban” voters went to the polls, not because Americans rejected his Medicare and other budget policies.Raw Story (http://s.tt/1tehc)  *My take: Paul Ryan knows full well why and how he lost the election.  It’s sadly, all about…

  • AMT: Biggest fiscal cliff tax headache – Nov. 13, 2012

     If lawmakers fail to protect the middle class from having to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax by Dec. 31, next year’s tax filing season will be a mess for tens of millions of taxpayers. AMT: Biggest fiscal cliff tax headache – Nov. 13, 2012.

  • Texas Secession Petition Racks Up More Than 80,000 Signatures, Qualifies For White House Response

    Texas Secession Petition Racks Up More Than 80,000 Signatures, Qualifies For White House Response. A petition for Texas secession has qualified to receive a White House response. As of Tuesday evening, the petition — which asks for the peaceful withdrawal of the state of Texas from the union — had racked up more than 81,000 signatures. (Only25,000…

  • Poll: Majority think Obama-Congress will go over ‘fiscal cliff’ – latimes.com

    Poll: Majority think Obama-Congress will go over ‘fiscal cliff’ – latimes.com. Incessant gridlock in Washington apparently has left a deep impression on Americans, most of whom believe thatPresident Obama and congressional Republicans won’t be able to reach a compromise to avoid stumbling over the “fiscal cliff,” come Jan. 1, according to a new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll. Fifty-one…

  • Obama stands by Allen as Petraeus scandal throws Washington off course | World news | guardian.co.uk

    Obama stands by Allen as Petraeus scandal throws Washington off course | World news | guardian.co.uk. Both Barack Obama and the Pentagon insisted on Tuesday that they were standing by the top US commander in Afghanistan, John Allen, after he became the latest general to find himself entangled in the widening Petraeus emails scandal. Allen is under investigation by…

  • Turkey Censorship and Why It Matters

    November 10, 2012 Nearly two years ago, Soner Yalcin and more than a dozen of his employees at the online news outlet OdaTV joined the growing list of incarcerated Turkish journalists. Yalcin, the owner of OdaTV, is one of the sharpest critics of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. As their trial proceedings dragged on,…

  • Germany Exports Energy. Where’s the US?

    Despite regular apocalyptic warnings of black-outs due to the nuclear power shutdown, a recent boom in renewables means that Germany is exporting more electricity than ever before, new figures show. Merkel: we will meet green energy goals – National (3 Nov 12) A third of trains ‘may be cancelled’ this winter – National (25 Oct…

  • Bill O’Reilly threatened to quit his show if President Obama raised his taxes.

    Speaking on his Monday show, O’Reilly delivered a stinging rebuttal to Obama’s speech from earlier in the day. In that speech, Obama introduced his so-called "Buffett Rule" and said that the rich should pay more in taxes. This did not sit well with O’Reilly, who accused Obama of using misleading statistics and of endangering the…