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In Stammering Interview, Romney Refuses to Say Whether He Will Deport Undocumented Immigrants
At the last GOP presidential debate, Newt Gingrich asserted his support for an immigration plan that would accord an undocumented immigrant “red card” status — that is, give them …
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Clinton Champions Gender Agenda at Busan
Busan, South Korea - Women toil in the fields for most of their lives producing food and strengthening the largely agricultural economy of African countries, but when their fathers, …
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Arrested for Supporting Local Business: Occupying Black Friday at the Big Boxes in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City - In the early morning hours of Black Friday, 10 members of Occupy OKC discovered that chanting “Buy local!” in a crowded Walmart is an arrestable …
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Newt Gingrich: “I Call on the President to Repudiate the Concept of the 99 and the 1“
2012 GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich today, during an event in South Carolina, said that he repudiates the very idea behind the Occupy Wall Street movement — that the …
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China-Based Corporate Web Behind Troubled Africa Resource Deals
For centuries, wave after wave of colonists and foreign investors have swept through Africa, looking for profits from the continent’s abundant reserves of oil and prized minerals. …
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Employer Health Costs Rise Faster Than Medicare
Much of the attention on the rising cost of health care has focused on unsustainable public outlay for programs like Medicare. The federal government — using tax dollars — …
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GOP Willing to Raise Payroll Taxes on 113 Million Households to Spare 345,000 Millionaires From Tiny Surtax
Senate Democrats yesterday introduced legislation — as they’ve been promising to — that would extend a soon-to-expire payroll tax cut, and pay for it by implementing a surtax on …
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Obama Hits the Road to Tout a Tax-Cut Plan Republicans Seem to Like
Washington - President Barack Obama jets to Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday to ramp up pressure on Congress to extend and perhaps expand a payroll tax cut for another year …
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British Inquiry Is Told Hacking Is Worthy Tool
London - He admitted that he and his colleagues hacked into people’s phones and paid police officers for tips. He confessed to lurking in unmarked vans outside people’s houses, …
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The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
"The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have …