Obama defends Olympic trip to Denmark
• ExaminerThe White House defended President Obama’s trip to Denmark this week to promote Chicago’s bid for the Olympic Games, saying health care reform is in good enough shape for him to miss a couple of days.
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States' Quarterly Tax Revenue Plunges 17%
• Economic Policy JournalState tax revenue in the second quarter plunged 17% from a year earlier
FDIC Discloses Deposit Insurance Fund Is Now Negative
• Zero HedgeLet's pray there is no run on the bank soon.In an unprecedented disclosure, the FDIC has highlighted that it expects the DIF reserve ratio to be negative as of September 30. As there are a whopping 48 hours before that deadline, one can safely assume
Congressional Petition To End The Giant Sucking Sound Known As TARP
• Zero HedgeTim Geithner will have some explaining to do to his banker backers why Congress is not too happy with the ongoing Wall Street bailout known as TARP.
Relying On Google Search Lands Ex-CPA In Hot Water With The Tax Court
• The Business InsiderSometimes Google does not have the answers - depending on Internet research for tax advice cost a Harvard MBA and former CPA $33,000.
Subprime Uncle Sam The FHA makes Countrywide Financial look prudent.
• WSJOne place to start is the Federal Housing Administration, the nation's insurer of nearly $750 billion in outstanding mortgages. The agency acknowledged this month that a new but still undisclosed HUD audit has found that FHA's cash reserve fund is ra
Lobbyists, PACs Donate More to Democrats
• WSJSo far this year, lobbyists have made 70% of their donations to Democrats –- up from 37% in 2006, according to the data.
US consumer confidence falls back
• BBCUS consumer confidence fell unexpectedly in September, suggesting Americans are not as convinced as US policymakers of an economic recovery.
'Evil powers created half-man, half-goat creature'
• NewsAUCreature born with man, goat features Resembled faun-like animal Died a few hours after birth
Rangel tells Obama to back off of local politics
• CNN(CNN) – Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York, is making it known he's not happy with President Obama's recent meddling in the state's 2010 gubernatorial race. "The whole thing to me was not presidential," Rangel told the New York Daily News over the we
How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie
• TelegraphFor the growing band of AGW “Sceptics” the following story is dynamite. And for those who do believe in Al Gore’s highly profitable myth about “Man-Made Global Warming”, it will no doubt feel as comfortable as the rectally inserted suicide bomb that
Gang Kills Black Teen in Chicago
• You Tube(According to the video it is the schools fault...sigh) Last week in Cook County, Illinois, Derrion Albert, 16, was murdered after being in the wrong place at the wrong time as a gang fight broke out.
TSUNAMI HITS PACIFIC ISLANDS
• BNO NewsAMERICAN SAMOA (BNO NEWS) – A massive earthquake struck the South Pacific on Wednesday morning, according to officials, generating a destructive tsunami that struck at least several islands and killed scores of people. Tsunami warnings have since bee
Senate panel rejects gov't-run insurance option
• YahooWASHINGTON – In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate, despite bipartisan agreement that private insurers mu
S. African Mine Discovers 507-Carat White Diamond
• Yahoo! NewsMining group Petra Diamonds has discovered a 507.55 carat white diamond at South Africa's Cullinan mine, one of the largest high-quality rough diamonds ever found
Dad: I Took Son Over Medicine Dispute
• KPHO TV5 CBS"These drugs in my opinion are child abuse. It's insane to take a perfectly normal kid and wipe him out with drugs just so he can sit still in school," said Kaiser.
Why Tom Woods Set Off Mel Watt's Voltage
• Economic Policy JournalThe Tom Woods' congressional testimony last week Friday in favor of the 'Audit the Fed' bill had two very curious turns, he set off extremely hostile questioning from two congressmen, by the hearings Committee Chair Barney Frank and Representative Me
The Mainstream Fallacy Machine
• The Market TickerYou have to love the "moral outrage" expressed in articles like this:
Mighty T. rex Killed by Lowly Parasite
• LiveScienceThe famous dinosaur known as Sue — the largest, most complete and best preserved T. rex specimen ever found — might have been killed by a disease that afflicts birds even today, scientists now suggest. The remains of Sue, a star attraction of the
Rep. Doolittle, wife named as unindicted co-conspirators in corruption case
• Sacramento BeeFederal prosecutors name former Rep. John Doolittle as an unindicted co-conspirator in a corruption case against one of Doolittle's former aides. In documents filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., last week, the government also allege
U.S. court reinstates Alaska smoker case versus Altria
• ReutersA U.S. appeals court on Monday reinstated an Alaska lawsuit against Altria Group Inc's Philip Morris USA by the survivor of a deceased smoker, saying her state product liability claims were not preempted by federal law and should have been tried in s
The Banking System Is Insolvent
• The Market TickerFollowing up on the quick mention now that I have a story to cite from Amherst:
Electric Fish Equipped With 'Dimmer' Switch
• LiveScienceFish that generate electric fields to navigate, fight and attract mates are equipped with a dimmer switch of sorts that can turn down their signals to save energy, a new study finds. Electric fish, such as some sharks and eels, emit weak electrical
What they're saying about THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN...
• News Link"This Book is Truly a Must Read" - Ron Paul
Flu Vaccine Exposed
• articles.mercola.comStudies show that flu vaccines are unsafe and ineffective. This presentation by the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute includes a visual depiction of flu vaccine production -- how the flu vaccine is made and what it contains.
Is Obama Planning a VAT Surprise for America?
• Economic Policy JournalThe latest mad scheme by the President may be an attempt to introduce a Value Added Tax in the United States. Will they attempt to blame the next crash that Bernanke is setting the stock market up for on too high deficits, and then justify a VAT as t
2050 vision for Valley: 400 miles of new highways
• www.azcentral.comMAG's plans envision 400 miles of new highways and 320 miles of rail track to support the millions of people projected to move into the vast desert area by 2050.
Ron Paul on the ‘Daily Show’ Tonight & Video RP the Most Recent 'Disclosures' on Iran
• Economic Policy Journal.Ron Paul is the guest tonight (Tuesday) on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central).The show is repeated three times tomorrow (Wednesday).It will also be available on their website starting tomorrow. Video Ron Paul on the Most Recent 'Discl
Obama' s Big Payoff to Supporter and Oligarch Soros
• Economic Policy JournalBillionaire investor, globals scale manipulator, and Obama supporter, George Soros, bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) in the second quarter of 2009, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s
The left aims for critics' jugular
• PoliticoLiberal allies of President Barack Obama aren’t just getting mad at conservative attacks on his agenda. They are getting even in a way calculated to hit conservatives where it counts: their pockets. Former GOP House leader Dick Armey, former New Y
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