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Tuesday, January 13
Treasury Nominee A Tax Cheat?
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 08:13 PM EST
Timothy Geithner didn't pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for several years while he worked for the International Monetary Fund, and he employed an immigrant housekeeper who briefly lacked proper work papers.
Those issues, and a series of other tax matters, caused the postponement Tuesday of Mr. Geithner's confirmation hearing as Treasury secretary. They were instead the subject of a closed-door meeting between the nominee, currently president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and members of the Senate Finance Committee, in whose hands his confirmation lies.
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Somali pirates do the 'DB Cooper' thing
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Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 03:48 PM EST
Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and port town resident said Saturday.
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Matthews: Media Shouldn't Cover RNC Criticism of Hillary
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Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 03:36 PM EST
Now that Barack Obama is assuming the presidency, partisan criticism is suddenly passé. Really, it's all just so churlish, so "yesterday." Just ask Chris Matthews. In the course of cheerleading anchoring the MSNBC coverage of Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing today, Matthews suggested that the media shouldn't cover the Republican National Committee's criticism of Clinton.
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One of the guys that wrote the TARP legislation that contains no oversight blames Bush for signing it
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Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 03:05 PM EST
The incoming president also signaled that he intends to "fundamentally change some of the practices" in the bailout program. Referring to how the first $350 billion of bailout cash was allocated, Obama said, "Many of us have been disappointed with the absence of clarity, the failure to track how the money's been spent."
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Your house isn't worth much these days but your teenage daughter will still fetch a good price
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 03:02 PM EST
Greenfield Police Chief Joe Grebmeier said on Monday that his officers keep hearing rumors of arranged marriages between girls and older men.
Some of the rumored marriages involved girls as young as 10 years old being matched with men from their teens to their 60s, he said.
Until one case broke last weekend, Grebmeier said, it has been difficult for police to look into the stories. People didn’t want to talk about the subject.
“Knowing and proving something are two different things,” he said.
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Mr. President! Free Ramos and Compean
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 12:25 PM EST
More than 26,000 people want President Bush, in the few days left of his presidency, to take action to free imprisoned Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, and have signed a petition seeking freedom for the two that is part of a campaign launched by WND Editor Joseph Farah.
"I am calling on President Bush to do the right thing before he leaves office Jan. 20," said Farah. "These are the pardons or sentence commutations the American people want to see more than any other. We don't want to see any more drug dealers freed. We don't want to see any other millionaires get pardons. We don't want to see any other well-connected crooks have their sentences overturned. We want to see Ramos and Compean out and their reputations restored."
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PeTA's latest media campaign is to start calling fish "sea kittens". Pistol Pete is thinking about having the blackened calico for supper tonight
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 12:17 PM EST
RADICAL international animal rights group PETA has launched its most bizarre campaign yet, demanding fish be renamed "sea kittens".
PETA - People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals - believes calling fish sea kittens will make sea food less appealing.
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Albert A Gore, "What, me worry?" The nugget of corn in the steaming pile of the world economy is the carbon credit market
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 11:27 AM EST
The global carbon market was worth around $118 billion in 2008, rising 84 percent from the previous year due to higher trading volumes and prices, research group New Carbon Finance said.
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Latest Newsbusted... good as always...
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 10:58 AM EST
If you don't like the high taxes, move. If you don't move, you must like high taxes so we'll be raising them some more.
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 13 Jan 2009 10:53 AM EST
Mike Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado.
With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans to move his family 1,200 miles away from his home state's lemon groves, sunshine and beaches. For him, years of rising taxes, dead-end schools, unchecked illegal immigration and clogged traffic have robbed the Golden State of its allure.
Is there something left of the California dream?
"If you are a Hollywood actor," Reilly says, "but not for us."
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