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Boehner is Obama’s new punching bag? Seems like Obama will have to get in line behind George Stephanopoulos…

Coast Guard officials said they do not yet know if there is any type of leak associated with this explosion.
They said it was not actively producing product, but they will investigate whether there is any type of environmental impact.
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(Reuters) - The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.
“If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to [...]

Republicans lead Democrats 47% to 39% on the economy, which remains the most important issue to voters. Those numbers are nearly identical to those found in June. Republicans have held the advantage on the economy since May of last year.
But for the first time in months, Republicans now hold a slight edge on the [...]

American taxpayers will pay the imam behind plans for a mosque near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks $3,000 in fees for a three-nation outreach trip to the Middle East that will cost roughly $16,000, the State Department said Wednesday.
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So we are paying for the Imam [...]

SINGAPORE/MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Russian oil giant LUKOIL (LKOH.MM: Quote) has resumed gasoline sales into Iran in partnership with China’s state-run firm Zhuhai Zhenrong, even as the United States urges the international community to be tough with Tehran.
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As they tweeted Gutfeld that message, did they stop to consider that building the Mosque beside Ground Zero…fails to consider the sensibilities of those who lost loved ones on 9/11 to Muslim Jihadists?

Obama went on the view because He’s losing support among women voters, and even if the Boy Scouts could vote…I doubt Obama could rely on even 10% of them to support His agenda.

The man who helped launch the career of Kylie Minogue yesterday condemned modern pop culture for ’sexualising’ youngsters.
Mike Stock, one third of the legendary pop factory Stock, Aitken and Waterman, said: ‘The music industry has gone too far. It’s not about me being old fashioned. It’s about keeping values that are important in the [...]

Experts point to the northeastern and southeastern U.S. as regions where outages pose the most threat — mainly due to aging wires, pole transformers and other lagging infrastructure.
“They know where they have tight spots,” said Mark Lauby, of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which enforces reliability standards. Without mentioning specific regions, Lauby said utilities [...]

Federal Reserve officials decided to reinvest principal payments on mortgage holdings into long-term Treasury securities, making their first attempt to bolster growth since March 2009 to keep the slowing U.S. economy from relapsing into recession.
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(Reuters) - Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) on Monday said it would need another $1.8 billion in aid from taxpayers, bringing its total request since it was taken over by the government two years ago to more than $64 billion.
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You have 2 families…”Joe Legal” and “Jose Illegal”. Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.
“Joe Legal” works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted….”Jose Illegal”
also works in construction, has “NO” Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash “under the table”. [...]

Christina Romer, chairwoman of Pres. Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, has decided to resign, according to a source familiar with her plans.
Romer, an economics professor at the University of California (Berkeley) before taking the key admin post, did not respond to repeated calls to her office.
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MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia, the world’s third wheat exporter, Thursday banned grain exports for the next four-and-a-half months due to a record drought that has destroyed millions of hectares (acres) of its land.
Wheat futures shot up to new two-year highs on commodities markets after the sudden announcement from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin raised concerns about [...]

When General Motors went through bankruptcy last year, it suspended its political donations. Now that it’s owned by the U.S. government, it’s donating to lawmakers’ pet projects again.
The carmaker gave $41,000 to groups associated with lawmakers, the vast majority of it — $36,000 — to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the company reported on [...]

A decline in costs from bad loans helped narrow the second- quarter loss to $1.2 billion from $14.8 billion in the same period a year earlier, the Washington-based company said today in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Fannie Mae has accrued more than $148 billion in consecutive losses since 2007, according to [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The U.S. Postal Service reported a $3.5 billion loss in its most recent quarter Thursday, as mail volume plummets and retiree health care costs mount.
The USPS, a self-supporting government agency that receives no tax dollars, said operating revenue declined 1.8% to $16 billion during the fiscal 2010 third quarter compared to [...]

I want answers. If a methane explosion took place…would it not result in a tsunami that could effect the gulf states?

Despite President Obama’s pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.
Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region [...]