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Obama to propose $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue

By doris | Published: September 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will propose $1.5 trillion in new taxes as part of a plan to identify more than $3 trillion in long-term deficit reduction and slow the nation’s escalating national debt. Obama’s tax plan is aimed predominantly at the wealthy and draws sharp contrasts with congressional Republicans. It [...]

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Postal Service proposes closing hundreds of mail-handling facilities

By doris | Published: September 15, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Hundreds of mail-handling facilities have been named in a shutdown list released Thursday by the U.S. Postal Service as the agency tries to cut massive red ink. The potential closings are the latest chapter in a fundamental overhaul of the agency that may also mean closing thousands of [...]

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Book: Jackie said JFK scorned idea of Johnson as president

By doris | Published: September 9, 2011

Full Story atTODAY.msnbc.msn.com NEW YORK — President John F. Kennedy openly scorned the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him in office, according to a book of newly released interviews with his widow, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. She said her husband and his brother then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy even discussed ways [...]

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Romney says his plan ‘radically restructures the American economy’

By doris | Published: September 3, 2011

Full Story at First Read.msnbc.msn.com TAMPA — On a morning where job creation — or the lack of it — was the primary issue on the political spectrum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney promised that his plan — not President Obama’s — would be the one to get Americans back to work. “My plan radically [...]

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9/11 Commission heads issue security gap warning

By doris | Published: August 31, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The heads of the 9/11 Commission issued a new report Wednesday warning of continued shortfalls in anti-terror measures adopted in the wake of the 2001 al Qaeda attacks against the United States. Specifically, the report highlights nine commission recommendations that remain unfulfilled. Among other things, it cites a [...]

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Perry offers outline of foreign policy platform

By doris | Published: August 29, 2011

Full Story at First Read.msnbc.msn.com Texas Gov. Rick Perry offered the broad outlines of his foreign policy philosophy at an annual gathering of veterans Monday, telling attendees that he opposes “military adventurism” while also advocating for “taking the fight to the enemy” and decrying indecision by “multi-lateral debating societies” at times of international crisis. “We [...]

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Bachmann: I’ll bring back $2 gas

By doris | Published: August 19, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — President Michele Bachmann has a promise: $2 gas. “Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,” Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. “That will happen.” Sure, politicians promise all kinds of things on the campaign trail. But Bachmann, a [...]

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Taliban, criminals get $360 million from US taxes

By doris | Published: August 18, 2011

Full Story at Taliban, criminals get $360 million from US taxes – politics – msnbc.com WASHINGTON — After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: [...]

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Perry looks to break the mold in N.H.

By doris | Published: August 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BEDFORD VILLAGE, N.H. — For a Southern presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been spending valuable time early on in New Hampshire, a secular state not known for its embrace of evangelical Republicans. But the time he’s spending here — and the fact that his political guru, Dave Carney, is [...]

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Defense cuts loom large for ‘super committee’

By doris | Published: August 16, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — For the dozen lawmakers tasked with producing a deficit-cutting plan, the threatened “doomsday” defense cuts hit close to home. The six Republicans and six Democrats represent states where the biggest military contractors — Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics Corp., Raytheon Co. and Boeing Co. — build missiles, aircraft, jet fighters [...]

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Appeals court strikes health insurance requirement

By doris | Published: August 12, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — A federal appeals panel struck down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul Friday, moving the argument over whether Americans can be required to buy health insurance a step closer to the U.S. Supreme Court. The divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]

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Democrats fall short in Wisconsin recall elections

By doris | Published: August 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Democrats failed late Tuesday in their effort to gain control of the Wisconsin state senate as Republican incumbents won four of six recall elections. The outcome was a big setback for Democrats, organized labor, and progressive groups who’d sought retribution against six GOP allies of Gov. Scott Walker, who earlier this [...]

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