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- The Duopoly of the United States of America: Democrats and Republicans working hard for the 1% (LIVE POLL) (72 comments)
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Vishwanathan Anand has a minor edge over Boris Gelfand in the FIDE World Chess Championship
Wed May 16, 2012 8:59 AM EDT
Mumbai 10th May 2012: This World Chess Championship could be one the most exciting chess tournaments being played in a long time. While both the players will begin their Moscow Mission in a confident manner thereby demonstrating their superb analytical skills and piercing l …
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President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:47 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account. "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …
Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:22 AM EDT (NPR)
With the economic troubles of the past few years, it's no surprise that the number of people using food stamps is soaring. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that an average of 44 million people were on food assistance last year; that's up from 17 million in 2000. What …
Debt Ceiling Debate Is Revived In Washington[audio]
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:17 AM EDT (NPR)
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned on Tuesday that the U.S. will likely hit its debt limit sometime before the end of the year. At the same event in Washington, House Speaker John Boehner promised that any increase in the nation's debt ceiling would have to be accompani …
America's Future Under 'Drill, Baby, Drill'
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:07 AM EDT (Center for American Progress)
The promise of abundant oil jobs was dangled before us as an incentive—despite the fact that clean energy industries were some of the only sectors to show strong growth at the height of the Great Recession, and 3.1 million jobs in the United States were associated with th …
How much freedom can you afford to buy? :truth
Wed May 16, 2012 7:41 AM EDT
In America if you have money you can buy freedom - or at least what those in power have defined as freedom. We all talk about jobs as if they are anything other than the servitude of one human to another in exchange for food and water. The prism of capitalism has dist …
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Merkel-Hollande Meeting Yields Greece Growth Signal - Bloomberg
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:33 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Requests for measures to bolster growth will be“considered” and the European Union may also “approach Greece with proposals,” Merkel said late yesterday at a joint press conference with Hollande during his first official visit to Berlin. “Greece ca …
Alabama's Disgrace: Alabama still has a chance to undo the malignant anti-immigrant law
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:14 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Alabamians should see on Wednesday, the last day of the legislative session, just how badly the Republicans who control the Statehouse want to continue down the path of anti-immigrant extremism. The lawmakers’ challenge was to fix last year’s terrible immigration l …
Attention Liberals: Santelli’s Going Nowhere
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:23 AM EDT ( Washington Free Beacon)
Nobody’s going to chase me out of my country. I’m going to chase the spenders out of the balance sheet first.
Romney pins 'prairie fire of debt' on Obama
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:05 AM EDT (CNSNews.com)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday painted President Barack Obama as a reckless steward of the country's economy and, as proof, pointed to "a financial crisis of debt and spending that threatens what it means to be an American." The likely Republican nomi …
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