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Governor suspends sisters' life sentences

UPI - 7hrs 4mins ago

JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he will suspend the sentences of two sisters serving life in Prison if one is willing to donate a kidney to the other. The women were sentenced in a Robbery that netted just $11 …

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Powhatans Rojcewicz looks to Prince William as example to cut deficits

Examiner.com - 1day 2hrs ago

Todd Rojcewicz, who is running for the 4thDistrict Supervisor in Powhatan as the Republican Candidate, is looking to Prince William County as a model to follow for fiscal restraint and hard decisions." This past November, the people of the United …

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AIG chief invokes Ayn Rand while defending his bailout

Washington Examiner - 1day 2hrs ago

"I was wondering if I might get a call from someone saying maybe 'you were right,' because we look better than we did last May and we can see the finish line from here, and it comes with a profit for the Taxpayers," Mr. Benmosche said in an email.…

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Can the tea party go nuclear?

Politico - 1day 9hrs ago

Signs point to a Nuclear Power surge on Capitol Hill: A newly empowered House Republican majority and several influential senators ready to make a push for nuclear as a source of climate-friendly power. But the Tea Party-led charge to cut spend…

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Ed Koch: Unfinished Business

The Huffington Post - 2 days ago

December 27, 2010 Looking back on 2010 and the Great Recession, I continue to be enraged by the lack of accountability for those who wrecked our economy and brought the U.S. to its knees. The shocking truth is that those who did the damage are …

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Anti-earmark lawmakers quietly (sneakily) grabbing federal dollars

Examiner.com - 2 days ago

Would an earmark by any other name still be as offensive to Republicans? Apparently not . The NY Times examines the ways anti-earmark lawmakers attempt to get around their own political positions in order to secure Federal Funding for pet projects…

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Spending watchdogs home in on lettermarking as threat next year

The Hill - 2 days ago

Leading government-waste watchdogs said Tuesday that they are increasingly worried that 2011 will be the year of backdoor earmarking through congressional letters and phone calls to federal agencies. They said that so-called lettermarking and ph…

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Is Chuck Hagel a Republican?

Cato @ Liberty - 2 days ago

On Fox News’s “Special Report” tonight, discussing potential new Cabinet members for President Obama, Weekly Standard senior writer Stephen Hayes dismissed former senator Chuck Hagel as ”an anti-Republican Republican &…

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