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Big Labor sells its only college -- to a church
Updated: 4 hr ago
After a year on the market, the AFL-CIO has finally sold its National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md., another sign that the nation's once enormous labor movement has fallen on hard times....
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Giant octopus: IRS has 8 offices to enforce Obamacare
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service, charged with implementing the biggest change in tax laws in 20 years due to Obamacare, has created eight offices and special "teams" to handle the chore, way more...
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Judo-practicing 'Iron Lady' Takes over EU, boosts U.S. trade
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
Get ready to hear more about the Judo-loving president of Lithuania dubbed the "Iron Lady" for her harsh austerity measures used to yank the Baltic state out of economic disaster without any...
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After IRS, Benghazi scandals, public trust shifts to GOP
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
The Democratic Party's edge over the GOP on who the public trusts more on ethics and corruption issues has flipped in the wake of the IRS and Benghazi scandals, according to Rasmussen Reports.
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Cybercrime breaches $1 trillion a year, China mostly to blame
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
Cybercrime and efforts to thwart computer attacks have finally crossed the $1 trillion a year line and Chinese sources are to blame for 89 percent of the high-tech assaults, according to a leading...
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Businesses already boosting employee premiums, co-pays for Obamacare
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
Already hit with cost increases to cover minor Obamacare demands, businesses are boosting employee payments through higher insurance premiums and doctor visit co-pays in advance of the bulk of the...
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OAS: Legalization might reduce North America's $140b drug problem
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
A highly anticipated report on the international drug trade unveiled in Washington on Monday revealed that the industry in North America is worth $140 billion of the annual worldwide $330 billion...
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Mainstream Media Scream: 'Today's' Savannah Guthrie questions GOP 'overreach'
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features "Today Show" co-host Savannah Guthrie and NBC chief political correspondent Chuck Todd discussing GOP "overreach" in probing White House scandals.
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He’s No Nixon
By: William Kristol
The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, " Richard Milhous Obama ," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to...
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IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC
By: Mark Hemingway
Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS...
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Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson
The more the evidence emerges, the more one has to wonder: Could Obamacare have been designed any more poorly? Even those who don’t mind Obamacare’s striking consolidation of power and money...