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Obama Administration denies Goldman Sachs $3 billion tax break

The Treasury Department told Goldman Sachs last week that it could not use Fannie Mae's tax credits to reduce its own tax liability. An official with the Obama administration explained that the proposal “would result in a loss of aggregate tax revenues that would be greater than the savings.” This is the right decision.

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Assistant Principal held hostage at New York school

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20091110/us-school-lockdown-new-york/ A town official says a gunman at an upstate New York high school has taken the principal hostage. Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver tells CNN that students at Stissing Mountain High School are safe

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Assistant Principal held hostage at New York school

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Google_says_Murdoch_stories_can_be__11102009.html GO GOOGLE!! Net Neutrality is the war over the dissimination of information. added by: bansheewail 0 comments

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Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

40000 more troops? maybe possibly yes or no?

WASHINGTON (CNN) — White House National Security Adviser Retired Gen. Jim Jones issued a rare public statement Monday vehemently denying media reports that suggest U.S.

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Ask Cheech and Chong anything you want…

Cheech and Chong are taking over Current and we're taking your questions! They'll definitely be talking about the topic of marijuana legalization, but you can ask them about their comedy, their movies, their careers, their opinions on politics, whatever you think would be really interesting to hear them talk about. We'll be taking your questions until Friday, November 13th at 1:30PM EST

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Number of runaways grows with worsening economy

An excerpt – The current recession seems to have no limit, and the media has been pretty thorough in testing that.

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Number of runaways grows with worsening economy

Obama seeks revision of HCR plan’s abortion limits

WASHINGTON — President Obama suggested Monday that he was not comfortable with abortion restrictions inserted into the House version of major health care legislation, and he prodded Congress to revise them. “There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we’re not changing the status quo” on abortion, Mr.

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US sniper execution appeal denied

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a stay of execution from lawyers for the man behind the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington DC.

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Westboro Baptist Church protests outside Obama girls’ school

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/westboro-baptist-church-protest… Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama

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Supreme Court to review cases of juveniles sentenced to life in prison

Lawyers for two Florida men who were sentenced to life without parole as juveniles will argue to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday that the penalty is cruel and unusual

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