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Don’t Put Off These Crucial Car Repairs
No matter what strange noise your car is making, it almost always turns into the ca-ching of your mechanic’s cash register gobbling up your savings. Because car repairs are expensive, it’s tempting to let them slide. But putting off or skipping certain repairs can be a costly and even dangerous game.
Here are six car repairs [...]
Hoop Dreams Scholarship Program Comes to the End of Line As Recession Takes Its Toll
Susie Kay, a white teacher at the District’s H.D. Woodson High School, stood 5-foot-2 but had big dreams for her mostly black students: She wanted them to go to college. What is more, she made it happen.
She founded Hoop Dreams, which over the past 13 years has distributed millions of dollars in college scholarships and [...]
The Banks Got TARP, But They Still Want More Of Your Money By Jacking Up Fees
Your bank wants more of your money, and it’s found a way to get it: by jacking up the fees on your account.
Customers are paying more to maintain a checking account and withdraw cash from an out-of-system ATM, and when they bounce a check. To make up for declining revenue, many banks are boosting fees [...]
OVERLOOKED STORY OF THE DAY BY THE MEDIA: Obama’s Senior Advisor David Axelrod Tells George Stephanopoulos, “Obama Won’t Rule Out Middle-Class Tax Hike”
Editor’s Note: To quote one blogger – “The change Obama was campaigning about was actually the change from a dollar you will have left after the taxes he will need to impose to finance his grandiose plans”
Report filed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won’t rule out a [...]
UNDER THE RADAR: ABC NEWS – OBAMA HEALTHCARE EVENT BOMBS IN RATINGS: OBAMA ADMITS HE WOULD GET “VERY BEST CARE” FOR HIS FAMILY OUTSIDE HIS PROPOSED NATIONAL HEALH PROGRAM
Barack Obama got ABC to move their news division into the White House in order to make the big pitch for his egalitarian, everyone-gets-treated-equally ObamaCare push. Instead, Obama fumbled into a Michael Dukakis moment that exposed him as a hypocrite. ABC itself leads with Obama’s response that he wouldn’t stay within his own [...]
Obama’s Friends and Foes in Congress
Remember all the talk about Barack Obama's “Team of Rivals”? Hooey. In fact, he relies on friends, wins some converts and loses others, and takes fire from the GOP. Sen. Arlen Specter's defection to the Democratic Party might make him Obama's newest pal, but there are several other key friends–and reliable foes–on Capitol Hill. [See [...]
California’s Fiscal Crisis: The Legacy of Proposition 13
he financial crisis in California grew worse this week as State Controller John Chiang warned that if legislators and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fail to come up with a budget-balancing package, he would begin paying California's bills with IOUs on July 2. The last time the state did this was during the Great Depression.
What has brought [...]
Iran Pledges ‘Crushing’ Response To US Critiques
EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Saturday to make the U.S. regret its criticism of [...]
TARP and Stimulus Packages Passed Without Scrutiny Gives Away Millions To Companies Like Captain Morgan
In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based Diageo Plc billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island — Puerto Rico — to another, namely St. Croix.
DeJongh says he had no idea his deal would help make the world’s [...]
Obama’s Homeowners’ Bailout: Is It Really Making Homes Affordable?
Many homeowners on the brink of foreclosure had been crossing their fingers hoping for a loan modification when President Obama announced his Making Home Affordable program, a government subsidized mortgage modification program that looked like their answer. But in practice, the “homeowners’ bailout,” intended to alleviate the burden of predatory lending rates, may only delay [...]
