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10 Good Reasons Not To Go On A Cruise (Smartmoney.com)
1. “Our engines break down all the time.”
In December 2009, engine problems caused the Regent’s Seven Seas Voyager to skip a scheduled port stop in Antigua, and instead head straight to San Juan for the engine to be repaired. And a propulsion issue on Carnival’s 2,124-passenger Legend ship last week affected its sailing speed, causing [...]
The 10 Cheapest U.S. Cities To Buy Real Estate (US World News)
10 Cities for Real Estate Steals – US News and World Report.
SENATOR EVAN BAYN / OPINION: Why I’m Leaving the Senate (The New York Times)
BASEBALL may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. Milton Berle famously joked: “You can lead [...]
AFGHANISTAN WAR UPDATE: Prize on the Battlefields of Marja May Be Momentum (The New York Times)
KABUL, Afghanistan — Any historian, or any general, would tell you the same: Lose the initiative on the battlefield, and it’s awfully hard to get it back.
In the Korean War, for instance, the Americans lost the initiative in the beginning, took it back with a dramatic and daring operation, and then lost it again, finally [...]
American Cities Now Facing Bankruptcy (Yahoo! Finance)
Just days after becoming controller of financially strapped Harrisburg, Pa., in January, Daniel Miller began uttering an obscure term that baffled most people who had never heard it and chilled those who had: Chapter 9.
The seldom-used part of U.S. bankruptcy law gives municipalities protection from creditors while developing a plan to pay off debts. Created [...]
HOME BUYERS BEWARE: 10 MISTAKES TO AVOID WHEN PURCHASING A HOUSE (US News and World Report
10 Rookie Home Buyer Mistakes to Avoid – US News and World Report.
Live From Washington! It’s Obama Health Care Drama (Yahoo! News)
Coming soon to daytime television: America’s long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank.
President Barack Obama summons anxious Democrats and aloof Republicans to a White House summit Thursday — live on C-SPAN and perhaps cable — and gambles that he can save his embattled [...]
Alexander M. Haig Jr. Dies at 85, Military Hero, Commanding White House Aide (New York Times)
Alexander M. Haig Jr., the four-star general who served as a confrontational secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan and a commanding White House chief of staff as the Nixon administration crumbled, died Saturday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, according to a hospital spokesman. He was 85.
Mr. Haig was a rare American breed: [...]
11 Tax Deductions You Can’t Write Off (And the IRS Knows It) (Yahoo Finance)
Although the tax code permits a wide range of deductions for taxpayers in various situations, thousands of filers routinely claim deductions for various types of expenses that are in fact non-deductible. Here is a list of some of the more common non-deductible expenses that show up on tax returns each year.
Spousal and Child Support
Many taxpayers [...]
Obama Will Finally Get Specfic On Healthcare (Los Angeles Times)
Reporting from Washington – President Obama, after sustaining months of criticism for not being clear about what he wanted in healthcare legislation, will post specific proposals for a comprehensive plan on the Internet by Monday, according to the White House.
The posting would come three days before a televised meeting that Obama plans to convene [...]
