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Obama’s tax return for 2009 was just published today. There is some interesting information that you WILL NOT hear in the mainstream press. Barack Obama made $1.6 million dollars in dividends and investment “income” from “foreign” (as in overseas) investments (providing foreign capital for foreign jobs some likely “exported” from the USA) and only made $12,000 dollars in dividends from US based companies, and even this was because he was the beneficiary of a Trust that made the investment decisions not likely Barack Obama. Obama didn’t pay any US taxes on the $1.6 million in foreign income as corroborated on...

The U.S. military would prevail in a war against North Korea but at a greater cost in lives than if the United States were not already fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday. "It would not be as clean as we would like it to be, but it would certainly be sure, and the outcome would not be in doubt," said Gen. Peter Pace. He told a Pentagon news conference that the U.S. military has plenty of people available to fight wars beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, but he acknowledged that U.S.-based ground...

No sign of crabbers missing at sea. Crewmen from the Big Valley fell into water with survival suits in hand. The Big Valley plies Geographic Harbor near Katmai in July. Captain Gary Edwards took the East Carolina University archaeology team there after they finished their research on the Kad'yak shipwreck. The U.S. Coast Guard searched the Bering Sea on Sunday for three missing crew members from the crab fishing vessel Big Valley and one from the Sultan, lost in two separate incidents Saturday. No sign of the crew members were found, but the search will resume today. The Big Valley,...

Al-Jazeera endures snubs but wins delegates By Frank Cerabino Palm Beach Post Columnist Thursday, July 29, 2004 BOSTON — The most important TV network at this convention may have been the one that was practically invisible. Al-Jazeera, the first independent satellite news channel in the Middle East, spent more time covering the Democratic National Convention this week than most American networks. "This will have dividends in becoming a respected news organization," said Stephanie Thomas, 38, Al-Jazeera's bureau manager and communications director at the convention. Richard Graulich/Palm Beach Post enlarge The caps Al-Jazeera workers such as chief correspondent Mohammed Alami wear...

The government of Russia is angry at the French. The Russian foreign ministry on Thursday condemned efforts by French investors to seize a rare Russian art collection on display in Paris as a publicity stunt. The collection, which belongs to the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, has been eyed by an association of French investors who still hold bonds issued by Russia before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and thus never redeemed. The Russian foreign ministry issued a statement condemning efforts to collect the exhibit "as another publicity stunt that has absolutely no legal basis." It added that the dispute had been...

Liberman won't rule out John McCain as running mate. Check link for additional information.

Bin Laden Blasts Clinton for Oval Office Sexcapades In passages of Osama bin Laden's so-called "Letter to America" that were not initially translated into English when first made public two weeks ago, the al Qaeda terror chief says he was deeply offended by ex-President Bill Clinton's "immoral" Oval Office sexcapades. "Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval Office?," bin Laden complains in the 4,000 word message, first reported by Al-Jazeera TV's Yousri Fouda, in which the 9/11 mastermind also warns of further attacks against U.S. targets. A full translation of the six page letter...

Landrieu on top in SLU poll 11/12/2002 HAMMOND -- A poll released Tuesday by Southeastern Louisiana University shows incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu leading Republican challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell in the U.S. Senate runoff. Landrieu received 51.4 percent to Terrell’s 36.4 percent in the poll of 554 Louisiana voters. Just over 12 percent of those polled were undecided or refused to state a preference. According to SLU associate professor of political science Kurt Corbello, who conducted the survey, turnout among black voters is critical to Landrieu. “The lower black voter turnout versus white voter turnout, the smaller becomes Landrieu’s lead,” Corbello...

<p>GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (CNN) --Twenty Afghan war detainees spent a "calm and peaceful" first night in a temporary detention center -- 6-by-8 chain-link cells on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the head of security for the detention center said Saturday.</p>

Secretaries Powell and Rumsfeld are sitting in a bar. A guy walks in and asks the barman, "Isn't that Powell and Rumsfeld?" The barkeep says, "Yep, that's them." So, the guy walks over to the two and says, "Hello, what are you guys doing?" Rumsfeld says, "We're planning World War III." The guy replies, "Really? What's going to happen?" Rumsfeld says, "Well, we're going to kill 10 million Afghans and one bicycle repairman." And the guy exclaims, "Why are you going to kill a bicycle repairman!?!" With that, Rumsfeld turns to Powell and says, "See, I told you no one ...

All eyes on Kabul's front line By Anthony Davis JDW Correspondent, Panshir Valley As US airstrikes intensified across northern Afghanistan this week, Taliban front-line forces have for the first time been suffering serious losses, paving the way for ground operations by the opposition United Front (UF). Airstrikes on 1 November hit Taliban forces on front lines near Keshendeh south of Mazar-e Sharif in what UF sources described as the heaviest day of bombing in the Mazar region to date. A B-52H strike also targeted the front line near the confluence of the Kokcha and the Amu Darya river, which marks ...

Fox is reporting that Daschel and gang are going to meet in private this after noon. I am sure they don't want us to hear that they have reservations about giving Bush too much power and they don't want us to hear the arguments that will ensue blaming the Democrats and 8 years of Clinton as the cause of our lax security with the lives of 30,000 on their hands.

Just Wanted to see if anyone agrees that Gary Condit has had the best week of the year. Did he get lucky or what. Anyone heard his name mentioned once the past two days?

WASHINGTON (AP) - House and Senate negotiators neared final agreement Friday night on an 11-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut package that would give individual taxpayers a $300 refund this year and married couples $600. The plan, a blend of President Bush's tax proposals and those passed by Congress, also would repeal the estate tax by 2010 and sharply raise exemptions before then. It would reduce the top income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent over time, double the $500 child tax credit and allow people to increase their contributions to IRAs and 401(k) plans. The package was to ...

Some day soon, public interest in the Clinton administration’s final disgrace will fade, and the former President—if not his wife, our junior Senator—will retreat from the headlines. Then, after an appropriate interval, we will start seeing phony photo ops and pious public pronouncements. Here and there, the Clintons will begin their latest rehabilitation: Here is the junior Senator, hugging inner-city children; there is the former President, lecturing his successor on the finer points of statecraft. Just as surely as Richard Nixon began planning his comeback on the airplane that took him to San Clemente on Aug. 9, 1974, the Clintons ...

02/25/2001 - Updated 11:39 PM ET Study: Gore would not have won on recount By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY MIAMI — Vice President Al Gores’ hopes for a bonanza of votes in Miami-Dade County that could have turned the election in his favor would not have come true, according to a study by USA TODAY, The Miami Herald and Knight Ridder Newspapers. Gore’s strategists had hoped that a recount of Miami-Dade would result in substantially more votes for their candidate. George W. Bush won the election after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the recounts. To find out what might have ...

In a November, 2000 personal letter published in its entirety (except for naming the recipient) in the Washington DC City Paper in January, the Human Resource Director for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) informs a female job applicant that an investigation into her criminal record has been resolved in her favor. According to the letter, DCPS accepted the applicant's documentation that the government had, for undisclosed reasons, declined to prosecute: Her Cocaine Distribution Charge, Her Marijuana Possession Charge, Her Three (separate) Dangerous-Weapons Charges, Her Shoplifting Charge, Her Soliciting Prosecution Charge, and Her Destruction of Government Property Charge That ...

Jan. 9 — Harvard Business School Press executive editor Hollis Heimbouch has just paid $250,000 for a book about IT — but neither the editor nor the agent, Dan Kois of The Sagalyn Literary Agency, knows what IT is. ALL THEY DO know: IT, also code-named Ginger, is an invention developed by 49-year-old scientist Dean Kamen, and the subject of a planned book by journalist Steve Kemper. According to Kemper’s proposal, IT will change the world, and is so extraordinary that it has drawn the attention of technology visionaries Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs and the investment dollars of pre-eminent ...

"There is a man in our church, XXXX XXXXXX, who has a friend who served on President Elect Bush's campaign in Austin, and she called him to tell this story. Last week, Gov. Bush appeared at the thank-you banquet for his campaign staff, and was going table to table to shake hands with the 1000+ campaign volunteers. He got to one lady, who by a brief comment she made, indicated she was a Christian. She was there with her 16 year old son. Gov. Bush asked him if he was a believer, too. He said he didn't think so. Gov. ...

Dec. 15 — Almost exactly 24 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court anointed him president, George W. Bush told the nation: “I have a lot to be thankful for tonight.” No question about that. HE SHOULD BE thankful that all of the votes were not accurately counted in Florida. He should be thankful the U.S. Supreme Court functioned as his post-vote election committee. He should be thankful the American people really don’t choose their president. Had any of these things been different, Bush probably would have given the concession speech and continued being governor of Texas, instead of delivering his ...