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Posted on September 29, 2015 by sundance update-1Full Poll Data and Pdf below – North Carolina has recently been a focal point due to the GOPe (republican establishment) maneuvering the primary date/rules to support Jeb Bush. The GOPe road map is in a state of severe flux due to Donald Trump. Previous information on the RNC and Rule Changes – HERE PPP’s newest North Carolina poll finds that Donald Trump is holding his ground- at least compared to where he was in the state six weeks ago. […] Trump’s 26% is almost identical to his 24% standing from mid-August. His...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More middle-class Americans will be able to work out their debts to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service because of changes in a tax payment forgiveness program, the agency announced on Monday. The "Offer in Compromise" program lets taxpayers negotiate agreements with the IRS to pay less than the full tax owed. The announced changes make the program more flexible for taxpayers, with some people able to pay off their debts faster, according to the IRS. The IRS announcement focused on the financial analysis used to determine which taxpayers qualify for an Offer in Compromise. Additionally, the program...

LONDON – A lawmaker at the center of Britain's growing expense account scandal said Saturday he has been humiliated by public revelations about his attempt to get taxpayers to pay for a duck hut on his country estate. Opposition Conservative Party legislator Peter Viggers' duck hut — used to shield ducks from predators — has become a potent symbol of expense account excess in recent days. He tried in vain to bill taxpayers 1,645 pounds ($2,600) for the structure — just one of many misdeeds in a scandal that has turned British voters against their elected representatives and led many...

Tensions between Egypt and Lebanon’s Hizbollah group have escalated after the Shia movement admitted that one of its members had been smuggling weapons from Egypt to the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian authorities were chasing 10 Lebanese men on Monday, allegedly members of a Hizbollah cell, on the Sinai peninsula, which shares a border with the Gaza Strip, in a crackdown on a group that they claim was planning to attack Egyptian institutions and Israeli tourists.

WASHINGTON – Widening war in "the most dangerous place in the world," President Barack Obama launched a fresh effort Friday to defeat al-Qaida terrorists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, defending his strategy with shades of the dire language of George W. Bush. Stirring echoes of Sept. 11 and making the war his own, Obama warned that al-Qaida is actively planning attacks on the United States from secret havens in Pakistan. He said he was setting new benchmarks and sending in 4,000 more troops, hundreds of civilians and increased aid for a war that has lasted more than seven years and...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - More than a dozen Colombian politicians agreed in 2001 to cooperate with right-wing paramilitary criminals, says a document revealed on Friday, fueling the country's worst political scandal in years. Three members President Alvaro Uribe's congressional coalition have been sent to prison for their links with the drug-running militias, and more lawmakers were under investigation before paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso turned the document over as part of his court case. Signed by militia bosses including Mancuso, who this week admitted he ordered massacres and 336 assassinations in the name of fighting left-wing rebels, the document also carries the...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold Tuesday and widened their foothold in southern Lebanon, but officials said Israeli bombs killed six people in a south Lebanon town and two U.N. observers in a border outpost with two other peacekeepers feared dead. Two weeks into the war, a senior Hezbollah leader said the guerrillas had not expected such an Israeli onslaught when they snatched two Israeli soldiers July 12. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other key Mideast players gathered in Rome for a meeting Wednesday to discuss proposals for ending the fighting that has claimed more...

Former defense contractor Tom Casey, who accused Rep. Jerry Lewis this week of trying to trade his influence for favors and stock options, is either a subject of the same federal investigation or should be, a former employee said Thursday. Meanwhile, the FBI has widened its probe of Lewis' ties to lobbyists Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White to include Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona. At the same time federal prosecutors were issuing subpoenas in late May in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, the FBI sent a special agent from its Riverside office to retrieve records of Lewis and Calvert from...

SAN DIEGO – The Securities and Exchange Commission has widened its investigation of City Hall to include issues related to the city's funding of its wastewater system, according to documents disclosed Wednesday. Federal investigators subpoenaed the records on Thursday, requesting documents about how the city has charged sewer users. The request included City Council minutes, e-mails and memoranda, correspondence between the city and federal and state agencies, and correspondence with the city's auditors. The SEC specifically requested documents related to the sewer rates charged for Kelco, a San Diego company that harvests kelp and extracts algin, which is used in...

Endorsed by President Bush, manufacturers, big labor and veterans groups, a $140 billion trust fund for workplace asbestos victims was on a fast track for approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee, leaving Californians exposed to asbestos in the environment on uncertain legal ground. But in the final bill rewrite, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California persuaded colleagues to make compensation available to people sickened by asbestos outside the workplace and set aside $40 million for federal agencies to study the problem of "naturally occurring asbestos." Her amendment to the trust-fund bill marks the first federal legislation to grapple with a...

Women's pay gap widens in some fields Reuters News Service Dec. 9, 2003, 11:42PM WASHINGTON -- American women lawyers, salespeople, accountants and print journalists make far less than their male counterparts and have a wider wage gender gap than U.S. women overall, a new survey reported Tuesday. The survey by the National Association for Female Executives echoes findings last month by the General Accounting Office, which noted that women earn an average of 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. But the latest survey noted that some fields have an even bigger wage gap. "No matter how much you...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fallout from the mutual fund probe erupted on Monday as the head of one of the nation's biggest fund companies was forced out and securities regulators found more firms may have engaged in improper trading. U.S. regulators also accused nearly 450 brokerage firms of overcharging investors for mutual fund purchases and said tens of million of dollars of refunds may be necessary. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (news - web sites) told lawmakers at a Washington hearing that 10 percent of top mutual fund companies may have been involved in illegal late trading. Once seen...