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Obama Deficit Plan Cuts Entitlements and Raises Taxes on Rich — WASHINGTON — President Obama will unveil a deficit-reduction plan on Monday that uses entitlement cuts, tax increases and war savings to reduce government spending by more than $3 trillion over the next 10 years, administration officials said.
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Obama's debt-reduction plan: $3 trillion in savings, half from new tax revenue — President Obama will announce a proposal on Monday to tame the nation's rocketing federal debt, calling for $1.5 trillion in new revenue as part of a plan to find more than $3 trillion in budget savings over a decade, senior administration officials said.

Republicans Call Obama's Tax Plan ‘Class Warfare’ — WASHINGTON — President Obama's proposal to impose a minimum tax rate on those who earn more than $1 million a year was met with derision Sunday by Republican lawmakers, who said it amounted to “class warfare” and a political tactic intended …
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Obama to propose $3T in cuts, pledge to veto tax cuts for wealthy — President Obama on Monday will unveil his vision for deficit reduction and tax reform in the Rose Garden, threatening to veto any bills that don't raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
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New Obama Deficit Plan
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Obama to propose $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue
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Greta Van Susteren: Tucker Carlson's a ‘pig’ for Palin story — Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is calling out Daily Caller owner Tucker Carlson as a “pig” and “purveyor of smut” for prominently posting a story with the headline: “Mike Tyson: Sarah Palin met the ‘womb shifter’.”
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Tucker Carlson's THE DAILY CALLER's DISGUSTING POST
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Solyndra Hypocrisy: David Vitter Sought Energy Loans He Now Seeks to Scrutinize — Washington “scandals” have a predictable rhythm, and the Solyndra solar loan “scandal” has entered the phase where critics start exploiting the controversy to push their ideological agenda.
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Fury over Solyndra loan threatens to sunset solar energy investments
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Rahm Emanuel on Solyndra: 'I don't remember'
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Senator was not always critical of loan program
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An Explanation and Some Reflections — I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation. — It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming, and the price changes.


The Tsuris — Barack Obama is the best thing Israel has going for it right now. Why is that so difficult for Netanyahu and his American Jewish allies to understand? — The last time Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu shared each other's company, you could say that the encounter did not go well …
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Mahmoud Abbas: ‘All hell has broken out’ — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that “all hell has broken out” over his bid to seek statehood recognition at the United Nations this week over objections from the United States. — “Matters will be bad” as his campaign …
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JOBS AND THE G.O.P. — There is no truer truism in American politics than James Carville's catchphrase from the 1992 election “It's the economy, stupid.” When people discuss Barack Obama's current approval rating, which is at its lowest level ever, they may invoke his supposed lack …
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Republican Calls for a More Honest Debate — WASHINGTON — Four months after he decided against jumping into the Republican presidential race, Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana says that he has occasionally been frustrated by the discourse in the campaign and that the field could benefit …
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Obama's urgent jobs plan: Right now, ‘right now’ means sometime next month maybe — Everybody remembers the urgency of President Obama's attitude toward the awful jobs situation. — Back in early August, Obama said the jobs situation was so urgent that he was going to give another speech about it …
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There Will Be Oil — For decades, advocates of ‘peak oil’ have been predicting a crisis in energy supplies. They've been wrong at every turn, saysDaniel Yergin. — Since the beginning of the 21st century, a fear has come to pervade the prospects for oil, fueling anxieties about the stability of global energy supplies.
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Cleaver: If Obama wasn't president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’ — Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).


Mother of 4 terrorist murderers chosen by the PA to launch statehood campaign — Mother of 4 terrorist murderers — chosen by the PA — to launch statehood campaign — by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik — The Palestinian Authority chose the mother of 4 terrorist murderers …
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Seven held in Birmingham anti-terror operation — Specialist police teams are now searching properties in the city — Six men and a woman have been arrested in Birmingham in a large anti-terrorism operation, West Midlands Police say. — The men, aged between 25 and 32 …
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Police raid gay party, detain 133 for ‘indecent behaviour’ — The Oshiwara police raided a gay party being held in a bungalow at Versova early on Sunday and detained 133 people on the charge of indecent behaviour. Actor Bobby Darling was one of the people detained.
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Wall St. Protesters Say They're Settled In — (Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg via Getty Images) — ABC News' Erin McLaughlin reports: — Protesters who vowed to “occupy Wall Street” are holding their ground in downtown New York, and say they have no plans to leave anytime soon.
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