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WASHINGTON (WGHP) — More than 29,000 North Carolinians have not claimed their refunds from their 2007 tax returns, and their time is running out.
The refunds total $37.5 million in this state alone, and half of the refunds are $640 or more, IRS officials reported.
The IRS said the vast majorit...
Presstv | Nearly 76,000 US military veterans were homeless on a given night in 2009, and close to 136,000 veterans resided in shelters that same year, a study has shown.
According to an assessment recently released by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on a single night i...
USAtoday | If political unrest in Libya spreads to other oil-rich countries and the ensuing chaos disrupts crude oil production, gas prices could hit $5 a gallon by peak summer driving season, industry analysts say.
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paul.house.gov | For the past three decades, the Federal Reserve has been given a dual mandate: keeping prices stable and maximizing employment. This policy relies not only on the fatal conceit of believing in the wisdom of supposed experts, but also on numerical chicanery.
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wsj.com | WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's $3.73 trillion budget proposal for fiscal-year 2012 marks the start of a long fight with congressional Republicans about the depth of spending cuts
rawstory | A former employee of Fox News called the company a "propaganda outfit" that is determined to undermine the Obama administration and Democrats.
"I don't think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up," the employee, whose name was kept anonymous, told th...
LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC-TV) – The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is trying to figure out what caused the death of hundreds of birds in south Lake Charles.
The birds were discovered on Thursday morning.
More than 100 birds were scattered across Lake Street between Gauthier and Tank F...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Sometime, somehow, the foreclosure crisis will ease. But probably not anytime soon.
Home prices dropped 2.6% nationwide during the last three months of 2010, pushing more borrowers underwater, according to a quarterly real estate market survey from Zillow.com.
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tenthamendmentcenter.com | While Congress wrangles over repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, lawmakers in nine states have taken steps to bypass Washington D.C. completely and take matters into their own hands.
The latest? North Dakota. Introduced by State Senators Sitt...
activistpost.com | The myth of Wal-Mart as an indispensable part of Americana that presents the poor with a wide selection of affordable products is coming unraveled.
The revelation that Wal-Mart actually kills jobs and damages local communities is contradictory to their own brand marketing, but ...
libertynewsradio.com | Yesterday, the North Carolina House passed the "Protect Health Freedom" act – House Bill 2 (HB2). The bill states that:
A law or rule shall not do any of the following:
(1) Compel a person to (i) provide for health care services or medical treatment for that person...
argusleader.com | Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.”
The bill, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2012, would give people six months to acquire a firearm after turnin...
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law.
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the reform law's so-called individual mandate ...
rawstory.com | WASHINGTON – Tea party hero Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) this week proposed a blueprint to eliminate $400 billion from the federal budget, which included billions in cuts to veterans' health care and disability benefits.
Her plan would freeze health care funding for the Department of...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government-appointed panel investigating the roots of the financial crisis says the meltdown occurred because government officials and Wall Street executives ignored warning signs and failed to manage risks.
The crisis could have been avoided, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Com...
moneyandmarkets.com | Last week The New York Times dropped a bombshell, reporting that “policy makers are working behind the scenes to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.”
This is truly huge news, ...
theeconomiccollapseblog.com | If the U.S. economy "grows" by 4 percent in 2011, but by the end of the year we are paying $3.00 for a loaf of bread, $4.00 for a gallon of milk and $5.00 for a gallon of gasoline are the American people going to be better off economically or worse off? The answer...
Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News | Published January 19, 2011Yellowstone National Park's supervolcano just took a deep "breath," causing miles of ground to rise dramatically, scientists report.
The simmering volcano has produced major eruptions—each a thousand times more powerful...
NYTIMES | WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to repeal the Democrats’ landmark health care overhaul, marking what the new Republican majority in the chamber hailed as the fulfillment of a campaign promise and the start of an all-out effort to dismantle President Obama’s signature domestic policy...
(Reuters) - When borrowing money it's always good to have a Plan B in case a big creditor pulls the plug. That should be true whether the sum is a few thousand dollars or about a trillion, the size of the United States government's debt to China.
With Chinese President Hu Jintao due to arrive in Wa...