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Outside Spending for 2012 Election
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Transcript And Audio: First Obama-Romney Presidential Debate : NPR
Transcript And Audio: First Obama-Romney Presidential Debate : NPR.
So Who Pays the Capital Gain Tax?
By Patricia L Johnson Did you ever read something and a certain portion of it caught your eye because it just didn’t look right, yet you just couldn’t put your finger on what was wrong with it? The day Governor … Continue reading
The Associated Press: Voter registration problems widening in Florida
The Associated Press: Voter registration problems widening in Florida.
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The Unbelievably Flawed Thinking of Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on Taxes
By Patricia L Johnson It’s true – the March 20, 2010 decision on SpeechNow v. FEC and the January 2010 decision on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission had me wondering whether or not the little people would be able to … Continue reading
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Gates, Mullen slam Congress, call on lawmakers to act like ‘adults’ – The Hill’s DEFCON Hill
Gates, Mullen slam Congress, call on lawmakers to act like ‘adults’ – The Hill’s DEFCON Hill.
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NATO releases details of brazen raid on base in Afghanistan – CNN.com
NATO releases details of brazen raid on base in Afghanistan – CNN.com.
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Video: Disgruntled Obama Supporter Actually Republican Staffer Bettina Inclan
Video: Disgruntled Obama Supporter Actually Republican Staffer Bettina Inclan.
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DNC 2012: Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (Full transcript) – The Washington Post
DNC 2012: Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (Full transcript) – The Washington Post.
WELCOME
ELLIANNA MICHELLE born Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 1:52 a.m. and weighing in at 3 pounds and 4 oz. to proud parents Christina and Jay. Ellianna and mommy both doing fine and so are all the angels that watched over … Continue reading
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Fact-checking 6 claims in Paul Ryan’s convention speech – CBS News
Fact-checking 6 claims in Paul Ryan’s convention speech – CBS News.
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BEA – GDP second quarter 2012, second estimate = annual rate of 1.7 percent
Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of 1.7 percent in the second quarter of 2012, according to today’s second estimate. This follows a growth rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2012. Gross Domestic … Continue reading
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Former Gov. Charlie Crist: Here’s why I’m backing Barack Obama – Tampa Bay Times
Former Gov. Charlie Crist: Here’s why I’m backing Barack Obama – Tampa Bay Times.
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Executive Excess 2012: The CEO Hands in Uncle Sam’s Pocket – IPS
Executive Excess 2012: The CEO Hands in Uncle Sam’s Pocket – IPS.
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THAT GREEN THING
~author unknown~ Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn’t have this … Continue reading
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No Injuries in Strait of Hormuz Collision
No Injuries in Strait of Hormuz Collision.
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Infographic: Extending Middle-Class Tax Cuts | The White House
Infographic: Extending Middle-Class Tax Cuts | The White House.
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Wisconsin Firm Recalls Meat And Poultry Salad Products Due To Potential Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination
Wisconsin Firm Recalls Meat And Poultry Salad Products Due To Potential Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination.
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Fast and Furious – Anatomy of a Failed Operation
Fast and Furious – Anatomy of a Failed Operation.
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Minnesota Firm Recalls Canned Chicken Products Due To Mislabeling And Undeclared Allergen
Minnesota Firm Recalls Canned Chicken Products Due To Mislabeling And Undeclared Allergen.
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Mississippi Firm Recalls Sausage Products For Possible Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination
Mississippi Firm Recalls Sausage Products For Possible Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination.
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Florida Firm Recalls Chicken Wrap Products Due To Possible Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination
Florida Firm Recalls Chicken Wrap Products Due To Possible Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination.
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California Firm Recalls BBQ Chicken Salads for Possible Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination
California Firm Recalls BBQ Chicken Salads for Possible Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination.
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Mitt Romney’s Olympics blunder stuns No 10 and hands gift to Obama | World news | guardian.co.uk
Mitt Romney’s Olympics blunder stuns No 10 and hands gift to Obama | World news | guardian.co.uk.
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Pennsylvania Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products Due To Possible Salmonella Contamination
Pennsylvania Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products Due To Possible Salmonella Contamination.
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Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization.
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FRB: Testimony–Bernanke, Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress–July 17, 2012
FRB: Testimony–Bernanke, Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress–July 17, 2012.
Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government
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Final Vote Results for Roll Call 441 – Contempt Resolution Eric Holder
Final Vote Results for Roll Call 441.
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FactCheck.org : Romney’s Solar Flareout
FactCheck.org : Romney’s Solar Flareout.
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State v. Zimmerman: Motion to revoke bond
State v. Zimmerman: Motion to revoke bond.
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Preliminary injunction on new Florida voter registration requirements
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The Trends on Job Creation
By Patricia L Johnson The job losses in this country began in February 2008 with a loss of 84,000 jobs and we continued losing jobs each month for the next 24 months, with February 2010 jobs losses at 35,000. During … Continue reading
Popular Antibiotic May Raise Risk of Sudden Death – NYTimes.com
Popular Antibiotic May Raise Risk of Sudden Death – NYTimes.com.
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Choose Your Mother’s Day Card – Affordable Care Act | The White House
Choose Your Mother’s Day Card – Affordable Care Act | The White House.
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How Far does it have to Fall before it’s considered a Failure?
Opinion by Patricia L Johnson The big news today is the $2 billion loss JPMorgan Chase & Co. racked up in the past six week period of time on credit derivatives. CEO Jamie Dimon stated the derivative bet was “flawed, … Continue reading
Bin Laden files show al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in close contact | World news | guardian.co.uk
Bin Laden files show al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in close contact | World news | guardian.co.uk.
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Wasting Our Minds – NYTimes.com
Wasting Our Minds – NYTimes.com.
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FBI — Former BP Engineer Arrested for Obstruction of Justice in Connection with the Deepwater Horizon Criminal Investigation
FBI — Former BP Engineer Arrested for Obstruction of Justice in Connection with the Deepwater Horizon Criminal Investigation.
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Here Are The Key Market Moving Events For Thursday, April 26, 2012 – Business Insider
Here Are The Key Market Moving Events For Thursday, April 26, 2012 – Business Insider.
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Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2013 Funding Allocations for the 12 Appropriations Subcommittees | Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2013 Funding Allocations for the 12 Appropriations Subcommittees | Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives.
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The Sky is Not Falling on Social Security and Medicare
By Patricia L Johnson The Social Security Act requires an annual report to Congress on the actuarial status and financial operations of OASI and DI Trust Funds, as well as Medicare Trust Funds. The 2012 report is the 72nd report … Continue reading
Michigan Firm Recalls Calzone Products for Possible Listeria Contamination
Michigan Firm Recalls Calzone Products for Possible Listeria Contamination.
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Defense.gov News Release: National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated as of April 17, 2012
Defense.gov News Release: National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated as of April 17, 2012.
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The Buffett Rule | The White House
The Buffett Rule | The White House.
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U.S. District Court complaint against Jet Blue pilot Clayton Frederick Osbon
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Remington Arm’s Open Letter to NY Governor on Firearms Mircostamping
Remington Arm’s Open Letter to NY Governor on Firearms Mircostamping.
Open letter to the viewers of Current – Gore re: Olbermann
Open letter to the viewers of Current.
U.S. Supreme Court transcript of Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11-400 – AFTERNOON SESSION
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U.S. Supreme Court transcript of Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11-398
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U.S. Supreme Court transcript of Monday, March 26, 2012 11-398
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Are the Republicans Really Going to Renege?
Opinion by Patricia L Johnson When it comes to politics, voters have many different levels of interest, so I’ll only list a few. We have voters that spend a considerable amount of time paying attention to what goes on in … Continue reading
Delegate Counts That Don’t
Opinion by Patricia L Johnson Each and every day, and sometimes each and every hour, we are being updated on which candidate has the most delegates in the Republican campaign. Online news reports have now resorted to inserting a date … Continue reading
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
A Smile for the Day – Author Unknown Flynn staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Mary. He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward … Continue reading
Thoughts for the Day – March 15, 2012
Opinion by Patricia L Johnson Rick Santorum’s Alabama Primary Win Was it really a win? On February 28, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama issued an injunction extending the length of time allowed for receiving … Continue reading
Conservatism – What is it and What Does it Mean?
Opinion by Patricia L Johnson “Conservative” and Conservatism are words that have been used over and over again by most of the Republican presidential candidates. The problem I have is I cannot seem to locate an in-depth definition for the … Continue reading
Thoughts for the Day – March 12, 2012
By Patricia L Johnson Keystone XL Pipeline The economy and jobs is the number one issue on the administration and the minds of voters. Does it really make any sense that the POTUS would delay the Keystone XL project without … Continue reading
Communications from the Past and Present
By Richard E Walrath and Patricia L Johnson Dating of three charcoal cave paintings located at The Cave of Chauvet – Pont -D’Arc, located in southeastern France indicates these drawings are approximately 31, 000 years old, making the drawings the … Continue reading
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Respect for Women is only a Vote Away
Opinion by Patricia L Johnson Even though I heard the words with my own ears, I still cannot believe Rush Limbaugh would say something so totally appalling. After five of his sponsors dropped him, he finally managed to apologize for … Continue reading
The Two S’s, Samuel Wright Bodman III and Solyndra
Opinion by Patricia L Johnson All of us recognize the name Solyndra as it became a favorite talking point of the Republicans and the media for criticizing President Obama. The harm has already been done as the majority of Americans … Continue reading
Crude Facts about Crude Oil 2012
By Patricia L Johnson The above graphic is from the United States Department of Energy and represents the split in how much we pay for in a gallon of regular gasoline, as of January 2012. If you’ve filled up lately … Continue reading
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Tagged BP, Brent crude, Canada, Conoco Phillips, cost of gallon of gas, crude oil, idle, Mexico, Nigeria, Saudia Arabia, Sunoco, U.S. Dept of Energy, U.S. refineries, Venezuela
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Super PAC’s, the 2012 Election and You
By Patricia L Johnson What happened at the Iowa caucus? Poll after poll showed Mitt Romney leading the pack prior to the January 3, 2012 caucus with Ron Paul in second place and Rick Santorum in third place, at times … Continue reading
Another Look at ‘First in the Nation’ Caucus Results from Iowa
By Patricia L Johnson The Iowa Caucus is always conducted on January 3 of a presidential election year and consists of four parts as follows: (1) The Caucus Chairman holds a Presidential Preference Poll. (2) Nominations are taken and an … Continue reading
Back on Track
By Patricia L Johnson Less than two months after President Obama took office, on March 9, 2009, the DJIA hit a low of 6,547 points due to what would soon become known as the Great Recession, started in 2008. This … Continue reading
My Opinion of Bill O’Reilly’s Comments about Whitney Houston
Why are we, as a nation, so quick to judge others? Bill O’Reilly has once again stuck his foot in his mouth by claiming Whitney Houston killed herself with drugs. I must have missed something because I did not realize … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill O'Reilly, cause of death, opinions, prescription drugs, street drugs, Whitney Houston
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Michigan Firm Recalls Salad Products for Possible Listeria Contamination
Michigan Firm Recalls Salad Products for Possible Listeria Contamination.
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State of the Union — 2012 — Transcript – NYTimes.com
State of the Union — 2012 — Transcript – NYTimes.com.
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Gov. Mitch Daniels’s Republican Address to the Nation – NYTimes.com
Gov. Mitch Daniels’s Republican Address to the Nation – NYTimes.com.
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THE GOLD BOX
The story goes that some time ago a mother punished her five year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper.. Money was tight and she became even more upset when the child used the gold paper … Continue reading
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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
All I Want for Christmas is You, Mariah Carey 2010
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December 13th – A Day to Remember or a Day to Forget?
By Patricia L Johnson and Richard E Walrath December 13, 2000 is the day Al Gore conceded defeat to then Texas Governor George W. Bush. That was a bad, sad day–almost as bad and sad as the day the Supreme … Continue reading
“The Dumbest Single Thing I’ve Done”
By Patricia L Johnson You truly have to wonder about the mentality of some of the members of the current Republican field of candidates. The statement “the dumbest single thing I’ve done” made by Newt Gingrich is a prime example. Mr. Gingrich was … Continue reading
The Last Refuge – Ten Years Later
Note: The following was originally published on November 23, 2001 – ten years ago. Has anything changed in the past decade? By Richard E Walrath – November 23, 2001 6:31 pm Samuel Johnson was talking about patriotism when he uttered … Continue reading
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What is an Entitlement?
By Richard E Walrath and Patricia L Johnson Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) made the following statement before the Economic Club of Washington when referring to the deficit super committee “when it comes to producing savings to reach … Continue reading
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Veterans Day – November 11 – Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
Veterans Day – November 11 – Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs.
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2011 Veteran’s Day Free Meals and Discounts
2011 Veteran’s Day Free Meals and Discounts.
My Heart and Prayers Go Out to Jim Calhoun, a Major Victim in the Sandusky Crime Spree
By Patricia L Johnson There has always been a special place in my heart for Veterans, partly due to being brought up to believe how extraordinary the men and woman who fight for our country are, and partly due to … Continue reading
How Much Do You Know About the Bush Tax Cuts andTheir Impact on our Deficit and National Debt?
By Patricia L Johnson Each year the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) completes a projected budget for the next decade. The CBO projection in 2001 for the 10-year period of 2002 through 2011 indicated budget surpluses totaling $5.6 trillion dollars1 … Continue reading
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Tagged Budget Deficit, Bush Tax-cuts, Congressional Budget Office, EGTRRA, Legislation, National Debt, Tax-cuts, Taxes
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The Effects of Tax-Financed Spending v. Debt-Financed Spending
By Patricia L Johnson and Richard E Walrath President Clinton was voted into office in 1992 and served for eight years. When he took over the office of President we had three tax rates, 15%, 28% and 31% and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Budget Deficit, Budget Surplus, CBO, CRS, Deficit Financed Spending, EGTRRA, Eric Cantor, GWOT, Iraq, JGTRRA, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, President Bush, President Clinton, President Obama, Tax Financed Spending, Tax-cuts
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Thank You All!
By Richard E Walrath and Patricia L Johnson Special thanks to all our readers, viewers and comment writers who over the years, have become part of Articles and Answers. Without them, A&A would be just another blog. Instead, A&A is … Continue reading
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What Would Steve Do? Jobs, That Is
By Richard E Walrath and Patricia L Johnson Steve Jobs came back to his company just in time to save it. Apple was floundering around like a fish out of water. The company lacked focus, a sense of purpose, but … Continue reading
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Tagged business investment, Corporate Tax, Deficit, Excise Tax, GDP, Individual Income Tax, Revenues, tax loopholes
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Are Tax Cuts the Driving Force Behind Job Creation and Economic Growth?
Republican Presidential candidates would have us believe increasing taxes stifles job creation and economic growth in this country, but what does an analysis of economic indicators before and after tax cuts indicate? Proponents of supply-side economics believe economic growth is … Continue reading
How Many Legs does Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan Have?
By Richard E Walrath Cain states his 9-9-9 plan would replace the current IRS tax system with a flat 9 percent income tax, 9 percent corporate tax and 9 percent consumption tax. Various news reports have stated Herman Cain’s new … Continue reading
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U.S. Disasters Stretch from Alaska to Hawaii
Photo FEMA/Jace Anderson – August 18, 2011 By Patricia L Johnson and Richard E Walrath FEMA funding has been a news topic for the past week due to the failure of Congress to come to an agreement on funding levels. … Continue reading
USDA Class I Recall – Texas Firm Recalls Ground Beef Due To Possible E. Coli O157:H7 Contamination
Texas Firm Recalls Ground Beef Due To Possible E. Coli O157:H7 Contamination. Palo Duro Meat, an Amarillo, Texas, establishment, is recalling 40,000 pounds of frozen fine ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
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USDA Class I Recall – New York Firm Recalls Chicken, Beef, Veal and Pork Products Due to an Undeclared Allergen
New York Firm Recalls Chicken, Beef, Veal and Pork Products Due to an Undeclared Allergen.
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