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Obama has More Threats than Other Presidents-Elect (Eileen Sullivan)
11/14/07 22:00 WASHINGTON (AP) — Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama ...
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U.S. Retail Sales Drop in October by Most on Record (Shobhana Chandra)
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Retail sales in the United States dropped in October by the most on record, pushing the economy toward the worst slump in decades.
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Whitehead Sees Slump Worse Than Great Depression, U.S. Treasury Default (Joseph A. Giannone)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The economy faces a slump deeper than the Great Depression and a growing deficit threatens the credit of the United States itself, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead ...
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Bailout Lacks Oversight Despite Billions Pledged (Amit R. Paley)
Watchdog Panel Is Empty; Report Is Unfinished
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Secrets of Talk Radio (Dan Shelley)
The former news director of WTMJ reveals how talk show hosts like Charlie Sykes and Jeff Wagner work to get us angry.
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The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates (Robert Parry)
November 13, 2008- Press reports say Barack Obama may retain George W. Bush’s Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a gesture to war-time continuity, bipartisanship and respect for the Washington ...
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Foreclosures Up 25 Percent: RealtyTrac (Helen Chernikoff, Patrick Rucker)
Thu Nov 13, 2:49 am ET NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. foreclosure activity in October rose 25 percent from a year earlier, although filings in California fell by double-digit percentage points for the ...
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Beware The Obama Hype -- What 'Change' In America Really Means (John Pilger)
Nov. 12, 2008 (Information Clearing House) -- My first visit to Texas was in 1968, on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas. I drove south, following the ...
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What would Swayze do? (Mickey Z.)
Nov. 12, 2008 (World News Trust) -- In the classic 1989 film, Roadhouse, thespian Patrick Swayze inhabits the role of James Dalton, head bouncer at a seedy establishment called the Double Deuce ...
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The Anti-Incumbency Movement is Dead (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Nov. 12, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Voting out congressional incumbents failed this year, showing the anti-incumbency movement to be a clear letdown.
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Paulson Changes Tack on Financial Rescue (Greg Robb)
Consumer-finance sector will get help, but mortgage asset plan's shelved
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