GOP debate fact check: Errant claims on bailout, taxes
CBS News
Republican presidential candidates, from left, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sit together at the start of a Republican presidential debate By Cameron Joseph – 02/22/12 08:23 PM ET Ron Paul, when asked why he was running an ad of his [...]
Read MoreHolmdel mayor's bridge to nowhere
Holmdel Inde
www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-euro-zones-bridges-from You're looking at Tokyo's newest landmark, the 'Dinosaur' Bridge. Officially known as the Tokyo Gate Bridge — providing a link from the capital to a landfill — it shows what actually happens when a government succeeds in In its Goa poll manifesto released on Monday, the Congress has promised to build a “bridge” over [...]
Read MoreNew Madrid Fault Stretches, Rolls Back Over for Another Ten Minutes Sleep
Riverfront T
effective means of becoming free of Oil and Gas importing from non-white resources-Rich nations. When the New madrid fault opens WIDE, this nation and its greedy leaders (and their 'Onwers')may wake up. bu I doubt it… Experts said the 4.0 magnitude quake started in The New Madrid Fault Zone. Part of that connects to the [...]
Read More'Underwear Bomber' Appeals Life Sentence
Wall Street
DETROIT (CNN) — The man who smuggled a bomb in his underwear aboard a commercial airliner on Christmas Day in 2009 has been sentenced to life in prison, months after he pleaded guilty for his role in what officials later determined was an al Qaeda KANO (AFP) The parents of the Nigerian “underwear bomber” who [...]
Read MoreNigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison
CBS News
He probably has no idea that the Nigerian jihadist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for trying to light a bomb hidden in his underwear and blow up a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, was one of the (NewsCore) – The Nigerian student who confessed to trying to [...]
Read MoreGreek lawmakers pass austerity bill as Athens burns
Reuters
Most Asian markets edged higher as investors took heart from the Greek parliament's approval of painful austerity measures crucial for getting a second bail-out package. But gains were limited as Athens has yet to reach a final deal with private Greek PM Lucas Papademos has warned parliament of “uncontrollable economic chaos” if it fails to [...]
Read MoreRomney wins CPAC straw poll as question lingers long after Iowa
DesMoinesReg
Mitt Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll. By Abby Livingston Posted at 4:43 p.m. on Feb. 11. Mitt Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll with 38 Romney had encouraged students to attend the convention, and 44 percent of them participated in the poll. Texas [...]
Read MoreRomney wins CPAC straw poll
Toronto Sun
Romney wins CPAC straw poll | Straw poll also indicated CPAC attendees prefer Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Mitt Romney won The Washington Times/CPAC Presidential Straw Poll on Saturday, and also nipped Rick Santorum as the top choice of conservatives nationwide, according to a new version of the poll conducted for the first The candidates themselves, [...]
Read MoreRomney wins CPAC presidential straw poll
Fox News
said scores of young, dapper CPAC goers to the several hundred Occupiers who marched in protest on the conservative conference today. The contrast was stark: hoards of clean-shaven, male college students dressed in a veritable uniform of blue blazer, WASHINGTON — Controversy over an immigration opponent who spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) [...]
Read MoreAt CPAC, candidates decry President Obama's 'war on religion'
Los Angeles
By David Horsey President Obama is trying to accommodate Catholic bishops on birth control, but at CPAC, Republican presidential candidates still ranted about his assault on religion. At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington Organizers of CPAC are working hard to ensure this year's conference ends with a sense of what conservatives in [...]
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