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'Halftime in America' ad creates political debate
… Imported From Detroit." This time around, the focus was on faces and factories — far less on cars. Monday editions of USA Today came wrapped in a four-page ad that features Eastwood and images from the commercial. It also touts investments outside …
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'Halftime in America' ad creates political debate
… Imported From Detroit." This time around, the focus was on faces and factories — far less on cars. Monday editions of USA Today came wrapped in a four-page ad that features Eastwood and images from the commercial. It also touts investments outside …
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ShrinkageLast month the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%. This sounds like progress in the economy, right? Well maybe not...The unemployment rate counts only people who don't have a job and are looking for one. Once you stop looking, you're no longer considered unemployed. People who have taken early retirement or just stopped looking for work have caused the employment numbers to look better than they really are. This is also known as Shrinkage...Howie wondered how many people have given up.
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Newt in Quicksand
In A USA Today /Gallup Poll Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney ties President Barack Obama in the nation's key battleground state races, while Newt Gingrich now trails the president by a whopping 14 percentage points. Howie wanted to know who was now going to vote for Mitt.
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Silence Is Golden
Newt Gingrich has threatened to withdraw from any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. NBC had asked the audience the debate in Tampa to hold their applause until the commercial breaks. Howie was slightly amused at this posturing. He also discussed Mitt's charitable donations versus Joe Biden's.
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Tim Thomas:Righteous Or Outrageous?
Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas skipped the White House invitation to honor the Bruins deciding to use a special moment for the organization, the team and its fans to voice his displeasure with the U.S. government. On his facebook page he wrote "I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People". Howie thought Tim did the right thing.
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Is Free Speech still allowed?A student in a Wisconsin school wrote an opinion piece in his student newspaper saying that he felt that gay parents adopting children is bad and is not good for the children and now that school and student are facing scrutiny for publishing the piece. Do you think the school should have to apologize or should the student be able to write whatever is their opinion?
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Americans Rate Obama a Liberal
… Republican voters in next Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, according to a CNN/Time/ORC International poll out this week. The USA Today /Gallup poll asked Americans to rate their own ideology on a scale of 1 to 5 — with 1 being very liberal and 5 being very …
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Jay Carney Can't Answer Simple Question
… is the extent to which either can help us defeat the president in his bid for a second term. If you look at today's USA Today poll showing only 38% of Americans are confident that Obama was born here, you have to think it's a drumbeat that …
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Fox News Confirms Obama's Birth
… confirmed.... and Fox News can confirm the President of the United States is a citizen of the United States. Period. A USA Today poll published today reveals that the Trump campaign may be expanding the president's identity problems. ...only …
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Japan Update
… Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. For even more options on how to donate to other great causes, click here to view USA Today 's guide or CNN's "How you can help" page . National Earthquake Consolidation Page has a comprehensive look at the …
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Romney: Tax deal, bad deal
Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed piece in the USA Today . Death and taxes, it is said, are life's only two certainties. But in the wake of President Obama's tax compromise with …
