House Republicans Cave on Payroll Tax Cuts Extension - Yahoo! News

A muted House Speaker John Boehner announced today thatRepublicons have decided to accept a short-term extension of thepayroll tax cut, preventing a hike in taxes just nine days before the tax break expires for 160 million Americans.

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Boehner Asks White House to Negotiate, but Obama Declines Invitation - Yahoo! News

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio,  phoned President Obama this morning and asked him to send members of his economic team to the Capitol to end the political stalemate and negotiate a path toward  a one-year extension of the payroll tax credit.&nbs …

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Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs | Daily Ticker - Yahoo! Finance

The most important reason the theory that "rich people create the jobs" is absurd, argues Nick Hanauer, the founder of online advertising company aQuantive, which Microsoft bought for $6.4 billion, is that rich people do not create jobs, even if they found and …

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Fox News Lies Yet Again, Uses an Obama Image to Identify Mitt Romney - Politics - The Atlantic Wire

The dutiful Media Matters researchers who stare at Fox News all day have flagged another lie made by the cable news network: Fox accidentally swapped Mitt Romney's face with Barack Obama's in an Iowa polling segment today.

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Fox News LIES again: Look close at the unemployment chart

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What the Republicon candidates need to see Photos

Yahoo readers were asked to show what they wanted candidates to see as they prepared for the Dec. 10 debate in Des Moines, Iowa. You responded with pictures of everything from your family to the house down the street that is for sale.

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UC Davis pepper spray, smear tactics: 'Occupy' protests face rougher response - Yahoo! News

A pepper spray incident at UC Davis and reports of a smear campaign by a PR firm with ties to the financial industry indicate that the Occupy Wall Street movement is meeting an increasingly tough response from opponents and from police.  

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US lobbyists aimed to smear Occupy Wall Street: report - Yahoo! News

A top US lobbying firm tied to the financial industry pitched a $850,000 plan to smear the Occupy Wall Street movement and discredit sympathetic politicians, MSNBC television reported Saturday.

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Fox News Loves Our Constitution So Much It Invented New Articles | HyperVocal

So Wednesday, in attempt to provide us with facts and origins, Fox national correspondent Steve Centanni pointed us to “Article 28 of the Constitution,” specifically “Section 144.”

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Can't 'Occupy Wall Street?' Viral video says 'occupy the mail'

Are you a disgruntled member of the 99 percent who would like to protest economic inequality but you just don't live within bicycling distances of the ongoing "Occupy" demonstrations held in more than 600 communities in the U.S. ...

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First OFFICIAL Release from OCCUPY WALL STREET | OccupyWallSt.org Forum

Occupy Wall Street is "all about breaking up that cosy relationship between money and politics and bringing the perpetrators of the financial crash of 2008 to justice," all by means of peaceful protest. 

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Oil drops hits new lows for 2011, again - Yahoo! News

Benchmark crude has dropped 32 percent since peaking near $114 per barrel in late April. Oil slipped as low as $74.95 on Tuesday, the cheapest price since September of last year. It recovered somewhat, but remains below $76 per barrel.

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Occupy Wall Street Protests: Police Arrest 400 on Brooklyn Bridge

Protesters closed the Brooklyn Bridge in one direction and police arrested hundreds of people on Saturday as Occupy Wall Street entered its third week. The protesters were arrested for standing in the middle of the road and blocking the Brooklyn-bound lanes of the bridge, which  …

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PressTV - Olbermann calls out media hypocrisy on 'Occupy Wall Street' protests

American political commentator Keith Olbermann pointed out Wednesday night on Countdown that the major newspapers had been ignoring the five-day-long "Occupy Wall Street" protests, but would have scrambled to cover a similar-sized Tea Party protest.

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Palestinians submit UN statehood bid - Yahoo! News

The Palestinian leader took his people's quest for independence to the heart of world diplomacy Friday, seeking U.N.

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As Fed meets, Republicans warn against policy move - Yahoo! News

 Top Congressional Republicans on Tuesday took the unusual step of telling the Federal Reserve to refrain from further "intervention" in the economy on the eve of the central bank's policy decision.

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GOP Causes S&P Downgrade, but Republicon Candidates Blame Obama | The Nation

Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated, the following sentence?       It's right there on Page 4 of the official Standard & Poor's "Research Update" -- the actual report (PDF) on what they did and why -- published on August 5t …

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Actor Matt Damon defends teacher tenure in testy exchange | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

Actor Matt Damon got into a tense exchange with a journalist from the libertarian Reason TV site after she asked him whether teachers with tenure would lack incentive to work hard at their jobs.

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Workers share of national income plummets to record low

Over the last decade, the share of U.S. national income taken home by workers has plummeted to a record low.

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High schooler challenges Michele Bachmann to Constitution showdown - Yahoo! News

"I have found quite a few of your statements regarding The Constitution of the United States, the quality of public school education and general U.S.

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Jon Stewart Common Fox News | PopWatch | EW.com

There was nothing common about Jon Stewart’s critique of Fox News most recent political furor last night.

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Angry Stewart Devotes Entire Last Show to 9/11 Responders

In case you missed it, Jon Stewart is really, really angry about the Republican filibuster of the 9/11 first responders health care bill. So angry that he devoted the entirety of last night's Daily Show—the last of 2010—to the issue, the Huffington Post reports.

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U.S. deficit down in first half 2010: report

The U.S. federal budget deficit in the first half of fiscal 2010 is down 8 percent from the same period a year ago, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

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Awesome Jon Stewart debate: Is Fox News evil or stupid? (+ Colbert on anti-Muslim protesters)

With the latest round of fearmongering over Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Jon Stewart had another excellent segment last night where he showed just how duplicitous Fox News is being in looking at the money trail... which leads right back to Fox News.

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The Myths About Government Debt and Deficit

During the Great Depression, we abandoned the idea that free markets could work without government intervention.

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