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The Washington Times extending reach with cable network
Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 3/14/2013 5:43:43 PM
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| Herring Broadcasting, owner of the Wealth TV network, and The Washington Times announced Thursday that they have joined in a strategic partnership to create a new national cable news network called One America News, set to debut nationwide this summer. “One America News Network will provide Americans a new, credible source for national and international news and investigative reporting as well as talk shows designed to foster an independent, cutting-edge debate about the policies, issues and solutions facing the country,” said Robert Herring Sr., CEO of Herring Broadcasting, founded in 2004 and based in San Diego.
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Comments: Hoping when this News Network kicks off that it will be more Hardcore reporting on the FACTS and NOT spout the Godless Humanist Progressive/Liberal DemocRat Propaganda. Hope they hire Real journalists with integrity and ethics who will dig out the Truth no matter where it leads. An excellent chance to blow Fox News out of the water.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GraniteBayTom, 3/14/2013 6:05:25 PM (No. 9225439)
Where can I sign up? i still watch Fox, but it is getting more difficult every day. i WANT this.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
avikingman, 3/14/2013 6:12:06 PM (No. 9225448)
Ditto.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WimeTarmerFable, 3/14/2013 6:35:12 PM (No. 9225475)
Good news!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 3/14/2013 6:41:27 PM (No. 9225483)
It will be interesting to see if FoxNews feels any heat and moves back toward the right which is what got them noticed and ultimately successful in the first place.
If so, that will tell me two things. #1, this new network will lean, perhaps strongly, conservative. #2, those of us who sensed FoxNews was abandoning us were right.
As an aside, I watched O´Reilly last night for the first time in quite a while. What a pompous, full-of-himself, me, me, me "celebrity" he has become.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
droopydog, 3/14/2013 6:58:22 PM (No. 9225501)
Alternative to...Fox
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
OBX Pete, 3/14/2013 7:26:32 PM (No. 9225536)
Ditto on your O´Reilly comment. He is getting so self-absorbed and obnoxious that I go over to the Fox Business Channel.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99, 3/14/2013 8:24:24 PM (No. 9225598)
Isn´t it telling that the conservative Washington Times is buying a cable network while the leftist newspapers and networks are laying people off and just barely staying out of bankruptcy? The LSM should buy a clue. Betcha that heads are exploding over in the shrinking Washington Post newsroom right about now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bison65, 3/14/2013 9:37:30 PM (No. 9225676)
Some good news. The country needs more conservative outlets to balance the drive by Media ( our own TASS and Pravda) .
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 3/15/2013 8:13:53 AM (No. 9226106)
Well, good. We´ll see if DirecTV picks it up. In the meantime, I´ll be ´encouraging´ them to do so.
Ditto with Blaze TV. If I have to take Al Jazeera, then I should be able to have these two as well.
It´ll be interesting to see how many (if any) Fox News on-camera personnel will change over....
I have to say, though, that ´One America News´ sounds a little too one-worldy to me. Why can´t we have a conservative news outlet that SAYS it´s CONSERVATIVE. ´Right News Network´ with tagline, ´Yeah, we lean right, because we ARE right.´
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 3/15/2013 8:27:29 AM (No. 9226126)
Drug trade Federal Reserve Hollywood
What do these three have in common?
Control of Distribution
Washington Times is about to learn this lesson, unless they managed to buy or build their own Cable Company like COMCAST, or Disney.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Pinchem, 3/15/2013 8:28:08 AM (No. 9226127)
I think they are copying Glenn Beck. He just started a new program on this same theme, straight news without an agenda. It´s called "For The Record". Go to the Blaze online and read about it.
The bad thing about the Blaze TV network is that they put it on the highest tier which means the average person, who may have the first or second tier, won´t get to see anything on the Blaze Network.
So much for your audience Glenn.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono, 3/15/2013 8:30:12 AM (No. 9226130)
Sounds good to me. And ´amen´ to O.P.´s remark. Not enough to motivate me to get a TV, though.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
altura81, 3/15/2013 9:30:51 AM (No. 9226260)
I welcome this network. The more conservative networks, the better.
However, not sure I understand the hint of snideness about Fox News. They are fair and balanced. I don´t like all the hosts (Shep and O´Reilly, for two) but I love the morning shows. I DVR Fox and Friends every morning.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob, 3/15/2013 9:38:11 AM (No. 9226280)
See who their first hire, Brit Humne type of guy, is and you´ll know where they are going. If it´s Ed Schultz forget about it. Fox gets seldomly watched in this house. I watch Fox Buisness News, better people, when the TV is turned on.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
dbdiva, 3/15/2013 9:54:00 AM (No. 9226329)
It´s been ages since I watched Fox or most programs on TV. The funny thing is ~ since November 2008 (we all know what happened then.....) I find myself watching more and more religious programming. Up to the end of 2008 I guess you could have called me a ´CINO´ but after the election that sure changed! I ran for my Bible and haven´t let go. (of course I´m from PA so that´s probably why).
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 3/15/2013 10:20:43 AM (No. 9226411)
Fox changed after Murdoch met with Soros. They got rid of Glenn Beck and started hiring more and more liberal commentators.
WABC radio hired Geraldo and Sean Hannity is constantly putting on liberal callers. I barely listen to him anymore.
I have often wondered what happened at that meeting.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Arby, 3/15/2013 10:26:08 AM (No. 9226433)
Oh, yeah, babe. Bring it on.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
stymie82, 3/15/2013 10:42:15 AM (No. 9226485)
#11, are you aware that Blaze TV is available on Dish Network with ANY level of service on an a la carte basis? It´s only 5 bucks a month and can be turned on with just a phone call. Channel 212 Dish Network. It is SO worth it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 3/15/2013 11:03:45 AM (No. 9226537)
Good news -- except that the liberal-owned cable companies will undoubtedly refuse to carry it or else charge a premium to any who want to watch it. However, the Oprah network and Al Jazeera and other liberal cable networks with about 60 viewers each will be carried for free.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
janjan, 3/15/2013 11:11:16 AM (No. 9226553)
It will be interesting to see how Fox News reacts to the competition.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mitzi, 3/15/2013 11:12:14 AM (No. 9226557)
I´m completely finished with cable news networks. I gave FNC a second chance ... but it got to be just too annoying.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
chicodon, 3/15/2013 11:19:35 AM (No. 9226573)
Do me a favor. No "breaking news" bells every 5 minutes. I can still remember Fox breaking in with the bell, quickly going to a reporter on the ground, and then ringing the bell again in the middle of their conversation as something else came across the wire. Enough already.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 3/15/2013 11:22:06 AM (No. 9226575)
Hey, Fox! I get it! I get it! You’re Fair & Balanced. But, enough already! For years you’ve made your point. Fair & Beckel. Fair & Colmes. Fair & Williams. Fair & various other doctrinaire leftists have become so tiresome to watch and listen to that my handy-dandy mute-button/channel-changer is getting more and more of a workout every day. Ouch! I’ve come down with a severe case of Remote Finger Fatigue.
I watch it a lot because there’s so much and so many to like about Fox News Channel. I’ll not name my favorite programs and personalities for fear I’ll forget to mention a few. It’s just that Bob, Alan and Juan and their ilk are so insufferably predictable in their commentary that they add little or nothing new to the equation.
So, to the forthcoming “One America Cable News Network” of the Washington Times, I say Welcome! Bring it!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
pete moss, 3/15/2013 12:40:24 PM (No. 9226724)
I´m sick of fair and balanced FOX with the likes of Shepard Smith and Bill O´Reilly. I do, however, really like Hannity and Greta. I´m looking forward to this new network in hopes that it will provide an alternative to Fox, who seem to have lost their way in the National debate for the future of our country. Please.......... no more fair and balanced!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Butch59, 3/15/2013 12:42:18 PM (No. 9226728)
I also welcome the comming of a conservative news channel. That is, if it´s really conservative. And right now, I´m using Dish Network and if they carry it, I´ll watch it.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
GreatPlains, 3/15/2013 12:57:59 PM (No. 9226759)
I hope One America News just reports the facts. No spin-right or left. Just the facts , most of us will decide. Fox has become the Fluff network, cutesy shows and anchors trying to be entertainers. I hope they hire serious commentators like Brit Hume and challenge the nightly news shows with a competing half hour national broadcast . It´s difficult to fill up hours and hours of broadcasting , maybe they should just go on air for a couple of intense hours every day. Perhaps with a Crossfire type show. Pat Buchanan had the educational background to present the conservative facts and he did it in a way that didn´t ridicule or insult the liberal co host. Plus,he would engage in an activity that is often missing from the right today. Buchanan , like WIlliam F Buckley , often laughed and obviously enjoyed the intellectual sparring. If the liberal co host made a valid point, he , like Buckley , would acknowledge it. You´re not allowed to do that today , either from the right or the left. Hannity and Colmes and the other conservative v liberals -on all channels -just scream at each other and hurl insults.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
lencu255, 3/15/2013 1:30:26 PM (No. 9226796)
Guys, guys, let´s not get giddy beforehand! We´ll see what transpires. Don´t forget that the conservative point of view is not for us but for the flyover unwashed. We are already in the know, they aren´t. And another point - it is not what kind of reporters they will hire, it is the management position. Reporters will report sensibly if the management is sensible. Something else - why cable channel? Why not go for local tv stations? This is where the sheeple get the propaganda.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
rocco49, 3/15/2013 2:55:19 PM (No. 9226897)
Sorry....I can´t take it anymore!
ONE MORE "Democrat Strategist" on FNC and I will blast my TV to smithereens! I never get any worthwhile information that I already havent learned from this fine salon, and I get so annnoyed, yelling at them to STOP IT YOU IDIOTS! over and over until I finally gave up watching anyone but Cavuto...fellow paisan.
Hope the new guys learn from the mistakes of FNC Cable news and give us what we want---the OPPOSITE of the lefty liberal progressive rump-swab lap dog enemedia liars! A TRUE Conervative News Channel.
GOOD LUCK.......
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 3/15/2013 3:20:33 PM (No. 9226934)
As the saying goes, (vis a vis FOX) you can´t please all of the people all of the time.
I remain thankful for FOX. I often get steamed with some of the "other side" contributers, especially Colmes... and Williams. I don´t let myself get aggravated by watching Shep and (most of the time) O´Reilly-- who really is a pompous bombast.
Overall, however, FOX does a good job reporting on stories which neither MSM nor lefty Cables will touch.
Also, FOX continues to be a thorn in the left-wing media´s side.
Looking forward to some competition, if it helps to keep FOX on its toes. We all have to remain vigilant.
Our enemy "goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he might devour."
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
lencu255, 3/15/2013 3:46:23 PM (No. 9226964)
Me, lenchu255, continue: Well, we, smart (ha-ha) people, are getting the news and points of view. We don´t need FOX, Rush, and many others. But for the flyover sheeple, there have to be mainstream media outlets, local newspapers and tv stations. They won´t get it with FOX or Washington Times - we need to demand conservative mainstream media from our wealthy brothers in arms. We will get as much fiscal support to them by subscribing to their local newspapers and advertisers on those TV stations. Other than that, it will be one more channel for us, who know it already! You know, there is only so much of NR, American Spectator and TownHall you can rehash, right?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
lencu255, 3/15/2013 3:49:11 PM (No. 9226968)
lencu255 again. How much else can this channel add to Glenn Beck´s program??? Again, I know it, the unwashed don´t! How will they learn?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
flatwater, 3/15/2013 4:09:21 PM (No. 9226998)
LOVE it!
FOX News will lose 70% of their viewers.
Oh, well....They made a choice.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
dman, 3/15/2013 5:09:41 PM (No. 9227090)
It´s time for a little competition for FNC. I often find the foxnews.com stream more interesting and in depth than some of the "on-cable" shows. FNC needs to drop the "Today Show" template. I hope this new network will also be available via a live subscription stream, like Blaze. It also needs to be a bit broader-based than Blaze. Then let viewers and the market sort it all out.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Razorgirl, 3/15/2013 5:20:25 PM (No. 9227098)
lencu255 What is with this "flyover sheeple" crap? We have running water and electricity, paved roads and weekly trash pickup. We even have computers and gasp!-Cable! Speak for yourself John Alden! If you look at the election map, flyover is Red. Left coast and right coast are mostly Blue. Sounds to me like its time for you to take a roadtrip.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
M Stuart, 3/15/2013 9:05:38 PM (No. 9227404)
#9 I´ve been complaining to DirecTV about TheBlaze.
This is a good thing, I hope.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
lencu255, 3/15/2013 9:16:55 PM (No. 9227420)
hey, #33 Razorgirl, it is not to tell you what is right or wrong. It is statement of the fact - the people who voted for obozo outnumbered the people who voted against! Imo, this is happening because people, yes, unwashed flyovers, are propagandized through and through with local newspapers and tv. Your position on red/blue might be right to some extent, but in general the numbers speak for themselves. I believe, if we had conservative mainstream media and "flyovers" would see the headlines (they don´t read or listen to politics anyway) they might have different opinion of commies/fascists. And cable, yes, the viewership of FOX is what, 3-4 million. For CNN it is ~1-2 million. Hence, the populus is getting the ideas not from there, but from Honey-Boo-Boo networks, where they are brainwashed by local programming, which is pure commie propaganda.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
BruisedOrange, 3/15/2013 10:27:01 PM (No. 9227482)
All I ask from a news network are two, 30-minute daily shows called something to the effect of
"News That´s Truly Important--Even If It Has No Video" and
"Yesterday´s News Today: What Actually Happened, Corrected and In Context"
...that´s all I ask.
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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White House Blames Jobs Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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