It may as well be official–just about no homeowner is making it through the mortgage loan modification program.
The Treasury Department, as reported by USA Today, reports that only about 4% (yes, that’s FOUR percent!) ” of homeowners whose home loans were reworked through a government-led program have successfully completed a trial period required to get [...]

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This may be one of the fastest “just kiddings” in recent Washington history.  Just about a week after President Obama went on national television to tell the nation that he was sending more troops to Afghanistan, but would begin withdrawing them in 18 months, he and members of his administration are already backing away from [...]

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I guess one man’s thirty thousand is another man’s thirty five thousand, or maybe more?
Just the other day, President Obama announced his determination to dispatch another 30 thousand U.S. troops to Afghanistan, bringing our total troop deployment to over 100 thousand. He says he will start to pull them out in 18 months, though he [...]

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The Secret Service’s secret is out of the bag: The agency couldn’t protect a paper bag, let alone the President of the United States.
The Secret Service, of course, didn’t stop the Kennedy assassination, or the attempts on the lives of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan…and, now, it appears that had the intent of the dinner [...]

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“The Audacity of Ignorance,” would be the perfect title for a book by Sarah Palin, the failed former governor of Alaska and failed former Republican vice-presidential nominee and failed mother whose teen daughter apparently never learned about the use of condoms.
Instead, Palin’s book is called “Going Rogue,” which sounds exactly like the sort of stupid [...]

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This is why the feds get the big bucks…or, at least, taxpayer bucks: A new report from the Agriculture Department says more than one in seven American households is finding it hard just putting food on the table, according to an Associated Press dispatch.  That happens to be the highest rate since that department began [...]

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