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Bye, bye: Call it secession, call it divorce

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (Charlotte Observer) Since its founding in the 1990s, Ballantyne has projected an upscale, pre-eminent image. But the area’s pride as a landmark community recently took a different twist: more…

Watch CBS News get 'Jacked' on '60 Minutes'

by Drew Zahn -- Jack Abramoff, onetime power broker for the elite of Washington, D.C., astonished the nation when he exposed corruption on Capitol Hill on CBS' Lesley Stahl's "60 Minutes" just more…

John Rocker pitches politics on CNN

by -NO AUTHOR- -- [caption id="attachment_221691" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Former MLB pitcher John Rocker"][/caption] By Michael Thompson John Rocker, the Major League Baseball pitcher whose politically incorrect comments to a reporter were remembered more…

Lawmaker: Model public schools after Muslim ones

by Chelsea Schilling -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A8NMhqAw1M A U.S. lawmaker – who prides himself on being only the second Muslim elected to Congress – has declared that America "needs Muslims" and U.S. public schools more…

Fast and Furious: 'Storm just starting to brew'

by -NO AUTHOR- -- [ooyala code="RybzliNTqZSN6__EBj4GVVhFXyW2C4g0"] Last week, the House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. That would normally trigger an investigation and prosecution by more…

Democrat 'agent' used to mess with Texas?

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (FOX NEWS) The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday accused the Justice Department of using data from an “agent of the Democratic Party” to bolster its more…

Countrywide won influence with discounts

by -NO AUTHOR- -- WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Countrywide Financial Corp., whose subprime loans helped start the nation’s foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of more…

Romney: Health care mandate is a tax

by -NO AUTHOR- -- WOLFEBORO, N.H.-- Mitt Romney contradicted a top aide to his campaign and aligned himself instead with the Republican establishment in labeling the health care mandate a tax, not more…