Mitt Romney's Bain Playbook Remains Unclear As Attacks Grow

The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers. Romney and his aides have struggled to  …

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Mitt Romney's Swiss-Cheese Campaign Places Most of His Life Off Limits - With Bain, Romneycare, and Mormonism off the table, what can Mitt talk about?

In an era of personality-driven politics, he (Mitt Romney) is running on a central idea—fixing the economy—without the personal flair and calculated charisma that often define White House contenders. It’s not the world’s worst strategy for a guy who is  …

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Military Industry Lobbyists Manufacturer Fake Tea Party Outrage Against Cutting Defense Pork

Military industry lobbyists are using the Tea Party as props to fight back against defense cuts. Companies that benefit from tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, many of which are for unnecessary and wasteful programs, are attempting to co-opt political support as they de …

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The Super "Connected" 1% CEO: The Incredible Tale of Billions of Dollars of Failure

Last month, shareholders finally rebelled against Citigroup, the worst of the Too Big To Fail bailout disasters, by filing a lawsuit against outgoing chairman Dick Parsons and handful of executives for stuffing their pockets while running the bank into the ground. Anyone famil …

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Arrest Made in Missing Case of Missing 15 Yr. Old, Sierra LaMar

 Authorities have arrested a man in the kidnapping and death of a Northern California teenager whose disappearance more than two months ago has prompted hundreds of volunteers to turn out for organized searches. Antolin Garcia-Torres was arrested Monday evening at a Safeway …

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Foundation objects to auction of purported vial of Reagan's blood

  Ronald Reagan's foundation expressed outrage on Monday at a British company's auction of what it says is a vial of the late U.S. president's blood taken at the hospital where he was treated after a 1981 assassination attempt. PFC Auctions, a company based in Guernsey in  …

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Obama alienates electorally important Catholic voters - The Washington Post

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Mitt Romney's Bain Playbook Remains Unclear As Attacks Grow

NEW YORK -- The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers. Romney and his aides have s …

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Gupta Trial: Goldman Sachs Plays Big Role As Insider Trading Trial Begins

Goldman Sachs haunts the insider trading in case against one of the Wall Street bank's former directors, Rajat K. Gupta. As Gupta's federal fraud trial opened to a packed New York courtroom Monday, his defense attorneys invoked Goldman almost immediately, arguing that others at …

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FACTS: Obama Administration More Conservative Than Predecessors on Spending, Deficits...

Imagine all that. President Obama isn't the "out-of-control tax-and-spend liberal" his opponents claim lie about him being. Not by a long shot. Now it's not that we're arguing any of the above is necessarily worth bragging about one way or another. But they are certa …

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