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Mr. Cain made it clear Wednesday his plan remained a work in progress. Visiting Concord, N.H., he added several new wrinkles. He would preserve the deduction for charitable donations, making the flat income tax not so flat; he would exempt any used goods, including previously owned homes and cars, from the national sales tax; and he would allow businesses to deduct new equipment purchases from their 9% corporate income tax, as long as the goods were U.S.-made. Asked how that would apply to a computer designed domestically but containing Malaysian components and assembled in China, he replied, "I have no...

Gov. Mitt Romney knows he must make the speech of his life from the presidential campaign pulpit to set American voters at ease with his Mormonism, just as John F. Kennedy did in 1960 to help them accept his Catholicism. Romney said he knows he has to give a speech along the lines of the famous address in which Kennedy told Houston Protestant ministers: “I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.” Romney said he would insist his loyalty as president would be to the American people, not the Mormon...

Ministry claims the actor's movie is "a blatant rip off" of their JESUS filmLOS ANGELES, CA – In a flurry of controversy that just won't blow over, Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ – which has seen a storm of criticism from Jewish groups who fear the movie will stir anti-Semitism - seems destined for a dustup with an unlikely opponent and recent ally. Lawyers for Campus Crusade for Christ International have filed papers in US District Court alleging that The Passion of the Christ, which tells the story of the final 12 hours of the life of...