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The federal government currently charges 18 cents in taxes per gallon of gasoline [cut] Biden's ex-boss, former President Barack Obama, called a gas tax a "gimmick" on the campaign trail back in 2008. At the time Obama said a gas tax holiday was a "gimmick" to save Americans half a tank of gas over the summer so that lawmakers could "say that they did something." There is also concern about a gas tax holiday's impact on already record-high inflation. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-partisan group that advocates for reducing the federal budget, previously argued that suspending...

A juror asked Judge Bruce Schroeder of the Kenosha County Court if she could take the jury instructions home with her on Thursday evening, after the jury deliberated for a third full day without reaching a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. Rittenhouse faces five counts — two of murder, one of attempted murder, and two of reckless endangerment. Unlike the second day, when the jury asked to review video evidence, the jury spent the entire day deliberating with each other. After the juror asked to take the instructions home, the defense attorneys shook their heads, and Judge Schroeder paused...

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She went up and talked about her design and decoration experience, causing Trump to announce that if they could strike a deal on her salary, she’d probably get a job working on the building.

After an overwhelming response in August to its offer of free haircuts for kids, J.C. Penney has decided to keep cutting kids’ hair for free every Sunday, beginning Nov. 4. Penney said 1.6 million children got the free cuts in August. The chain, which is grappling with two straight quarters of losses and severe sales drops, is hoping the free hair cuts program will bring in new customers and regain old ones who were turned off by a new pricing strategy the chain started in February.

Anderson Cooper, who has been reluctant to talk about his personal life in public, revealed that he is gay in an essay posted online on Monday. The CNN journalist said he had kept his sexual orientation private for personal and professional reasons, but came to think that remaining silent had given some people a mistaken impression that he was ashamed. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself and proud," he wrote in a letter to Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast. Cooper, the son of Gloria...

WWW.RICKPERRY.ORG November 16, 2011 Dear Leader Pelosi, After reading about House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer’s outburst over my “Overhauling Washington” plan, I wonder if his obstructionism reflects your own opposition and that of the Democratic Caucus to urgent reforms the American people so vehemently demand. After increasing the debt by $4 trillion in less than three years, no one can believe that Americans are satisfied with business as usual, and that a permanent political class in Washington can get us out of the mess you and your colleagues have created. A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make...

For those of you that don't know what the baseline is and how baseline budgeting works, let me give you the real quick explanation of it. When you put together your budget, if you do one, you take last year's spending and income and you take a look at it and you figure out if you spent more than you had, or if you didn't spend more than you had, what did you do with what you had left over, where did it get spent. If the next budget you prepare has to be smaller because your income's dropped, you...

“Why, one wonders, not ‘save’ $5 trillion by proposing to spend that amount to cover the moon with yogurt and then cancelling the proposal?” -George Will, Washington Post, March 12, 2009 Claim 1: “Winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will save $1 trillion.” Reality: The Reid plan relies on the inaccurate assumption that surge-level spending in Iraq and Afghanistan is scheduled to continue over the next decade. An honest budget cannot claim to save taxpayers’ dollars by cutting spending that was not requested and will not be spent. Senate Democrats are employing a budget gimmick that will not...

A Colorado man said he's invented a product that can eliminate concern about privacy in new airport screening body scanners. Jeff Buske is an inventor and the owner of Rocky Flats Gear, the company that sells specialized underwear. The undergarments have metal inserts that are supposed to protect the wearer's health and privacy. He claims the underwear protects your body from radiation. "The object is not to make money but to protect the public, educate people and ultimately see these X-Ray machines put in the dumpster," said Buske. He said it's impossible to hide something from TSA screeners behind the...

Until a few weeks ago, Tim Edwards was just another one of the men begging for change at a busy Houston underpass, ignored by most drivers who sped on past without a glance. Now, thanks to an Internet marketing campaign and unlikely allies, Edwards has become the human face of homelessness to thousands of online viewers drawn to his Web site by its deliberately controversial name — Pimp This Bum. During regular Webcasts, dozens of visitors to www.pimpthisbum.com/ ask questions about Edwards' life and his slow fall from office manager with a home, a car, and a future to an...

The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city's gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today. "There's something there that just doesn't seem right to me because, in a sense, you're saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them, and that concerns me," Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said. The issue came up during the council's weekly meeting with Mayor John Hickenlooper when the Public Works Department requested authorization to be reimbursed by the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee for use of "fueling...

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has launched a mobile-to-mobile text-message campaign in an effort to reach more of America’s 236,000 cell phone users. Users who text the word "Join” to 77007 will receive regular updates about the Clinton campaign, which will "ask for voters’ input and offer a feature allowing supporters to surf Hillary’s Web site on their mobile phones,” according to a statement from her campaign. "By harnessing the power of text messaging, we can engage voters in the political process using the latest technology and provide personalized, local campaign updates to our supporters nationwide.” The text-message initiative is "a...

Killer Sound Posted by Kevin Sites on Mon, Apr 24 2006, 1:58 PM ET Colombian musicians turn guns into guitars to make music - as well as a point. BOGOTA, Colombia - It's not long after you enter the world of Cesar Lopez that you realize he doesn't color inside the lines. He is a classically-trained musician and composer who studied at Colombia's best conservatory. But instead of concert hall performances he chooses to play his music on the streets of Bogota. He writes all of his songs on air-sickness bags he collects during his travels. "It's appropriate," he says,...

Hordes of people will go to church today. But many will not go back until next Easter. To lure those casual worshipers into regular attendance, pastors have brainstormed some flashy approaches for today's services. In Cooper City, Flamingo Road Church will offer $10 Starbucks coupons to newcomers. At Spanish River Christian Church in Boca Raton, an elaborate stage show will transform the story of King Tut's death into a Christian parable, complete with three pyramids that revolve to become three crosses. Trinity International Church in Lake Worth will drop candy from a helicopter to waiting children .

Cat Chopper ready to hit the road Motorcycle designed by Orange County Choppers will soon embark on tour Tuesday, March 8, 2005 PEORIA - The Cat Chopper is completed and soon will go on tour for Caterpillar Inc. The custom-built motorcycle, built by the Orange County Choppers, was unveiled last Friday to company employees at Caterpillar's building construction products division in Clayton, N.C. The Discovery Channel episodes of American Chopper on which the Cat machine was built are scheduled to air at 9 p.m. April 4 and April 11. Also, Caterpillar will launch a "Cat Chopper Tour" on May 1,...

A few years ago, as the state's now-chronic fiscal crisis was deepening, then-Gov. Gray Davis and the Legislature were facing a seemingly intransigent gap between income and outgo, along with mounting public and political pressure to close out that year's budget. The Capitol's politicians devised the ultimate "solution" to bring the budget into theoretical balance: add another billion dollars in federal aid to the revenue side of the ledger. The phantom billion - which, of course, never did appear - was one of the many tricks that Davis and lawmakers used to enact state budgets that accumulated tens of billions...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush (news - web sites) said he would place a legal block on overspending by the US Congress as he hit back at critics who have accused him of being reckless with US finances. AFP/POOL/File Photo   "To assure that Congress observes spending discipline, now and in the future, I propose making spending limits the law," Bush declared Saturday in his weekly radio address, ahead of the release Monday of the fiscal 2005 budget, in which the deficit is expected to hit a new record high. "This simple step would mean that every...

The Kwanzaa controversy somehow bypassed me, until my African bride forced me to evaluate it. My wife can trace her ancestry directly to Shaka, who reigned over much of sub-Saharan Africa until defeated by the combination of the most powerful European armies at the turn of the last century and tribal leaders who grew disenchanted with the Zulu king. One of these defecting tribal leaders was, in turn, one of my wife's more direct ancestors.