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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We haven't even touched it yet. I have a couple thoughts on this Herman Cain, the latest Herman Cain babe, just based on what's been reported. Now, for the record, and according to the original news report on Ginger White's accusations, here's what we know. She filed a sexual harassment claim against an employer in 2001. That case was settled, although the news reports never mentioned how or in whose favor. It appears she might have lost since the settlement does not seem to have helped her finances since then. She also had a bankruptcy 23 years...

NEW YORK - The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder. What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner. Across the nation, Americans are increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday as they juggle higher rent, food and energy bills. It's starting to affect middle-income working families as well as the poor, and has reached the point of affecting day-to-day calculations of merchants like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 7-Eleven Inc. and...

Why dad's eco-funeral went horribly wrong My father was buried in a cardboard coffin and placed next to a pet cemetery miles from our family home. Read about the 'green' funeral that went horribly wrong: By CLAIRE WALLERSTEIN Daily Mail 8th June 2006 As his final statement, a 'green' burial seemed the perfect way for my father to take his leave of planet Earth. Not only would it avoid rare tropical hardwoods being felled and carted halfway around the world for a coffin that would be seen for only a few hours, but the burial would cost fraction of the...

Government is to blame for the chaos New Orleans damage, looting might have been less severe if there were better disaster planning James P. Pinkerton As we see the devastation from Hurricane Katrina - caused first by nature and now by looters, shooters and carjackers - it's time to state the obvious. We need a larger vision of homeland security, as well as a better focus on the American homeland. Politicians of both parties have sounded warnings for some time, but true leadership on readying for disaster has been lacking. And so the images from New Orleans this week have...