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Restore Mortgages Announces, The Birth of The Zero Percent Mortgage: America’s Replacement For Eliminating The Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction If government is going to kill the mortgage interest tax deduction, then what will take its place for homeowners? Restore Mortgages Zero Percent Mortgage Program. According to Reason.com the elimination of the mortgage deduction tax [...]
By Dan Gilgoff When presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, addressed accusations that his Christian counseling business encourages homosexual clients to try to change their sexual orientation, he appeared to play down the role of so-called conversion therapy at his clinics. “Is it a remedy form that I typically would use?” Bachmann told Minnesota’s Star Tribune newspaper. “It [...]
By Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen Top administration and congressional officials are expected to continue working this week on a measure to raise the federal debt ceiling by up to $2.5 trillion, embracing a version of a fallback plan designed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to avoid a potentially catastrophic default. At the same time, GOP [...]
By Gabriella Schwarz Sarah Palin said she can win a national election, but has yet to decide if she will take on President Obama in 2012. “The people of America are desperate for positive change, and deserving of positive change, to get us off this wrong track,” Palin said in an interview published in Newsweek Sunday. [...]
By Gabriella Schwarz Herman Cain said Sunday he is a more experienced candidate for president than Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota in the battle for the 2012 GOP nomination. “The choice is real simple,” Cain said on “Fox News Sunday,” when asked why voters should choose him over Bachmann. “My entire career has been problem-solving, [...]
President Barack Obama has invited the Dalai Lama to the White House Saturday, making time for the Tibetan spiritual lea der who is in Washington for an 11-day Buddhist ritual. The president last met with the Nobel Peace laureate in February 2010, infuriating Chinese officials. China accuses the Dalai Lama of pushing for Tibetan independence. [...]
- With the United States government set to begin the process of defaulting on its debts on Aug. 2, according to the Treasury Department, the White House is working with lawmakers on a deal to raise the nation’s debt limit in exchange for major spending cuts and, potentially, revenue increases to shrink the deficit. Leaders [...]
In the coming weeks, recall elections will take place in nine of Wisconsin’s state Senate districts. Six Democratic challengers will run to oust Republican incumbents from their seats, while three GOP hopefuls will compete to remove Democratic lawmakers from office. At stake in the recall match-ups is control of the state Senate. If Democrats pick [...]
Tim Pawlenty on Friday joined the Jim DeMint wing of the Republican Party in the debt ceiling debate. Sort of. Pawlenty argued in multiple TV interviews against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to hand over primary responsibility of raising the debt ceiling to the president in exchange for no tax increases, saying there has [...]
Candidates for president, Congress and other political positions were required to submit their second quarter campaign finance filings to the Federal Election Commission on Friday. Halfway through the first year of the 2012 election cycle, the numbers in these reports can show the strength of candidates in particular elections, where they draw their support, and [...]