Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him "MMA Style" | The Smoking Gun

A witness told Florida cops that he saw Trayvon Martin straddling George Zimmerman and pummeling the neighborhood watch captain “MMA style” shortly before the unarmed teen was felled by a gunshot to the chest. The witness’s account was included in Sanford Polic …

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Ron Paul pushes measure to guarantee due process to detainees — U.S. citizen or not

Now that Ron Paul is scaling back his campaign, it’s back to business. The Texas congressman dropped in on a House press conference to support a bipartisan amendment to the defense authorization bill, the National Journal reported. The amendment, proposed by members of th …

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Maryland Assembly OKs $260M tax hike, teacher pension shift

  ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly passed a $260 million tax increase Wednesday as it adjourned from a three-day special session that ended with Gov. Martin O'Malley saying he will bring lawmakers back for another session this summer. The House gave final  …

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Obamacare Causes Franciscan University to Stop Offering Health Insurance

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Bill Clinton: Hike taxes across the board - "tax me 100% and wouldn't balance budget"

" "This is just me now, I'm not speaking for the White House — I  think you could tax me at a 100 percent and you wouldn't balance the budget," said Clinton, who has earned tens of millions of dollars since leaving office. "We are all going to have to contribute to this, and  …

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Canadian firm will receive up to 50 million stimulus dollars for Nevada solar plant that employs two people

  The company behind the recently opened Silver State North solar plant is eligible to receive up to $50 million in federal tax credits under the Obama administration’s “stimulus” legislation, even though the plant created only two full-time jobs.

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Rhode Island Considers First-Of-Its Kind ‘Homeless Bill Of Rights’ « CBS Connecticut

Eddie Vega has been homeless for a year. He was waiting for a bus one day last week when a police officer rolled up to ask what he was doing and where he was headed. Vega said it’s the kind of subtle harassment that happens all the time. “I get the looks,” said …

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California's Jerry Brown offers budget plan to close $16-billion gap

Brown, who promised voters while campaigning in 2010 that he would end years of budget trickery in Sacramento, acknowledged that he was relying on "one-time revenues to handle one-time problems."He added: "This is the best that I could do."The revised spending plan would cut Medi …

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EDITORIAL: Hold Holder in contempt - Washington Times

+ Justice has waited long enough. It’s time to pull the trigger on contempt charges against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for withholding documents from Congress in the Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. Allowing further delay would only confirm what man …

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