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If you are good with your money you probably track each and every dollar that goes into and comes out of your checking account. While this is not the way that everybody treats their budget, it is definitely something you should think about doing. With this in mind, many people forget that they should also [...]

How do you usually pay your bills? This can be anything from your cable to car payment. Many write a check every month. While this is common, you want to consider all your options to ensure that you are doing what is best for your peace of mind as well as your finances. For many, [...]

Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV.

Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort.

Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition.

He will not be released on Wednesday night, sources said.

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Despite previous promises, beleaguered insurance giant American International Group (AIG) has failed to return tens of millions of dollars in bonus payments the firm doled out to executives following the company’s spectacular unraveling and subsequent multibillion government bailout, according to a recent report by the special inspector general for the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

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UPDATED 6:51 pm PDT: Eight CIA agents were killed Wednesday when a suicide bomber detonated a vest  laced with explosives at a military base in eastern Afghanistan, US officials confirmed late Wednesday.

The explosion occurred at the Forward Operating Base Chapman, which is largely responsible for reconstruction efforts, near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.

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The military’s senior mentor programs are part of a high-level review ordered by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the subject of a report in USA TODAY.  Earlier in December, Gates asked Deputy Secretary William Lynn to review whether mentors are overpaid and whether their work is a conflict of interest.

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Washington – It’s pathetic to break a New Year’s resolution before we even get to New Year’s Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of ignoring Dick Cheney’s corrosive and nonsensical outbursts — that I would treat them, more or less, like the pearls of wisdom one hears from homeless people sitting in bus shelters.

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PART I:

Avatar is being derided as another "white savior" film. It’s deeper than that.

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The Millennial Decade screwed with our heads and destroyed our national identity. Are we in for a cataclysmic century?

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The weekend before Christmas, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo. In two previous articles, I told the stories of six of these men – two Somalis and four Afghans,  and in this final article I look at the stories of the six Yemenis who were also released. These releases were enormously important because Yemenis make up nearly half of the remaining 198 prisoners in Guantánamo, and until these six men were repatriated

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