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Alicia Powe | July 20, 2012
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pushed back hard when pressed about releasing her tax returns, after urging Mitt Romney to be transparent and release tax returns to verify his tenure at Bain Capital.Correspondents at the briefing asked Pelosi if she believes it’s appropriate for leaders of the house and members to release their tax returns and why she assumes the standards are different for…
Alicia Powe | July 19, 2012
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back hard Thursday against the notion that congressional leaders should release their tax returns after she urged Mitt Romney to release his tax returns.“In terms of tax returns, maybe they should all be made public. Maybe it should be a public function what do you think of that--for everybody that writes about it, or everybody who hires people…
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Alicia Powe | July 19, 2012
 Researchers at the University of Texas discovered a gaping hole in the government’s plan to open US airspace to thousands of drones, shocking members of Congress and the highest levels in Washington.   Professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the University of Texas at Austin's Radionavigation Laboratory found a way to hack into drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) , which are operated by …
Alicia Powe | July 19, 2012
Drone spoofing, the ability of a hacker to take over a drone and tell it what to do, is a growing concern today with drones becoming more commonplace in America's skies.University of Texas researchers were able to hack into a drone's GPS system and guide it wherever they want to go.Congress voted in February to open up US  skies broadly to drones by 2015, yet no one including the chairman, knew…
Alicia Powe | July 18, 2012
"The Dark Knight Rises",  one of summer's most anticipated sequels, is raising the specter of political posturing. Batman's latest nemesis bears  the same name as the most frightening and current batman villain--Bane.Conservative talk show host Rush limbaugh believes this no coincidence. "Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious fire breathing four-eyed whatever it…
Alicia Powe | July 18, 2012
Syria's defense minister has been killed in a suicide bomb explosion at thre national security building, in the capital of Damascus.Several military officials were also wounded. the capital has seen four straight days of clashes between government troops and the rebels there. 
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Alicia Powe | July 17, 2012
 President Obama’s campaign has launched a bombardment of attacks on Mitt Romney in recent weeks surrounding the Republican candidate’s tenure with Bain Capital, alleging Romney may have even committed a felony. A top Obama aide accused Romney of either committing a felony by signing documents indicating he remained CEO of Bain Capital until 2002 or lying to voters when he says he left in 1999 to…
Alicia Powe | July 17, 2012
President Barack Obama’s campaign aides suggest that Mitt Romney may have committed a felony and charge that financial filings would justify a government investigation for possible crimes.Either Romney “was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the [Securities and Exchange Commission], which would be a felony… [or] he was lying to the American people, that’s a real character trust issue that…
Alicia Powe | July 17, 2012
President Obama is making a big deal out of Mitt Romney's Bain Capital tenure, accusing Romney of being  invested in sending jobs abroad, yet obama administration has continued to make billions of taxpayer dollars available to the General Electric corporation.The Obama administration has embraced corporations that practice outsourcing big time and so did Mitt Romney, says O'Reilly. "How can…
Alicia Powe | July 16, 2012
Get ready to spend more money on the stuff you buy online. Republican governors have joined Democrats in supporting a bill that would end the sales tax break for online purchases.This marks a major political shift that could spark a change in federal law and it could put a lot of money back in state budgets. Online sales tax could raise up to $23 billion a year, according to the national…