COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK–Police say a Wal-Mart worker has died after being trampled by a throng of unruly shoppers shortly after the Long Island store opened today.
Nassau County police say the 34-year-old worker was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at about 6 a.m., an hour after the store opened.
Police also [...]
The leader of Palin’s pipeline team had been a partner at a lobbying firm where she worked on behalf of a TransCanada subsidiary. Also, that woman’s former business partner at the lobbying firm was TransCanada’s lead private lobbyist on the pipeline deal, interacting with legislators in the weeks before the vote to grant TransCanada the [...]
Increased taxes will result in productivity loss and ever-higher deficits with fewer and fewer businesses and employees left to carry the load.
Insane levels of homeowner greed, Nimby “environmentalism” and public employee unions have totally destroyed California’s economy. Raising taxes feeds California’s problems, it doesn’t resolve them.
This is going to happen, state by state, then [...]
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON–The British government says it will cut the number of immigrants allowed to enter Britain to guard against racial tensions amid rising unemployment.
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas says Britain needs a tougher immigration policy that makes sure there are enough jobs for British citizens with the economic downturn.
His remarks were published in the Times [...]
Democrat Blames Iraq War for Weak Economy, Wants Money Directed to Pressing Needs in US
By Will Lester
WASHINGTON (AP) — The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq “is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it,” a Democratic congressman said Saturday.
Rep. John Yarmuth [...]
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