Where’s Atlantic City’s Nucky?

Every day, Atlantic City residents wake up and open the paper to new ideas on the editorial pages from other residents that are quickly discounted by the power brokers that hold the city hostage

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Obama Lets His Jobs Council Expire…

President Barack Obama will let his jobs council expire this week without renewing its charter, winding down one source of input from the business community even as unemployment remains stubbornly high

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You’re More Likely to be Killed by Your Doctor Than a Gun

You are 64 times more likely to be killed by your doctor than by someone else wielding a gun. That’s because 19,766 of the total 31,940 gun deaths in the USA (in the year 2011) were suicides. So the actual number of deaths from other people shooting you is only 12,174

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Congress Once Again Raises the Debt Ceiling

The US Congress has voted to extend the nation’s borrowing limit until the middle of May. The Senate’s 64-34 vote gave final approval to a bill that must now be signed by President Barack Obama

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Russia’s Human Rights Record is the Worst Since the Soviet Era

Authoritarianism increased last year in Russia to levels unseen since the Soviet era with a raft of harsh laws curbing political freedoms and harassment of opposition activists and critics

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Defense Sec. Nominee Defends Human Rights Violating Iranian Gov’t

Defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel stated Iran has an “elected, legitimate government” and pointed out its membership in the United Nations

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CIA Whistleblower is Sentenced to Prison

Yet in the US, he’s best known as one of the first former or current CIA officers to acknowledge that so called enhanced interrogation techniques were being used against “terror suspects”

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Dominican Prostitutes Come Forward, Claim Sex Parties with U.S. Senator

In a little-noticed email published online Wednesday by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a young Dominican woman wrote nine months ago that she slept with 59-year-old New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez at a series of sex parties organized by Dr. Salomon Melgen, a longtime Menendez campaign donor

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The Shrinking Economy…

The US economy unexpectedly took its biggest plunge in more than three years last quarter, contracting at an annual rate of 0.1 percent and indicating a new level of vulnerability for the economy

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Mainstream Media Ignores Senator’s Sex Scandal

If a doctor suspected of providing free trips and underage Dominican Republic prostitutes to a prominent ranking Democratic senator has his West Palm Beach, Fla. offices raided by the FBI, but it’s not picked up by ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC or CNN

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