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Dozens of Kmart and Sears Stores to Close After Disastrous Holiday Season

If you’re a regular shopper at Kmart or Sears, you may soon have fewer places to spend your money — parent company Sears Holdings has said that in light of decreased holiday sales, it’ll close at least 100 stores in the coming months.

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Obama Continues Transparency Mission With Media Coffee Klutch

Barrack Obama ran for election on a campaign platform of transparency.  He vowed not to fall prey to party politics and to maintain equal access to the POTUS and the White House for all.

How then do you reconcile that with yesterday's one-sided media reception?
An all-star list of progressive and liberal media folks came to the White House today to chat with President Obama over coffee in the Roosevelt Room

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Source: winged photography via flickr
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U.S. Marriage Rate Hits An All Time Low

It appears that along with an anemic economy, the United States has also set a record for the lowest percentage of married people - ever.
Just 51% of adult Americans are married, compared with 72% in 1960

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Salvation Army Goes High Tech; Accepts Credit Cards

Call it a sign of the times:  The Salvation Army is kettle-testing a way for people to donate using credit cards.
Don't have any change to spare for the guy ringing the bell at the Salvation Army kettle? Soon, you may be able to pull out your credit card to make your donation

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Coca Cola Secret Formula Is Out Of The Vault

For the first time in 86 years, the secret recipe for Coca Cola is out of the vault!  But it's for a good reason.
The Coca-Cola Co. has made its secret formula the centerpiece of a new exhibit at its corporate museum, ditching the confines of the bank vault where the list of ingredients had been stored since 1925

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New Allegations Against Would-Be Assassin John Hinckley

Thirty years after attempting to assassinate then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan and serious wounding James Brady, new allegations are coming forward about the status of John Hinckley's case.
Government lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday that the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 went to a bookstore recently where he perused books on Reagan and people who've tried to assassinate presidents

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Don McLean Clears Up “American Pie” Origins

It's funny how stories grow and everyone starts to accept it as truth. American Pie has had that story, and this week Don McLean cleared it up.
Don McLean says "American Pie" was written in Philadelphia, not the upstate

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Facebook and Twitter Are Harming Our Kids, Says Majority — Survey of the Day

Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites have changed the way young people interact with each other, but according to a survey from Poll Position, the majority of Americans don’t think this has been a change for the better.

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Biden’s Hidin’: Transparency Meeting Closed To The Press By Obama Administration

The Obama administration rode into Washington with a battle cry of "governmental transparency".  Today, Vice President Joe Biden proves it by holding a Transparency Board Meeting that is closed to the press and the general public

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Obama Proposes Government Censorship Of The Internet

Freedom of speech - right?  How 'bout the President shutting down or limiting what's on the internet?
“The President ... may declare a cyber security emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States Critical infrastructure information system or network,” is the clause buried deep in the bowels of the Cybersecurity Act of 2010 now before the Congress which has had one debate already in the Senate

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Layaway Could Be Costing You Alot Of Money Says FTC

Before you go crazy with Holiday shopping using a stores layaway program, check the fine print and see what it's costing you.
In response to the increase in layaway programs and their fees across major retail stores, Sen

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Source: David Shankbone via flickr
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Occupy Movement Hurts The “Little Guy’s” Economy

The Occupy Movement says that they're trying to help the "little guy".   The irony is that in many cities, their protests are hurting the economy of the small "mom and pop" stores that are located where they have set up camp

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