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CNN: Panetta To Recommend Pay Cut For Military (VIDEO)

Source: Barbara Starr / CNN Just days before he leaves office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is recommending military pay be limited, effectively decreasing troop salary next year. Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a one percent increase in 2014.  The Pentagon has calculated that the 2014 Employment Cost Index (ECI) from [...]

Home Depot To Hire 80,000 For Spring

Source: Jose Pagliery / CNN Money Home Depot is making its yearly hiring push, aiming to fill more than 80,000 jobs for its busiest season. That’s 10,000 more jobs than the home improvement retail chain posted last year at this time, marking a 14% year-over-year increase. In a statement, the company’s executive vice president of human resources, [...]

Postal Service To End Saturday Mail Service August 1st

Source: Jennifer Liberto / CNN Money The U.S. Postal Service plans to stop delivering letters and other first-class mail on Saturdays beginning Aug. 5, although packages will continue to be delivered. It will mark the end of an era for the agency, which started Saturday delivery in 1863. Tired of waiting for Congress to help, [...]

They’re At It Again: Michelle Obama’s Posterior Again The Subject Of A Public Rant

Source: Krissah Thompson / The Washington Post The latest public rant against Michelle Obama’s effort to promote low-calorie school lunches was recently caught on tape in Alabama — the usual protest against the federal government meddling in local business. And then it quickly found its way around to the first lady’s posterior. Bob Grisham, a high school football [...]

President Obama Seeks Short-Term Budget Deal (VIDEO)

Hoping to avoid crushing across-the-board spending cuts in under a month, President Barack Obama is proposing a short-term fix that involves targeted cuts and some higher taxes. (Feb. 5)

Washington Post Names Kevin Merida As Its 1st Black Managing Editor

Source: Will Sommer / Washington City Paper Washington Post National editor Kevin Merida is ascending to the managing editor spot vacated last month by Liz Spayd, according to an announcement by the paper. With Merida’s promotion, the Post is getting its first African-American managing editor—and a reshuffle of portfolios for Merida and the paper’s other managing editor, John Temple. “[Merida] is a [...]

Memo Cites Legal Basis For Killing U.S. Citizens In Al Qaeda

Source:  Charlie Savage and Scott Shane / The New York Times WASHINGTON — Obama administration lawyers have asserted that it would be lawful to kill a United States citizen if “an informed, high-level official” of the government decided that the target was a ranking figure in Al Qaeda who posed “an imminent threat of violent attack against the [...]

Strom Thurmond’s Secret Biracial Daughter Dies At 87

Source: Alan Duke / CNN Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the biracial woman who revealed nine years ago she was the illegitimate daughter of former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond, died Monday, her family’s spokesman said. She was 87. Washington-Williams kept her father’s identity secret until six months after Thurmond, a segregationist leader for decades, died in June 2003 [...]

Obama Skeet Shooting Photo Released By White House (PHOTO)

Source: Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post The White House released a photo of President Obama skeet shooting on Saturday, following a wave of skepticism about Obama’s claim that he participates in the sport “all the time.” The photo, taken on August 4, 2012, shows Obama shooting clay targets at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. The “skeeter” flap began [...]

HUFFINGTON POST: U.S. Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook Top 1,280

Source: Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — There were at least 41 homicides or accidental gun deaths on New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s Day, at least 54 people died from bullet wounds. Through Google and Nexis searches, The Huffington Post has tracked gun-related homicides and accidents throughout the U.S. since the schoolhouse massacre in [...]