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A bipartisan proposal in the Senate hopes to give out three-year visas to foreigners who drop $500,000 in cash on real estate in America. Participants wouldn’t be allowed to work in the country without applying for another visa and would have to pay U.S. taxes. The LA Times reports that the plan is designed to

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Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan has helped shoot him to the top of some recent polls of the Republican presidential race. But now Cain looks to be making some changes to it. The plan imposes a 9 percent personal income tax, in addition to a 9 percent sales tax and a 9 percent corporate income

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Henry James maintained his innocence all during the 30 years he’s spent in Angola prison in Louisiana after he was convicted for the rape of his neighbor. Today, he will finally walk free, his conviction overturned by a Jefferson Parish judge. A jury convicted James in 1982 after his neighbor picked him out of a

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Raw Video: Syria Takes Inspiration From Libya

Inspired by the scenes of euphoria in Libya, Syrian protesters poured into the streets on Friday and shouted that President Bashar Assad’s regime will be the next to unravel now that ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is dead. (Oct. 21)

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Raw Video: Syria Takes Inspiration From Libya

Inspired by the scenes of euphoria in Libya, Syrian protesters poured into the streets on Friday and shouted that President Bashar Assad’s regime will be the next to unravel now that ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is dead. (Oct. 21)

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Obama Announces Total Iraq Troop Withdrawal

President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, announcing that all US troops will be withdrawing from the country by year’s end as promised in a deal struck before he took office. (Oct. 21)

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Obama Announces Total Iraq Troop Withdrawal

President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, announcing that all US troops will be withdrawing from the country by year’s end as promised in a deal struck before he took office. (Oct. 21)

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This is Your Brain After Too Much Fox News and Listening to Erick Erickson

Click here to view this media On Tuesday’s morning call-in show on C-SPAN, Washington Journal , a caller from Texas demonstrates what happens to your brain after watching too much Fox News and paying attention to Red State’s Erick Erickson and his ridiculous “We are the 53%” campaign he launched in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. SAMUAL FROM TEXAS: I think a lot of people are getting onto the whole 9-9-9 plan because it’s something easy to remember and you know, we’re just overburdened with the tax system we have. People lately are really talking the ninety nine percent verses the one percent. I think something more here is another number – it’s forty six, fifty four. I may be a little off there but I believe those are the numbers. Forty six percent of Americans or right around there pay no personal income tax. And the other fifty four percent pay all of it and I think that’s the real number and you know, we’re basically having to carry the rest of the country on our back. And I’m not saying, you know, all these ninety nine percenters out there are poor people or anything. I think a lot of them are just people who’ve been handed everything in their life. But I like the ninety nine plan. If nothing else, everybody starts to pay their fair share, instead of one part of the country carrying the rest who’s not doing anything. Listen to the caller try to respond after host Greta Brawner points out that under Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan, billionaire investor Warren Buffett would likely pay no income tax at all as the Huffington Post reported here — Warren Buffett Would Most Likely Pay No Income Tax Under Herman Cain’s ’999′ Tax Plan: Analysis . You can almost smell the hairs burning off their head through the television screen. Sadly, Brawner did not point out the the caller that even though many do not pay any federal income taxes, they pay plenty of other taxes and many of them are also Social Security recipients. Solidarity Pizza Fund:

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Patrizia Reggiani, Ex-Wife To Gucci Heir, Refuses Parole

Sometimes the cliches about the rich and famous really are true. The Guardian reported a delightfully juicy story this morning about Patrizia Reggiani, ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, heir to the Gucci fortune. Reggiani, who is famous for once uttering, “”I would rather weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle,” has refused parole because it would require her to get a job — and that’s something she just will not do. Reggiani is currently imprisoned in Milan for ordering Maurizio Gucci’s murder. The pair had been married for 12 happy years but split in 1985, after which Gucci paid Reggiani a huge settlement, moved in with a new (tall, blonde) mistress and unfortunately ended up driving his family company downhill — so much so that in 1993 he sold sold his holding for $170 million to a Bahrain-based investment company. So in 1995, feeling spurned and upset over her pitifully small £400,000-a-year allowance, Reggiani conspired with her personal psychic, a hotel porter, a hit man and a getaway driver to have her husband shot dead on the steps of his office. Reggiani, dubbed “The Black Widow” by the Italian press, was found guilty and sentenced to 29 years in jail (later reduced to 26). Now she is eligible for parole after serving half her sentence but has refused. According to the Daily Mail, she told the prison board: “No thanks, as it would mean getting a job and I have never worked a day in my life.” The 63-year-old also added, “I would prefer to stay in my cell and water my plants” and take care of her pet ferret. It’s just one more absurd turn in a decades-long saga that seems too crazy to be true. Only in Italy, people. Only in Italy. Read more at the Daily Mail.

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Gaddafi Dead Video: Footage Shows Libya’s Leader Before Death (WARNING: Graphic Content)

Graphic footage released today by Al Arabiya claims to show Muammar Gaddafi, covered in blood, being shaken as a crowd surrounds him. Reuters writes: “It appeared Gaddafi was being loaded into the back of a pick-up truck where his body was surrounded by several people. Blood had been wiped onto the trousers of some of those lifting him.” Earlier today, Al Jazeera also released footage that purports to show Muammar Gaddafi lying on the ground. Meanwhile, celebrations have erupted in Libya and neighboring countries. Below, watch the video. WARNING: Graphic content below.

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