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We dont get to choose where our tax money goes. federal income taxes represent the governments largest source of income, about $900 billion a year. the moneys used to run the country. everything from national defense, the wars in iraq and afghanistan, to things like education, public safety, and infrastructure. so, heres the question -- if you could choose, where would you want your tax dollars to go? go to cnn.com/caffertyfile. and post a comment on my blog, and do not write in and say back in ...

$1.4 million nobel peace prize money among ten charities. lets go back to jack for "the cafferty file." jack? >> if you could choose where would you want your tax dollars to go is the question this hour. nick writes, i think the tax dollars need to stay domestic. the billions weve domestic. the billions we wasted and continue to waste in iraq and afghanistan are a much bigger problem than any local pork spending. if it werent for those pointless wars, we wouldnt be dealing with record deficits...

Arizona, both are hell-bent on turning the country into a socialist nation. id have to find some wacky right-wing yo-yo that believes in america first. if you want to read more on this, you can go to my blog at cnn.com/caffertyfi cnn.com/caffertyfile. wacky, right-wing yo-yo. >> thank you, jack. dont go away. >> ashfork, arizona. london, paris, amsterdam, some of the worlds busiest airports are all closed right now along with airports aeurope as volcanic ash gets airports to close, get this, 6...

Business with the state -- the nation of iran. because it is iran that poses an existential threat to us here in this country as well as israel. >> on that note of cooperation, very quickly ten seconds. >> wolf, all i wanted to say is, the president has said, the congress has said, a nuclear-armed iran is not an acceptable alternative and we need to be very strong and clear on that proposition. >> steny hoyer and eric cantor, they agree on that issue. lets see if they agree on other issues down ...

This giant burst of light that you see right there, its actually a large meteor. it streaked across the skies of the midwest last night and managed to rattle houses and shake the ground. as it passed through, radar information suggests that the meteor landed in southwest wisconsin, although no injuries are reported. there it is. you see that bright flash. >> yeah, was that over milwaukee, those pictures? >> you know, i think that it was. i know that they said it is landed -- >> wow. >> -- it lan...

Future. our freedom is tied to the ability to manage our financial fairs. bob writes, ed case, education, education, we need a smarter electorate. cat writes, i would like more money to go to policing the borders and removing the illegal menace. jeremy in michigan writes, most important things the government should spend our money on are job stimulation in more sectors than construction and energy technology, which will also generate jobs. those are the two reasons for the current crisis. domini...

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Environment, the dogs have advantages over machines, even those that can only work for about 90 minutes at a stretch. >> theres nothing like a dog as far as mobility, as far as how quickly it can detect explosives and take us to the source of it, and the cost is basically less then any type of technology out there. >> reporter: even fans of this program dont think these dogs are the be-all and end-all in explosives detection, but they also believe we dont know yet the full capacity of these anim...

Smoking gun that proves pope benedict refused to do anything about this back when he had the chance. a.p. reports on a letter written in the 1980s by then cardinal ratzinger, in which he resisted pleas to defrock a catholic priest in california who had sexually abused children. after sitting on the request for a period of several years, ratzinger eventually did nothing. instead, asking the oakland bishop to consider the, quote, good of the universal church, unquote. it eventually became the 11th...

Is rightfully outraged, as any decent human being ought to be. this is disgusting. its been going on for decades, hundreds of years, maybe, who knows? and the vatican continues to look for things like, oh, its homosexuality. homosexuality has nothing to do with this stuff. its criminal behavior. theres no statute of limitations on sin in the church and these priests, many of them, go through life virtually unscathed, and -- and destroy young peoples lives in the process. its -- its a horrible si...