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537. The number of votes that changed the course of american history. Florida is too close to call. So this year, if youre thinking that your vote doesnt count, that it wont matter. Well, back then, there were probably at least 537 people who felt the same way. Make your voice heard. Vote. Chris mitt romneys mind game is to call heavily the new change agent. And inviting voters to hop on the winning train. Youre seeing this movement growing. Youre seeing people come together to say we love ameri...

Country. And the fact is, that would be an Important Role for those caucuses to play. We need to share the many faces of immigrants, including the undocumented in our nation. Do you believe that the 1965 Immigration Reform law that ended Northern European preference expanded the diversity that were experiencing in america . I think it played some role. So do birth rates and the like. I will say that even, again, i do think we have to be more realistic on the quotas. We have people with families ...

But to help build this country. This is our first task as a society. Keeping our children safe. This is how we will be judged. And their voices should compel us to change. And thats why last month i asked joe to lead an effort along with members of my cabinet to come up with some concrete steps we can take right now to keep our children safe. To help prevent mass shootings. To reduce the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country. And we cant put this off any longer. Just last thursday, as...

Head out the window and i thought it was unusual because the guys next door was doctor and i thought something was unusual and i walked out the front door and saw this kid walking down the street and i noticed he was carrying something and i approached him and i said what are you doing . He said nothing. I said where did you get that gun . I got it from the old man. I said i know this man. Next thing i know, the kid stops and he starts to run. Well, i chased him and i started chasing him and he ...

Winner, the usain bolt of his short. Not to mention a public face in the fight against cancer. Yet in his confessional last night with oprah, he confessed only what was obvious to anyone who wanted to see it, that he doped throughout his cycling career. But armstrong did not admit to cheating, denied he was a doping ringleader, didnt admitting to bullying and seemed emotionally incapable of sympathy for the people whose lives he ruined and money he took when they tried to do nothing more than te...

97 of Small Businesses would not see their income tax go up by a single dime. Even the wealthiest americans would still get a tax cut on the first 250,000 of their income. Reporter the speaker dismissed a call from a fellow republican to give the president what he wants, saying its not good economics to raise tax rates on Small Businesses. Going over the fiscal cliff will hurt our economy and hurt job creation in our country. This is not good for our country. Its as simple as that, and the presi...

97 of Small Businesses would not see their income tax go up by a single dime. Even the wealthiest americans would still get a tax cut on the first 250,000 of their income. Reporter the speaker dismissed a call from a fellow republican to give the president what he wants, saying its not good economics to raise tax rates on Small Businesses. Going over the fiscal cliff will hurt our economy and hurt job creation in our country. This is not good for our country. Its as simple as that, and the presi...

Money. Now, maria bartiromo. Heres a look at whats making news as we head into a new week on the money. Slow but steady. The Labor Department says 157,000 new jobs were added in the month of january. About in line with analystss expectations. The Unemployment Rate kicked up to 7. . But the job creation numbers for the previous two months were revised upwards. The dow industrials wrapped up the month of january on a down note non thursday. Though it had the best january performance since 1994. Th...

Taiwan, as they were both as they were both called. So there have been many times in our history when president s have had to do the hard work. Esident george h. W. Bush made a budget agreent for which he may have caused him to lose the election in 1992 because it angered a number of republicans, but it also helped balance the budget and gave us a period of time in the 1990s when that agreement plus a good economy gave us an actual surplus of funding. Sense that there is at the white house a fee...

Sometimes you have to forgo things that in your mind are ethical, legal, and effective because secondary and tertiary effects of taking that course of action main lets take target of killing. I said on cnn sunday morning, there was a time i knew there were secondary effects was the primary effect was so important because of the degree of danger that existed at the time. Now the environment as changed the degree is somewhat different. Now those effects might become dominant. Yes, i can see a down...