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At an income of $1.73 million in 2010 President Obama is doing pretty good.  I'm not sure what I expected the President of the United States of America to make in a year.  I knew that it was dramatically lower than it rightly should be given the amount of money that rappers, athletes, and some other media friendly types bring down.  As I continued to read through the Huffington Post article though I found that most of that money was royalties from his 2 books that he has written and published. Without them, The President's salary is $400,000.

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It seems to me that it would have been a good idea for the singles website Match.com to already be doing what has just come out today.  They are now screening it's users against the national sex offender registry.  But as per usual with companies, and well lets face it just about everyone, Match.com didn't start doing what they should have until someone made them.  A woman has filed a lawsuit saying that she was assaulted by someone she met using the site .

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With all the talk of deficit spending and Republicans and Democrats having trouble seeing eye to eye on the budget in recent weeks Obama lets it be known that the Deficit is a priority.

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According to researchers, the sperm counts of European and American men have been steadily falling over the last 50 years.

Scientists believe environmental factors are contributing this decline. Warm baths, nicotine and alcohol ha

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The latest news reguarding the American  journalists being held in Libya

(Reuters) - Libya released four New York Times journalists on Monday, nearly a week after they had been captured by Libyan forces while covering the conflict there, although three journalists for other outlets remained missing.

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American nuclear officials are feeling safe in our nuclear power plant precautions here in the States. In the wake of Japan's tragedy, U.S. officials are double checking the safety nets set in place at all of our country's nuclear power plants and making sure they are being upheld at each location

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AT&T buys T-Moble for 39 Billion. The investors may cheer, but will consumers be excited?  What do you think of AT&T buying up T-Mobile and Alltel?  Better service for consumers or more hoops and less options?  Hard to tell now maybe but what are your predictions?

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At least eight bystanders sprung to action at an L.A. light rail station to prevent the kidnapping of a teenage girl. They attempting kidnapper attempted to fight the people off but they were successful in holding the man down as the girl escaped.

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Hip-hop and R&B artists are tweeting their sympathies for the tragedy in Japan. What did your favorite artist have to say? Read the top tweets inside.

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The first waves from the Japanese
tsunami have reached the U.S. mainland along the Oregon coast.
Authorities in parts of California, Oregon and Washington state
have been urging coastal residents to move to higher ground

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There are three things that Americans will NEVER accept.  One, the metric system . . . two, soccer . . . and three, dollar coins.  The government has been trying forever to get us to use dollar coins and we LOATHE them.

--Well . . . if current trends continue, we may not get a choice.

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Many states are coming out as opposing the new health care reform put into action by the Obama administration. Even with Obama making slight changes to create a more viable solution in the states' eyes, many states' leaders, including Montana's Governor, Brian Schweitzer, are not happy.

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