Forbes: Tax Burden on US Economy Is ‘Too High’

The tax burden on the U.S. economy is already too high by historical standards and is crimping growth and hampering recovery as a result, said publisher and one-time presidential hopeful Steve Forbes. The White House and Congressional Republicans are debating a fiscal framework for 2013, with the Obama administration’s proposal calling of tax hikes on […]

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I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother

Friday’s horrific national tragedy — the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut — has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture, media violence, lack of […]

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Fashion Island Shooting: Man fires some 50 shots in mall parking lot

( NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — A man was arrested Saturday after firing about 50 shots in the parking lot of a Southern California shopping mall, prompting a lockdown of stores crowded with holiday shoppers. Marcos Gurrola, 42, of Garden Grove was taken into custody by bicycle police officers patrolling around the open-air Fashion Island mall […]

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Okla. teen arrested in school shooting plot

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him. Police in Bartlesville, a community about 40 miles north of Tulsa, arrested 18-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez shortly before 5 a.m. Friday on […]

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