Excerpts from the CNBC interview (emphasis added by me):
BARTIROMO: How do you plan to change the tax code when it comes to capital gains? How high will that 15 percent rate go?
Sen. OBAMA: Well, you know, I haven’t given a firm number. Here’s my belief, that we can’t go back to some of the, you [...]

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From an article on FoxNews.com:
The best marriages are those where women marry men who are less attractive than themselves, research has found.

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Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television’s flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its debut on PBS as “the last best hope for broadcast documentaries,” FRONTLINE’s stature over 25 seasons is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.
I found this on the sources page of [...]

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Now this would be a pretty freakin’ cool job. =)

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February sucked.
I’ve (recently more so than ever) been bored at work a lot. So what do I do when I have no more interest in playing pool and have pretty much read everything on the world wide web that’s remotely interesting to me??
I surf YouTube for covers of songs that I really like hoping to [...]

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I’m a sucker for good commencement speeches. Although most commencement speeches have the same elements, there are only a few that made such an impression to impact one’s life. “Don’t Forget to Wear Sunscreen”, Steve Job’s address at Stanford and now Scott Van Pelt’s at University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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I love Mark Cuban. And that’s not just because I’m a huge Dallas Mavericks fan, I’d like to think that I’m just a Mark Cuban fan in general (minus the whole “Dancing with the Stars” thing, I’m not a big fan of that show). If you don’t know anything about Mark, you should read this [...]

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This is about 24 hours late, but I finally found the clip that people are talking about.
I’m not sure if the fact the mistake that Fox Business News (launched maybe a month ago) made is more funny, or the fact that the market had zero reaction in premarket trading from this (meaning that no [...]

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Not that I’ve ever needed any reasons to watch sports, but it surely doesn’t hurt that I can now make wagers on games for free. I should be more specific when I say free, I mean that the wagers you make are off of revenues from ads generated from the website - yes, we’re talking [...]

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I haven’t had a chance to compare other camera’s test images, but the D300’s test images is looking mighty fine. I wonder when I’ll get my paws on this baby.

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