VIETNAM WAR ENDED TODAY WHY? ONE SIDE WON! | CONSUMER CONFIDENCE FALLS AGAIN | CREDIT CARD FEES RISE | FTC WONDERS WHY THEY ALLOWED SO MUCH DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING | OBAMA HAS HAD ENOUGH FROM REVEREND WRIGHT | NBC NEWS CONDEMNS FLUFF, PRACTICES IT | MORE
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE: DOWN AGAIN NEW YORK – Soaring gas prices and weaker job prospects made Americans gloomier about the economy in April, sending a widely watched measure of consumer sentiment to a five-year low, a private research group said Tuesday. The New York-based Conference Board said that its Consumer Confidence Index, which had plummeted in [...]
DON’T MISS SEEING THIS: MARK FIORE–AMERICA DECIDES NETWORK OBAMA BREAKS WITH REVEREND WRONG Hell has no fury like a pastor scorned. How else to explain Reverend Wright’s making himself the center of attention when it was so clear that all this attention was never about him. It was about finding a chink in Obama’s armor/personna [...]
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