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...called a "certificate registration number" and then help the registrant find a job. But the credential was bogus and there were no jobs. "When the economy is down, scammers take advantage of people who are anxious about their financial position," says FTC attorney Karen Hobbs. A growing area of concern: unemployment-insurance scams. (Make a note now that you should never have to pay anybody money to collect unemployment benefits...
...recent poll that found 61% of Arizona Republicans think McCain has lost touch with his party. "It's not a visceral dislike. It's just, I think, a disappointment." If Hayworth runs, he would join two other conservatives trying to unseat McCain. In a sign of the incumbent's concern, he has already raised $4.7 million to defend himself, and he has more than $20 million left over from 2008. Prevailing in the primary would all but secure McCain a fifth term in the Senate: Democratic leaders in Washington say they aren't bothering to recruit a local Democrat...
Voters preparing to oust the weary old devil they know for a plausible young newcomer are apt to wonder if they're making the right decision. When the newcomer is David Cameron, the smoothly enigmatic leader of the Conservatives, a party once so damaged by a perceived lack of concern for Britain's most vulnerable people that its own chairwoman dubbed it the "Nasty Party," you can understand why voters want proof that the party has changed...
...concern should Venezuela be? Chávez delights in getting a rise out of the U.S., and his alliance with Iran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is largely a calculated affront to Washington - his version of Cuba's Cold War partnership with the Soviet Union. It's little coincidence that Sanz made his announcement the same day the U.S. and its allies called Iran on the existence of a secret nuclear-fuel plant near the Iranian city of Qum. The U.S. and the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) fear that Iran is on the verge of bolting the global...
Then again, it's uncertain if powers like Russia and China, which sell even larger quantities of gasoline to Iran, would take part in U.S.-led sanctions themselves. Their postures are a reminder that when it comes to thwarting Iran's nuclear ambitions, Venezuela may be a small concern in comparison. But given the tensions involved at the moment, few besides Chávez are finding humor...