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...however, Romney knows that America must keep its economy strong. This will require ending Washington’s splurges. Romney will cut spending, promising to veto any budget in which non-defense discretionary spending grows faster than inflation minus one percent. He’ll dry out his veto pen, which he used over 800 times in Massachusetts. Furthermore, Romney will make the Bush tax cuts permanent and allow middle class families to save money tax free with a zero percent tax rate on interest, capital gains, and dividends...
However uncertain the preceding circumstances, the facts of the assault are clearer: Just before the zoo's closing time, the 4-year-old tiger named Tatiana escaped her pen and attacked the older of the Dhaliwal brothers, then turned on and killed Sousa, who was apparently trying to save his friend by distracting the animal. She then made her way 300 yards to the zoo café, following a trail of blood left by the first injured man who had fled with his brother. It was there she attacked her third victim, the younger Dhaliwal, and was shot dead...
...became the foundation of English liberties. When Texas billionaire Ross Perot managed to buy one privately in 1984 for $1.5 million, he lent it to the National Archives so it could lie beside its democratic descendants, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, in testimony to the power of pen over sword. But amid a revived debate over the meaning of due process in the age of terrorism, the Perot Foundation decided it wanted more money to spend on its signature causes, particularly the care of wounded soldiers, and put the document up for sale...
Wyclef Jean’s new album, “Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant,” starts off in a dark place. In the intro, Jean tells us over the sound of a scratching pen that “a lot of things have changed; the whole world’s in panic.” Wyclef has consistently tried to take socially conscious hip-hop into the mainstream, a worthy cause. This album’s no exception and it seems like he’s on a mission to change the world...
...book of new ones, but McCain is enthusiastic in telling them, and the tale of the O'Reilly twins is usually met with gales of laughter. From there, he pitched into a surprisingly emotional denouncement of government pork that ends with a prop: "Ronald Reagan once gave me a pen" - holding up a pen. "This isn't it." Laughter. "But I'm going to use [it] to veto any bill with pork that comes across my desk...