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Per Foxnews, a local affiliate is reporting Rangel has struck a deal. FNC is working to confirm...

"My discussions with Republican strategists and conservative House-watchers yielded a list of 20 races in which this quarter’s donations are most likely to prove decisive. In many cases, these challengers have actually demonstrated some significant fundraising ability; they just have the bad luck to go up against incumbents — often long-established, powerful Democrats on key committees — who are sitting on small fortunes. Their districts are often conservative-leaning, they have demonstrated real charisma and energy, and in many cases the early polling is favorable."

Posted earlier, but good to get out again.

Florida's wildly popular Cash for Clunker Appliances program soon will be reborn with a new twist: Rebates for clunker air conditioning systems. State officials have approved a program that will give Floridians a flat fee rebate – yet to be determined -- for new Energy Star-rated central air conditioning and air source heat pumps systems purchased before the end of the year, said Brenda Buchan, the chief analyst with the Governor's Energy Office who managed the Energy Star appliance rebate program. Window or room air conditioning units will not be included. Buchan said Florida also is considering covering Energy Star...

More than three billion dollars, packed into suitcases, loaded onto pallets, and declared to the Afghan authorities has been loaded onto airplanes and flown legally out of the country from Kabul International Airport in the last three years. Officials believe some of the cash, if not most, is siphoned from Western aid projects and U.S., European and NATO contracts to provide security, supplies and reconstruction work for coalition forces in Afghanistan. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization spent about $14 billion here last year alone. Profits reaped from the opium trade are also a part of the money flow, as is...

Spurred by a newspaper's report that California's welfare debit cards can be used to withdraw cash in more than half the casinos in the state, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday issued an immediate ban on state-provided cash assistance at ATMs in gambling establishments. The Los Angeles Times disclosed that Electronic Benefit Transfer cards work in automated teller machines at 32 of 58 tribal casinos and 47 of 90 state-licensed poker rooms. The report also found the state Department of Social Services published a list of useable ATMs where the EBT cards that work like debit cards could be cashed. That...

Steve Jobs 'Gives A Sister A Break' On Buying An iPad With Cash Vince Veneziani May. 20, 2010, 9:04 AM Apple has reversed no cash, credit card-only policy on the purchase of iPads, at least for one woman. According to ABC 7, Californian resident Diane Campbell went to purchase an iPad and found out she couldn't pay cash for it. After prodding Apple for an explanation, they reversed the policy and let her pay cash after all. Campbell says she wasn't going to sell it on the black market, which has been Apple's main concern in regard to the no...

With the credits markets still rocky and the public still carrying a sour taste for big banks, you might think that cash would be king again. But there are some places where your hard cold cash is no good. For example, if you’re thinking about walking into an Apple store and dropping some Benjamins for a new iPad or iPhone, think again. For those two items, it’s credit or debit only. Why? Apple’s not saying

Minnesota risks running out of money if those affected by overturned budget cuts seek immediate back pay. A spokesman for Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Thursday the state doesn't have the money on hand to cover $2.7 billion in cuts thrown into doubt by a Supreme Court ruling. The spokesman, Brian McClung, says while the ruling was tailored to a special nutrition program others hit by Pawlenty's 2009 cuts may ask to have state allowances restored. Legislative leaders met for an hour with Pawlenty and members of both parties emerged to describe the fiscal crisis. Pawlenty has asked lawmakers to...

EXTEND and PRETEND, Is The U.S. Facing A Cash Crunch? Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2010 Apr 24, 2010 - 12:49 AM By: Gordon T Long The US Government is caught in a cash vise and is being squeezed between too slow a rebound in tax revenues and the limitations on how quickly it can realistically take its funding requirements to the US Treasury auction. The US Treasury was saved in March by what the government reports as “proprietary receipts”. Those receipts require an explanation that is not well publicized since it begs the question of what happens next month without...