Smoke Bombs Thrown at Right-Wing Group English Defense League Protest. EDL and Tea Party Similar in Intolerance?

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Source: Lancaster Unity

More than 1,600 officers on horseback and in riot gear pen in 700 activists, including BNP members and soccer thugs

Far-right activists threw smoke bombs and missiles and fought with the police as trouble flared in a protest organised by the English Defence League.

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Wall Street Journal: Credit Card Companies Planning New Tricks. I: Good News For Republicans– It Means More Donations For Their Coffers

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Jessica Silver-Greenberg/Wall Street Journal

Whomever President Barack Obama taps to head the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection could find it difficult to keep ahead of the credit-card industry.

The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, known as the Card Act, was intended to reshape the contours of consumer finance. Among . . . → Read More: Wall Street Journal: Credit Card Companies Planning New Tricks. I: Good News For Republicans– It Means More Donations For Their Coffers

Obama And Republicans Trade Charges Over Economy

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In his weekly radio address, the president says a House GOP plan would kill jobs. Republicans respond that the administration’s policies have failed.

President Obama on Saturday took a shot at a House Republican economic plan he said would kill jobs and endanger the country’s economic recovery.

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Republicans To Look For Another Way To Screw Over Americans: House Restores Unemployment Benefits

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Congress has approved legislation to restore unemployment benefits to people who have been out of work for six months or more, ending a seven-week interruption that caused 2 1/2 million people to lose unemployment benefits averaging about $300 a week.

The 272-152 House vote Thursday will send the measure to . . . → Read More: Republicans To Look For Another Way To Screw Over Americans: House Restores Unemployment Benefits