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President Barack Obama is returning to North Carolina a month after speaking in Raleigh. Obama toured WestStar Precision in Apex on Sept. 14, before giving a speech at North Carolina State University to promote his $447 billion jobs plan. The White House announced Wednesday that the President will be returning to the state as part [...]

Republicans blasted Obama administration officials Wednesday for green-lighting a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, a now-bankrupt California solar company with close ties to the White House. The GOP attack at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing focused on emails they said showed the White House tried to rush a final decision on Solyndra’s [...]

President Barack Obama will present his “jobs plan” on Wednesday at a company which is shipping jobs overseas. Obama is scheduled to present his “jobs plan” in Apex, N.C., on Wednesday at the headquarters of WestStar Precision. WestStar is a high-end, specialty manufacturer that just opened a new facility in San Jose, Costa Rica — [...]

Captain Janks prank calls WRAL TV in North Carolina disguised as an emergency management spokesperson during their coverage of Hurricane Irene. This is the actual on-air video of the call preceded by the set-up of Janks duping the producers. At WRAL on Saturday, anchors Pam Saulsby and Bill Leslie took a live on-air call they [...]

Former New York Gov. George Pataki said Thursday he’s not sure if any of the current field of GOP presidential hopefuls can beat President Obama in 2012. But according to New Hampshire’s WMUR-TV, Pataki suggested he knows someone who might be able to win back the White House for the GOP. That person, he said, [...]

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” President Obama, September 12, 2008 Beginning January 1, 2013, ObamaCare imposes a 3.8% [...]

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President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because [...]

Some people who need medical care but can’t afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they’ll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank. Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention. Then [...]

In a modern-day evocation of David’s slingshot triumph over Goliath, a couple of foreclosed homeowners in Naples, Florida reportedly foreclosed on a Bank of America branch last week, their attorney actually having moving trucks pull up in front of a Naples branch to execute a foreclosure judgment against the bank. What must have seemed to [...]