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Fed’s mortgage modification program: Keep your house, lose your credit

Americans who choose to take advantage of the government's Home Affordable Modification Program as it stands today are entering into a buyer-beware system that may deliver short-term relief but also long-term pain. Although the program, known as HAMP, works to reduce monthly mortgage payments by half or one-third of monthly income, the program can also ruin participants' credit for years to come, severely limiting their ability to borrow money and threatening for that reason to extend the housing crisis at the heart of the recession.

Tom Tancredo: Sarcastic twitter blogger

Former Colorado Congressman, anti-illegal alien firebrand, talk-radio host, Republican candidate thorn-in-side Tom Tancredo has taken his long mockery of newly non-mavericked Arizona Sen. John...

WATCH: Tancredo calls on Napolitano to resign in wake of rancher...

Former Congressman and anti-illegal immigration hawk Tom Tancredo today posted a YouTube ratcheting up his criticism of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano,...

Concerned Women for America lashes RNC’s Steele and Obama’s gays

Based on their media releases over the past 24 hours, it's clear the conservative Concerned Women for America find two things to be absolutely...

Study puts Colorado high-speed passenger rail price tag at $22 billion

High-speed passenger rail service on dedicated tracks along the Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 corridors will cost $22 billion and likely require up to 50-percent funding by Colorado taxpayers, a Rocky Mountain Rail Authority (RMRA) spokesman said this week.

The pivotal quiet Kucinich decision: ‘Claims of government takeover a joke’

Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Congressman from Ohio and champion of the public option, didn't make his decision to vote for the health care bill in...

Obama signs health reform bill into law

As expected, President Barack Obama Tuesday morning signed into law the Senate’s package of health care reforms, a number of which will go into...

Gingrich walks back civil rights comments

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz yesterday quoted Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker from Georgia, warning that Obama’s support for sweeping health care...

Conservatives squeeze $250 million abstinence-only extension into health reform bill

Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, head of the national Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, is drawing attention to the fact that social-conservative lawmakers have...

O’Keefe and Breitbart prep sting targeting Detroit Free Press

Writing at Wired, Noah Schactman reports an upcoming O'Keefe-Breitbart sting operation. This one targets an Obama tax credit program run through state offices of...
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