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WASHINGTON -- a group of high-tech tycoons wants to mine nearby asteroids, hoping to turn science fiction into real profits.
The plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to squeeze rocket fuel and valuable minerals like platinum and gold out of the...
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Frank McCourt is laughing all the way to the bank as he sells the Dodgers. So they say. Don't believe everything you hear.
What about the $1 billion or more said to be his profit in the forced sale of the Dodgers?
Don't believe everything you hear.
Longtime Dodgers season-ticket...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – A group of Republican state lawmakers proposed a new Vikings stadium plan Thursday that would drastically reduce the size of the taxpayer contribution, arguing it was the only way the team's stadium push could make it through the Legislature.
The...
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From what I understand:
Currently total NFL revenue is somewhere around $9 billion. Currently the owners take $1 billion off the top of the pool Currently the revenue split between players and owners is 51-49 Currently the owners get $4 billion from TV revenue
I don't understand how...
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Is Obama really that incompetent that he has to spend 50-100x more on it than Bush did?
You must be responding to a $200 million per day figure that some government official in India declared. there are 3,000 people going over as part of the US contingent. That includes...
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Florida House members are on the floor for day one of debate over a controversial teacher merit pay bill that would overhaul the way teachers are evaluated and paid.
State Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, is explaining to his colleagues the...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lower percentage of people are playing Texas Lottery games, but sales are steady — a shift that the Lottery Commission blames on the struggling economy.
Fiscal 2010 saw a decline from 41.7 percent of Texas residents...
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These are some gaudy numbers. The President calls for no more earmarks and responsibility (video here via Townhall), but people in own party are still trying to add earmarks and ram bills down our throats. come on...
h/t The Lonely Conservative
Via John Boehner's...
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Governor Ed Rendell is rounding the lower funnel of his time in Harrisburg, and we doubt he’s coming out the bottom unscathed. He’s leaving the state in a deep debt, has just made State Treasurer Rob McCord to begrudgingly sign off on a $650 million infrastructure bond issue (he wanted $1 billion) for six months of...
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