url='http://nowtnews.com/051027/herman-cain-can-he-move-from-memphis-to-the-white-house/';size='small';Extremely effective businessman and articulate entrepreneur Herman Cain is on his way up the political ladder with wins at caucuses and an ever growing rate of popularity in the political arena. He is running for President, make no doubt about that! Can he win? Well that’s anybody’s guess at this point but his competition...
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Herman Cain – can he move from Memphis to the White House?
Occupy Wall Street hits its stride in 70 cities
url='http://nowtnews.com/051025/occupy-wall-street-hits-its-stride-in-70-cities/';size='small';To call the latest in civil disobedience campaigns boisterous seems like an enormous understatement! There have already been well over 700 arrests involving protestors who support the Occupy Wall Street movement and even President Obama has thrown his “two cents worth” into the fray. He apparently supports the effort as do many of the...
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Conrad Murray trial week two begins with ER docs testimony
url='http://nowtnews.com/051023/conrad-murray-trial-week-two-begins-with-er-docs-testimony/';size='small';Basically following the timeline of events that occurred on the day of Michael Jackson’s death, the prosecution laid out their case from Tuesday through Friday of last week and now they are into the second week of questioning and testimony. There are two doctors who specifically worked on Jackson on that fateful day in...
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Setting the Tablet World on Fire – Amazon Tablet Preview
url='http://nowtnews.com/051021/setting-the-tablet-world-on-fire-amazon-tablet-preview/';size='small';On November 15th the tablet PC community will welcome its newest member, the Kindle Fire. The device will represent Amazon’s renewed efforts in the tablet market and may offer select consumers an enticing alternative to the market dominating Apple iPad. The affordably priced ($199) device delivers access to the extensive Amazon media market via...
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The latest “trial of the century” involves Dr. Conrad Murray
url='http://nowtnews.com/051018/the-latest-%e2%80%9ctrial-of-the-century%e2%80%9d-involves-dr-conrad-murray/';size='small';Even those who were not big fans of Michael Jackson will be brought to tears when they hear words spoken by Michael himself only six weeks before his death on June 25, 2009 and while he was apparently under the influence of some of the drugs he allegedly received from his doctor, Conrad Murray....
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It’s over now but what if! 6 ton NASA satellite comes down uneventfully
url='http://nowtnews.com/051016/it%e2%80%99s-over-now-but-what-if-6-ton-nasa-satellite-comes-down-uneventfully/';size='small';Apparently that school bus sized chunk of space junk came back to earth sometime Friday night or early in the morning on Saturday, September 24th and any remaining pieces plunged into the Pacific Ocean. It would be preferable that NASA knew more precisely where and when the object was going to hit this planet...
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Netflix struggles to get it right
url='http://nowtnews.com/051011/netflix-struggles-to-get-it-right/';size='small';In July, when Netflix first announced its changes in pricing structures, establishing separate rates for streaming and DVD rentals, the company promptly lost a million subscribers and a big chunk of its stock value. Late Sunday night, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings weathered a little web-based fit of contrition, writing in his blog, ““I messed...
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Historic high poverty ravages United States.
url='http://nowtnews.com/051009/historic-high-poverty-ravages-united-states/';size='small';Figures released late blast week confirmed what most middle class Americans already knew from painful personal experience: Their incomes are falling, more American families are living in poverty than at any time since the Great Depression, and the gap between the highest 10% of income earners and the remaining 90% yawns open like a...
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It is more (financial) bad news for the world economy!
url='http://nowtnews.com/051007/it-is-more-financial-bad-news-for-the-world-economy/';size='small';Now it is Greece that may be in over their heads and about to default on the debt they owe. This caused the U.S. stocks to fall decidedly on Monday the 12th of September, just one day after the world mourned the events that occurred ten years ago causing the tragedy that was 9/11....
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Social Security becomes a political football for GOP candidates
url='http://nowtnews.com/051005/social-security-becomes-a-political-football-for-gop-candidates/';size='small';The battle lines are being drawn and it looks like the loser just might be the Social Security System. Republicans will have another debate tonight (Monday the 12th of September, 2011) and will most likely be a continuation of the battle that began a week ago between two of the top GOP contenders for...
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Freedom for the “West Memphis Three”
url='http://nowtnews.com/051003/freedom-for-the-%e2%80%9cwest-memphis-three%e2%80%9d/';size='small';After a brief, mostly procedural hearing Friday afternoon, the Jonesboro, Arkansas criminal court released the celebrated “West Memphis Three”– Damien Echols, Jessie Miskelley, and Jason Baldwin, who had served more than eighteen years in prison on charges they had savagely murdered three eight-year-old boys in May, 1993. Echols was eighteen, Miskelley and Baldwin were...
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8 years in an Iranian prison for taking a hike is too much time!
url='http://nowtnews.com/051000/8-years-in-an-iranian-prison-for-taking-a-hike-is-too-much-time/';size='small';With the sentence of five years prison time for espionage charges plus three years added on for illegal entry, both Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal may be considered lucky to get off that easily considering it was the Revolutionary Court, an Iranian court that made the decision and handed down the sentence. The charge...
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