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Flood Insurance Provides Best Protection to Homeowners
Reader's Digest — By Ed Connor, Acting Federal Insurance Administrator, FEMA In the November issue of Reader's Digest, The New Republic senior editor Michael Crowley contributed an article titled, "Drowning in Dollars: Who Bails Out Homeowners After They Build or ...More…
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Outrageous: Baghdad Boondoggle
Reader's Digest — At the peak of the Iraq war, with billions of U.S. dollars pouring into their country, a group of Iraqi men saw a way to get rich quick. They put up $2,000 in cash, formed a company named Al-Aian Al-Jareya, and used their connections at Iraq's ...More…
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Outrageous: Dialing for Dollars
Reader's Digest — Last fall, a longtime friend of mine ran for Congress and won. He's a good person-smart, caring, and full of integrity. A few days after the election, I called to congratulate him. We spoke briefly about the big issues facing the 111th Congress, ...More…
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Outrageous: Your Tax Dollars Bailing People Out
Reader's Digest — If you crash your car repeatedly, you can count on your insurance premium shooting up. Crash often enough and your insurer will drop you. But there's a special kind of insurance that doesn't punish you for having the same accident over and over .. ...More…
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Outrageous: Watchdog Windfall
Reader's Digest — By Michael Crowley From Reader's Digest Ever since the news broke that Bernie Madoff had bilked investors out of as much as $50 billion, Washington lawmakers have been demanding answers from Wall Street's watchdogs. How could they have missed the ...More…
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Outrageous: We're Done with Greed
Reader's Digest — By Michael Crowley From Reader's Digest Something has gone rotten in America. Investor Bernie Madoff made a fortune from a $65 billion Ponzi scheme that wiped out the life savings of a good chunk of his 4,800 investors. Given the power to fill a ...More…
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Reader's Digest — Connect with the Reader's Digest community on Facebook. Share our most talked about stories, enter contests, read our blogs and download our latest widgets. Plus, find our most popular photos and videos or upload your own. Connect with the ...More…
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Outrageous: Runaway Taxes
Reader's Digest — For years now, politicians have been promising to do something about the flight of American jobs overseas. So why does Washington continue to reward companies that invest abroad? That's right, reward. Because our tax code actually encourages ...More…
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Outrageous: Wasteful Spending on Capitol Hill
Reader's Digest — John McCain didn't win the presidency, but he had this right: Earmarks are out of control in Congress. Indeed, even as lawmakers were writing the giant $700 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of the financial industry last fall, they were finding ...More…
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Outrageous: Hall of Shame
Reader's Digest — What's more important, fighting terrorists or ensuring that the military elite flies in style? The answer is obvious to most Americans, but not to some fat-cat Air Force officials. In July, the Washington Post reported that the flyboys sought to ...More…
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Online Rumor Websites: How to Fight Internet Abuse
Reader's Digest — When Vanderbilt University freshman Chelsea Gorman was raped near campus in the spring of 2007, her life was shattered. She told only her close friends about the ordeal and left school for the rest of the semester after she began suffering panic ...More…
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White House? You Mean That Place on Maple and Elm?
Reader's Digest — By Andy Simmons with additional reporting by Ed Goralski From Reader's Digest Do you remember what happened November 4, 2008? Took out the trash. Walked the dog. Voted for the 44th president of the United States. That last one was pretty big news ...More…