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 Utah Considers Caffeine Tax 

Legislators consider tithing both soda and coffee

Mar 13, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - After seeing multiple proposals to raise the tax on cigarettes fail, one Utah legislator has set his sights on another addictive substance: caffeine. Rep. Craig Frank has initiated a yearlong study on the impact of such a tax, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. If it can fly anywhere, Utah might... More »

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taxes • coffee • caffeine • Utah • soda • cigarette tax • cigarette • Bill Maher Grid

Ponzi Victims Will Be
Tax Nightmare for IRS

Service expects to refund $7-$10 billion in taxes paid on fake income

Mar 13, 09 12:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The work of fraudsters such as Bernie Madoff and R. Allen Stanford will complicate the IRS’ job as tens of the thousands of victims attempt to reclaim taxes paid on income that went up in smoke, Time reports. The IRS estimates that refunds due victims to Madoff alone could total... More »

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fraud • taxes • IRS • securities • Ponzi scheme • investment fund • tax refunds • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION Roundup

 Stewart Owned Cramer 


Mar 13, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Who won last night’s cable grudge match between Jon Stewart and CNBC’s Jim Cramer? Let’s go to the scorecards:
  • Stewart was the clear winner, clobbering his guest with “homespun, regular-guy relentlessness,” Maureen Ryan writes in the Chicago Tribune. “Cramer didn’t know what
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CNBC • journalism • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • Jim Cramer • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

Noonan: Maybe Wall Street Was High on Xanax

Maybe money men were hopped up on anti-depressants

Mar 13, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan has a novel explanation for the crash (“or the great recession, or the collapse—it’s time it got its name”): What if the bankers were all hopped up on happy pills? Antidepressant use became widespread in New York after 9/11, she notes in the Wall ... More »

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depression • antidepressant • Peggy Noonan • economy • financial crisis • recession depression • Bill Maher Grid

 Anna Nicole Smith Lover, Docs 
 Charged With Supplying Drugs 

Beau, docs accused of providing late model with 'thousands of pills'

Mar 13, 09 1:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer and boyfriend Howard K. Stern has been charged with felony conspiracy to supply the late model with drugs, the Los Angeles Times reports. Authorities charge that Stern and two doctors "repeatedly and excessively" provided Smith—who died of an overdose in 2007—with addictive prescription... More »

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Anna Nicole Smith • celebrity • overdose • prescription drugs • conspiracy • Howard K. Stern • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - Jim Cramer took his lumps tonight from Jon Stewart in their highly anticipated Daily Show faceoff. "I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a game," Stewart told Cramer, adding an expletive. "I can't reconcile the brilliance and knowledge that you have of... More »

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television • CNBC • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • Jim Cramer • Bill Maher Grid

(AP) - Bernie Madoff's new Manhattan home is the size of a walk-in closet, with cinderblock walls, linoleum floors, and a bunk bed. Breakfast will be served before sunrise, and the disgraced financier can stretch his legs outside, but only every other day—in a cage. The Metropolitan Correctional Center took in... More »

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prison • guilty • Ponzi scheme • defrauding investors • Bernard Madoff • Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities • Bill Maher Grid

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 Life? Nah. Make 
 Him Work at SEC 


Mar 12, 09 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that Bernie Madoff is guilty, it’s time to talk sentencing. CNBC hosted a contest to come up with the most inventive one for the disgraced financier, and the winner is: working for the SEC, "catching people just like him." But that doesn’t mean the other... More »

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crime • contest • guilty plea • Ponzi scheme • scandal • securities fraud • sentence • Bernard Madoff • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - In anticipation of his visit with Jon Stewart on tonight’s Daily Show, an admittedly “nervous” Jim Cramer sought counsel today from another Stewart—Martha. “You should be nervous,” the lifestyle maven said on her syndicated show. “He’s fast as lightning.” The Mad Money... More »

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television • cable TV • CNBC • Martha Stewart • feud • Comedy Central • late night talk show • late night host • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Jim Cramer • Mad Money • Bill Maher Grid • Martha Stewart Show

Madoff Profiteers Scramble From Threat of Clawbacks

New York law allows those who lost money to reclaim from those who gained

Mar 12, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The threat that authorities will seek to recoup profits reaped through their investments in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme have some investors hurrying to put those funds in hard-to-reach places, the Wall Street Journal reports, like homes, trusts or life-insurance policies. So-called “clawback” lawsuits could allow those who were... More »

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profits • lawsuit • Ponzi scheme • defrauding investors • Bernard Madoff • Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities • clawback • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty this morning to all 11 felony charges against him, saying he was "sorry and ashamed" for his criminal acts. The judge accepted the plea and revoked Madoff's bail, bringing cheers from spectators in the courtroom. Madoff was escorted out in handcuffs and will remain in... More »

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fraud • New York City • perjury • guilty plea • plea • Ponzi scheme • securities fraud • courthouse • Bernard Madoff • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

Carville's Bush Comments No Comparison to Rush's 'Fail'

Pre-9/11, Dem hoped Dubya didn't 'succeed'

Mar 12, 09 7:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid the hubbub over Rush Limbaugh’s open desire for the president to fail, Fox News is claiming a media double-standard: Democratic strategist James Carville made a similar comment referencing Bush 43, and no one heard about it. But the two situations are far from analogous, writes Dave Cook in... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • James Carville • George W. Bush • 9/11 attacks • President Obama • success • failure • Bill Maher Grid

Brazil Prez Flouts Church, Backs Abortion Docs

Girl has popular support

Mar 11, 09 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil’s president today attacked the archbishop who excommunicated the doctors who performed an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim. The girl had allegedly been impregnated with twins by her stepfather, who was not disciplined when Jose Cardoso Sobrinho excommunicated the girl’s mother and her doctors. “In this... More »

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abortion • Catholic Church • Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • child rape • Bill Maher Grid

Russia Starts
to Admit Heroin Problem

Some blame West's failures in Afghanistan; others see bad policy

Mar 11, 09 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - With an estimated 2 million drug addicts in Russia—about one in 50 adults—the nation is finally admitting it has a problem. One ally of PM Vladimir Putin faults the West’s anti-terror efforts in nearby Afghanistan for allowing poppy cultivation to bloom; others say Russia’s sweep-it-under-the-rug policies... More »

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Afghanistan • Russia • War on Terror • rehab • heroin • Bill Maher • HIV/AIDS • drug addicts • methadone • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

Stewart's Right: Screeching CNBC Is Whacked

Shouting heads are
so very far off base

Mar 11, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - It should come as no surprise to fans of Jon Stewart, but CNBC is as hysterical as he says—and worse, Gabriel Winant writes in Salon. After 12 hours watching the network "I was huddled in the corner of my couch, wondering why the angry faces were yelling at... More »

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Barack Obama • CNBC • Jon Stewart • Jim Cramer • network television • fiscal crisis • economic crisis • Bill Maher Grid

 Seattle's Top Cop 
 Picked for Drug Czar 

Kerlikowske viewed as reformer, with personal experience of drugs' "devastating effects"

Mar 11, 09 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama will officially nominate Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske to be drug czar today, reports the Seattle Times. Though the job is being demoted from its Bush administration Cabinet status, Kerlikowske will have “a direct line to the president and vice president,” says an official. Drug law... More »

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War on Drugs • Seattle • police chiefs • Office of National Drug Control Policy • Obama administration • Gil Kerlikowske • Bill Maher Grid

 Coulter, Maher Duke It Out 


Mar 10, 09 5:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ann Coulter and Bill Maher generated much buzz for their conservative vs. liberal road show last night, and the sparring continues tonight as part of the 2009 Speakers Series. Still, while the two will stake out enemy positions, they confess to being friends, writes Dave Itzkoff in the New York ... More »

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Ann Coulter • conservative • Bill Maher • pundits • Bill Maher Grid

(AP) - Bernard Madoff's lawyer told a judge today his client will plead guilty later this week to 11 counts including money laundering, perjury and securities, mail and wire fraud. Prosecutors say the disgraced money manager will face up to 150 years in prison on the charges. More »

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Federal Court • money laundering • perjury • guilty plea • wire fraud • Ponzi scheme • attorney • securities fraud • conflict of interest • Bernard Madoff • mail fraud • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - The Vatican is in a tizzy over President Obama’s decision to lift the federal ban on embryonic stem-cell research, the AP reports. A top official called it a “victory of politics over ethics” and said that “probably some drug companies, or some economic interests” influenced the move.... More »

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stem cell research • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • human embryos • Roman Catholic Church • US Conference of Catholic Bishops • President Obama • sanctity • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - Howard Dean didn't get the health cabinet post he wanted, and doesn't want the job that's open—surgeon general—but is pushing President Obama's health-care plan just the same, the Washington Times reports. "Democrats can’t cave," says the former doc. Obama’s plan is "perfect,"... More »

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alternative energy • Rush Limbaugh • Howard Dean • literacy • Rahm Emanuel • Democratic National Committee • health care reform • Obama administration • Bill Maher Grid

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