While Obama’s budget, which he plans to announce on Monday during what will be a campaign rally, significantly ramps up tax rates for small business owners, he’s looking to pander to corporations (Reuters) President Barack Obama will call for cutting the top 35 percent corporate tax rate as early as this month, according to two sources

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Obama To Pitch Lower Corporate Tax Rate Sometime In The Future

Reuters – U.S. Catholic Church leaders said they will fight President Barack Obama’s controversial birth-control insurance coverage policy despite his compromise that religious employers would not have to offer free contraceptives for workers, shifting the responsibility to insurers.

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U.S. Catholic bishops oppose Obama birth-control plan
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Reuters – President Barack Obama will seek billions of dollars for jobs and infrastructure in his 2013 budget, an appeal to voters that draws election-year battle lines over taxes and spending as Republicans slammed him for “debt, doubt and decline.”

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AP – It’s not like he wasn’t warned.

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White House didn’t foresee birth control backlash
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AP – Mitt Romney faulted President Barack Obama’s original push to require church-affiliated employers to pay for birth control as an “assault on religion,” but as Massachusetts governor, Romney was largely silent about a state law that required virtually the same contraceptive coverage.

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SPIN METER: Gov. Romney quiet on birth-control law
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AP – A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group in his home country.

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Uzbek man pleads guilty in plot to kill Obama
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AP – The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are expressing grave doubts about President Barack Obama’s revamped health care rule on birth control. They say it raises serious moral concerns and lacks clear protections for certain employers, insurers and individuals.

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Reuters – Republican Mitt Romney urged conservatives on Friday to overcome their doubts about him and help him win the party’s presidential nomination, then defeat Democratic President Barack Obama in November.

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Romney tells conservatives he’s one of them
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AP – President Barack Obama’s new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the ongoing fiscal year but that would drop to $575 billion in 2018 if the president gets his wish to raise taxes and if policymakers can live within tight restraints on the Pentagon and other Cabinet agency budgets, the White House said Friday.

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Obama budget predicts $1.3T deficit for 2012
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AP – Reaction to President Barack Obama’s birth control compromise:

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Reaction to Obama’s birth control compromise
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