Strategies for avoiding hotel billing errors

Billing snafus, called folios in hotel-speak, are usually innocent mistakes. But in this awful economy, hotels are far less reluctant to fix the gaffes unless they can find the guilty party.

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Kohl, Rasmussen allegedly helped others dope

Prosecutors in Austria are investigating whether banned cyclists Bernhard Kohl of Austria and Michael Rasmussen of Denmark helped other athletes with blood doping.

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Media Matters picked up on a curious bit of research featured on Fox & Friends yesterday.

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So Media Matters sent an open letter to Fox News asking how the network would deal with the falsehood in light of its new policy of "zero tolerance for on-screen errors."

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Do you want to know how serious the "Climategate" hacked e-mail scandal is? It's so serious that, according to Rasmussen, 120 percent of Americans have an opinion on it.

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BRUSSELS — Responding to American entreaties for more soldiers in Afghanistan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, announced Friday that the alliance had agreed to contribute a further 7,000 "new forces" to the coalition there following Washington's decisio …

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Ben Bernanke begins the formal process tomorrow for confirmation to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, but 41% of Americans think President Obama should name someone new to the post.

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The number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell by nearly two percentage points in November. Added to declines earlier in the year, the number of Democrats in the nation has fallen by five percentage points during 2009.

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Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters now give President Obama poor marks for his handling of the economy, the highest level of disapproval this year.

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Just 14% of U.S. voters say Hillary Clinton would be doing a worse job as president than Barack Obama if she had won last year's Democratic presidential nomination.

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This survey comes two months after the Department of Homeland Security announced that they were restructuring the 287(g) program.

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The health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats contains many controversial items that divide the general public. However, one area of consensus among the public is the desire to restrict government health care benefits to U.S. citizens only.

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No Economic Recovery in Sight: More Financial Chaos Ahead By Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster (reposted on DProgram.net)

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Do you think one is more dangerous than the other?

Rasmussen Reports just issued the results of a poll that asked American adults which was more dangerous, alcohol or marijuana. So, here are my two poll questions: Which do you think is more dangerous? and What do you think the results of the Rasmussen poll were?

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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote.

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Regardless of the veracity of these numbers, you will hear them spouted over and over again by every leftwing outlet available (yes, that includes the MSM).

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Until now, the president has wrung temporary boosts in polling from his major media appearances.

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The Constitution divides the federal government into three equal branches.

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Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the second straight month, the top issue of the economy.

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Slowly, methodically, consistently, the reliable Rasmussen Poll has been tracking the most vital numbers of the Obama Presidency. General, soft numbers like "Do you approve of the way the president is handlings his job?" really mean nothing.

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"The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% are opposed to a plan that would provide GM with $50 billion in funding and give the government a 70% ownership interest in the company."

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Reports national telephone survey found that 53 percent of Americans say capitalism is better, while 20 percent said they believe that socialism is the better system. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said they are not sure which is better.

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Fifty-seven percent (57%) of U.S. voters nationwide favor a military response to eliminate North Korea's missile launching capability. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 15% of voters oppose a military response while 28% are not sure.

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Obama's Chance to Win Muslim Hearts and Minds in Istanbul

Sorry, Ankara. You pale into insignificance compared to what Istanbul means for Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Iranians, Pakistanis and Indonesians. This is about Obama delivering a special message to the Islamic world during his upcoming Turkish trip.

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Sara Azmeh Rasmussen, une norvégienne d'origine syrienne et ex-musulmane, a brûlé un hijab le 8 mars, journée internationale des femmes, en signe de protestation contre l'oppression des femmes dans l'islam.Sara Rasmussen, a Syrian-born Norwegian and ex-Muslim, celebrate …

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The article summarizes the latest Rasmussen poll. Please peruse the 2008 Election: Pollster Report Card article. Rasmussen is #1, while Gallup, ABC, and CBS are near the bottom.

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If you go to the front page right now you'll see this splash headline for an article which argues that Obama has his work cut out for him tomorrow night because most Americans, even most Democrats, see the president's mortgage adjustment program like Rick Santelli, CNBC's fat cat …

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