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Baggage Fees Boost Airline Profits

Billions of dollars in recently imposed baggage fees and charges for reservation changes are the only thing keeping airlines in the black. The nation’s 15 largest carriers collected a combined $3.5 billion in bag fees in 2012, up 3.8% from 2011, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Fees for changing a reservation totaled $2.6 billion, up 7.3%. The airlines …

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The Worst Room

Here’s a Tumblr devoted to the shittiest apartment shares offered in New York City. Above: “East Village, Manhattan. $700.00. Loft Bed Above Closet in Kitchen.”  Not even close to the worst ones on the site.  Remember, these are shared apartments. Hit the link for others.

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NOM Issues Money Beg On IRS Claim

“ “Dear Marriage Supporter, Of all the scandals plaguing the Obama administration this week, the revelation that the Internal Revenue Service targeted Tea Party and conservative groups for harassment during the last Presidential election is perhaps the most shocking. But it pales in comparison to what we have been attempting to expose for over a year: that the IRS is …

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Maggie Gallagher: The IRS Got Tricked Into Leaking NOM’s Tax Return

“The IRS is claiming — and I think it is plausible — that low-level employees found a clever way to use their low-level job to influence (they hoped) a U.S. election. Have they been identified and fired? Because otherwise this becomes no longer a low-level problem. (You may recall that a low-level employee also released NOM’s private tax-return information to a guy …

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