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In blow to gun control backers, background check compromise falls 6 votes short
By Carrie Dann, Kelly ODonnell and Kasie Hunt Despite an impassioned push by President Barack Obama and an emotional lobbying effort by the families of mass shooting victims, proponents of a compromise measure to expand gun background checks on Wednesday fell … Continue reading
5 Ways Our Tax Code Benefits the Rich and Screws Everyone Else
By Travis Waldron Happy tax day! Today is Tax Day, the day on which federal and state taxes are due for all Americans. Republicans have, of course, spent the year since Tax Day 2012 arguing that tax rates are too … Continue reading
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Tagged economy, money, politics, Ronald Reagan, Tax Day, Tax law, Tax rate, taxes, United States
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Now Is The Time To End Gun Violence
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Tagged Aurora, Colorado, congress, Connecticut, gun violence, guns, legislation, Newtown, politics, Sandy Hook, United States, violence, Weekly Address, White House
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Why Americans Are So Ignorant — It’s Not Only Fox News, There Are Some Understandable Reasons for it
By Lawrence Davidson In 2008, Rick Shenkman, the Editor-in-Chief of the History News Network, published a book entitled Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about the American Voter. In it he demonstrated, among other things, that most Americans … Continue reading
How corrupt is New York? Very
By Greg David New York is more corrupt than other states, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Tuesday, in announcing the arrest of state Sen. Malcolm Smith and others in the latest bribery scandal to rock the Empire State. He didn’t say how … Continue reading
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On the Politics of ‘Scandal’
By Ken Tucker I freely admit I was late to the wackadoodle political party that is ABC’s Scandal, now hurtling toward a second-season finale on a TV screen near you. After all, it was created by Shonda Rhimes, who managed … Continue reading
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Tagged entertainment, Kerry Washington, politics, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes, television, Tony Goldwyn
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Senator: Should hourly minimum wage be $22?
By Kim Peterson What if U.S. workers were paid more as the nation’s productivity increased? If we had adopted that policy decades ago, the minimum wage would now be about $22 an hour, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) last week. … Continue reading
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Tagged business, economy, Elizabeth Warren, income, Massachusetts, minimum wage, money, politics, Senate, twitter, wages
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While Feds Debate, States Take Up Gun Fight
In the wake of the Newtown shooting, President Obama repeatedly called for new gun-control legislation, insisting in his State of the Union address that such measures at least “deserve a vote.” On the Congressional level, high-profile bills making it a … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado, congress, gun control, National Rifle Association, Newtown, Obama, politics, Wyoming
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Never Say ‘Never Again’
Our foolish obsession with stopping the next attack. By Juliette Kayyem There will be no politicians at the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. They are no longer invited. Organizers of the memorial have now … Continue reading →