From Portland Press Herald: Obama’s revised rule appears to have won over Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine. Both had called for changes to the original rule despite their support in the past for a bill with a similar objective. “It appears that changes have been made…
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From ThinkProgress: Economists estimated in 2011 that the United States needed $2 trillion in immediate investments just to bring its infrastructure up to date, and with borrowing costs low and the nation’s unemployment rate still high, such investments would allow the country to fix its crumbling roads and bridges while…
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From AP: All of a sudden, abortion, contraception and gay marriage are at the center of American political discourse, with the struggling – though improving – economy pushed to the background. Social issues don’t typically dominate the discussion in shaky economies. But they do raise emotions important to factors like…
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From ClutchMag: The monster beneath this rhetoric is the Welfare Queen, the fabled boogeywoman of the 1976 Reagan presidential campaign. “She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards and is collecting veterans’ benefits on four nonexisting deceased husbands,” Reagan told enraptured crowds at stump speeches. “Her tax-free income…
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From SPLC: A Georgia administrative law judge has left in place a subpoena directing President Obama to appear at a hearing on Thursday regarding a “birther” complaint challenging the president’s eligibility for office. Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi issued his decision Friday, writing that the president’s legal team “failed to…
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From BlackStarNews: Gingrich knows it’s impermissible for prominent politicians to use the N-word in the 21st century to describe Black folk. But Gingrich knows there are other ways of using the N-word; through codes. He has developed the best code-speak for the N-word. He does it so well that he’s…
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From ThinkProgress: Faith in Public Life reports that more than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians across the country are calling on two of their “fellow Catholics,” GOP contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, to stop using divisive rhetoric about race and poverty on the campaign trail. Noting that Catholics consider…
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From Center for American Progress: President Reagan . . . actually increased taxes “in seven of his eight years in office, including one stretch of four tax increases in just two years.” Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman [noted] that “no peacetime president has raised taxes so much on so many…
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