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Israel Feels The Pressure Over Settlements
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel rejected a wave of American and European condemnations Monday over plans to build thousands of new homes in West Bank settlements, vowing to press forward with the construction in the face of widespread international opposition. The announcement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office was likely to deepen a rift that has…
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Microsoft, Apple, Google and Hewlett-Packard: Off Shore Account Havens.
American multinational corporations have something in common with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, aside from being people, too: They both keep a lot of their income overseas to cut their tax bills. Companies such as Microsoft and Apple quietly dodge billions of dollars in taxes each year with potentially illegal schemes to move their profits…
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U.S. stocks and the euro rose on Thursday but remained pressured by comments from top Republican lawmaker John Boehner
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks and the euro rose on Thursday but remained pressured by comments from top Republican lawmaker John Boehner, who indicated no substantive progress in the last two weeks in talks to reach a U.S. budget deal. Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said he had no idea what compromises…
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Don’t Let Anyone Fool You: Middle Class Payroll Tax Will Go Up. That Was Decided A Long Time Ago.
When you ring in the New Year you will also be ringing in the pre-Bush tax break payroll tax adjustment. Why? Both sides of the isle have decided and agreed that the payroll tax adjustment is needed to secure the solvency of Social Security. The Republicans have remained silent over the middle class payroll tax…
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STUDY: Medicaid Beneficiaries Are Just As Happy With Their Coverage As Americans With Private Insurance
By Sy Mukherjee on Nov 16, 2012 at 7:00 pm A new study from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that since 2008, state efforts to reform Medicaid and make the low-income safety net program more efficient — likely spurred by provisions in the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) and Obamacare — have…
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The Republican Party is looking for a new identity.
And they’re looking, literally, everywhere. At the Republican Governors Association in Las Vegas, former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was the most … shall we say … direct, proclaiming, “We’ve got to give our political organizational activity a very serious proctology exam. We need to look everywhere.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83977.html#ixzz2Ca4JCdLq
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Should Churches Lose Their Tax Exempt Status-Campaigning From The Pulpit?
The simple phrase “All men are created equal” has been called an immortal declaration, and perhaps the single phrase of the United States Revolutionary period with the most grand continuing importance even though after 236 years there is still inequality in America. It is ironic that Thomas Jefferson wrote those prescient words because if he…
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It’s a far more liberal Senate than it was four years ago.
Molly Ball’s fun story about the leftward shift in the Senate reminds us of a fact forgotten five minutes into election night. Bob Kerrey, the two-term Nebraska senator, lost his comeback bid. While Ohio’s Sherrod Brown was promising to hike taxes on the rich and save entitlements from the “grand bargain” guillotine, Kerrey was being…
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Six out of every seven doctors agree: Our health-care system doesn’t work
From: Washington Post Posted by Sarah Kliff American doctors tend to be the highest paid in the world, with salaries that can double that of their counterparts outside the United States. That makes it all the more surprising that doctors here tend to have way lower rates of job satisfaction, according to new research from…
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DeGette files bill to require feds to respect marijuana law
By Kurtis LeeThe Denver Post Posted: 11/16/2012 01:49:55 PM MST U. S. Rep. Diana Degette (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post) In an effort to ensure new voter-approved amendments that legalize limited use of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington are not overrun by the federal government, Democratic U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette introduced bipartisan…
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