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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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Here’s My Favorite Sunday Morning Headline-Charlotte Observer, Sunday, November 25, 2012.
Compromise in Congress has become a curse. But, it shouldn’t be. Most of our greatest milestones came about because reasonable people were willing to sit down and come to reasonable decisions. Check out my favorite Sunday Morning headline. Why is it different now? Because 20-50 years ago, Congress had a much different feel-a much different…
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McCain’s Backing Away from Susan Rice Comments.
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012 Arizona Senator John McCain backed away yesterday from comments he has previously made about UN Ambassador Susan Rice. CNN was told yesterday that the intelligence community was responsible for the changes made to Rice’s talking points. And, during closed door testimony, the congressional investigative committee learned that the Obama administration made…
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Republicans are Struggling for Oxygen.
President Obama quickly came to the defense of UN Ambassador Susan Rice over remarks she made regarding the Benghazi incident during Sunday Moring political talk shows September 16, 2012. What’s even more interesting is the twists and turns of the Republicans taking aim in a fever pitched effort to discredit Ambassador Rice. I don’t think…
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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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