Remember when Republicans were so concerned about deficits? Not so much… today they are outraged that the IRS is not being shut down by the sequester and will continue to collect the revenue that reduces deficits. Gosh, do you think maybe deficits are not their real agenda after all? The Drudge Report is always good [...]
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Engraved onto the front of the Internal Revenue Service building is Oliver Holmes’ wise words: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” This year, the 16th Amendment, which grants Congress the right to levy an income tax, will be 100 years old. The anniversary falls during a unique time in our nation’s history: Middle-class [...]
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This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. After the horrendous slaughter of 20 school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a heartbroken President Obama implored the nation, “This is our first task – caring for our children. It’s our first job. If [...]
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President Obama demonstrated his gutsiness in recent months by speaking so many words that craven politicians contend cannot be spoken. These are hot-button words like same sex-marriage, immigration reform, gun control and climate change. Fighting words. The president even specifically addressed three of these in his second inaugural speech – the civil rights of gay [...]
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Four years ago, my husband and I opted to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration from home. The very likely reality of spending most of the day outdoors, standing in the cold, with two very cold and very bored children, waiting for hours to end up not seeing very much outweighed any desire to witness history in [...]
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Before the election reporters and pundits were saying that not so many people would turn out this time, that it would be close at best. But on election day it turned out that it wasn’t even close. The people did turn out, some waiting in lines four, five, six hours to vote, many using provisional [...]
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As our nation promotes representative democracy around the world, it is time to finally bring it to those who don't have it here in the United States -- the citizens of Washington, D.C.
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Today, President Obama signed a broad array of executive orders to curb gun violence, in what was the boldest Presidential action against gun violence since the Clinton administration. In a speech that recalled the shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Col., and even invoked Ronald Reagan, the president called on Congress to act and Americans [...]
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Imagine a nation with a terrible problem – one its leaders refuse to discuss. The problem will needlessly drain trillions of dollars from its economy in the next ten years. Now imagine that this problem also robs that nation’s citizens of life itself, draining years from their lifespans while depriving them of large sums of [...]
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Despite an epidemic of gun deaths, the river of gun cash never stops flowing. If you follow that river upstream you'll see that its source lies very close to Wall Street. And the river's mouth speaks with the voice of politicians, whose campaign fundraising is undoubtedly taking place even on this supposedly holy day for most of them.
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