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Those wacky pundits!

Source: The Monkey Cage, Nov 28 2012, 8:40am CST

This aspirational element should be the centerpiece of the Republican message in this age of growing class bifurcation. . . . Without some unforeseen economic rebound, class issues will dominate our politics in the future even more th ...

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9 hours ago

The Knives of Class Warfare Turn Towards Tech’s Plutocrats

Source: Hacker News  |   May 20 2013, 3:35pm CDT

I have lots of quibbles with Joel Kotkin’s recent essay published at the Daily Beast and already echoing elsewhere. He gets numerous facts wrong, and some of his assumptions are silly. But anyone in tech better ...

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14 hours ago

Gillibrand offers bill to lower student loan interest for millions

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 20 2013, 11:06am CDT

Most people with student loan debt are struggling with higher interest rates than mortgages and many other loans carry. And in most cases, refinancing isn't an option for student loan debt. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is seek ...

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15 hours ago

Shrinking US deficit reduces pressure for budget deal

Source: Business Day   |   May 20 2013, 9:32am CDT

National Development Plan is lacking constant affirmation by President Jacob Zuma, writes Peter Bruce Union to seek pay rises of up to 60% from gold and coal producers, raising prospect of fresh strikes ...

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17 hours ago

Senate Barrels Toward Showdown Over Consumer Bureau Nominee

Source: The New Media Journal  |   May 20 2013, 7:52am CDT

Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are headed for a showdown over Richard Cordray, the man responsible for implementing major elements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R-NV) will call for a vote ...

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18 hours ago

Less pressure for US budget deal

Source: Independent Online (South Africa)  |   May 20 2013, 7:16am CDT

Washington - The chances of a deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers that would overhaul the U.S. tax system, trim government spending and reform safety net spending programs appear to be fading. A sudden improvement in the outlook f ...

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18 hours ago

Scandals cause anxiety for '14 Dems – Obama's unlikely ally: McCain – Pritzker & Foxx: Tale of two nominees – DHS unions oppose immigration reform – Love wants Matheson rematch – Rand in N.H.

Source: The Politico  |   May 20 2013, 6:50am CDT

TRIO OF SCANDALS CAUSE ANXIETY FOR DEMS IN ’14 -- Alex Isenstadt reports for the hometown paper: “Democrats aiming to retake the House next year against all odds tried to reassure themselves after President Barack Obama’s week from hell: The election is ...

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1 day ago

‘The Rich’ again rescuing the U.S. economy

Source: NorthJersey.com  |   May 20 2013, 12:07am CDT

It's time to wake up and smell the coffee. It seems that "The Rich" have come to the federal government's aid once again - this time in a big way. I write "once again" because it's "The Rich" that always pay the largest percentage of taxes despite th ...

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1 day ago

The hard lessons of the post-partisan unity schtick

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 19 2013, 1:15pm CDT

...when Obama apologized to the Clintons for suggesting that Republican-engineered witch hunts and gridlock were a symptom of what was wrong with them. The Clintons have their faults, and Obama has his. But the fact is Republicans don't think any polit ...

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3 days ago

Keep Taxing the Little Guy

Source: Town Hall  |   May 17 2013, 11:23pm CDT

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., recently stated that a 35% U.S. corporate tax rate is too high. Well, it’s excessively high for those corporations that have the ability to domicile billions of dollars overseas, ther ...

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3 days ago

Agent McConnell Has Infiltrated the Bureaucracy

Source: ARRA News Service  |   May 17 2013, 10:49pm CDT

: Mitch McConnell had a problem. He needed to give President Obama, the man he had publicly vowed to make a one-term president, a nominee for the Legal Services Corporation. By law, the LSC, a Nixon-era 501(c ...

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