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The GOP’s Secret Leverage in the Fiscal Cliff Negotiations

Source: Reason, Nov 28 2012, 11:34am CST

Who actually has the leverage in negotiations over the fiscal cliff—and the extension of Bush-era income tax cuts in particular? On the surface, it might look like Democrats, who control the White House and th ...

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Hunger Games

Source: The New Republic  |   May 22 2013, 11:30pm CDT

The more we learn about the IRS vetting of conservative groups, the less it looks like an abuse of power than something much more mundane—a beleaguered agency with too few resources to handle its work-load. As Th ...

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Kansas lawmakers' debate on taxes sputters again

Source: HutchNews.com  |   May 22 2013, 11:21pm CDT

Published: 5/22/2013 10:47 PM | Last update: 5/22/2013 10:47 PM TOPEKA -- A new legislative proposal to give favored tax treatment in Kansas to groceries failed Wednesday to break a stalemate among top Republican lawmaker ...

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"we CAN'T do nothing - it's too important! The economy will tank!"


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While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, Okla., this week, I was genuinely shocked. Not by the scale of the devastation or the tenacity of people who have grown stoically accustomed to the damage tornados can do, but by a political sentiment t ...

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