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Obama’s Budget Creates Jobs (Lots of Them)

The Economic Policy Institute released an analysis today of the programs in President Obama’s newly proposed budget plan which are aimed at boosting job growth. All told, it would yield approximately...

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FAA’s Double Secret Probation

Grant Cardone used his iPad to record a mid-flight bird-strike on a Delta flight from LFK to LAX. A crew member ordered him to stop recording. He refused. Well it would seem the FAA is is not so happy...

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Stuff That Isn’t Obviously Torture

Via a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a list of “things that government officials could do to an American citizen and still claim later that they didn’t know they were “torturing” that...

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BREAKING: Congress Passes a Bill

I know it is hard to believe, but it is true. Congress passed a bill: On a broad bipartisan vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted Tuesday to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and expand its...

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How many times have you heard a Republican interviewed about energy and they say we would have lower gas prices and wouldn’t need to rely on imports from the Middle East if us terrible liberals would...

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Infographic: Hidden Farm Bill Cost

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The Republican Party In Action

Ezra Klein at the Washington Post outlines how the GOP managed to take an idea they promoted for at least two decades, the individual mandate, and within two years set the stage for the Supreme Court...

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“Largest Tax Increase In History”

Before the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act last week, the primary Republican  line of attack against were over-the-top hyperbolic, but at least subjective: government takeover of health...

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BP To Pay $4.5 Billion For Deepwater Horizon

Two and a half years after tens of millions of gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon drill platform, the company has pleaded guilty to more than 10 felonies...

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What 20,000 Pages Of Inappropriate Emails Look Like

What a great idea. U.S. Gen. John Allen reportedly sent 20,000 to 30,000 pages of “potentially inappropriate” emails to Tampa socialite Jill Kelley. We got to wondering, what would 20,000 pages of...

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