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Detroit: We need to renew the American dream

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Abandoned building in downtown Detroit. My late father was a World War II veteran, and as a child I remember him talking about the promise of America. “If you work hard enough, you can be anything you want to be,” he would say. My dad was a Teamster who drove a milk truck for a […]

The pro-tax evasion, pro-deficits party strikes again

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After months of their much-hyped but still unproven charges of partisan skullduggery at the Internal Revenue Service, House Republicans this week took an axe to the IRS budget. The cost of the GOP vendetta is massive. Cutting the agency’s funding for the fifth consecutive year, the House in a 228-to-195 vote slashed the overall IRS […]

The pro-tax evasion, pro-deficits party strikes again

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After months of their much-hyped but still unproven charges of partisan skullduggery at the Internal Revenue Service, House Republicans this week took an axe to the IRS budget. The cost of the GOP vendetta is massive. Cutting the agency’s funding for the fifth consecutive year, the House in a 228-to-195 vote slashed the overall IRS […]

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: On making the federal government work better

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Health Spending 25 Years Out NY Times: The growth of federal spending on health care will continue to decline as a proportion of the overall economy in the coming decades, in part because of cost controls mandated by President Obama’s health care law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday. David Leonhardt/NY Times/Upshot: But […]

With Mass Incarceration, U.S. is Guilty of a Slow Motion Genocide

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With Mass Incarceration, U.S. is Guilty of a Slow Motion Genocide If this were happening anywhere else in the world, Americans would be justifiably horrified: 1 out of every 100 adults are living behind bars in the United States, with 1 in 31 in some sort of correctional control, including prison, jail, parole, and probation. […]

See President Obama getting frisky with Michelle as they climbed up Air Force One

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President Obama, Love Pat Or Wind Protection? President Obama came to Texas for three events. He fundraised in Houston. He visited Fort Hood to pay respects to those that were murdered on the  base. He went to the  50th year anniversary of the civil rights law at the LBJ presidential library. It was a windy […]