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How Not To Think About The Pension Crisis
Mary SanchezThe latest news out of Detroit isn’t good. To get its fresh start, this once great but now bankrupt city is going to stick it to municipal employees and retirees.
City retirees there haven’t enjoyed exactly lavish pensions, but what they had was thought to be secure, protected under the state’s Constitution.
Coke’s Conspiracy Against Tap Water
Jim HightowerCoca-Cola is running a stealth advertising campaign.
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Sarah Palin Can’t Tear Down The Wall Between Church And State
Gene Lyons“We have just enough religion to make us hate,” wrote Jonathan Swift, “but not enough to make us love one another.” A lifelong religious controversialist, the 18th-century Irish satirist definitely knew whereof he wrote. After all, it’s fewer than 20 years since Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland quit dynamiting each other’s gathering places.
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Here’s The Real Story: The GOP Has Surrendered On Repealing Obamacare
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) both referred to the budget deal they announced on Tuesday evening as “historic.” They were correct — but not because of any of the cuts or fees in the modest deficit-reduction plan.
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How Not To Think About The Pension Crisis
The latest news out of Detroit isn’t good. To get its fresh start, this once great but now bankrupt city is going to stick it to municipal employees and retirees.
City retirees there haven’t enjoyed exactly lavish pensions, but what they had was thought to be secure, protected under the state’s Constitution.
Coke’s Conspiracy Against Tap Water
Coca-Cola is running a stealth advertising campaign.
Read more...
Sarah Palin Can’t Tear Down The Wall Between Church And State
“We have just enough religion to make us hate,” wrote Jonathan Swift, “but not enough to make us love one another.” A lifelong religious controversialist, the 18th-century Irish satirist definitely knew whereof he wrote. After all, it’s fewer than 20 years since Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland quit dynamiting each other’s gathering places.
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The Tea Party Jumps The Shark: 4 Reasons Steve Stockman Won’t Beat John Cornyn
U.S. Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) shook up the 2014 midterms on Monday night, when he made the surprising announcement that he will challenge Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) in his upcoming re-election campaign.
Read more...Congress Reaches Budget Deal
Washington (AFP) – Congressional negotiators reached a deal Tuesday on US federal spending, budget officials said, which if passed by lawmakers would avoid a disastrous repeat of a government shutdown that paralyzed Washington.
Read more...SHOCKER: Our Long-Term Debt Problem May Already Be Solved
You may have missed the news that health care costs are growing at the slowest rate ever recorded.
Republican critics are reluctant to give the Affordable Care Act any credit for this amazing development. But Medicare, which has already implemented cost-saving policies from the law, showed no — 0.0 percent — cost growth whatsoever last year.
Poll: Mark Pryor Trails Tom Cotton In Arkansas Senate Race
According to a poll released Monday by conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway, Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) trails his Republican opponent, U.S. Representative Tom Cotton, 48 percent to 41 percent in his race for a third term.
Though Pryor remains the more well-known candidate in the contest, his popularity among Independents and women is slipping.
Conservatives And Progressives Agree: Congress Should Not Cut Unemployment Benefits
Extremists who think government support for the unemployed is holding the economy back don’t have the facts on their side.
It’s a rare day indeed when Next New Deal bloggers support economic arguments with links to the Weekly Standard, the American Enterprise Institute, and Goldman Sachs.
The Tea Party Is Ready For Another Government Shutdown
Before details of a budget deal between Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) has even been announced, it is being opposed by two of the powerful right-wing groups that supported the “defund Obamacare” strategy that led to the last government shutdown — Heritage Action and FreedomWorks.
Read more...David Cay Johnston: Billions of Tax Dollars Later, No New Jobs for New York [AUDIO]
The National Memo’s David Cay Johnston appeared on WNYC Tuesday morning, to discuss a disturbing new report that New York State is giving corporations billions of dollars in tax breaks to spur job creation that never materializes.
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