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American Women In The 1950s... And Utah Women Today
Dear Fred,Earlier today, while walking up the steps of Immaculata Catholic Church (in Durham, North Carolina), a Dad was walking down them, clasping a baby in his right arm.He was also holding the hand...
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E.J. Dionne: Tyranny Of The Minority
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: November 24, 2013Those who lament the Senate Democrats’ vote to end filibusters for presidential nominations say the move will escalate partisan warfare and destroy what...
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The Borowitz Report: Obama's New Best Friend, Iran's Supreme Leader
TEHRAN — The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told reporters today his nation agreed to a deal on its nuclear program in the hopes that it would distract attention from the...
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Congressional Reactions To The Nuclear Deal With Iran
Senator John Cornyn's Wikipedia entry:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_CornynExcerpt: In the 2004 debate surrounding the Federal Marriage Amendment, Cornyn released an advance copy of a speech he was...
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The Iranian Deal: "Hidden" Achievement Of Core Obama Goal
"U.S. President Barack Obama has had two overarching goals in the Iran crisis. The first was to stop the Iranian regime from gaining possession of a nuclear weapon. The second was to prevent Israel...
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Minnesota Nominates Gubernatorial Candidate From The Democratic-Farmer-Labor...
"[Here's] a natural experiment that compares the agendas of modern progressivism and the new right. Wisconsin elected Republicans to majorities in the Legislature and selected a bold and vigorous...
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The Holy Family
The more uniquely the Holy Family is represented, the more I wonder what each of them was really like.We know this: they were not universally likable people.Yeshua was killed at the insistence of...
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Nixon Proposed - And House Approved - A Guaranteed Minimum Income
In which we once again salute Richard Nixon, Marxist warriorBY WELDON BERGER, ON JUNE 29TH, 201140 years ago this month, on June 22, 1971, Richard Nixon’s historic plan to provide a guaranteed income...
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Paul Krugman: What Obamacare Would Look Like With A Functional Website
"It goes without saying that the rollout of Obamacare was an epic disaster. But what kind of disaster was it? Was it a failure of management, messing up the initial implementation of a fundamentally...
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Rush Limbaugh Says Obamacare Designed To Fail To Promote Single Payer Healthcare
Is Rush right this time?!?(Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)***"Rush Limbaugh's take on the disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act could, ironically, warm the hearts of those at the...
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Obamacare Is Unstoppable. No One Will Vote To Remove New Medicaid Recipients
Obamacare: It's not a train wreck. It's a train.***"[O]ne reason the law is so complicated is that it created a raft of incentives to encourage health insurers, hospitals and other powerful...
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Obamacare Website "Workaround" Now Functioning In Three States
"Allowing insurers and online brokers to directly enroll customers in subsidized coverage could be key to signing up the millions of people the government had projected would gain coverage this year --...
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Is This The Creepiest Or Coolest Ad Ever?
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2013/11/british_airways_london_billboard_video_baby_points_at_airplane_in_new_airline.html?wpisrc=nl_wonk
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Senator Tom Harkin Is Already Calling For Further Filibuster Reform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harkin***Alan: In the past, repeated Republican calls for "a straight up or down vote" were, in fact, calls for simple majority rule.***""This has been escalating for a...
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Why Eliminating The Filibuster Altogether Would Matter Less Than You Think
Wikipedia's Filibuster Entryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster***"To see the practical effects of ditching the filibuster on the percentage of laws enacted, I conducted a thought experiment. Let's...
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Even Without Filibuster, Republicans Can Still Be Obstructionist
In a poll released today, 64% of the citizenry wants immigration reform with a path to citizenship.Why isn't this decisive majority heeded?The GOP***"Democrats must still find a modicum of compromise...
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The Guardian's 50 Greatest Symphonies
Symphony guide: Rachmaninov's 3rd19 Nov 2013: There's a lot more to the way Rachmaninov's third and final symphony works than the simple attractiveness of its tunes12 commentsSymphony guide: Mahler's...
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NYT: Compelling Economic and Ecoological Arguments For Mulching Not Raking...
"Officials are encouraging the practice for its cost savings: Westchester spends $3.5 million a year on private contractors who haul away leaves in tractor-trailers and bring them to commercial...
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Noam Chomsky Faults 9/11 Truther Critique
Wikipedia's Building 7 Entryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center***MIT professor Noam Chomsky doesn’t know what happened to “Building 7″ of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.But...
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Robert Reich: How The Republican Tempest Over ACA Hides 3 Large Truths
Robert ReichHow the Republican tempest over the Affordable Care Act diverts attention from three large truthsRepublicans are determined to repeal or amend the Affordable Care Act. However, the tempest...
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