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Walmart: America's Real Welfare Queen
Walmart, one of the richest corporations in the world, refuses to pay its employees a livable wage or provide any form of decent healthcare, increasing reliance on government assistance, and the need...
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Bill Maher's Advice For Duck Dynasty Fans: The Conservative Agenda Is For...
Video: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/18/1270686/-Bill-Maher-Has-New-For-Rule-To-Duck-Dynasty-Following-Americans-VIDEO?detail=emailFriday was the premiere of this season’s Real Time with Bill...
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What Happens When The Poor Get Cash? An Empirical Study
In Saturday's New York Times, by Moises Velasquez-Manoff published "What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?" It tells the story of what happened to the lives of the Eastern Band of Cherokee...
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Record 829 Manatee Deaths in 2013 Puzzle Scientists
Video: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140122-manatee-deaths-florida-red-tide-threats-endangered-species/?google_editors_picks=trueResearchers have found one main cause and are trying...
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For 20 Years, Zapatistas Pursue Their Own Way Of Life Away From Mexican State
Mexico's Zapatistas Give Vistors A View Of A Hidden CommunityThe rebels opened up their communities over the past five months to more than 7,000 Mexicans and foreigners who came to learn about how the...
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Lowering Ambient Temperature Causes Fat To "Burn" More Quickly
It’s freezing outside, but don’t despair. That chill might just help you slim down a bit.A new report published in the medical journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism suggests that varying...
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Florida Republican Calls For Hanging President Obama
attribution: Daily KosRepublican candidate Joshua Black, running for a seat in the Florida State House, was so eager to prove that he is more conservative than thou that he calls for Obama's...
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Due To Obamacare Target Drops Insurance For Part Timers. Good News For Workers!
BY SARAH KLIFFJanuary 22, 2014Welcome to Health Reform Watch, Sarah Kliff’s regular look at how the Affordable Care Act is changing the American health-care system — and being changed by it. You can...
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Another Chris Christie Scandal: Data Shows Stark Racial Gap In Sandy Aid...
Chris Christie (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri)Amid growing questions about lane closures on the George Washington Bridge and Sandy aid to Hoboken, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is facing an additional...
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6.3 Million Eligible For Medicaid Since Obamacare Launch
Cathey Park of Cambridge, Massachusetts shows her cast signed by U.S. President Barack Obama after he spoke about health insurance at Faneuil Hall in Boston October 30, 2013.Alan: It is reasonable to...
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Exonerated "Criminals." The Numbers
Michael Morton served nearly 25 years for the murder of his wife, Christine, before a DNA test proved his innocence.STORY HIGHLIGHTSHundreds of convicted U.S. prisoners have been freed after DNA...
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New Trial Sought For George Stinney, Executed At 14
Family wants justice after executionSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Hearing concludes with no immediate decision from judgeStinney is the youngest person to be executed by an American state since the...
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We’re All Suspects In Barack Obama’s America
Excerpt: Back in 1975, Church warned: “The [National Security Agency’s] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the...
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George Will: Judicial Acitivism Isn't A Bad Thing
By George F. Will, Published: January 22, 2014Disabusing the Republican Party of a cherished dogma, thereby requiring it to forgo a favorite rhetorical trope, will not win Clark M. Neily III the...
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Obamacare In California: Why No One Discusses The Most Important Element
Symbol of Success***"[I]t's puzzling that nearly no one fussed over another huge figure: the 680,000-plus residents who signed up for the state's Low Income Health Plan -- perhaps the biggest element...
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North Carolina: Why Opposition To Medicaid Expansion "Damns" The Poor
Alan: The refusal to expand Medicaid in state with Republican governors will come back to haunt the GOP. (N.B. The federal government is committed to paying all expansion costs in year one and 90% of...
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Wonkish Clarification Of Obamacare "Risk Corridors." The GOP Is Wrong Again
#5. Pray for Healing.#6. Die Quickly.***"[P]erhaps the most important point here is this: any conservative reform plan for universal coverage will have to use similar methods of risk adjustment. The...
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Chris Christie: We Like Our Elected Officials To Be Stronger Than Their...
Pining for LBJ, we got Christie. "Christie has been a beneficiary of LBJ nostalgia. He's a tough Republican governor in a blue state facing a Democratic legislature. He yells at people who oppose him....
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"The Right" Is A Bunch Of Aging White Radicals
"When it became clear about a year ago that Republican leaders would have a much harder time advancing immigration reform than they realized -- that GOP activists and conservatives were livid about the...
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