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Too Big To Tell An Epic Without Heroes

I won't watch a movie if I've missed the beginning, and I hate missing endings so much that I won't start watching a movie I can't see through to the end. As a writer, the beginning and end are two of the most important parts of the story to me. They answer two...

No Dice to Medicaid Cuts

I have long felt that it was unlikely that the President would allow substantial cuts to health care programs, since it is his signature issue. But since everyone in DC has come down with Deficit Fever, I've become a little bit worried that he might be coerced into...

Senate Budget Vote A Defining One For The Middle Class

Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, a roll call vote that some Republicans were not-so-secretly dreading began, and the public began to know the names of the senators who were willing to throw the middle class under the luxury bus for the corporate class that is the 2012...

Medicare And New York 26 Will Change The Budget Debate

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Pete Davis' Capital Gains and Games post on Tuesday about not being able to draw a conclusion about the results in the special election held in New York to fill the seat left vacant when Republican Chris Lee resigned is...

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