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GOP Offers No Death Panels Just Death From Lack of Care

Republicans concocted death panels in an attempt to terrify Americans about health care reform, then propagated the lie because they wanted insurance corporations to profit from illness and injury unfettered. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed...

How Soon Will You Go Bankrupt Under the New GOP Budget

Rep. Paul Ryan's getting a lot of attention for a chart he's using to publicize the new Republican budget: You know what's funny? I was just projecting the effect of that budget on the average retiree's household budget: I wish I were kidding, but I'm not. These are...

Making The Tough Decisions

Sometimes I think that the best thing that the only way our country is going to survive is if all of our political elites are forced to live like an average American for the next two years. And by average, I don't mean the delusional upper middle class, highly...

Obama Gets It Right On Education - Really

Last week, President Obama gave us a clear perspective of what's wrong with current education policies and a positive vision for where they should be going. In a townhall meeting, he lamented that current education policies have "piled on a lot of standardized tests...

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