The Immigration Bill’s ‘$6.3 Trillion Price Tag’

1 week Ago

Critics of the bill are wrongly using a Heritage Foundation study to make claims about the legislation's cost.

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How Right-Wing Ideology Has Suckered Millions Of Americans Into Hating Their Own Government

1 week Ago

Pervasive propaganda is doing great harm to one of the few solutions the people have to deal with their problems: government.

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Oklahoma’s “Life-Preserving” Law Raises Questions For Doctors

1 week Ago

Dying has gotten a lot more complicated here, the result of a unique measure passed by the Oklahoma legislature and signed into law last month by Republican Gov. Mary Fallin.

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IRS Not So ‘Independent’

4 weeks Ago

The Internal Revenue Service is not exactly an “independent agency,” as President Obama claimed.

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Jeb Bush’s Jobs Claim

4 weeks Ago

In touting conservative policies in Republican-controlled states, Jeb Bush claimed, “The Southeast is leading a renaissance in American manufacturing.” Not so. The Midwest has experienced a 9 percent increase in manufacturing jobs since the sector began its recovery in February 2010. That’s double the growth rate of the nine states in the Southeast.

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Rand Paul Will Never Be President

4 weeks Ago

To be a viable White House contender, you have to be within your party’s mainstream on public policy. He's not.

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Is Obama Evolving On Marijuana?

6 weeks Ago

A new approach to drug policy could signal the end of the drug war.

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Obama: Mortgaging The Living To Save The Wealth Of The Dead

6 weeks Ago

At the start of his second term, events pushed President Obama to choose between the living and the dead. He chose dead millionaires over elderly people living on Social Security. The wealthy were given a most generous reduction in the estate taxes to be collected when they die. Social Security beneficiaries were told to live with smaller benefit checks. Instead of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, Obama went the other way.

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Plan B Ruling: Fox And Family Research Council Seize Opportunity To Spread Misinformation

7 weeks Ago

The Fox News response to the recent Plan B ruling provides a graphic example of how the channel uses what it calls "fair and balanced" reporting to create false perceptions.

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Kansas Enacts Law Requiring Drug Tests For Welfare, Unemployment Recipients

8 weeks Ago

Calling drug addiction a “scourge in Kansas,” Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law a bill to test welfare and unemployment recipients suspected of using illegal drugs.

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Spinning Obama’s Budget

8 weeks Ago

Both parties are putting political spin on the deficit reduction contained in President Obama’s $3.78 trillion budget plan.

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Healthcare An Obstacle As Republicans Court Latinos

9 weeks Ago

As GOP members of Congress seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they risk undermining outreach efforts among the law's biggest supporters.

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How Not To Woo Republicans

11 weeks Ago

If Obama really wants a grand bargain, he should knock off the wisecracks about the GOP.

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The GOP's Real Agenda

12 weeks Ago

Since last fall, Republicans have pretended to be more moderate - but their politics are harsher and more destructive than ever.

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Why Are Democrats So Defeatist?

13 weeks Ago

The Republicans are openly introspective about why they failed to regain the presidency and the Senate. It is time for the same kind of rigorous self-analysis by the Democrats, who floated through their failure to regain control of the House without apparent dismay.

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Welcome To The White House

14 weeks Ago

Obama reaching out to Republicans isn’t anything new. It’s just that he’s never made it work.

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There's No Such Thing As The Liberal War On Science

14 weeks Ago

Michael Shermer argues that when it comes to not believing in science, Dems and Republicans are created equal. Here's why he's wrong.

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In Fight For House, Is Obama His Own Worst Enemy?

14 weeks Ago

The president says he's determined to win back the House in 2014. If he fails, he may have his 2012 self to blame.

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Sequester Cuts Are Here To Stay

15 weeks Ago

Lawmakers and aides say they do not expect Congress to turn off budget sequestration before April and that negotiations to freeze the automatic spending cuts could drag into May or beyond.

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Paying People To Play Video Games

15 weeks Ago

House Speaker John Boehner tweets that the Obama administration is spending $1.2 million “paying people to play video games.” That’s misleading. The government did pay $1.2 million for university research that includes the study of how video games can stimulate the cognitive abilities of seniors. A fraction of that cost went to compensate seniors who participated in the study, researchers say.

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Insist That People Coexisted With Dinosaurs...And Get An A In Science Class!

16 weeks Ago

In biology class, public school students can't generally argue that dinosaurs and people ran around Earth at the same time, at least not without risking a big fat F. But that could soon change for kids in Oklahoma.

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President All In For Gay Rights In Second Term

17 weeks Ago

President Obama has embraced a series of proposals to advance gay causes in his second term, highlighting his changing views on gay rights.

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Did The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban Work?

18 weeks Ago

Both sides in the gun debate are misusing academic reports on the impact of the 1994 assault weapons ban, cherry-picking portions out of context to suit their arguments.

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Could A Bachelor Win The Presidency?

18 weeks Ago

Cuomo and Booker have been touted as contenders. Here's what experts say these politicians face.

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The GOP’s Demographic Dare

18 weeks Ago

If the Republican Party supports immigration reform, will Hispanics ever support the GOP?

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Republicans Might Be Outsmarting Themselves On The Electoral College

19 weeks Ago

Republicans, apparently convinced that they really are facing demographic doom, have been taking increasingly desperate measures to ensure their continued existence. Does this include an effort to moderate their views in order to win more votes? Don't be silly.

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Anti-NRA Group’s Shameless Editing Tricks

19 weeks Ago

A Web video attacking Rep. John Barrow for taking “NRA blood money” selectively edits an old campaign ad in which Barrow touts his support for the Second Amendment and the NRA’s endorsement of him. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which produced the video, edited out all references in which Barrow explains why he supports gun rights — including his statement that his father owned a rifle “just to keep us safe.”

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Is It True That There Were More Votes Than Voters In Wood County, Ohio, And St. Lucie County, Fla., And That Obama Lost Every State With Photo ID Laws?

20 weeks Ago

No. A viral email that makes those claims is bogus. It fabricates Ohio and Florida results. Also, Obama won four of the 11 states with photo ID laws.

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Obama’s Endless Fundraising

20 weeks Ago

The election may be over, but the glad-handing continues. So much for the president's pledge to keep donors at bay.

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The Hitler Gun Control Lie

21 weeks Ago

Gun rights activists who cite the dictator as a reason against gun control have their history dangerously wrong.

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Do 11 States Now Have More People On Welfare Than They Have Employed?

21 weeks Ago

A viral email making this claim is off base. It distorts a Forbes article that compares private-sector workers with those “dependent on the government,” including government workers and pensioners, and Medicaid recipients — not just “people on welfare.”

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The Final Failure Of A Failed Congress

22 weeks Ago

The 113th Congress doesn't look any better.

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Number Of Lawmakers Who Don’t Identify With A Religion Is On The Rise

22 weeks Ago

The number is hardly huge but it still marks quite the change from three decades ago.

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Poor Would Be First To Barrel Over Fiscal Cliff

23 weeks Ago

As President Obama bargains with the GOP to avoid going over the “fiscal cliff,” GOP proposals remain the primary threat to low-income Americans.

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Conservatives Urge Gop Leaders To Be Bold, Prepare To Go Over Cliff

24 weeks Ago

Conservative activists who helped doom Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) "Plan B" say Republicans must be prepared to go over the fiscal cliff to force President Obama to reach a deal that includes no tax hikes.

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Obama Likely To Issue Executive Order On Cybersecurity As Early As January

24 weeks Ago

GOP lawmakers fear the cyber order will pile new regulations onto companies that operate critical infrastructure.

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John Boehner: Can Anyone Govern The Crazy Caucus?

24 weeks Ago

House Speaker John Boehner looked ineffectual on Plan B -- but he just might be his party's only hope.

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The GOP May Have Some Real Leverage Here

25 weeks Ago

A possible explanation for reports that the president is open to raising the qualification age from 65 to 67.

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10 Steps To A Breakaway State: A Secessionist’s Guide

27 weeks Ago

Helpful advice to the politically embittered: start with a spiffy new flag this weekend.

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Dueling Fiscal Cliff Deceptions

27 weeks Ago

A fog of misinformation has settled on the fiscal cliff, as both House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have traded conflicting, misleading and false statements in recent days on the president’s deficit-reduction plan.

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Glenn Beck Has The Paranoid Conspiracy World Cowering With "Agenda 21"

28 weeks Ago

Dystopic novel is a sleight-of-hand technique to keep the public focused on bogeymen, while the pillaging of the middle class continues unabated.

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The Myth Of The Obama Cave-In

28 weeks Ago

With the "fiscal cliff" looming, the conventional wisdom is that the president capitulated during the last tax-cut fight. Here's what really happened.

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Victory For Strangers, Heathens, Wastrels!

29 weeks Ago

Republicans counted on tried-and-true class warfare like never before. This time, "outsiders" were the majority.

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Norquist Pledge Takes Election Hit

30 weeks Ago

Republicans might have held the House, but Grover Norquist’s majority in Congress is all but gone.

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Will Republicans Raise Taxes And Chop Defense To Stop Sequestration?

30 weeks Ago

Republican lawmakers have no time to nurse their wounds following Tuesday’s election: the coming week will bring their last opportunity to avoid the $1 trillion bundle of domestic and defense spending cuts known as sequestration, set to take effect in January.

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War Opens Inside Republican Party Over Immigration

30 weeks Ago

Comments reflect broad fears within the party that it is cutting itself off from the fast-growing constituency.

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Ignoring Obama’s Mandate

31 weeks Ago

The president campaigned on ending the Bush tax cuts and won. House Republicans may not have gotten the message.

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Massive Surge Of Republican Money In Last Ditch Effort To Sink Obama

31 weeks Ago

Since October 17, the big GOP Superpacs appear to be outspending Priorities USA on media by at least three to one.

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Three Reasons Progressives Should Care About The Courts (And Vote For Obama)

31 weeks Ago

Like Hamlet on the battlements, the progressive left is haunted by a question: to vote for Barack Obama with all his faults or, by boycotting the elections or casting ballots for a third party, risk the inauguration of Mitt Romney?

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Romney All Wet On Ships

32 weeks Ago

The Romney campaign is moving full steam ahead with a new radio ad that repeats a misleading debate claim by Romney that the size of the Navy’s fleet is the smallest it has been since 1917. The number of ships is actually up a bit since 2007 under President George W. Bush.

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Obama’s Inflated Jobs Claim

32 weeks Ago

In a new TV ad, President Obama makes an inflated claim to have added 5.2 million new jobs. The total added during his time in office is actually about 325,000.

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Finally Liberated From Facts, Mitt Romney The Pure Bull Artist Takes Flight

33 weeks Ago

Romney's journey toward the presidency has been a marvel to behold.

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Election Truthers

34 weeks Ago

Will Republicans accept an Obama election victory?

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Mitt Romney’s Tax Dodge

34 weeks Ago

A guide to how the multimillionaire twists the law to hide his massive fortune - and avoid paying his fair share in taxes.

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Barack Obama: The $1 Billion Candidate

35 weeks Ago

With his latest fundraising haul, Barack Obama will almost certainly set a new campaign finance milestone, becoming America's first $1 billion candidate.

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Dubious Denver Debate Declarations

35 weeks Ago

Obama and Romney swap exaggerations and false claims in their first meeting.

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Has President Barack Obama Signed 900 Executive Orders, Some Of Which Create Martial Law?

36 weeks Ago

No. Obama’s executive orders do not create martial law. And so far he has signed 139 executive orders — not 900.

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Don't Blame Mitt!

36 weeks Ago

Conservatives who point their fingers at him now should think of how they've behaved for the last four years.

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The Real Problem With Romney's Offshore Investments

36 weeks Ago

Forget the 47 percent. Foreign tax havens—and investment vehicles like those the GOP candidate established at Bain Capital—are robbing world treasuries of billions.

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Today In Paul Ryan Lies: Telling Florida Seniors That Obamacare Includes Death Panels

37 weeks Ago

Paul Ryan likened a mechanism to control health care spending to “death panels,” during a town hall at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Saturday.

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Frustrated House Members Launch 11th-Hour Effort To Pass Farm Bill

38 weeks Ago

Rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans from farm-heavy districts are working together in the effort.

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Renewable Energy ‘Doubled’?

38 weeks Ago

President Barack Obama has been claiming that the United States has “doubled our use of renewable energy.” Not true. Wind and solar have doubled, but total renewable energy consumption is up by about one quarter from 2008 to 2011. Plus, since wind and solar started at such a low level, a doubling may not be as impressive to voters as it sounds.

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Gop Lawmakers Want Romney To Stay Fuzzy On Tax Reform Details

38 weeks Ago

Congressional Republicans are fully backing their nominee’s broad-brush approach, arguing it will give them more leverage during the process.

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Romney’s Energy Plan Isn’t An Energy Plan

39 weeks Ago

It’s a veiled stimulus plan to bring back fossil-fuel jobs.

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Greed And Debt: The True Story Of Mitt Romney And Bain Capital

39 weeks Ago

How the GOP presidential candidate and his private equity firm staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs – and stuck others with the bill.

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Christie’s Fact-Free Keynote

40 weeks Ago

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie largely avoided factual claims in a Republican convention keynote address that was heavy on generalities, opinion and platitudes. The pugnacious former prosecutor exaggerated a bit, though, when he bragged about his accomplishments as governor, and he repeated the common but false claim that the president’s health care law interferes with the doctor-patient relationship.

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Romney’s Big Night

40 weeks Ago

In a speech heavy on anecdotal history but short on policy details, Mitt Romney avoided major falsehoods in making his case to the American public while accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention.

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Invisible Americans Get The Silent Treatment

41 weeks Ago

It’s just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what’s happening to poor people. Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision – “out of sight, out of mind.”

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The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come To Embrace The Cruelty Of Paul Ryan And Other Right-Wingers

41 weeks Ago

Scientific research into the way we think explains the reasons decent people wind up supporting horrific policies.

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Republicans Concerned Ryan Could Cost Party House And Senate Seats

42 weeks Ago

Strategists worry Ryan's elevation allows Democrats to successfully make his budget plan an issue in congressional races.

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Romney's Veep Choice: Paul Ryan, Koch Ally And 'Right-Wing Social Engineer'

43 weeks Ago

In making the risky choice of picking Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney seals the deal on the Koch brothers' takeover of the Republican Party.

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Obama v. Romney: Two Radically Different Visions Of America's Future

44 weeks Ago

We've got a stark choice: do we improve the systems that have made us rich and powerful in the past? Or do we tear them down in the name of "freedom," and hope for the best?

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Reckless Romney

44 weeks Ago

Mitt’s world tour revealed more than his gaffes. His foreign-policy ideas are actually quite scary.

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Falsifying Romney’s Abortion Stance, Again

45 weeks Ago

The Obama campaign is out with another ad making the false claim that Mitt Romney “backed a bill that outlaws all abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.” Romney’s consistent position through this campaign, and the last, and as far back as 2005, is that he opposes abortion except in cases when the life of the mother is in danger, and in cases of rape and incest.

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No One Vetted Mitt

45 weeks Ago

How did the Republican Party miss so many of Mitt's problems? You can thank his weak primary opponents.

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Bain: Still ‘No Evidence’

45 weeks Ago

Some impressive reporting by the AP and others recently has shown that Romney retained ownership and corporate titles at Bain for a time after he took a hurried leave of absence on Feb. 11, 1999, to manage the 2002 Winter Olympics, However, no evidence so far to show that Romney was actually running Bain, even part-time and from a distance of nearly 2,100 miles, as the Obama campaign wishes voters to believe.

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Twisting Health Care Taxes

46 weeks Ago

Republicans are twisting the facts on taxes in the Affordable Care Act, grossly overstating the impact on families or lower-income earners.

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Obama Was Right: The Government Invented The Internet

46 weeks Ago

Don't believe the outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise.

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Romney And The Tax Return Precedent

46 weeks Ago

Mitt Romney says he is following the “precedent” set by John McCain in releasing just two years of tax returns. That’s accurate. But McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee, bucked the trend of other recent presidential candidates.

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Senate Republicans Fight To Protect Secret Donors

47 weeks Ago

GOPers vote to keep dark money in the shadows by blocking the DISCLOSE Act.

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The "Monsanto Rider": Are Biotech Companies About To Gain Immunity From Federal Law?

47 weeks Ago

While many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry executives were more likely chilling champagne to celebrate another kind of independence: immunity from federal law.

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No End To ‘End Medicare’ Claim

48 weeks Ago

Democrats are still hammering an old, and since replaced, GOP proposal, claiming it  would “end Medicare,” and cost seniors $6,000 more a year for their health care.

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UFO Sightings Are More Common Than Voter Fraud

48 weeks Ago

The GOP says election fraud is rampant. A close look at the numbers shows there's no evidence of that.

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The Tweet Campaign vs. The Real Campaign

49 weeks Ago

Forget Twitter. Obama and Romney are debating policies and ideas—if you are willing to look.

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The Liberal's Enduring Dilemma: Whether To Vote For Disappointing Centrists?

49 weeks Ago

The choice of voting for Obama, a third-party candidate, or sitting out is nothing new. And neither are the stakes.

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George W. Bush: Still The Worst

49 weeks Ago

A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history, due to delusional wars, reckless spending and inflexibility.

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Obama Boosted, But Not By A Lot

49 weeks Ago

President Obama won a big victory with the Supreme Court’s healthcare ruling. But it won’t make winning a second term much easier.

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PAC’s Email Spreads Energy Conspiracy Theory

50 weeks Ago

In a fundraising email, a conservative PAC claims President Barack Obama is raising natural gas prices to pay for failed green energy companies. But the letter offers only false claims and twisted facts to support this conspiracy theory.

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Dems, GOP Both Stand To Lose If Highway Bill Stalls In Final Week

50 weeks Ago

The stakes are high for both Democrats and Republicans, as negotiations in Congress about a new transportation spending bill are entering their final week.

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Are Liberals National Security Hypocrites?

50 weeks Ago

Many Obama supporters are mum about policies they hated under Bush. Here's why.

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