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People are attacking the IRS from the left and right. Actually it does as good a job chasing tax cheats as we let it.
The Tea Party groups who suffered the IRS indignities were the little guys. While they filled out endless questionnaires, the big ones made it through the process unscathed. Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity, and Barack Obama’s Priorities USA are the ones whose tax exemptions should be challenged.
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Welcome to what passes for the "liberal" media.---- The piece was called "Unfit For Work: The Startling Rise of Disability in America" and it essentially argued — using wildly flawed research and straight-up lies — that our Social Security program is burdened by a glut of freeloader disability queens, faking their disabilities in order to live high on the Social Security disability insurance hog.
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Adrienn Banhegyi is a performer with Cirque de Soleil and holds two world records for jump roping. And this is why.
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Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him. Delete the scoop?
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Help us reach 1 MILLION strong demanding action on gun violence.
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Background checks are essential to helping reduce gun violence -- but Republicans in Congress are threatening to block this sensible measure.
Sign the petition right now and help us reach 1 MILLION strong telling Republicans in Congress to support expanding background checks. 
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April 23, 11:31 AM
I think new background checks would be helpful. I just dont want it to lead to bands on guns of anykind. I think we have the right to keep guns we just need away to keep certain people form getting them. 
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April 23, 12:22 PM
yea kole i agree with you and it would be hard for them anyway to get rid of all guns.
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This week’s address is delivered by Francine Wheeler, whose six year old son, Ben, was murdered alongside nineteen other children and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, four months ago.
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Basketball is an important part of life Native American communities. And nothing shows that better than the ascendence of Louisville’s Shoni and Jude Schimmel.
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If we don't like Wall Street finance, what should we replace it with?
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Help us reach 100,000 strong telling House Republicans to support universal background checks." Add your name right now and tell Republicans in Congress to support expanding background checks.
Background checks are essential to helping reduce gun violence -- but Republicans in Congress are threatening to block a vote on this sensible measure.
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Just for example, cutting 11 percent of the F35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet would save as much money as President Obama proposes to save by whacking benefits for seniors, veterans and the disabled.
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GET RID OF PENTAGON WASTE: Just cutting Pentagon contracting by 7 percent and bringing the work in-house would save $16.5 billion year. Consider the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Last year, Winslow Wheeler reported that the acquisition cost for the F-35 had risen to $379.4 billion for 2,457 aircraft. That's just the cost to buy the planes, not to fly and maintain them. According to Wheeler, "The current appraisal for operations and support is $1.1 trillion - making for a grand total of $1.5 trillion, or more than the annual GDP of Spain." Delete the scoop?
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Since the social upheavals of the Sixties, the American Establishment has sought to constrain critical thinking through a variety of techniques, from propa...
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Liberals have been up in arms over President Obama's budget proposal. Trust me, I get it. There has been quite the liberal fear campaign against it. Well, I'm here to tell you to take a deep breat...
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Homeless High School Teen Graduates As Valedictorian & Will Enter Spelman As A Junior
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Chelesa Fearce is a shining example of a student that didn’t let obstacles get in her way when it came to her education. You see, during most of Chelesa’s high school career she was homeless and living in her mother’s car. Chelesa, a senior at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Georgia, knew that her hard work would pay off, despite the obstacles presented to her. Delete the scoop?
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Despite the many attempts by Republicans to generate a scandal, a new CNN/ORC poll found that the president's approval ratings are going up.
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Sen. Max Baucus's decision to retire is a huge opportunity for progressives.
Now, we have the chance to elect a powerful populist and a single-payer healthcare advocate to the U.S. Senate. And that’s why Democracy for America is launching the campaign to draft Gov. Brian Schweitzer for U.S. Senate.
Sign our petition to Draft Brian Schweitzer for Senate.
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There are still some corners of the web that look like they're stuck in 1999 -- and that's a good thing.
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For every new website that goes up, there are some like these that get lost or forgotten – along with a sense of what online culture used to look like. Delete the scoop?
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Help us reach 1 MILLION strong demanding action on gun violence. Add your name right now and tell Republicans in Congress to support expanding background checks.
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Of course it’s a benefit cut. Of course it’s a tax hike, for everyone but the wealthy.
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The President throws things on the table before the Republicans have even sat down for dinner.
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Robert says, "The President’s predilection for negotiating with himself is not new. But his willingness to do it with Social Security, the government’s most popular program — which Democrats have protected from Republican assaults for almost eighty years — doesn’t bode well. The President desperately wants a “grand bargain” on the deficit. Republicans know he does. Watch your wallets." ..... I agree! This is a dangerous game that the White House is playing with my and other senior's livelihood. Don't rob us Mr. President!.....FDW Delete the scoop?
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Tech company AOptix launches first app to scan irises, faces, fingerprints and voices on the iPhone.
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SO TRUE!! "The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which occurred fifty years ago this August 28, remains one of the most successful mobilizations ever created by the American Left,,,," Delete the scoop?
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