The Money Traps in U.S. Health Care - NYTimes.com

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The Obama Memos: How Washington Remade the President : The New Yorker

In the past four decades, the two political parties have become more internally homogeneous and ideologically distant.

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US military goes to war with climate sceptics | Jules Boykoff | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

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Barack Obama, Post-Partisan, Meets Washington Gridlock : The New Yorker

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Fact check: Factual flubs in GOP's Florida debate â€" USATODAY.com

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Crazy never wins GOP sweepstakes

Despite the crop of nutty right-wing candidates that sprout up in GOP presidential fields every four years, despite the gasps and growls that regularly rise from Manhattan cocktail parties aimed at extremists who are hijacking the Republican Party (in ways that past GOP extremist …

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The Spirit of Christmas- My Take On It - SusanThur - Open Salon

The Christmas Spirit is the enchanted world of possible dreams and promising visions.

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Bill Summary & Status - 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) - S.1867 - CRS Summary - THOMAS (Library of Congress)

US Defense Bill Headed to Obama

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The Occupy Movement 2011 - YouTube

My Youtube Video for the Occupy Movement 2011

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700 Billion Dollar Bank Bailout was Secretly 7 Trillion

November 30, 2011. Washington. In 2008, President Bush, Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke crafted a bank bailout program they termed TARP or the Toxic Asset Relief Program.

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Forget Hope. Obama Has A New Strategy For 2012

The new theme: "everyone engages in fair play, everyone does their fair share, and everyone gets a fair shot."  In a word: Fairness. Read more:

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Leslie H. Gelb Argues That Neocons Like Bill Kristol Are Back to Warmongering - The Daily Beast

They’re back! The neoconservatives who gave America clueless, unpaid-for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus a near doubling of military expenditures, during the Bush years have risen from their political graves.

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Occupy Wall Street- How I see it as a 99%er Too

Much like in Cairo, and in London, and in Athens-the protests are about too many HAVE NOTS!                 The Haves have the money, has the power, and have too much political power to buy our politicians an …

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Will government consider fixing China trade? | Dylan Ratigan

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Who owns America? Hint: It's not China – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Here's a quick and fascinating breakdown by total amount held and percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider:  

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TIME: Fareed Zakaria--The Pragmatic President

Obama’s temperament was eloquently expressed by the late Bart Giamatti, a former president of Yale and former baseball commissioner, when he urged students not to fall prey to ideology from the right or left and to celebrate the democratic process that balances the two extr …

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EconoMonitor : EconoMonitor » Has S&P Become Our Rupert Murdoch?

Hamsher calls S&P a “kingmaker” and this isn’t an exaggeration given the effect their actions are having. Either way, they will shoot the economy in the head.

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Is Standard and Poor's Manipulating US Debt Rating to Escape Liability for the Mortgage Crisis? | Firedoglake

Whatever S&P’s agenda, it has nothing to do with avoiding default risks or putting the US on sound fiscal footing.

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Ratigan delivers wake-up call to Congress -msnbc.com Video Player

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Oh, you want a dictatorship! | Norbrook's Blog

The far Left and the far Right both have some things in common.  They both have an innate belief that they, and only they, know the “truth” and want to “save the country.”  The other thing they have in common is a complete inability to understand …

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The Crisis in Washington: Where We Are and How We Got Here - Jared Bernstein, The Atlantic - NationalJournal.com

But mostly, it's a story of destructive ideas (self-regulation, supply-side economics) amplified by powerful political forces to claim an ever-growing share of national output, such that by the end of this period, the share of income held by the top one percent--over 20 percent-- …

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Obama's Birth-Control Shakeup: Contraception Free Without Copay - The Daily Beast

Insurance companies will be required to provide contraception without a copay—and conservative opposition, while predictable, makes no sense. Amanda Marcotte asks: Don’t they want to save money?

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Deficits: There never was a surplus | The Economist

The Bush tax cuts did the opposite: $3 trillion worth of tax cuts were predicated on the premise that we were returning the people "their" money. As it turned out, the money wasn't there to return.

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Default 'Danger' Revisited | FactCheck.org

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The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic

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