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Can this be considered a tax for not being a Secular Humanist??
by Katherine
Cloaked in ironic moral garments and disguised as an anti-"discrimination" bill -- throwing in race, sex, nationality, religion and religious affiliation with terms like "gender identity" and "sexual orientation" -- Senate Bill 323 would repeal tax exe...
5 Ways Obama Can Restore the Public's Trust and Rescue His Presidency
by mrdog
Painful choices include appointing a special prosecutor on the IRS and offering an apology to The Associated Press. Swamped in controversies, President Obama and his slow-footed team are essentially telling the American public, “We’re not croo...
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May 16th, 2013 06:58 PM ET 15 hours ago House group agrees on immigration reform Posted by CNN Senior Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh Washington (CNN) - After months of intense negotiations, a bipartisan U.S. House g...21 opinions7 days ago
Groundbreaking legislation legalizing physician-assisted suicide recently passed both branches of the Vermont State Congress. The bill, entitled, “The Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act,” will automatically go...67 opinions7 days ago
Technology threatens governments control over our access to information, currency and weapons. Should government aggressively legislate controls over technology to ensure America's safety?550 votes2013/05/10 23:00:00
One after another, the pathetic Right Wing attempts to manufacture scandals, to smear and slander the President of the United States without any justification, to obstruct the United States from helping and protecting its ...3 opinions2013/05/15 19:53:10
President Obama hasn’t had much luck schmoozing GOP lawmakers in the past, but he gave it another go Monday by inviting two of the Senate’s best Republican golfers out for a round.911 votes2013/05/08 16:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/... Immigration advocates called on President Obama on Monday to suspend deportations of undocumented workers who would qualify for legal status under a comprehe...0 opinions2013/05/14 13:02:18
By JOHN D. MCKINNON and SIOBHAN HUGHES The Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups went beyond those with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names—as the agency admitted Friday—to also include ones wo...56 opinions2013/05/13 03:35:43
Rand Paul Attacks Hillary Clinton: Benghazi Should 'Preclude Her From Higher Office' Added by Darla Dawald, National Director on May 11, 2013 at 1:53pm Rand Paul kickstarted his 2016 presidential ambiti...2 opinions2013/05/11 20:45:45
You'd think a man who ran a filthy clinic that used untrained and uncertified personnel to perform abortions and who delivered babies born alive, only to murder them by snipping their spinal columns, wouldn't have a friend...4 opinions2013/05/11 11:52:21
(CNSNews.com) - Sixty-two percent of the Republican members of the House of Representatives--143 of 231--are now co-sponsoring a bill that would authorize a special committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist att...1 opinion2013/05/10 21:53:36
World Trade Center, Built With Union Labor, Is Now America’s Tallest Building By Travis Waldron May 10, 2013 One World Trade Center, which will replace the World Trade Center towers that fell in the September...42 opinions2013/05/10 15:54:28
"The stakes are pretty high," CBS News national security analyst Juan Zarate said. "If it turns out that there's some indication that the White House or others were not only manipulating talking points, framing how Susan R...6 votes2013/05/08 19:24:15
By Girls Just Wanna Have Guns / 7 May 2013 The Texas State House of Representatives on Saturday passed a controversial bill that if signed into law will permit both resident and commuter university and college ...27 opinions2013/05/08 00:38:56
Do senators and representatives even know what they just voted for on Thursday when they passed a piece of legislation? The bill included an amendment with egregious problems. The two worst ones are draconian cuts to the O...2 opinions2013/05/08 02:21:08
Article truncated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Senate passes internet sales tax bill amid opposition from conservatives Bill to overturn 1992 court decision has support of Obama, Amazon and Walmart – b...110 opinions2013/05/07 00:38:33
The Patriot Coal bankruptcy hearing this week in St. Louis highlights the immense human and economic costs of the war on coal — the progressive campaign to bankrupt the coal industry. The outcome of the bankruptcy proceedi...7 opinions2013/05/07 14:07:48
One of the architects of failed gun control legislation says he's bringing it back. Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday said he would re-introduce a measure that would require criminal and mental health background checks for gun bu...116 opinions2013/04/29 14:29:10