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The Stealth Sequester

So far, the much-dreaded “sequester”—some $85 billion in federal spending cuts between March and Sept. 30—hasn’t been evident to most Americans. Take a closer look, though, and many people are starting to feel the pain. They just don’t know it yet.

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Anonymous Murder From a Safe Distance

War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen.

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False God

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Abolish the Minimum Wage? It’s No Fantasy

The slow bulldozing of government protections has allowed lawmakers to re-examine programs and policies that haven’t been touched for decades.

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Totally Safe Schools

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GOP in Trouble

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NRA School

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The Assault

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Our Modern Day Addiction to Technology and Propaganda

Thanks to the urge to be constantly wired, extremist propaganda is becoming easier and easier to feed to the masses; the industrial food system has a single aim—make CEOs and shareholders rich; meanwhile, legalizing gay marriage may make it more difficult for LGBT activists to effectively fight other types of discrimination. These discoveries and more after the jump.

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Bad Guys with Guns

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Distinguishing Armed Schools From Prisons

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Obama Cuts His Own Pay, O’Reilly Explodes at Ingraham, and More

A look at the day’s political happenings, including RNC Chairman Reince Priebus accuses Democrats of supporting “infanticide” and the big obstacle Mark Sanford faces in his political comeback.

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Mediacaid

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Shot

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Free At Last

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Deadly Weapon

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Guns and Rifles

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Troubled Economic Seas

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It Wasn’t David Stockman Who Wrecked the Economy

For all of the strident attacks on Stockman’s column, I have yet to read a serious critique of his most brazen claim.

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Rebranding

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No Assault Weapons Ban

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Two Towns

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Easter 2013

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Obama and the GOP

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NRA Power

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Love and Cherish

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GOP Can’t Go Forward

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Edie Windsor’s Day in Court

Edie and Thea met in the early 1960s, in New York’s Greenwich Village. They hit it off.

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Education: Poverty Is the Crux of the Problem

If income divide is at the root of current public education deficits, that chasm must be narrowed by reducing the factors that perpetuate poverty.

Posted on Mar 26, 2013 READ MORE



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The Stakes Before the Court

Don’t take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try.

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NRA Congress Dance

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Budget Year

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Deer Hunter

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Alphabet Soup

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Rigged Game

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Civilian Assault Weapons

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Assault Ban

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Extinction Revival

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America

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Republican Rebranding

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RIP by NRA

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Good Intentions, Bad Information at CPAC

Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.

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Wake Up

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Raft of Doom

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When in Rome

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Netanyahu and Obama

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Economic Recovery

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