| Ringside Seat: Arrested Governance | | American Prospect - 7 Hours ago | | Demonizing the IRS is a huge mistake that will only make it harder for the agency to do its job. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint The Internal Revenue Service was closed today, as employees were furloughed | | | | Add Comment |
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| It's the Economy, Stupid. And Guns, Too. | | The New Republic Online - 10 Hours ago | | Suicide rates are on the rise in the twenty-first century, and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and I have been exchanging thoughts on exactly why. On Sunday, Douthat | | | | Add Comment |
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| Republican Overreach, Coming Soon | | American Prospect - 10 Hours ago | | Republican members of Congress will come back from their recess even more convinced that their constituents want them to keep up the scandal-mongering. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint A number of people | | | | Add Comment |
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| Life in Tornado Alley | | American Prospect - 16 Hours ago | | In the aftermath of this week’s tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, I’ve heard an odd tidbit of information: That a set of twins were sitting on their front porch watching the storm before they had to run inside | | | | Add Comment |
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| E.W. Jackson's Ax-Swinging 2012 Campaign Ad | | American Prospect - 5/23/2013 | | In a spot from his 2012 U.S. Senate run, the current candidate for Virginia lieutenant governor and Harvard Law grad used a stars-and-stripes ax to chop metaphorical melons labeled "Federal Budget," "Unemployment," | | | | Add Comment |
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| The Ted Cruz Immigration Shuffle | | American Prospect - 5/23/2013 | | At one point in his career, the arch-conservative senator supported reforming the immigation system. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint Gage Skidmore / Flickr National Journal’s Beth Reinhard has a great | | | | Add Comment |
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| The New New Haven | | American Prospect - 5/23/2013 | | Major Ruth became a civic leader because he made a promise to his neighbor, Brian Wingate. Both had moved to the Beaver Hills section of New Haven, Connecticut, in 2003. A neighborhood of aging single--family | | | | Add Comment |
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| A Week of Bleak Metaphors | | American Prospect - 5/23/2013 | | Tornados, IRS scandal, Benghazi scrutiny, and wire-tapping; the country has seen its fill of bad omens and forboding in recent days. What's Obama to do to change the narrative? PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint | | | | Add Comment |
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| Star Bleck | | American Prospect - 5/22/2013 | | Q uick quiz: which movie currently in theaters does worst by a beloved national classic, "modernizing" it in ways that violate everything people cherished about the original? If you picked Star Trek Into | | | | Add Comment |
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| Bad Faith and Budget Politics | | American Prospect - 5/22/2013 | | Obama has to do business with people who cannot be trusted to own up to their side of a deal. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint Compromise is often an unhappily revealing art. “Ideals may tell us something | | | | Add Comment |
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| A River Runs Through It | | American Prospect - 5/22/2013 | | Everyone agrees that the only way to fix the Gulf of Mexico dead zone—the largest off the United States—is to fix the Mississippi, but not everyone agrees how. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint Dennis | | | | Add Comment |
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| Bin Laden Photos to Stay Hidden | | American Prospect - 5/22/2013 | | Remember the Bin Laden photos? When the al-Qaeda leader was killed two years ago, people immediately began asking whether the world would ever get to see an image of his body. At first, then-CIA director | | | | Add Comment |
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| Grilled Apple | | The New Republic Online - 5/22/2013 | | It's possible that no chief executive going before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has had a more friendly hearing room than Apple CEO Tim Cook.An Apple logo stared at him comfortingly | | | | Add Comment |
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| Ringside Seat: App That | | American Prospect - 5/22/2013 | | Paul Waldman, Apple went to the Capitol today to explain the company's great skill at avoiding taxes. PinItInstapaperPocketEmailPrint In the wake of a report from a Senate subcommittee showing that Apple | | | | Add Comment |
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| Just the Facts for J. Russell George | | The New Republic Online - 5/21/2013 | | If you've tried and failed to avoid taxes over the past decade or so, blame J. Russell George. President George W. Bush nominated him as the Treasury inspector general for tax administration in 2004, | | | | Add Comment |
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