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May 12th, 2010
I always wondered how a grassroots organization suddenly came up with a fleet of shiny, brand spanking new, $1+ million dollar (each) buses to cart around the party’s faithful. Soccer Moms holding bake sales? Maybe Joe the Plumber chipped in the rest, ya think?
Well, this reporter has done the research for us, [...]
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March 22nd, 2010
Anyone who doesn’t live in a cave should know by now that the United States has followed other leading industrialized nations in mandating basic healthcare for its citizens. Some 220 brave Democratic Representatives stared down the big guns of the mighty insurance giants and voted to hold them to some reasonable level of [...]
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September 23rd, 2008
One of the best graphical representations of the subject I have seen on the net. In revision since 2003, Steve McGourty, has recently updated, September 21, 2008, this good work.
Graphs include, “United States National Debt and the Presidents Responsible”, “United States National Debt 1791 to Present”, “Change in Average Revenue and Spending [...]
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September 20th, 2008
The price of the big bail out is going up faster than you can say “pow zoom, straight to the moon”. Just last week they were talking about 100 billion, a few days ago they were saying 400 billion, late yesterday, and in all the morning papers, 500 billion dollars. Now it’s 700 billions [...]
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August 20th, 2008
From this August photo we see that Senator Ted Stevens has taken to wearing some type of quasi-military looking uniform and I am quite sure that is a GIANT American flag behind him. My first thought was, “Does this guy really think this will help him?”, but then I realized the collective mental [...]