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Who are the real 'takers'?
Contributing columnistAccording to the GOP, right-wing think tanks and Fox News, the U.S. is on the verge of becoming a nation of “takers” who want to be given (as Mitt Romney put it) “free stuff.” These takers are flush with a sense of “...Tags: Career and Workplace, Donald Trump, Parties and Movements, Business Enterprises, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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A budget engineered for a dysfunctional national family
Contributing ColumnistLast week’s debt ceiling agreement was a striking victory for Republicans, although they almost threw it away under pressure from the Tea Party fringe. They got nearly $3 trillion in spending cuts with no tax increase. How did they extract this from...Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Republican Party, Health, Anxiety, Economic Indicator
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Patrick: Revolutionary conservative?
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky calls himself a “constitutional conservative,” yet in the opening pages of his book, “The Tea Party Goes to Washington,” he advocates “revolution.”
One cannot be both a revolutionary and a...Tags: National Security, Sociology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Republic of Ireland, Federal Reserve
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NSA surveillance puts George Orwell's '1984' on bestseller lists
Big Brother is watching. And people are reading. Thanks to the ongoing National Security Administration surveillance scandal, George Orwell's "1984" is enjoying a surge in popularity, landing at No. 4 on Amazon's list of "Movers and Shakers." Sales of...
Tags: Father's Day, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Barack Obama, Edward Snowden, NPR
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Allan Powell: Rand Paul for president?
Two events that occurred Sunday, March 10, make it clear that Rand Paul was making an early announcement that he is running for a home in the White House in 2016. (Actually, his first act was a few days earlier when he made a 13-hour filibuster in the...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Dwayne Johnson, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Senate, White House
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Cato Institute Medicaid column makes wrong point about Obamacare
I read with interest the Your View, "Corbett should stand by decision to reject Medicaid expansion," written by Michael F. Cannon, the director of health and policy studies at the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute raises some red flags for me as it was...Tags: Parties and Movements, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Iraq War (2003-2011), Charles Koch
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She's the best antidote to today's selfish thinking
She's an artist, teacher-therapist and giver who donates all proceeds from the sale of her art to charity. She's the opposite of the "greed-is-good" poison. Ayn Rand would have made her a villain in Atlas Shrugged because she helps other people. Paul...Tags: Art Basel, Human Interest, Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, New York University
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Land of Linkin'
Change of SubjectA weekly listing of intriguing, wacky, useful, provocative and otherwise interesting links that readers and I have come across and think you might want to see. Look for Land of Linkin' first thing every Monday morning and click here to...... -
'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: Parties and Movements, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bill Clinton, Protest, Radio
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A lack of appetite for this conservative
WASHINGTON -- Whoever thinks there's no such thing as a free lunch has not been to the Heritage Foundation. After Sen. Mike Lee's speech to the conservative think tank Monday, his listeners didn't rush to the front of the room, where the Utah Republican...
Tags: Philosophy, Sociology, Parties and Movements, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party
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It's A Gray Area: Government is meddling in health care
Since my last column about health care appeared in this space, the system has continued to gallop toward disaster. Today, under the federal government's "leadership," we often pay several times more in the United States for the same prescription drugs...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Insurance, Prescription Drugs, Health Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Author George Saunders headlines 10th annual CityLit Festival
Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume. "The way things have been going recently, it's as if...
Tags: GEICO, Arts and Culture, Syracuse, Petroleum Industry, Fiction
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