Archive for March, 2008

Politicians should reveal their plans for taxes (Deseret Morning News)

Most people know that the Democratic presidential candidates have promised to raise taxes on the highest-income Americans. What most people don’t know is that both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have promised to effectively raise taxes on all Americans.

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Immigration Issue Won’t Die (La Prensa San Diego)

“The atmosphere is clearly very toxic on this issue. The political perception is that there is a strong base that really, really hated the bill. This was really a vote about politics and about race. There is tremendous anger that Congress has left the (immigrant) community exposed.

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Opinion Piece Examines Value Of ‘Socialized Medicine’ In U.S. Health Care (Medical News Today)

If “socialized medicine” means following the example of what public insurance programs and foreign health care programs do to improve quality, control costs and expand coverage, then it is “high time for a little socialization,” Jacob Hacker, a professor of political science at Yale University and a fellow at the New America Foundation, writes in a Washington Post opinion piece.

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Obama Related to George Bush, Clinton to Angelina Jolie (Gay Wired)

A research study conducted by the New England Historic Genealogical Society has turned up a variety of interesting relations to the current Democratic & Republican presidential candidates.

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An alum, dad, trustee - and vice president? (Daily Pennsylvanian)

An alum, dad, trustee - and vice president?,

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Dream, dream, dream (The Daily Iowan)

Occasionally, you run into a fact that stops you for a moment, making you look quizzically at the world, wondering if the sun still rises in the East. (It still does, several well-placed sources have assured me.)

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Earmark requests under wraps (Honolulu Advertiser)

WASHINGTON — The Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are talking about giving up pork-barrel spending and seeking greater transparency in spending for local projects, but Hawai’i’s congressional delegation still declines to disclose what special funding projects they seek.

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Immigration Issue Won’t Die (New America Media)

The politics behind immigration reform continue to push the issue as a wedge for the 2008 elections. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, a driving force behind pro-immigrant legislation, answers questions on the topic.

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Why Ron Paul Still Runs (Newsweek)

Ron Paul on why he’s still running for president.

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Super Tuesday in ND (KX TV North Dakota)

Super Tuesday is less than a week away. Voters in North Dakota and twenty-one other states will be heading to the polls. It’s your chance to say which candidate you want on the ballot in November. Brad Feldman shows you what your caucus vot

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