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Spain Government Goes Full Police State; Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, 'Unauthorized' Photography Of Law Enforcement
Well, Spain's officially a police state now.
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New Drug Agency Chief To Revive Buy Back Program
Not much surprises a man who's put spies and kidnappers and murderers behind bars. But there one American problem that took DEA Chief Chuck Rosenberg's breath away: drug overdose.
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Congress Attempts to Run the Government Under Norquist Rules
The Republican Congress follows certain budgetary principles that have been in place long enough that they have faded into the backdrop of the political debate and are not the subject of open debate, or even acknowledgement, but taken as a given. The rules hold that if Congress votes to cut taxes or to increase military spending, it can disregard the costs. Domestic spending, on the other hand, can only be increased if Congress “pays for it” with offsetting measures.
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Reverse Robin Hood tax policy: Shifting taxes from the rich to the poor
An article of faith in the right wing of the US is that raising taxes is always bad and lowering taxes is always good. In fact, Grover Norquist has made a good living going around getting candidates to sign a pledge that they will never raise taxes, ever, and woe to anyone who breaks such a pledge.
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The real story behind Obamacare’s double-digit rate hikes
I've spent the past few days talking to experts about what to expect from Obamacare rates in 2016. And they do expect premiums to rise faster this year, largely because health-care costs are going up faster, too. But they caution against reading too much into the little information currently available — and they don't expect the huge rate increases making headlines now to be the norm.
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Campaigns shatter spending records
The crowded field of 2016 presidential candidates spent $48 million through the first half of the year — nearly twice as much as their counterparts had at this point in the 2012 cycle — reflecting the new realities of fast, expensive campaign launches.The dramatic spending spike — detailed in Wednesday’s reports to the Federal Election Commission covering the beginning of April through the end of June — was underwritten mostly by fewer donors, each giving more money.
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Alice Callaghan: Pushing out the homeless isn't a solution
I'm not even sure the City Council has any idea what they mean. The city's overriding concern is not solving the homeless problem but the visibility of the homeless.
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Liberals and Wages
Many economists used to think of the labor market as being pretty much like the market for anything else, with the prices of different kinds of labor — that is, wage rates — fully determined by supply and demand. So if wages for many workers have stagnated or declined, it must be because demand for their services is falling.
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3 Absurd Conservative Reactions to the Planned Parenthood 'Sting'
A deceptively edited video of a Planned Parenthood rep discussing the donation of fetal remains has the right in a tizzy.
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Warren Urges 2016 Candidates to Fight 'Revolving Door'
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday pressed the 2016 presidential contenders to curb the influence of Wall Street banks, as she seeks to leave her imprint on the agenda of Hillary Rodham Clinton and rest of the Democratic field.
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Eternal Greece
Matt O’Brien directs us to a Heritage Foundation economist presenting what is portrayed as a startling idea: America could become Greece! And it’s true — there probably haven’t been more than a few thousand articles issuing the same warning in the five (5) years since Alan Greenspan published “US Debt and the Greek Analogy“, with this immortal complaint:
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Down With The Confederate Flag, Up With Donald Trump!
I’ve never seen anything that lays bare the core lineaments of conservatism so neatly: there is our tribe, which is good, true, and pure; and there are those other tribes, who are existential threats to you and me (Reagan’s favorite phrase), and must be suppressed in order for good to be preserved. “We” all know this, even if “they” don’t allow us to say this.
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Black votes matter: the North Carolina electors who say new law is unfair
The day the US supreme court relaxed oversight of its voting procedures, North Carolina passed a law critics say discriminates against the poor and non-white
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Two Americas: Hillary Clinton and Scott Walker have utterly different visions for our future.
On Monday, if you were paying attention, you caught a glimpse of our ultrapolarized future. Specifically, you saw two speeches from two candidates on opposite ends of the ideological divide. First was Hillary Clinton’s marquee speech on the economy, in which after months of silence, she addressed a major question of her candidacy: Was she committed to the neoliberal path of her husband’s administration and her first campaign, or would she follow the progressive economic zeitgeis?
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No, we’re not arguing from the same facts. How can democracies make good decisions if citizens are misinformed?
Politicians have no incentive to educate misinformed voters. How do we get democracy on track?
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Scott Walker Proposes Shutting Wisconsin Ethics Board
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin said on Monday that he wanted to eliminate the state’s Government Accountability Board, a nonpartisan agency that oversees elections, ethics, campaign finance and lobbying.
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Driverless Cars: Disrupting Government Reliance On Petty Traffic Enforcement
Self-driving cars are on the way, and in their wake, they'll leave a variety of entities slightly less better off. Insurance companies may be the first to feel the pinch, as less-than-risk-averse drivers are replaced with Electric Grandmothers...
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Sorry, Rick Perry: Donald Trump isn’t a “cancer” on conservatism — he embodies conservatism
Donald Trump is not corrupting the conservative movement; he's benefiting from the movement's existing corruption
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Senate Eyes Social Security 'Fugitives' To Pay For Highways
WASHINGTON -- With 11 days left before federal funding runs out for the nation’s highways, bridges and roads, lawmakers are rushing to find a way to pay for an extension. One potential fix: slash Social Security benefits for so-called fugitives.
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Scott Walker, first Alec president? Long ties to controversial lobby raise concern
The group’s clout has been visible in Wisconsin – and activists fear its focus on ‘corporate-friendly’ laws could influence a Walker presidency
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