Our most destructive lie, he added, “is that it is very easy for any American to make money.” The lie goes on. The poor are lazy, stupid and evil. The rich are brilliant, courageous and good. They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.
Ron Paul Raining on Romey's Parade - Mitt Romney may be getting all the splashy headlines in his march toward the August Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., but fellow Republican Ron Paul has been steadily fundraising, visiting primary states, picking up delegates an …
Transcript: Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressThe White HouseMay 5, 2012 This week, I traveled to Afghanistan—to thank our troops serving far from home, and to sign an historic agreement that will help us complete our mission and end the war. As Comma …
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in Jonathan Weisman's profile of Ryan for the New York Times: Ryan likes to dispel two "urban legends" around him. First, he said, he is not a disciple of Rand, the strident libertarian. Second, he never drove the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. In fact, there is some truth to bot …
The betting site Intrade gives Republicans a better than 50% chance of taking control of the U.S. Senate after the November elections. After picking up seven Senate seats in 2010 — including Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts special election — the GOP n …
Just one day after Keith Olbermann filed a lawsuit against his former employer Current TV, the network has fired back, filing a suit of their own against the outspoken TV host. Though it's not as juicy as Olbermann's suit, which called Current TV …
How often do we hear the argument that American business is suffering under the yoke of a healthcare system that places a huge responsibility on employers to carry the heavy load of insuring their employees? According to a Gallup Poll out this week, 48 percent of small busines …
Imagine an Internet on which haters didn't hate. Where there were no mean commenters, no stories that hurt people's pretty little feelings. Everyone would virtually hug at the end of a day, congratulate themselves for a job well done, even if that job was essentially just PR, a …
To Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the problem is not that it’s legal for employers to fire an employee for being gay. It’s that the employee made his sexual orientation publicly known in the first place... ...[KING] “I would think that unless someone makes their sex …
At least 10 people were killed, including a 6-year-old girl, in shootings over the weekend in Chicago.
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