There Should Be Repercussions if Taxes Aren’t Spent Wisely, by Hughey Newsome

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 Americans are now at the tail end of the most dreaded season of all – tax season. Unfortunately, many people may not be thinking properly about their taxes at all. I have a friend whose knowledge of tax policy is ...
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“Black Code” Plus “Acting White” Equals Self-Created Racial Disparity, by Demetrius Minor

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Is America seeing a resurgence of segregation? It's not a reinstitution of race-specific water fountains or separate-but-equal accommodations, but a self-segregation among black youth that could cripple upward mobility. It's a variation on the fear of "acting white." In 2004, ...
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What the Obama Administration Hasn’t Told You About the HHS Mandate – But DID Put in the Federal Register

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Hint: The Main Purpose of the HHS Mandate is Not Birth Control Nor is it Health Care Washington, D.C. - Americans misunderstand the Obama Administration's purpose in imposing the HHS contraception mandate, says the National Center for Public Policy Research ...
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Why Should The Administration Put Out Propaganda About ObamaCare When The L.A. Times Will Do It For Them?

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An article in yesterdays’ Los Angeles Times by Noam N. Levey states: As the law’s initial enrollment period closes, at least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gained coverage. Some have done so through marketplaces created by the law, some through ...
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Should Conservatives Choose HHS Mandate, Climate Change Postitions Based on What is Likely to Win the Most Votes?

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Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman claims in a column that the "Hobby Lobby lawsuit hurts conservatives." His thesis is that voters may be turned off the GOP if Hobby Lobby successfully challenges a federal regulation that they pay for drugs ...
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Is It Open Season on Black Conservatives?

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Nearly every member of Project 21, the National Center’s black leadership network created to celebrate the diversity of black political opinion, has a story about how their conservative beliefs led to them being ostracized among their black peers (and often ...
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Noel Sheppard, RIP

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Shocking news today on the Media Research Center's NewsBusters blog: Noel Sheppard, Associate Editor and VERY popular blogger, passed away yesterday from cancer. He was 53. Noel covered an extremely wide breath of topics, all of which he managed expertly ...
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How Can Senator Patty Murray Be So Ignorant about a Law She Voted For?

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For a U.S. Senator who makes laws for the rest of us, Senator Patty Murray was stunningly ignorant in an interview with one of MSNBC's resident feminists the other day, after being asked unbiasedly why she believes the HHS Mandate ...
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The Secret Sexist Roots of the HHS Contraception Mandate

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It didn't come up in the Supreme Court arguments. No one is mentioning it in major papers. But the HHS contraception mandate has a secret sexist past. And present. Forget everything you've been told by supporters about how the contraception ...
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Can The Employer-Based Tax Exclusion Be Reformed?

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One of the biggest problems with the U.S. health care system is the tax exclusion for employer-provided insurance. It causes numerous inefficiencies, not the least of which is the purchase of more health insurance than is optimal resulting in higher health ...
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