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Obama's election year budget draws bipartisan ire
Amid the heated rhetoric of a presidential election year, President Barack Obama's latest federal budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2013 (which starts on October 1, 2012) is already eliciting strong rea ...
15 Feb, 2012
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Presidential Election 2012 Update: A Santorum Sweep
The Republican presidential race took another turn last night, with Rick Santorum sweeping the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses and also coming in first in Missouri's "primary". While delegates were no ...
08 Feb, 2012
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Presidential Election 2012 Update: It's Caucus Day!
The campaign trail today will hold caucuses in both Minnesota and Colorado, with a primary in Missouri...Newt Gingrich (Republican): Increasing the intensity of his rhetoric against Mitt Rom ...
07 Feb, 2012
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Presidential Election 2012 Update: Weekend Round-Up
With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Mitt Romney came in first in the Nevada primary, receiving just over 50 percent of the vote. The rest of the candidates struggled to keep up with Romney, w ...
06 Feb, 2012
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Voter ID a hot topic in state legislatures
Voter turnout in the United States is disturbingly low. In the 2008 presidential election, voter turnout was higher than it had been in a generation, but barely 60% of eligible voters bothered to cast ...
30 Jan, 2012
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Why are there more independent voters today than perhaps ever before? Is it because people are fed up with the party first and the nation second mentality of incumbents?
Why are there more independent voters today than perhaps ever before? Is it because people are fed up with the party first and the nation second mentality of incumbents?Bill Miller, Missourian Editor& ...
21 Nov, 2011
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California ‘Amazon tax’ looks like a money grab
Ordinarily, if a large corporation has a physical presence in a state, then that state can charge sales tax on transactions. California, in a desperate attempt to raise more money, has decreed that In ...
19 Jul, 2011
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California places 48th in national freedom index
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has published an update and a revision of a 2007 study entitled “Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom”. The report analyze ...
15 Jun, 2011
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Monsanto is the real food terror threat
Acting on information from a “key intelligence source,” CBS News claimed that terrorists are trying to poison our food supply on Monday. This may come as a shock, but some researchers have already ide ...
24 Dec, 2010
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The art of mortgage fraud
How do you get official approval of large-scale fraud, theft, and racketeering? You become a mortgage originator (i.e. a “Too-big-To-Fail bank”) like me. No really, it's simple. Let me walk you throug ...
16 Oct, 2010
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