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    Taking Charge of the Debt

    JUNE 29, 2011 9:14AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: constitution, default, concession, agreement, republican, democratic, liberal, progressive, hillary clinton, hillary, compromiser-in-chief, compromiser, compromised, pre-compromise, compromise, barack obama, president obama, obama, brinksmanship, deficit, debt ceiling, dangerous game of chicken, game of chicken, chicken, 14th amendment, fourteenth amendment, debt, national debt, politics

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    Real Patriots Don’t Whine About Paying Taxes

    NOVEMBER 9, 2010 2:02PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: making under, making less than, tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the wealthy, great depression, depression, 1929, hoover, depression, republican, democratic, sunset provision, sunset, expire, expiring, lower class, middle class, quarter of a million, quarter million, 250 thousand, 000, $250, $250k, egtrra, economic growth and tax relief reconciliation act of 2001, bush tax cuts, tax cuts, byrd rule, taxes, politics

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    Election 2010: It’s 1994 all over again – and that's OK

    NOVEMBER 3, 2010 9:24AM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: jimmy zuma, contract with america, newt gingrich, discussion, republican revolution, democratic, republican, ben ginsberg, obama, senate, house, bill clinton, republicans, election

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    • 9 Ratings
    • 2550 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    Gov. Race in CA: So Much for Open, Free and Fair Elections

    OCTOBER 15, 2010 10:53AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: news, politics, republican, democratic, independent, jesse ventura, california, democracy, elections, reporting the midterms, libertarian, libertarian party, green party, third parties, third party, debates, media, taxes, corporations, republican ceos, meg whitman, jerry brown

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 2061 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    Why the Pledge to America bombed

    OCTOBER 1, 2010 12:15PM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: pledge to america, failure, contract with america, republicans, bill clinton, democratic, newt gingrich, house of representatives, stimulus, debt, keynesian economics, health, repeal, john boehner, unemployment, house members, corporations, jimmy zuma

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    • 16 Ratings
    • 2407 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    The Democrats' Denver Disaster

    AUGUST 27, 2008 1:08PM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: democratic, convention, denver, obama, hillary, biden, mccain, republicans, blessings, p.o.w., romney

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