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60% of Voters Want Obamacare Repealed

Click here: A new poll finds that 60-percent of likely voters support the repeal of Obamacare.

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Democrat Mary Landrieu is Not Helping Blacks

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Swiss Reject State Health Insurance

Click here: Swiss reject switch from private to state health insurance
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Super-rich rush to buy gold bars

Click here: Economic uncertainties trigger rush for 12.5kg gold bars, worth about £300,000 each

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New Chicago High School won’t be named after Obama

Click here: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed off Thursday from naming a new elite high school after President Barack Obama amid ongoing criticism from African-Americans.

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The War on Poverty After 50 Years

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Click here: The War on Poverty After 50 Years
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U.S. tax burden on business one of the worst in the industrialized world

We’re Number 32!

A new global index highlights the harm from the U.S. tax code.
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Is Evil Rational?

Is evil rational? If it is, then how can we depend on reason alone to make a better world?

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Hiking the Minimum Wage Won’t Help the Poor

Click here: The ground has been shifting in the battle over the minimum wage. With President Obama’s proposal to hike the national minimum from $7.25 to $9 an hour stalled in Congress, local labor activists have been aiming even higher, getting behind a vastly higher minimum wage of $15 an hour. 
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Feminism 2.0

We hear it all the time: “America is patriarchal!”, “American women are oppressed!”. Well, a lifelong feminist and former National Organization for Women member, Tammy Bruce, is tired of hearing it–and she has a solution laid out in our newest video: Feminism 2.0.