February 2012
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Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer (via azspot)
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 24th
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“I believe I am kindly enough in nature, and can be moved to pity and to pardon...”
– Abraham Lincoln, refusing to pardon Nathaniel Gordon, who was executed for slave trading. (via politicalprof)
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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“There’s no clearer example of just how wrong the president’s blueprint is than...”
– Read it all.
Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: $1.6 Billion Dollars In... →
talkstraight: Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts. The program, overseen by the FCC and intended to help low-income Americans, is popular for obvious reasons, with participation rising steeply since 2008, when the government paid $772 million for phones and monthly bills. But observers complain that...
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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Federal Workers Overpaid, and CBO Agrees
Here’s some news that federal bureaucrats in Washington — and indeed around the country — don’t want to hear: According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released this week, federal workers are paid higher than their private-sector counterparts. The “alarming news” hit the national media yesterday, but there’s a funny thing about the report. None of it is really “news” — in fact, The...
Feb 1st
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