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As I walked into the pharmacy, the technician who has kept track of all of my prescriptions for years was on an endless call trying to figure out who is going to deliver her baby and where.
April 17, 2014
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By Susan Estrich
Political commentator
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Millions of Americans file their federal income tax returns by April 15 each year with no idea what the government actually does with all that money.
April 16, 2014
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By ROBIN CLAREMONT
The National Priorities Project
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Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and his well-armed supporters forced the well-armed federal government to back down and return Bundy's seized cows - which were seized because Bundy, 67, stopped paying grazing fees in 1993. How does anyone get the government to back down?
April 16, 2014
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By Debra Saunders
National columnist
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On our TV talk shows and op-ed pages, and in our think tanks here, there is rising alarm over events abroad. And President Obama is widely blamed for the perceived decline in worldwide respect for the United States.
April 14, 2014
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By Pat Buchanan
Founder and editor of the American Conservative
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Other Views
On April 1, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray was denied a second term, defeated in the primary by upstart city councilwoman Muriel Bowser. The beginning of the end came on March 10, when U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen struck a plea bargain with a wealthy businessman who confessed he'd spent $668,000 on an illegal "shadow campaign" to fund get-out-the-vote efforts that helped Gray win the mayoral office in 2010.
April 14, 2014
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The Social Security Disability Insurance program is in big trouble. In 2016, the program's trust fund is expected to run out of money. When that happens, there will be "large across-the-board cuts for all beneficiaries," warn James Lankford, the Republican chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees entitlements, and Jackie Speier, the subcommittee's ranking Democrat. Those cuts will be painful for the "truly disabled," whom the system originally was designed to serve.
April 11, 2014
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By Debra Saunders
National columnist
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I know I shouldn't be, but I am shocked by Americans' laziness.
April 11, 2014
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By JILL RICHARDSON
Author of ‘Recipe for America’
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"There is a gay mafia," said Bill Maher, "if you cross them you do get whacked."
April 11, 2014
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By Pat Buchanan
Founder and editor of the American Conservative
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On a recent morning, after checking news reports, I thought: What a freaky news day.
April 11, 2014
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By JIM HIGHTOWER
Political columnist
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Billionaires are exploiting a tax break to pass their fortunes along to their heirs and laying the groundwork for dynasties.
April 10, 2014
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By CHUCK COLLINS
Senior scholar, Institute for Public Studies
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It has been more than 40 years since the United States Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that a woman, in consultation with her physician, has the right to decide whether to have a child in the early months of pregnancy.
April 08, 2014
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By Susan Estrich
Political commentator
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Other Views
Just before the bankruptcy of the Mt. Gox bitcoin digital-money (or virtual-currency) exchange, Japanese finance minister Taro Aso predicted the inevitable failure. "No one recognizes them as a real currency," he told reporters. "I expected such a thing to collapse."
April 07, 2014
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By Lawrence Kudlow
Host of CNBC’s Kudlow & Company
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Other Views
"While painful, the events of the last week show exactly why we need the (Web). So all of us can engage freely in the tough conversations we need to make the world better." That moment of fantasy came courtesy of Mozilla Chairwoman Mitchell Baker as she announced last week that Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, had caved in to calls that he resign for the Silicon Valley sin of having donated $1,000 to Proposition 8, the California ballot measure to limit marriage to one man and one woman - six years ago.
April 07, 2014
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By Debra Saunders
Political columnist
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A quick way to kill debate is to accuse your political adversary of "lying."
April 07, 2014
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Larry Elder
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How bad will it get? The public approval rating for Congress has sunk to 9 percent, the lowest level since Gallup began to ask us about it.
April 07, 2014
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by Jim hightower
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