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Why Republicans Must Not Cave on the Debt Ceiling

As the United States inches closer to maxing out its credit card (with a whopping $14.3 trillion on its balance sheet), lawmakers will soon be faced with a big decision, the one they face every year: whether or not to raise the debt ceiling. Congress has never voted against increasing …

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MTV's 'Skins' Begs the Question — How Low Can You Go?

Guilty until proven innocent. That’s a parent’s lot in life as headline after headline howls the news of children’s struggles – falling test scores, rising sexually transmitted disease rates, swelling waistlines and the like– And whose to blame? The parents of course. But for those who believe that poisonous water …

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Is Obama Crazy Enough to Hold Up Social Security Checks?

The debt ceiling negotiations are going very poorly for the White House. The original Obama position that Congress should simply provide a blank-check increase with no cuts in spending crumbled when even Democrats couldn’t stomach voting for that approach. Then the White House fell back on its ideological obsession with …

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