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GOP: Tax increase ain’t gonna happen
President Barack Obama‘s plan to raise taxes on wealthier people while preserving cuts for everyone else appears increasingly likely to founder before Election Day. Senate GOP leaders declared on Monday…
Primary season slogs towards contentious end
The primary season is ending as it began, the Republican establishment on one side in state after state, and tea party activists on another. The competition is particularly strong in…
How the feds wasted money in Gulf oil spill debacle
The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama…
Obama lied about health care costs
When a government report found that President Barack Obama’s health overhaul would modestly raise the nation’s total health care tab, the White House responded with a statistic suggesting costs would…
Boehner will support middle-class tax cuts…but
House Minority Leader John Boehner says he would vote for President Obama’s plan to extend tax cuts only for middle-class earners, not the wealthy, if that were the only option…
Gay candidates add to mid-term election mix
Laure Rondeau, an 82-year-old Catholic, supports Providence Mayor David Cicilline for Congress because he wants to get the troops out of Afghanistan and says Washington is losing sight of what’s…
Poverty increasing under Obama’s Presidency
The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama‘s watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching…
Controversies stalk 9/11 observances
Politics threatened to overshadow a day of mourning Saturday for nearly 3,000 Sept. 11 victims amid a polarizing national debate over a planned mosque blocks from the site where Islamic…
After nine years, bin Laden still at large
Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Barack Obama said the U.S. has forced Osama bin Laden “deep underground” but Americans will face an expanded terror threat for years…
Facts don’t support hype of Obama’s failed health care law
President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he’s hemming and…
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