Recent Votes

• Game On----Here Come The Issues----Education Is Number 1

   How are your policies going to help me manage the debt that I incur going through college? This was a paraphrase of a question a university student asked presidential nominee-designate Romney a few weeks back. His reaction was a bit surprising to the audience of predominant …

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• Will These Supremes Care About "Equal Justice for All?"

  I lost what was left of my naiveté about the equal justice ideal of the Supreme Court with their decision in Bush v. Gore to select George W. Bush president by suspending Florida’s vote recount in 2000. That political overreach by the increasingly activist right-win …

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• Social Security trustees see earlier fund depletion date

  Updated 4:05pm ET The trustees of the Social Security system said Monday the fund that helps sustain retiree and survivors’ benefits will become exhausted in 2033, three years sooner than they projected last year.  At that point, payroll taxes and taxation of Social S …

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• Conservatives Better Informed, Most Consistent, More Open-Minded, Says Pew

  Source: National Review Online

  Yet another new survey shows that Republican supporters know more about politics and political history than Democrats. On eight of 13 questions about politics, Republicans outscored Democrats by an average of 18 percentage points, according to a new Pew survey titled “ …

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• ALEC Wants You to Pay 750 Percent More for High-Speed Internet

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  The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the most powerful corporate front group you've never heard of. Drawing the vast majority of its financing from big corporations, the group allows these firms to help write bills that it then secretly passes off to state l …

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