"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Study: Healthcare law would save consumers nearly $300 per year

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:22 PM EDT (TheHill.com)

If the Affordable Care Act had been in place between 2001 and 2008, people in the individual insurance market would have saved about $280 per year on out-of-pocket costs, the study says.The research, published in the journal Health Affairs, says the savings would be even greater …

politics, healthcare-law, study-finding-that-consumers-would-save-nearly-300-dollars-a-year-under-healthcare-law

A Bogus Tax Attack Against Obama

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:01 PM EDT (FactCheck.org)

The latest multimillion-dollar attack ad from Crossroads GPS claims President Obama broke a promise to not increase taxes for families making less than $250,000 a year. That’s almost entirely false. The truth is that Obama repeatedly cut taxes for such families, firs …

taxes, politics, healthcare-law, crossraods-gps, crossroads-gps-lying-in-claiming-that-president-obama-broke-a-promise-not-to-raise-taxes-on-middle-c

Romney Flips Back To Claim That Bain Capital Created 100,000 Jobs

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:53 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is back to claiming that his former private equity firm, Bain Capital, helped create at least 100,000 jobs, telling conservative radio host Ed Morrisey that “we were able to help create over 100,000 jobs.” The Ro …

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New home construction in U.S. increased in April

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:40 PM EDT (Raw Story)

New construction of homes in the United States jumped in April, official data showed Wednesday in a fresh sign of improvement in the distressed housing market. Housing starts increased 2.6 percent from March, to 717,000 units, the Commerce Department said. That was well above t …

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Top Army general objects to GOP plan to slow troop reductions

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:03 PM EDT (TheHill.com)

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said Wednesday he’s opposed to a plan from House Republicans to slow the reduction of U.S. forces over the next five years. The House Armed Services Committee included language in the Defense authorization bill to limit troop reductions …

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Brain Ailments in Veterans Likened to Those in Athletes

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:21 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Scientists who have studied a degenerative brain disease in athletes have found the same condition in combat veterans exposed to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, concluding that such explosions injure the brain in ways strikingly similar to punishing tackles and knockout p …

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Afghanistan Top Agenda Item at NATO Chicago Summit

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:14 PM EDT (VOA News)

Afghanistan will be at the top of the agenda when heads of state and government from the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meet in Chicago Sunday and Monday.NATO has been operating in Afghanistan since 2003, leading a 130,000 member United Nations-mandated conti …

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Opinion: Facts show Democrats are job creators

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:45 PM EDT (Politico)

I delivered the faculty graduation address last weekend at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. It’s one of the nation’s best and the reason is its emphasis on rigorous data analysis. Any public policy wonk worth her salt mus …

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Gov. Walker Disregards Official Jobs Data Now That It Shows Wisconsin Losing Most Jobs In The Nation

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:33 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Disappointed that official government data showed his state was the worst in the nation for job creation over the last 12 months, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) decided to release his own numbers today. But even if Walker’s new calculations have merit, he’s nowhere c …

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Frankenstein 'Alive!' again thanks to Niles, Wrightson

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 9:53 PM EDT (USA Today)

It's not lightning and a sweet mad-scientist setup that's again giving life to Frankenstein's monster. It's the friendship of two horror gurus, writer Steve Niles and artist Bernie Wrightson. Their new 12-issue IDW miniseries Frankenstein Alive, Alive! (arriving in comic shops W …

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Mets to Host 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 9:29 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Major League Baseball will announce on Wednesday that next year’s All-Star Game will be held at Citi Field, according to a person with knowledge of the decision. The Mets were expected to be awarded the game after the Yankees hosted it in 2008, the last year the old Yankee …

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Tea party frosh: More talk than action?

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 9:05 PM EDT (Politico)

Republican freshmen who swept into Congress on the 2010 tea party wave may not be “tea party” enough. The Club for Growth is out with a new report that finds many of the freshmen aren’t living up to their anti-spending promises.The group says that big votes by …

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FACT CHECK: Romney oversimplifies debt 'inferno'

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 8:50 PM EDT (MiamiHerald.com)

When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set it ablaze. One was the Great Recession that took hold before Barack Obama became president. That landmark event went unmentioned in Romn …

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Military Curbs F-22 Over Oxygen Concerns

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 8:39 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Tuesday ordered immediate restrictions on flights of the F-22 Raptor fighter jet in the wake of a “60 Minutes” program that profiled two pilots who refused to fly the aircraft because of fears of oxygen deprivation in the cockpit. …

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CHART: Spending, Taxes, And Deficits Are All Lower Today Than When Obama Took Office

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 8:28 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Federal spending is lower now than it was when President Obama took office. I’ll pause to let you absorb the news. In January 2009, before President Obama had even taken the oath of office, annual spending was set to total 24.9 percent of gross domestic product. Total spen …

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Stan Lee revels in success of 'Avengers'

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 11:31 PM EDT (CNN)

This weekend "The Avengers" hit the $1 billion mark worldwide. But long before the film's astronomical success, the 3-D glasses, the action figures and the sponsorship deals, there was the the imagination of one man -- Stan Lee. At 89, the legendary creator of some of the world' …

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Romney Runs Against History in Touting CEO Credentials

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 10:56 PM EDT (Business Week)

Shortly after his election as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney gathered the people who would fill the state’s top jobs for a get-acquainted luncheon. As the group tucked in to plates of pasta salad and greens, Romney -- like the management consultant he once was -- d …

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Do 'Most Americans' Agree with Romney on Gay Marriage?

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 10:24 PM EDT (FactCheck.org )

The Republican party chairman claims “most Americans” agree with Mitt Romney “that marriage ought to be defined between one man and one woman.” Americans are closely divided on the issue. Various polls show either a slight plurality or majority of American …

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Unprecedented Maya Mural Found, Contradicts 2012 "Doomsday" Myth

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 7:01 PM EDT (National Geographic)

In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it's not just any mural. In addition to a still vibrant scene of a king and his retinue, the walls are …

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Even Fox Guests Say Ed Klein Isn't Credible -- So Why Can't The Network Stop Talking About His Book?

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 6:22 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)

Let's begin with the obvious: Edward Klein, author of the forthcoming Obama biography The Amateur, lacks anything resembling credibility. His last offering was coauthored with John LeBoutillier, previously seen pushing various birther claims and trying to build a Counter Clinton …

politics, fox-news, edward-klein, even-fox-guests-are-stating-that-klein-is-not-credible

Man attempts to set world record fist-pumping 17 hours straight

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 5:46 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A 34-year-old unemployed man from Ohio attempted to set a Guinness World Record over the weekend by fist pumping for 17 hours straight. James Peterson began the attempt on Friday morning, according to the Akron Beacon Journal, and was scheduled to end at 3 a.m. local time Saturd …

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GOProud: Romney pandering to big government theocrats

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 4:58 PM EDT (Raw Story)

GOProud, a group representing LGBT individuals in the Republican Party, blasted Mitt Romney for giving a speech a Liberty University on Saturday. The university in Lynchburg, Virginia is the biggest Christian campus in the United States and was founded by the controversial telev …

politics, mitt-romney, romney-randering-to-the-religious-right

Is There a Romney Doctrine?

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 4:17 PM EDT (The New York Times)

DURING the Republican primary debates in January, when Mitt Romney was still trying to outmaneuver the challengers who were questioning his conservative bona fides, he made a declaration about Afghanistan that led a faction of his foreign policy advisers to shake their heads in w …

politics, mitt-romney, foreign-policy, romney-not-having-any-semblence-of-a-coherent-foreign-policy

For Many in Greece, Austerity Is a False Choice

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 3:14 PM EDT (The New York Times)

For the better part of six months now, mainstream politicians in Greece and their financial backers in northern Europe have threatened the country’s austerity-whipped citizens with a do-or-die proposition: suffer the short-term pain of government cutbacks or accept the long …

world-news, greece, global-economy, austerity, greeks-view-austerity-as-a-false-choice

Blue Jays sign Guerrero to minor league deal

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 8:49 PM EDT (Reuters)

Free agent slugger Vladimir Guerrero, a nine-time All-Star and former American League Most Valuable Player, has signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, the team said on Thursday. Guerrero, 37, has not played in the major leagues since hitting .290 with 13 home …

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