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Can the Girl Scouts Help Balance Georgia's Budget?
By Joanne Bamberger
If Georgia lawmakers get their way, corporations doing business in the state will get a nice tax cut and the Girl Scouts will be chipping in to help make up the difference in the budget. Yup. As crazy as that sounds, that's what's going on in the Peach State. In an attempt to bring more jobs to ...
Obama: Here's Your Change, Sir
By Robert and Donna Trussell
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What Would Jesus Cut? Deficit Debate Rallies Christians -- and Exposes Divisions
By David Gibson
"What would Jesus do?" That question has for years been a powerful slogan for conservative Christians who want to challenge Americans to conform to Gospel teachings. But now that some are applying the rallying cry to the nation's divisive budget battles, it is also exposing divisions among ...
Herman Cain: A Long Shot in 2012, but That's Not Stopping Him
By Suzi Parker
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- When Herman Cain walks into a tea party event, he is greeted like a rock star. "It's him, it's him," spreads across the meeting room. And so it was here on Thursday. When people approached him, they acted like they knew him. They mentioned his Atlanta radio show. They asked ...
Poland in 1980 and Wisconsin in 2011: History Rhymes
By Gerald J. Beyer
Mentioning the campaign against unions by a Republican governor in 2011 in the same breath as the anti-labor repression by Communist authorities in Poland in 1980 is sure to raise eyebrows. Yet as Mark Twain supposedly said, if history doesn't repeat itself, it sometimes rhymes. And there are some ...
Michele Bachmann, After House Budget Vote, Takes a Victory Lap in a 'GOP Paradise'
By Mary C. Curtis
COLUMBIA, South Carolina – Michele Bachmann said she didn't get much sleep after a House vote slashed programs and cut spending. But the GOP House member and tea party heroine was energized as she was greeted by standing ovations at a gathering of the South Carolina Federation of Republican ...
Mitch Daniels, Michael Dukakis, George Will and the 'Charisma of Competence'
By Jill Lawrence
If columnist George Will really wants to get his friend Mitch Daniels elected president, maybe he should stop talking about "the charisma of competence." Will used the phrase in a praise-laden introduction of the second-term Indiana governor at the Conservative Political Action Conference recently ...
'Gang of Six' in Senate Working Behind Scenes on Debt Reduction Plan
By Tom Diemer
While a high-decibel debate on immediate spending cuts rages in the House, a small group of senators that some call the "Gang of Six" is working quietly on a serious long-range plan to reduce the nation's trillion-dollar-plus budget deficits. Taking a cue from the Obama administration ...
IRS Says Breastfeeding Expenses Are Tax Write-Offs. Finally.
By Sarah Wildman
Everyone markets it as cheap and easy. As in, "You can whip it out at any time." And, "It doesn't cost anything." And, "There's nothing to warm up." To a degree, that's true. Traveling and doing it is liberating. And the middle of the night? You can do it in bed; you can do it while you watch TV. ...
Donald Trump 'Tempted' to Run for President, Will Speak at CPAC
By Tom DiemerDoes he mean it this time? Billionaire Donald Trump, the New York-based real estate tycoon and dealmaker, says he is very tempted to run for president as a Republican in 2012 and will decide whether to do so by June. "I am seriously thinking about it," Trump said on CNN Wednesday night. "I love ...
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By Eleanor Clift
For women, and men too, weary of nuance and ...
Can the Girl Scouts Help Balance Georgia's Budget?
By Joanne Bamberger
If Georgia lawmakers get their way, ...
Mom Has Cancer. Her Son Reacts.
By Donna Trussell
My friend Julie Levine had everything I ...
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