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TABOR: Something to Watch

TABOR amendments are cropping up around the country as various conservative groups try to follow through on their ‘shrink government no matter what’ policies. TABOR stands for ‘Taxpayer Bill of Rights’ and is a state level constitutional amendment that restricts the growth of state spending to a highly restrictive formula: population growth plus inflation. The […]

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More on Walmart

Following up on my note yesterday about Walmart: Rep. Anthony Weiner, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and Sen. Jon Corzine recently introduced the Health Care Accountability Act in Congress, which would require states to disclose the names of large employers whose workers are on Medicaid as a result of the companies refusal to provide insurance benefits. The […]

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Cheney and his Torture Camps

We cannot gloss over this one: why is Dick Cheney working so hard to stop the enactment of legislation requiring the U.S to abide by international laws regarding torture? Because he is an unreconstructed thug. The trouble is that he’s our thug. He is trying to water down the bill passed [by a 90 to […]

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