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December 27, 2013 by Jan Stone
http://www.upworthy.com/5-myths-about-our-schools-that-fall-apart-when-you-look-closer-6?c=upw1 For those who complain about our public education system and the taxes spent toward it or quickly blame teachers …
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Category: Economy, Education, Literacy, U.S. Politics
| Tags: American Federation of Teachers, Education, Labor, National Education Association, Randi Weingarten, State school, Teacher Unions, United States, Upworthy
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December 13, 2013 by Jan Stone
Tomorrow is the 1st anniversary of the murder of little boys and girls attending Sandy Hook Elementary School in CT. …
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Category: Assault Weapons, National Rifle Association, U.S. Politics
| Tags: Gun Control, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Newtown Connecticut, Newtown Public Schools, NRA, Sandy Hook, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, United States
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December 9, 2013 by Jan Stone
GOP Ducks Tax Reform The Daily Kos‘ Sunday headline on Republican’s ducking tax reform again is the same-old same-old. …
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Category: Budget, Budget, tax returns, U.S. Politics
| Tags: Dave Camp, GOP, John Boehner, Republican Party United States, Tax Reform, Taxation, United States, United States House Committee on Ways and Means
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December 6, 2013 by Jan Stone
U.S.Employment Picks Up No matter how it gets spun throughout the weekend news cycle, the U.S. job market is improving, …
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Category: Economy, Employment, More jobs, U.S. Dept. of Labor, U.S. Politics, unemployment
| Tags: 24-hour news cycle, Ben Bernanke, Employment, Job Growth, Labour economics, Mark Zandi, National Retail Federation, Recruitment, report, the weekend news cycle, Unemployment Rate, United States, United States Department of Labor
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December 5, 2013 by Jan Stone
Many people are so caught up with the politics and fuzzy facts surrounding ObamaCare that they don’t know what …
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Category: Healthcare, U.S. Politics
| Tags: Grandfather clause, Health insurance, Health policy, Insurance, ObamaCare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pre-existing condition, United States
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November 28, 2013 by Jan Stone
It’s important that there is a generation thinking and understanding empathy. Is there a more direct route to peace?
Category: basic human rights, Human Rights
| Tags: Earned run, HTTP, norm, Oppression, Protocols, Recreation, United States
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July 23, 2013 by Jan Stone
If you blindly believe what the GOP is saying about Detroit‘s bankruptcy, you aren’t doing your homework. You aren’t getting …
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Category: Budget, Conservative Politics, crippling, deficit reduction, Economy, Entitlements, Fact Checking, Salon, Spending Cuts, Stop Being Stupid, tax returns, U.S. Bureau of Statistics, U.S. Politics
| Tags: Automotive industry, clarion call, Conservatism, conservative movement, Democratic Party (United States), Detroit, due diligence, homework, Michigan, mythology, Politics, public pensions, Republican, responsibility, retirement benefits, source newsletter, United States
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July 15, 2013 by Jan Stone
I’ve said since President Obama was elected the 44th President that all the divisiveness is about prejudice, racism and bigotry. …
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Category: Amendments, Barack Obama, civil rights, Conservative Politics, GOP Hypocrisy, Human Rights, Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Respectful, right wing extremists, Salon, Tea Party, U.S. Ethics Committee, U.S. Politics, Wisdom, Women's Rights
| Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, BS, Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, Equal Pay Act, equal rights, John F. Kennedy, Obama, prejudice, President of the United States, Racial profiling, racism, United States
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June 30, 2013 by Jan Stone
Okay rich guys in suits — what are you going to do to suppress female and Hispanic voting rights in …
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Category: Entitlement Reform, Entitlements, Human Rights, U.S. Politics, U.S. Supreme Court
| Tags: African American, Hermes, Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Suffrage, United States, Voting Rights Act
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June 17, 2013 by Jan Stone
Originally posted on The Fifth Column:
PoliticusUSA “What the GOP will never learn – Tea Party to establishment – is that smiling…
Category: GOP Hypocrisy, Immigration reform, Marco Rubio, U.S. Politics
| Tags: College Republicans, GOP, Intelligence, Newt Gingrich, Parties, Politics, Republican, United States
