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• 4% Credit Card Surcharge “Checkout” Fee

  

  Photo credit: WikipediaAccording to CNN Money, retailers in 40 states can now begin charging a 4% credit card surcharge “checkout” fee. A $7.25 billion... Read more

  The 29 January 2013 by   Real Talk
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• To Intervene Or Not?

  

  Over at Backbencher Lee Jenkins takes a look at some issues surrounding 'international intervention' from a libertarian-inclining standpoint: Yet international... Read more

  The 29 January 2013 by   Charlescrawford
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• How To Solve All Societal Problems

  

  The theme of Rebecca Costa’s 2010 book The Watchman’s Rattle* is that the complexity of modern life is itself the key to the complex problems we face. Read more

  The 28 January 2013 by   Fsrcoin
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• A Pig With Lipstick Is Still A Pig

  

  (The image above is from the website HR Examiner.) The Republicans learned from the last election that they have some problems. Read more

  The 27 January 2013 by   Jobsanger
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• Sarah Palin Leaves FOX News

  

  English: This is an alternate crop of an image already uploaded. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gov._Sarah_Palin_in_Dover,_NH. Read more

  The 26 January 2013 by   Real Talk
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• Dems Surrender To GOP On Filibuster

  

  (The cartoon above is by Gary Varvel in the Indianapolis Star.) As we all know, the United States Senate has been in a state of gridlock for the last few years. Read more

  The 25 January 2013 by   Jobsanger
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• Doctor Asks Teen If Family Owns Guns…while Treating His Tonsils

  

  In Wednesday’s issue of the Chicago Tribune, John Kass writes about a troubling case of infringing one’s privacy. Sam Insley, 16, of Oak Lawn, Illinois was... Read more

  The 24 January 2013 by   Real Talk
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• Benghazi Hearings: Hillary Issues Forceful Defense

  

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  The 24 January 2013 by   Kzawadzki
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• Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta Opens Combat Roles to Women

  

  English: Official portrait of Leon Panetta as United States Secretary of Defense (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Leon Panetta is removing the military’s ban on women... Read more

  The 23 January 2013 by   Real Talk
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• Africa Needs Thousands of Lumumba

  

  Original caption: 12/2/1960- Leopoldville, Congo- Former Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, (right), his hands tied behind his back and without his glasses, is... Read more

  The 23 January 2013 by   Therisingcontinent
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