Worth noting that #sequester cuts are affecting Natl. Weather Service, which helps track tornadoes & hurricanes. Budget cut 8%
Reason to be gloomy about housing market: College class of 2013 graduating w/avg. $30K debt. Tough getting mortgage with bad credit
"As flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration..." http://t.co/5sPswFGPcZ
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1964: LBJ's "Great Society"...

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GOP Fight Looms Over Oklahoma Aid

  Moderate House Republicans such as Rep. Peter T. King are ready for another intraparty fight over whether emergency disaster aid should be offset, after a tornado ravaged parts of Oklahoma on Monday. The New York Republican said that if central Oklahoma needs supplemental aid, Congress should grant it immediately without talk of offsetting the spending elsewhere. “I think they should get every penny they need. I’ve been...

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Obama vs. the Press

 BY Margarat Talbot, The New Yorker
  When I was a teen-ager and studying journalism in an after-school program, I had an instructor named Bill Farr. Bill was an L.A. Times reporter who had gone to jail for forty-six...

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Background Checks Won't Work? Says Who?

  As both sides in the gun debate mobilize for a possible second act on Capitol Hill, could we please retire the argument that taking step X on guns wouldn’t have prevented tragedy Y? That talking point has been a recurring theme in the gun debate, from Republican Sen. Charles Grassley to Democratic Sen. Heidi...

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