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At the Iowa Progressive Network/DFA Conference in Iowa City over the weekend, there was a lot of discussion about how the vast majority of people think money has too much influence in politics. Yet some were dismissing clean elections as a fringe issu…

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Bans, bans, prohibitive taxing, and more bans! Nothing is sacred! No liberty too important! If it’s potentially bad for you, the choice is no longer yours!

Via the QC Times:

On a 47-2 vote, …

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I predicted this and was called…well, just about every name you can think of by our tea-smoking hippie friend in Iowa City (or his pal in California…I can’t keep them straight. No pun intended…

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This coming from a true conservative, and it’s the exact same thing I’ve been saying for the past two years on this blog. It’s what I’ve been trying to get across to this knucklehead, who won’t en…

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This liberal blogger says that "Senate Democrats Hammer Through Minimum Wage Hike". I hate to disagree with him, but uh, no, they didn’t "hammer" anything through. They were forced to modify what…

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There’s nothing this man won’t say or do to push his agenda:

The plight of military spouses working at entry-level jobs was raised Wednesday by a key Democrat trying to push the Senate to vote f…

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MSNBC has a report up on a study done recently by Harvard and McGill University, saying that the United States is awful compared to the rest of the world in having a "family friendly" work environm…

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Costco CEO Jim Sinegal (whom the press is calling a "maverick"…take note of that, because that’s the exact same rhetoric they use for the likes of McCain and Hagel) supports a minimum wage increa…

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First off, the Senate finally cleared the hurdles for their version of a minimum wage bill, and rather convincingly, I might add (vote was 87-10). It differs from the House version because it offe…

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I stole this neat graph from Dana showing the minimum wage over the last twenty-odd years.

First, take note that the number and percentage of people on the minimum wage increases every tim…

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