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10 Reasons Why Congress Reduced The Number Of Their Work Days

The Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has released the work schedule for the House in 2014, which reduced the number of days the Congress will be in session to 113, compared to 126 days in 2013.  The change … Continue reading

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10 Real Reasons Why The ObamaCare Website Doesn’t Work

On October 1st, the federal government has finally opened an insurance exchange website HealthCare.gov, where people who did not have health insurance could finally buy affordable health insurance. However, the website roll out has been plagued with technical glitches and … Continue reading

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10 Reactions To The Government Shutdown

The United States government has been partially shut down last Monday, when the Republican-controlled House refused to fund the government over their objections to the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.  Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been sent out … Continue reading

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10 Republican Demands For Not Shutting Down The Government

This Tuesday, October 1, 2013, is the deadline for Congress to approve a resolution to fund the government, and to prevent its shutdown.  This is something which is absolutely has to get done in order to allow many governmental agencies … Continue reading

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10 Reasons Why Conservatives Are Against Water

Last week, the First Lady Michelle Obama rolled out “Drink Up”, a new public health campaign aimed to convince Americans to drink just one more glass of water a day, and it didn’t take long for conservatives, most prominently Rush … Continue reading

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10 Arguments For And Against Immediate Military Action In Syria

A few months earlier, Barack Obama promised that a use of chemical weapons by Syria’s regime would cross a red line and would justify action against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. So when a recent poison gas attack killed hundreds of … Continue reading

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10 Security Features Of The New $100 Bill

As you might know, this October the United States Treasury is planning to release a redesigned $100 bill into circulation. In order to protect the banknote from forgery, the redesigned bill will have multiple security features. Since it’s unlikely that … Continue reading

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10 NSA Reforms Proposed By Obama Administration

Last Friday, President Barack Obama made a speech, announcing his plans for reforming the National Security Agency in order to protect the privacy rights of Americans.  The reforms are also meant to make the government surveillance more transparent – or, in … Continue reading

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10 Reasons The Budget Deficit Is Declining

Did you know that while everyone is screaming how the United States budget deficit is going up, it has actually dropped? According to a CNN story, the budget deficit for the 2013 financial year is expected to be 40% less … Continue reading

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10 Countries That Refused To Grant Political Asylum To Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden, the famous Booz Allen Hamilton national security contractor turned whistle-blower  has been living in the transit zone of a Moscow airport for the last few days. During this time, he has been busy applying for political asylum to nearly … Continue reading

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