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McCain for re-election, meets with advisors

So maybe he isn't as de-spirited as some claimed. Looks like he will be around for a while. Hopefully he does something positive.

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Presidential Doodles - Blog - Copy Cut Paste

Real drawing doodles of Obama and Palin. Quite surprising. Also, site pokes fun at some other politicians/celebrities would-be... more

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Lieberman Keeps Committee Chairmanship

A Democratic senator says Democrats are letting Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security... more

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Grafic:Final Pres Debate Veterans Face Separate Trial Dates

In a follow up to the arrest of the Iraq Vets protest at the final Presidential Debate,reporter Stephen Dohnberg talks with member... more

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Obama, McCain meeting

Barack Obama and John McCain are ready to talk about how they can collaborate on issues facing the country. No one believes... more

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Obama meets with McCain today

Once campaign rivals, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are ready to talk about how they can collaborate on issues... more

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Shooting the BIRD

Is that little girl shooting the little boy the BIRD Way to go kid. Kids do what they see done at home, Must be Sarah... more

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Gay Rats

I can see it now, lines of Christians and the religious right lined up at the new birthing clinic and having there new born... more

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Sarah Palin's Song (Sarah-nade)

This video is HILARIOUS! It was made by Mizzou students, and its all about Sarah Palin.

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Obama Meeting with McCain on Monday

President-elect Barack Obama's transition office says the Democrat will meet with vanquished Republican rival John McCain on... more

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Fake NYTimes July 09

FAKE NY TIMES for July 2009! Printed over 1 million copies and distributed in NY!

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How To Fix The Republican Party

I thought about titling this entry, “How The Republican Party Lost My Vote (And How It Can Win It Back).” For, while I... more

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FBI Building Attacked Over Obama Attempt To Find Bush-Clinton Billions | Cherada.com

US Attorney Fitzgerald, these reports say, was one of the ‘key’ figures tapped by Americas Top Generals to assist... more

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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Release 11/13/08

The second expansion to the World of Warcraft MMORPG is on its way! Videogame specialty stores are preparing for the midnight... more

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Things that are difficult to do with a broken wrist

i'm gonna be smelly

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12 Stretagic reasons that could end with Obama before getting to the White House

Without alteration to the electoral agenda, the campaign prediction was right: With war McCain would win, with financial crisis... more

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Cyber Attacks on McCain and Obama Teams ‘Came From China’

From CDT: "Earlier this summer, the US Secret Service and FBI warned Barack Obama and John McCain’s campaign teams... more

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Congress Must Act Before January 20th Or There May Be No Accountability Ever

http://www.usalone.com/impeach_now.php [visit the link to take action] Congress Must Act Before January 20th Or There May Be... more

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Obama: Another Global Warming Fanatic In Office

Barack Obama and his team manipulated the death date of his grandmother, so it could fit his agenda previous to the elections day... more

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Is Obama's tax plan really equivalent to socialism???

For a while now I've heard lots of people screaming about how Obama's tax plan is a huge shift towards socialism, yet that honestly doesn't seem to be the case unless you're trying to say that we were a socialist nation for most of the last century.

If you think taxing the rich is socialist, you need to take a look at the history of taxes for the top bracket. Over the last century they have paid as high as 90% on income over $350,000. Compare that with Obama's proposed increase from 35% to 39% and you'll realize the socialism argument is moot.

In fact, as the taxes for the upper bracket have come down drastically in the last 30 years, the taxes for the middle and lower income brackets have come up. Until about 1940, just before the start of WWII, the bottom bracket taxes where under 4%. During WWII the bottom bracket jumped up to from 4.4% to 20% while the top bracket jumped from about 80% to over 90%. This rise in taxes was of course a response to help pay for the cost of going to war.

After WWII ended taxes stayed approximately the same until the Revenue Act of 1964, which reduced the lower bracket to 14% and the top bracket to around 70%.

More tax cuts in 1982 saw the lower bracket fall to 11% and upper bracket to 50%.

In 1988, the tax rates changed again. This time the lower bracket went up to 15% while the top bracket was reduced to an all time low of 28%!!!

For the next two decades the lower bracket has stayed at about the same 15%. The top bracket was adjusted in 1991 to 31% then again in 1993 to 39.6%.

In 2000 President Bush instated his own tax cuts which have become quite infamous now. He cut the top bracket from 39.6% down to 35% and basically left the lower brackets exactly where they where.

SOOOO... in the grand scheme of things, Obama's tax plan is both far from socialist and just as far from being anything radical. It's a rather meager adjustment by all means, but at least it's in the right direction. The bottom tax bracket has come up while the top bracket has come way down, all while our government continues to spend outrageous sums of money. Is it any wonder we have a $600 billion deficit??

The anit-Obama people would have you believe that he wants to redistribute wealth to the poor, when I would honestly say that he is simply trying to slow the redistribution that is already in place. It is apparent to me that redistribution is a very real problem. The problem is that the money is flowing towards the top 1%, slowly sucking the lower tiers dry.

It's amazing how short sighted people can get in politics when a simple look into our past can reveal a great deal of information and shed light on difficult debates.

I hope this has helped everyone put things in perspective!For a while now I've heard lots of people screaming about how Obama's tax plan is a huge shift towards socialism, yet... more