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Republicans ready to kill Obama’s minimum wage hike
President Obama wants to give the lowest paid workers in the country a raise. He intends to do that by significantly raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour.
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America’s stupidest foreign policy: isolating Cuba
Presidential campaign consultant Bob Shrum asks what rational basis there is for punishing the Castro regime when the U.S. will trade with China, talk to Iran, or deal with Vietnam.…
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Sánchez Arveláez named envoy to Washington
Maximilian Sánchez Arveláez was appointed Monday as Venezuela's ambassador to the United States, as part of President Nicolás Maduro's expressed desire to enhance the Venezuelan…
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Polls: Public’s immigration priorities changing
According to a recent Gallup survey, 44% of those surveyed say it's extremely important for the U.S. to develop a plan to deal with the undocumented immigrants - a priority shift from…
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Dashed dream
Today, Americans wouldn’t bet a nickel on their life chances. Evidence for this assertion comes from a new McClatchy-Marist survey. The results of the poll were reported in a…
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Time for a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations
The United States and Cuba have been locked in the coldest of relationships for more than half a century. But a new poll suggests that the American people think it's time to warm things…
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Republicans use ‘locologic’ to nix immigration reform
When someone told me at the end of last month that the Republicans were going to unveil an immigration reform bill that would include a path to citizenship, my instant reaction was:…
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Letter to the President
Illinois' most influential attorneys emailed a letter to President Obama this past Thursday urging him to make good on his pledge, made to many of them personally and to the public as…
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GOP insiders back Rubio in 2016
Sen. Marco Rubio’s political stock is rated a buy by major Republican fundraisers in Washington. Political strategists think his chances are looking better because of the bridge scandal…
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Texas, rogue state
Texas has done it again. The Lone Star state has executed another Mexican national in defiance of of a ruling by the World Court, thumbing its nose at binding U.S. international treaty…
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