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Oct 29 2012
Opinion
Can’t Pay Your Taxes?
It happens to the most honest of us. You make a financial decision or two that leaves you owing a hefty tax bill to Uncle Sam. Now the IRS is breathing down your neck. You want to pay. But you can't fathom where in the world the money's going to come from.
Learn the facts on Social Security and you could win $50,000! Often, it's the self-employed who get into this trouble by missing
AARPApr 22 2019
News
Supreme Court to Consider Gay, Transgender Rights in Workplace
High Court to rule on whether federal civil rights law prohibits employment discrimination on basis of sexual orientation, transgender status
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider three cases to decide whether federal law protects gay and transgender workers from employment discrimination.
The cases mark the first major consideration of gay rights by the justices
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 16 2014
News
Tom Coburn: We Don't Need Another Bush
Reaction among Republican senators to the news former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is exploring a presidential run was mixed on Tuesday, but retiring Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was unequivocal, living up to his nickname of "Dr. No."
"Anybody wants to run for president, they can. That doesn’t mean they’ll have my vote," Coburn told a handful of reporters just off the Senate floor.
"I don'
HuffPostOct 05 2014
News
Putting Patients First
When SouthWest Urology first opened its doors in 1982, the two founders, fresh out of their residency programs, weren’t concerned with medical coding, reimbursements, or regulations.
The truth is, they didn’t give much thought to the government’s intrusion into health care or the economic aspects of their new venture. The business in those days took care of itself, and physicians were
TownhallNov 25 2019
Opinion
It’s Time for Term Limits on the Supreme Court
They have broad bipartisan support, and they might reduce the hysteria of nomination battles. Murmurs of concern swept through Washington, D.C., Friday night as news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a four-time cancer survivor, was back in the hospital.
Luckily, doctors said it was only because of chills and fever, and she went home Sunday. But Ginsburg’s health
John FundSep 10 2019
Opinion
Elizabeth Warren Continues to Persist
But does she have Trump’s number? And what is going on with him anyway?
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. Did you read our friend Frank Bruni’s column this past weekend? It’s one of the most thought-provoking articles I’ve read in a while about the likely shape of the 2020 race, and it contains this fascinating nugget: “19 Republicans in Congress have already announced that they won’t seek
Guest Writer - LeftJul 30 2014
News
Half of air traffic controller job offers go to people with no aviation experience
Less than 4 percent of the more than 22,000 members of the general public with no aviation background who applied this year to become air-traffic controllers have passed new tests designed to increase off-the-street hiring, but they were offered slightly more than half of the roughly 1,600 new controller slots in the current job pool, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.
Chicago TribuneMay 08 2013
News
Social Security: Immigration Overhaul Helps
The Senate immigration bill will help improve Social Securitys long-term solvency and reduce the number of immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, according to a Social Security Administration analysis.
On the heels of a Heritage Foundation report that criticized an immigration overhaul as a budget-buster that would cost trillions, the latest data could be a boon for immigration
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 06 2019
News
Texas faces turbulent political moment
For a quarter century, Texas Republicans have run a ruby-red state, building a conservative bastion where government is limited.
Now, the mounting tensions of racially-motivated rhetoric, a polarizing president and Republican infighting have rocked Texas’s political leadership to its core. And the state may soon face a tipping point brought on by shifting coalitions of voters who want
The HillMay 21 2021
Perspectives Blog
When the Supreme Court Hands Abortion Over to Congress
From the Center: This viewpoint is from a writer rated Center.
No less of a pro-choice advocate than the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg was consistently critical of the Supreme Court’s seminal Roe vs Wade decision which protected a pregnant woman’s ability to have a legal abortion. Ginsburg supported the legal protection for a woman’s right to choose, of course, but she also suggested that the
Dan Schnur