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• Iraqis celebrate US exit, but worry for future

  Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops Sunday, the dangers left behind after nearly nine years of war were on full display. Politicians feuded along the country's potentially explosive sectarian lines and the drumbeat of deadly violence went on.

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• Debunking The GOP Lie That Keystone XL Will Bring Prosperity and Jobs

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  One tactic used to destroy a country from within is dissemination of misinformation and outright lies to convince a population that certain policies are beneficial when in reality; they are not in the public’s best interest.

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• GOP Leaders Keep Pipeline in Payroll Tax Bill... Proving Who Owns Them

  Source: cbn.com

  House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans will push for the construction of a controversial oil pipeline by including the project in the bill to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. The provision would speed up work on the Keystone XL pipeline that would run  …

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• Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs - Business Insider

  Source: Silicon Alley Insider

  In other words, by even considering raising taxes on "the 1%," we are considering destroying the very mechanism that makes our economy the strongest and biggest in the world: The incentive for entrepreneurs to start companies in the hope of getting rich and, in the process, creat …

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• Not One Business Owner Found Who Could Describe Paralyzing Effects Of Small Tax Increase: The Impolitic: NPR calls GOP's bluff

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  Standing ovation for NPR this morning. Not often we see actual acts of journalism like this nymore.

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