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How is it that American corporations are paying a smaller share of federal income taxes when the rates paid by individuals dropped much further? It’s simple: ordinary American families don’t have teams of lobbyists to win them loopholes or armies of tax accountants and attorneys to exploit them.

One of the most important parts of the Senate's bill, and of all the "comprehensive immigration reform" proposals, is a big increase in guestworker programs. Employers demand them as a price for supporting legalization of the undocumented. But our history tells us that this is a very high price. Especially for farmworkers, guestworker programs have been a terrible idea.

A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals.

'... a little breathing room to just be human and deal with human needs.'

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

"We will vote against any and every cut to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid."

On the Recent German Elections

NSA, Medicare, Israel, Thomas Friedman, education, "Grand Bargain," Cruz

An updated estimate says it could be at least 210,000 patients a year – more than twice the number in the Institute of Medicine’s frequently quoted report, “To Err is Human.”

A libertarian Republican who voted for Ron Paul in 2012 and believes that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the future of the GOP enrolls in a Bronze-level Obamacare health insurance plan