"If he’s not assassinated or not overthrown in a coup, he’s going to be in power for 40 years, and he is going to wed those atomic bombs to those missiles, and he’ll be able to threaten South Korea and Japan and U.S. bases in Asia.” So said Pat Buchanan about North Korea's Kim Jong… Read more »
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Connecticut’s tough new gun law isn’t the only one, but most new laws are loosening firearms rules
With debate on new gun regulations awaiting the return from spring recess of a Congress that appears likely to pass only the mildest restrictions, and then only in the Senate, the action is happening in the states. So far, some 1,300 new laws have been proposed in the states, according to the San Francisco-based Law… Read more »
U.S. tax code isn’t as progressive as you think
It’s easy to make the U.S. tax system sound really, almost preposterously, progressive. The Tax Foundation, for example, likes to emphasize that the top 10 percent of taxpayers paid 70.6 percent of income taxes in 2010, compared to 54.6 percent in 1986. That sure sounds like a lot! But it’s incomplete. For one thing, you… Read more »
North Dakota’s only abortion clinic isn’t going anywhere
Tammi Kromenaker directs the Red River Women’s Clinic, the only abortion clinic in North Dakota. With three full-time staffers, it serves women in North Dakota, South Dakota and parts of Minnesota. The clinic, in Fargo, N.D., has been open for 15 years now, since 1998. It’s Kromenaker’s clinic that would be directly affected by North… Read more »