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Washington Post: THERE IS a serious case to be made that the U.S. income tax system should become more progressive. The average rate paid by the top 1 percent of households shrank from 33 percent in 1986 to about 23 percent in 2006. At the same time, the share of adjusted gross income claimed by [...]

Denver Post: Thousands of low-income Coloradans reliant on public assistance could get a free cellphone under a plan before the state Public Utilities Commission. If approved, the plan by TracFone Wireless in Miami would make Colorado the 17th state it has settled into with free cell service for the indigent, a form of wireless welfare [...]

On Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s “Alo Presidente!” show — an hours-long talkfest that is broadcast on TV and radio by mandate — last Sunday, Chavez both criticized President Obama and fretted about the possibility of an assassination. In Chavez’s own words… * On Obama: He “is not going to trick us with an ambiguous discourse [...]

Striking French employees of struggling Canadian telecommunications firm Nortel have set up a dozen cannisters of natural gas at their work site, and several have suggested they may blow up the premises if their demands for compensation are not met. Nortel’s French subsidiary has declared bankruptcy and is laying off most of its 683 workers. [...]

Above: An African migrant man with his American black wife, not two “African Americans.” CNN: ATLANTA, Georgia — Africa is not a country, and Africans generally do not live in trees or hunt game with spears. Nor do they all walk around in the nude among lions and zebras. African immigrants to the United States [...]

Bloomberg: July 15 — House Democrats plan to fund the broadest U.S. health-care expansion in four decades by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, imposing a surtax of 5.4 percent on couples with more than $1 million in income. The legislation unveiled yesterday would place additional taxes on households with more than $350,000 a year [...]

WASHINGTON – House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president’s goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and [...]

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Agencie France Presse: Even if Russia’s call for a global currency failed to gain much traction at a G8 summit, President Dmitry Medvedev took home a coin meant to symbolize that the dream may one day come true. The Russian leader proudly displayed the coin, which bears the English words “United Future World Currency”, to [...]

World Affairs Journal: In a widely noted speech at the National Archives in May, President Barack Obama said of George W. Bush’s national security policies: “We are cleaning up something that is quite simply a mess.” The president is wrong. Far from a mess, when it comes to national security, President Obama actually inherited a [...]

Ledger-Enquirer: U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go. His reason? Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States. Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request [...]

RealClearPolitics: ROME — What did President Obama achieve for himself and for America during last week’s summit of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations in L’Aquila, Italy? Not much. Despite what presumably was his best effort at using the charm, personality and teleprompter that catapulted him into office, he was unsuccessful in persuading either [...]

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Tell Mideast reporter Aaron Klein that Cohen’s homosexual film conspiracy against their jihad group. JERUSALEM, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the terrorist group depicted in the film “Bruno,” is “very upset” their group’s namesake and former member was featured in a film about a homosexual character that includes graphic depictions of [...]

FOX News: It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies. Robotic Technology [...]

The Hill: With their Speaker behind them, House Democrats are pushing ahead with plans to hold a series of hearings investigating instances in which intelligence officials may have misled members of Congress. Senior Democratic aides said that a major announcement could come by the end of week, but it was already clear on Monday that [...]