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A new report from the group United for Fair Economy says that if the states adopted progressive tax systems rather than their current regressive ones, they could eliminate their budget deficits and produce surpluses. And that includes Michigan. A progressive tax system is one in which wealthier residents pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than lower income residents; a regressive tax system is the opposite.

House Republicans will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act on January 12, one week into the 112th Congress. The bill is called Repealing the Job-Killing

In a matter of 48 hours, college campuses across the country organized a nation-wide walkout to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests that are

Congressional Democrats are learning the tough way that transparency in the legislative process has its pitfalls. CQ is reporting today that 104 House

There’s a second round of discussions in the Karzai-Taliban peace dialogue about to get underway. If you’d like a comprehensive primer on the subject that

Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak might have been wary of it, but Interior Minister Mohammed Hanif Atmar gave a forceful defense of the Afghan Public

Catholic Answers , a sort of information and advocacy group run by non-clergy members, last week asked the US Supreme Court to examine the way the Internal Revenue Service determines whether or not a nonprofit group has engaged in improper political activity. The group drew the attention of the IRS after criticizing Sen.

A Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal quotes him expressing disdain for administration officials. But firing the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan would be dangerous.

Sen. George Lemieux (R-Fla.) wants to know which official at U.S. Central Command or anywhere else in the chain of command is ultimately responsible for these

On CNN’s American Morning just now, John Roberts pressed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on whether he was asking that the president interfere with Iran’s internal

BETWEEN BAGRAM AIR FIELD AND FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan – When I arrived at Bagram, a public-affairs officer named Chuck asked me what I

Glenn Thrush highlights a tweet from conservative Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), bellyaching about a proposed punitive tax on AIG’s bonuses. Tax AIG bonuses? Why

A labor strike at Boeing is the latest twist in a seven-year story of corruption and conflicting interests.

Politico reports that Democrats are quietly pleased about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McDonald v. Chicago, which overturned the city’s ban on handguns

Back at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Victory Solutions Oasis and Rebuild the Party held a post-dinner party with a special guest,

DENVER--The world was his stage again. Sixteen years after William Jefferson Clinton accepted the nomination of his party, he stood here tonight before an

Literally. It was no mystery that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) was intent on making environment-friendly changes when he swept the chairmanship of the powerful

The Anbar Awakening -- the collection of tribes in Iraq’s Anbar Province that in 2006 broke with Al Qaeda and embraced a partnership with U.S. forces -- had

National Review’s conspiracy-minded legal writer is angry, furious, shocked at a weekend New York Times story on President Obama’s approach to nuclear

Has all this bated-breath excitement about Defense Secretary Bob Gates scrubbing the fiscal 2010 Pentagon budget, due next month, been for nothing? Is the