July 2009
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WatchNew Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time
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More Context on the Obama checkout →
Video footage around the time of the infamous photo casts doubt as to whether Obama was checking the girl out. Either way, it’s pretty much the most important news ever, so I hope the press continues to investigate this further.
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Michael Lewis: The Man Who Crashed the World (AIG) →
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Tell Americans What They're Really Paying for... →
Spread over tens of millions of consumers, [subsidy] costs seem small: the average American taxpayer, for example, pays only $322 each year to fund subsidies. But for some of the thousands of farmers who get such payments, the benefits are huge: from 1995 to 2005, roughly 75 percent of subsidy payments went to just 10 percent of the subsidy recipients, who took in an average of $91,000 a year;...
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