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Our guest blogger is Sarah Ayres, a Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress.

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Fox News placed the blame for the planned liquidation of Hostess Brands squarely on a labor dispute with one of the company’s unions. In fact, Hostess’ unions had previously made significant concessions when the company went through a failed bankruptcy, and it could not adjust to competition and changes in consumer tastes, all of which contributed to its bankruptcy. Fox Blames Bakers Union For Hostess Liquidation Fox News Anchors Blame The Union And A “Labor Dispute” For Putting “18,000 Jobs On The Line.” Martha MacCallum, co-host of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom , introduced a segment on the Hostess bankruptcy by saying the company is “blaming a worker’s strike for crippling their ability to make and deliver their products.” At the end of the report, co-host Bill Hemmer blamed the coming job losses at the company on “a labor dispute,” suggesting that the union had put “18,000 jobs on the line.” MacCallum said the employees were “paying dues to the union and then the union won’t make a deal.” [Fox News, America's Newsroom , 11/16/12] But Hostess Was A Troubled Company That Had Recently Emerged From A Previous Bankruptcy Reuters: Hostess Filed For Its First Bankruptcy In 2004

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Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) During the August Republican National Convention in Tampa, a right-wing political group led by two former aides to House Republican Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) courted women with “ hair and makeup touch ups ” at a “Women Up!” pavilion. Now, a new radio ad by the same tax-exempt group suggests female voters are unable to make up their minds and vote for the candidate who is most handsome.

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To look at him now, one would never suspect California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu was the failed federal appeals court nominee tarred by some Republican senators as a radical who wanted to make America more like “ communist-run China .” After the Senate filibustered his Ninth Circuit nomination, Liu was snapped up by Gov. Scott Brown to join the California Supreme Court, where he has already developed a record of striving for unanimity with his Republican-appointed colleagues.

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has proposed raising the prices of federally-insured mortgages in states that have attempted to make it harder for banks to foreclose on homeowners. Under the proposal, lenders in five states will have to pay more to originate mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the costs will likely be passed on to borrowers, the Financial Times reports: Lenders originating new loans in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida and Connecticut will be forced to pay US-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac up to 30 basis points extra for their credit guarantee , the Federal Housing Finance Agency said in its proposal

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Freedom Path ad The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District heard arguments Friday on an appeal in the Van Hollen v.

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Our guest blogger is Seth Hanlon , Director of Fiscal Reform at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

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Our guest blogger is Kate Pennington , an education policy analyst at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Republicans have been internally debating just how much to cut federal spending on education, but their platform unveiled this week at their convention in Tampa Bay does little to clarify their vision beyond referencing that no new investments will be made

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President Obama has promised to end the Bush tax cuts on income in excess of $250,000 when they expire at the end of the year, with his aides saying that he is “ 100 percent committed ” to preventing another extension. Of course, Republicans are again saying that all of the cuts should be extended, even as they claim that the federal deficit is too high. But according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, allowing the high-end tax cuts to expire on schedule would raise $823 billion in revenue and save $127 billion in interest payments on the debt over the next ten years.

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