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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R), like Republican governors all across the country , aims to implement a regressive tax plan that involves cutting income taxes for the rich while, in his case, maintaining a sales tax hike that primarily hurts the poor. The sales tax increase was supposed to be temporary when it was adopted in 2010, but Brownback now wants to make permanent

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Somewhere on a Hollywood movie set for Groundhog Day, Part 2: Bill Murray wakes up to find he’s just lived through the hottest decade on record, just as he did in the 1990s, just as he did in the 1980s. And he keeps waking up in the hottest decade on record, until he gains the kind of maturity and wisdom that can only come from doing the same damn thing over and over and over again with no change in the result.

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Cold snap or not, drought will continue to be the norm for the U.S. Plains and Midwest, receiving only light showers and snowfall this week.

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A spokesperson for NBC Sports has reportedly confirmed that the network will remain a top sponsor for the nation’s largest gun trade show. Organizers have billed the event, which comes during a fierce debate over strengthening gun laws, as a show of industry strength in the face of such laws. Bloomberg News reports that the spokesman further stated that the network participates as a sponsor “as part of our commitment to our outdoor-programming block”: NBC Sports Network will remain the 2013 SHOT Show New Product Center Sponsor, said Greg Hughes, a spokesman for the channel

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Fox News is helping to lead the right-wing media charge against NBC sportscaster Bob Costas after he brought up the issue of gun violence during halftime of Sunday night’s NFL telecast. Fox’s heavy-handed move reflects a long pattern of gun advocates trying to make sure a larger media discussion about gun violence in America does not take place. Sadly, they appear to be succeeding.

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Fox News host Megyn Kelly and frequent Fox guest Lars Larson attempted to compare Bob Costas’ discussion of gun control to Hank Williams Jr. associating Obama with Hitler and Don Imus calling a women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.”  Fox has joined the right-wing media in criticizing NBC’s Costas for questioning America’s gun culture following the murder-suicide committed by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher. On the December 3 edition of Fox’s America’s Newroom , Larson and host Megyn Kelly attempted to make a series of bizarre comparisons between Costas’ comments and remarks by former MSNBC host Don Imus and former ESPN personality Hank Williams Jr

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Despite hopeful signs of economic progress, the right-wing media have attempted to downplay positive economic news by using alternative measures to argue that the ”real unemployment rate” is much higher than has been reported. In fact, these alternative measures are not appropriate substitutes for the official unemployment rate.

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Almost one month after young undocumented immigrants began applying for deferred action, federal immigration officials announced that about 72,000 DREAM Act-eligible young adults have applied so far. The new policy , which President Obama announced in June, gives undocumented immigrants who qualify two-year deportation deferrals and permits to legally work in the U.S. Officials in the Department of Homeland Security have worked quickly to process applications as they have poured in, with California leading in the number of applications from undocumented immigrants in that state.

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The City Council of Hutchinson, Kansas voted this week to repeal a recently passed employment and housing nondiscrimination ordinance that protected the community’s gays and lesbians. The reason for the repeal is that two different ballot initiatives had been filed — one which would repeal the ordinance and the other which strengthen it. To avoid legal questions if both should pass, the council repealed its own version and simply placed the stronger version on the ballot for November.

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By Roger Bybee, August 28, 2012 The regressive social agenda of the Right is no longer restricted to the election season and the passage of the party platform.

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