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A common objection to the addition of personal retirement accounts to Social Security is that allowing Americans to invest and earn interest on part of their Social Security payments might have left many of the elderly bankrupt after the financial meltdown of 2008. However, despite the desire of some to...

Author: By Colin J. Motley and Caleb L. Weatherl | Title: Entitled | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Granted, this time around the agitator is the much more media-friendly Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn, who - unlike Bunning - is not known for flipping off reporters. Before the Senate adjourns for a two-week Easter recess on Friday, Democrats are hoping to pass another one-month extension of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Republicans Want Another Benefits Filibuster? | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

One more objection: When will I ever get to visit all the upperclass Houses if I can’t take a shot of Rubinoff in front of each one tonight? It’s not like I could walk by on another day, or eat in a friend?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: My So-Called “Rights” | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

One of the Romeikes' concerns was about their kids getting bullied. But their main objection involved what was being taught in the classroom. "The curriculum goes against our Christian values," Uwe says. "German schools use textbooks that force inappropriate subject matter onto young children and tell stories with characters that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Homeschoolers | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

However, the National Prayer Breakfast does create an uncomfortable pressure for attendees to support religious groups and religion in general. Inherent in the word “prayer” is the assumption that one’s spiritual choices involve supplicating a higher being. This is discomfiting to atheists...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: God and Scrambled Eggs | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

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