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• IRS removes tax-exempt status of 275,000 groups

  Wed Jun 8, 2011
  •  If revenue under $25,000, name and address of a principle officer filed on an e-card

• Ohio Gets The Winger Treatment; Kicked To The Curb

  Wed Mar 16, 2011
  • This article is big on hyperbole and very short on facts, like so many on newsvine and elsewhere including MSM.

• Today In The History Of Religious Liberty: Jefferson Writes Of The 'Wall Of Separation'

  Sat Jan 1, 2011
  • Excellent post. However, one correction. The state of Connecticut was not dominated by Episcopalians.

• What Is More Important, Your Quality Of Life or Keeping Cancer At Bay?

  Mon Jul 19, 2010
  • Yaddayada, I really feel for the difficulty of your decision. I read your post earlier this PM and couldn't get it out of my mind.

• Sen. Kennedy OK after seizure at Obama's luncheon

  Tue Jan 20, 2009
  • You're right, and totally crude.  The man is dying, even if no one else will say so.  This is a totally fatal brain cancer.  The only question is time !!!  Politic not withstanding, he served his country according to his lights and deserves some respect

• Sen. Kennedy OK after seizure at Obama's luncheon

  Tue Jan 20, 2009
  • I've never been an admirer of Ted Kennedy, but I wouldn't wish this type of cancer on anyone.  My father, age 84, died 3 months after diagnosis and radiation and no subsequent seizures, and a cousin, age 52, died about 9 months after the same surgery at Duke with multiple …

• Bush to push international action against pirates

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • Enigma, we were reading the German transmissions.  That's how we got the Bismark

• Layoffs spark health coverage anxiety

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • Cobra is for 18 months, and you pay the full premium with no company subsidy.  Had this after I was laid off and my husband was dying from cancer.  No choice.  Additionally, some cobra policies are convertible to individual policies by contract, after the 18 …

• Auto rescue bill in peril, opposed by GOP senators

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • Then you can support all the GM retirees with GM stock in their 401K's who lose all with bankruptcy.  Not the just Wagoner's or boardmembers, but the middle and workers, because in bankruptcy stockholders lose all, bond holders may get pennies on the dollar.  And the pensions go to …