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Prayers in Public Offices
- Los Angeles Times
Ideally, governmental bodies would refrain from including prayers - even ecumenical, "lowest-common-denominator" ones - in their public proceedings. But if prayers are to be offered, they certainly shouldn't be monopolized by a single religious tradition. That is how the Supreme Court should rule in a case involving a town in New York state.

On Monday, the justices agreed to hear a case involving the town of Greece, N.Y., which since 1999 has begun its official meetings with a prayer. Although the town on rare occasions has invited non-Christian leaders (including a Wiccan priestess) to deliver invocations, two-thirds of the prayers have mentioned "Jesus Christ," "Jesus," "Your Son" or the "Holy Spirit."
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The IRS and the Real Scandal
- Robert Reich
"This systematic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation, or two," said David Camp, the Republican chairman of the House tax-writing committee, at an oversight hearing Friday morning dealing with the IRS. "This is not a personnel problem. This is a problem of the IRS being too large, too intrusive, too abusive."

David Camp has it wrong. There has been a "systematic" abuse of power, but it's not what Camp has in mind. The real scandal is that:

The IRS has interpreted our tax laws to allow big corporations and...
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The Long, Sordid History of the
American Right and Racism
- Robert Parry, Consortium News
Other factors have come and gone for the Right, but racism has always been there.

Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president. Other factors have come and gone for the Right, but racism has always been there.

Though definitions of Right and Left are never precise, the Left has generally been defined, in the American context, by government actions - mostly...
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The Michele Bachmann Campaign Probe, Explained
- Gavin Aronsen, Mother Jones
Last Friday, news broke that the FBI is investigating allegations that the 2012 presidential campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) violated federal laws by not disclosing payments to an Iowa state senator, improperly coordinated with her PAC, and tried to silence whistleblowing staffers. Bachmann has responded by pointing out that the allegations, which first surfaced in January, don't directly accuse her of any wrongdoing. Still, some political observers believe that the allegations could spell the end her Congressional career when she faces off against the same Democrat she narrowly defeated in 2012.
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Funding for Chinsegut, Technical Education in Hernando Survive Scott's Veto Pen
- Tampa Bay Times
Hernando County won a few - to the tune of $3 million - and lost a few Monday when Gov. Rick Scott released his list of budget vetoes.

A $2 million allocation to help the county establish a broadband system to assist in economic development was lost, but County Commission Chairman Dave Russell wasn't too surprised.

"It was a good try,'' Russell said. "This is a private-sector thing, frankly. We'll do what we can to bring competition into the area through business development, but it's going to be market driven as much as anything else.''

Also lost was a $750,000 allocation for parking and storm water improvements at Rogers Park, along the Weeki Wachee River. Russell said the county can seek other grants for that work.
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