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Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan pending in Congress. The built-in “marriage penalty” in both House and Senate healthcare bills has received scant attention. But for scores of low-income and middle-income couples, it could mean [...]

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“We are all Georgians now,” John McCain said in response to Russia’s invasion of the former Soviet republic.
We are? Spare me. You couldn’t find one American in a thousand who could locate Georgia on a map, but the Republican hothead who would be president is ready to bind America’s sacred honor to the place.And more [...]

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