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Move over Koch brothers. Get out of the way Shelly Adelson. There’s another billionaire in town, and he’s doing all he can to privatize Social Security and Medicare programs.

Business Insider magazine recently polled a group of registered voters, asking them for their preferences on three different Congressional plans that have been floated to help the nation avoid damage from the looming sequester.

Something interesting is happening in Australia.

Thirty years after her death, Ayn Rand’s philosophy of selfishness and billionaire empowerment rules the world.

Speaking with NPR this week, multimillionaire Mackey tried to express how much he hates Obamacare.

The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says "State" instead of "Country" (the Framers knew the difference – see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia's vote.

When the Royal Dutch Shell Kulluk rig got stuck on the rocky shores of Alaska on New Year’s Eve, the people of that state paid close attention.

History is littered with the corpses of those who thought they could conquer the world, or at least the “known” or “important” world, through force of arms.

So, the White House says they want to cut Social Security Insurance payments over time, using a tricky little technique called the “chained CPI.”

The suicide/mass-killing in Newtown has provoked Senator Dianne Feinstein to propose going back to the assault weapons ban that George W. Bush let lapse in 2004.