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By living in a well-to-do neighborhood, poor people increase their risk of death, according to a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers to be published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health. "We tend to assume that people living in a high...

http://www.growingingracespanish.com/apostle/ Just watched a video on MSNBC in which this man states frankly that he is Jesus Christ. People can't give him money fast enough.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/04/news/newsmakers/gates.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes I would like to do my part to make his wish come true! Bill, make your $30 billion check payable to me.

The Economist reviewed the book “The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth” by Benjamin Friedman. Some people contend there is a point at which rich countries are rich enough. They claim that the quest for more wealth is immoral. Other people are less extreme but they do question whether the...

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston Most Americans would agree that they are duty bound as beneficiaries of our democracy to pay taxes, and the majority of us do pay—-exorbitantly. But what...

Arab lawyers criticize the United States - Oct. 9 2004 Hahahaha, classic forked tongue rhetoric. Syria, a harsh dictatorship, occupies Lebanon against U.N. resolutions... The West Bank and Gaza are run by a dictator who refuses to abide by basic Palestinian law... Iran is run by a theocratic...

This idea has taken on the depth and aura of a bumper sticker. Does anyone have any data that shows, let's say by income quintiles, what people have deen paying in taxes as a percentage of income over 10 or more years? I would define taxes as all payments to government, national and local.

I can't believe that this is part of Bush's stump speech: http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--bushvisit0809aug09,0,6920595.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia Yeah, that's better than closing loopholes and going for strict enforcement (btw, in Bush Lingo a closed loophole is a...

"Democrats have the popular misconception that somehow the Bush tax cut unfairly benefit the rich." I hear this all the time from the rep talking heads. Is there ANY evidence for this??? Because everything that I find tells me exactly the opposite. From all kinds of sources...

The Feds need to start breaking up the con-artists on TBN starting with Meyer and Hinn and Joel Osteen and Junaita Bynum to name a few of the phonies on TBN. As a Christian I am ashamed of TBN and I am even more disgusted that many in the Christian Community turn a blind eye to the corruption...

Okay, so I've mentioned in other threads about the damage Hurricane Isabel caused to areas of the North Carolina cost, as well as Virginia. I mentioned that private charities had funneled money into the area faster than government had. About two weeks ago, FEMA started saying how it was going...

Not the best calculator, but its an interesting estimation. http://www.globalrichlist.com/ I'm in the top 0.89% according to this.

Does anybody else find it misleading that a constant cry of the left (BTW, I'd count myself on that side of the fence, although only by about foot or so) is how great the divide between the rich and poor is getting? I don't know if I just don't understand something (entirely possible, in which...