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Social Security

October 29 - Florida's Sun Sentinel Calls for Senator Rubio's Resignation; "A Tale of Two Retirements"; Pernicious Ideological Riders Will be Attached to the New Budget

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February 20 - Targeting Ukraine's Oligarchs; Blowing the Whistle on $20 Billion in Missing Oil Revenues; Obama Cuts the Chained CPI from His Budget

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October 30 - The Nuclear Option Looms in the Senate; Addressing Bogus Alarmism on Social Security's Solvency; So-called "Islamic Terrorists" Arrested in China

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October 20 - Toby Miller sits in for Ian Masters

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April 9 - North Korea Ratchets Up Threats of War; Will the Congress Act on Gun Safety?; Progressive Backlash to the Chained CPI

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March 21 - Obama's Appeal for a Palestinian State and Justice for Palestinians; A CIA Analyst who was Pressured by Cheney; Obama's Contradictory Statements on Social Security and Medicare

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February 7 - Oversight on Assassinations; Facts and Figures on the Drone Program; A Hippocratic Oath on the Economy?

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December 18 - The Maker of the Gun That Killed the Schoolkids Issues "Man-Card" to Customers Who Buy It; Will Obama Sell Out Seniors?; Who is Profiting From the Destruction of the Congo?

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November 25 - Michael Hiltzik sits in for Ian Masters: The Election and what it Wrought

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November 19

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