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Column: Death and taxes
If you’re planning on dying soon, you might want to hurry up. It’s that other certainty of life you’ll want to watch out for. The estate tax, which taxes the inheritance you pass on to your children, is about to increase dramatically.
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Column: Peace in Palestine no longer possible
When pressed to make predictions, pundits sometimes retort that they are “not in the prediction-making business.” They say this, of course, because they don’t want to leave their results-disoriented business.
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Column: The wrong side of history
Thursday, November 29, was a historic day. Palestine’s status in the United Nations was upgraded to a “non-member observer state,” implying that the UN now recognizes the existence of a Palestinian state.
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Column: Obamacare to affect nursing facilities
Since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed this summer, states and many rights groups have been arguing about the pros and cons. The effect the act has on senior citizens due to Medicaid/Medicare cuts, as well as its effect on nursing homes, are both prominent concerns.
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Column: Obama needs to turn attention toward fiscal cliff
There is no fiscal cliff. Yes, I know it sounds insane. But despite the equivocating, fear-mongering and hysterics occurring on Capitol Hill, the expiration of the Bush tax cuts is not the financial apocalypse Democrats are trying to claim.
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Column: Achieving an AIDS-free Generation
Imagine an AIDS-free generation. This could happen, but only if we take the necessary steps at this moment.
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Column: Pink unicorns are real, Mr. Norquist
In 1954, while recovering from back surgery, then-Sen. John F. Kennedy began to write a book. It was a study of eight U.S. senators and their then-unpopular decisions that they thought were right for America. It won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize and helped raise Kennedy’s national profile.
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Editorial: Political differences must be settled before fiscal cliff
As the year comes to an end and the holidays quickly approach, there is a lingering shadow over the cheer and jolly that has reinstated the political banter of election campaigning. The shadow is the upcoming "fiscal cliff” that will follow the ball dropping in Times Square on New Year’s Day.
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Column: Overcoming culture shock in China
BEIJING – Before I came to China for my semester abroad, my mentor, a local business owner in Florida and longtime friend, gave me two pieces of advice. No. 1: Think before you speak. No. 2: Keep an open mind.