Morning Reads: Paul Ryan’s Dog Whistle; Health Care Expert Demolishes Senator’s Talking Points
March 13, 2014

Via Moyers & Company:

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading on yet another frigid day in NYC…

Stat of the day: $1.95 trillion — the amount of cash the 307 biggest US-based multinationals are holding offshore and out of sight of the IRS, according to Bloomberg.

Blockage –> The White House says it supports the congressional probe into the CIA’s “War on Terror” under Bush, but Jonathan Landay, Ali Watkins and Marisa Taylor report for McClatchy that the Obama administration is sitting on thousands of documents that Senate investigators want to see.

Non-corporate people go to jail for less –> W...

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