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U.S. charges three over computer exports to Iran
Post Date: 2011-04-21 22:12:38 by A K A Stone
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(Reuters) - Three U.S. citizens and their two companies were indicted on Thursday for illegally exporting millions of dollars worth of computers to Iran via the United Arab Emirates, the Justice Department said. It said Jeng Shih, 53, and his New York company, Sunrise Technologies and Trading Company, were charged with 27 counts over exports of the equipment without obtaining the required Treasury Department licenses. Massoud Habibion, 48, and Mohsen Motamedian, 43, and their firm in Costa Mesa, California, Online Micro LLC, also were indicted in federal court in Washington, D.C., on 32 counts for illegal exports, conspiracy, false statements and obstructing justice. As part of the ...
Gary Johnson throws his hat into the GOP presidential ring, will he be the 2012 Ron Paul?
Post Date: 2011-04-21 22:04:33 by A K A Stone
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Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who once scaled Mt. Everest, spoke to a sparse crowd Thursday at the steps of the New Hampshire statehouse to announce another difficult journey: his desire to seek the Republican nomination for president. "I'm going to spend a lot of time in New Hampshire, where you can go from obscurity to national prominence overnight with a good showing," Johnson, 58, a former two-term governor, said to dozens. Johnson is a conservative with a libertarian bent, much like Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who ran unsuccessfully in the last presidential race. Both men favor the legalization of marijuana and oppose the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and runaway ...
Paul Ryan, Rand Paul Clash Privately Over Budget
Post Date: 2011-04-21 21:48:53 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON -- Before releasing his budget publicly, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) gave Senate Republicans a private briefing about the plan in early April. During that meeting, Sen. Rand Paul, a Tea Party-backed freshman from Kentucky, challenged Ryan in front of the rest of their party, according to two GOP aides briefed on the meeting. Sen. Paul said Rep. Ryan's plan did not do enough to cut spending and relied on too much deficit spending for too long, according to the aides. Ryan gave it right back to him. The budget committee chairman went directly after Sen. Paul’s five-year budget plan, which he had clearly studied closely. Ryan’s criticism went roughly like this: yes, he ...
Welfare Reform Tackles Debt Crisis and Unemployment
Post Date: 2011-04-21 17:40:32 by CZ82
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Welfare Reform Tackles Debt Crisis and Unemployment by Emily Miller 04/20/2011 House Republicans have begun reforming welfare programs as part of their efforts to cut government spending to tackle the budget deficit and reduce unemployment. The House passed the Republican budget for Fiscal Year 2012 on Friday. It reduces government spending on the welfare programs and increases employment through mandatory work requirements. Also, Rep. Jim Jordan (R.-Ohio) introduced the Welfare Reform Act of 2011, which is an overall restructuring of the entitlement program. Jordan’s bill would cut redundancy of the 77 federal welfare programs, cap overall spending on the programs, and mandate ...
Scott Walker Is Just Getting Started
Post Date: 2011-04-21 17:37:37 by CZ82
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Scott Walker Is Just Getting Started by Kyle Olson When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker curtailed collective bargaining privileges for public sector workers (formerly known as public servants), it resulted in all-out political war in Madison. Walker won the showdown, and now the state can get its financial house in order. But that doesn’t mean Walker is done taking on the unions. One of the governor’s next goals is to improve the state’s public education system by giving more kids access to quality schools. That means expanding Milwaukee’s wildly successful voucher program to even more families. And that means a raucous showdown with the teacher unions. As part of his ...
Obama’s Labor Board Issues Complaint Against Boeing
Post Date: 2011-04-21 17:26:00 by CZ82
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In Shot Heard Around Business World, Obama’s Labor Board Issues Complaint Against Boeing by LaborUnionReport On Wednesday, President Obama’s union-controlled National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against the Boeing Company that, if ruled in the union and NLRB’s favor, may prove to have far-reaching consequences across the American business landscape. Ultimately, the outcome to this case will state whether or not America has, in fact, become entirely hostile to business (and the jobs they provide). The complaint was issued by the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel (the same one who threatened to sue South Carolina and three other states over the states’ ...
Wisconsin begins recount process for Supreme Court contest
Post Date: 2011-04-21 17:10:51 by CZ82
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Wisconsin begins recount process for Supreme Court contest By Jordan Fabian - 04/20/11 05:25 PM ET Wisconsin is poised to conduct a recount of the state's hotly contested Supreme Court race, following the request of defeated candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg, a state agency said Wednesday. The Government Accountability Board (GAB), which would administer the recount, said it is prepared to move forward with the process after the liberal-backed Kloppenburg requested one Wednesday. "We have assembled an internal team to direct the recount; we have been in close consultation with our county clerk partners, and have arranged for legal representation by the Wisconsin Department of ...
Supreme Court Justices Admit Obama Eligibility Is a Problem
Post Date: 2011-04-21 13:05:23 by no gnu taxes
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First, we have Justice Clarence Thomas in a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing last April admitting that the Supreme Court was evading the many lawsuits that have been brought to the Court on Obama’s birth eligibility to be President of the United States [beginning at the 1:00 mark]: year later, on April 14, 2011, Justice Stephen Breyer in a House Appropriations hearing on the 2012 Supreme Court budget, admits that: * The Constitution specifies that only a “natural born citizen” can be president of the United States [0:30 mark]; * But the definition of “natural born citizen” has not been determined or fixed, and is subject to interpretation in that ...
Pat Buchanan: Show the birth certificate! Former presidential candidate says Obama exhibiting 'arrogance'
Post Date: 2011-04-21 07:49:00 by A K A Stone
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Two-time GOP presidential candidate and longtime political analyst Pat Buchanan says Barack Obama should just show his birth certificate to put an end to questions over his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office. His comments came in an interview on MSNBC, where he serves as a political analyst: Buchanan said he agrees with Mitt Romney in that he believes Obama was born in Hawaii, and the newspapers probably were accurate in reporting his birth there in 1961. However, he said, "I do agree with Donald Trump when he said, 'Why is Barack Obama toying with the American people? Why doesn't he just produce this and end this controversy.'" Said Buchanan, a founder and ...
Obama and Mark Zuckerberg in FB headquarters poking each other.
Post Date: 2011-04-20 22:28:30 by A K A Stone
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PALO ALTO, California — President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters here Wednesday afternoon with a packed audience of engineers who built the social networking site that some say was responsible for Obama’s 2008 election. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, wearing a suit and tie, moderated the discussion. “I’m kind of nervous. We have the president of the United States here,” Zuckerberg said in his opening remarks, to loud cheers. “My name is Barack Obama, and I’m the guy who got Mark Zuckerberg to wear a jacket and tie,” the President started. “I’m very proud of that.” “Second time,” ...
Obama to Sell GM Stock at Huge Loss to Taxpayers [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-20 19:28:36 by CZ82
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Obama to Sell GM Stock at Huge Loss to Taxpayers J. Robert Smith Wasn't the Obama administration supposed to make money back on a sale of GM stock? Or so Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other administration officials suggested back in 2009. Now taxpayers learn that Mr. Obama wants out of GM and is willing to sell Washington's stockholdings short - to the tune of an estimated $11 billion loss. That's $11 billion in losses to taxpayers. Why would Mr. Obama want to dump GM stock for a huge loss now? Why not hold GM stock until the government can at least recover taxpayers' money? The answer is that GM stock prices may be heading south, not north, in the coming months. ...
BOOK TO REVEAL OBAMA'S 'TRUE' IDENTITY?
Post Date: 2011-04-20 13:00:40 by calcon
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**Exclusive** This year's high stakes publishing project quietly went to press this week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. After years of research and digging by the nation's top private investigators, here it comes: "WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President." MORE The street date is a LONG month away, and author Jerome Corsi, the man who torpedoed John Kerry's presidential dreams with SWIFT BOAT, has gone underground and is holding his new findings thisclose. "It's utterly devastating," reveals a source close to the publisher. "Obama may learn things he didn't even know about ...
Poll: Boehner disapproval rises
Post Date: 2011-04-20 12:05:49 by war
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The more some Americans have seen House Speaker John Boehner, the more they seem to dislike his work. Forty percent of those surveyed for a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Wednesday said they disapprove of the Ohio Republican’s job performance, up from 27 percent in January, soon after he’d taken the speaker’s gavel from now-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The big shift came as about half of those who said in January they had no opinion of Boehner developed one. Three months ago, 33 percent of those surveyed said they had no opinion on Boehner, while in this month’s poll, that number fell to 17 percent. But the news isn’t all bad for Boehner. His ...
Locals hope Bush will create a White House in Texas
Post Date: 2011-04-20 10:44:45 by war
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CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — Having a Texan in the White House as well as in the neighborhood would suit many in this one-stop-light town just fine. The 700-resident town of Crawford is abuzz with news that presidential front-runner George W. Bush, while making a bid for the White House, also has made a bid on a ranch about 90 miles southwest of Dallas. Regulars at the local coffee shop and gas station say they hope the Texas governor will follow the example of native son Lyndon B. Johnson. The former president often returned to the LBJ Ranch near Johnson City and delighted in showing off the land to foreign visitors. “I think that might be his intention. If that happens, it's ...
Bush Will Soon Call Dallas 'Home' Again
Post Date: 2011-04-20 10:41:31 by war
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President Bush will soon leave Washington, D.C., and return home to Texas, but not to live on the family ranch outside Waco. The first lady wanted to live in Dallas, in the same lovely neighborhood where the family lived before Bush became Texas governor 16 years ago: Preston Hollow. On a beautiful Sunday afternoon recently, cars full of well-dressed Dallasites — fresh from church, with heads leaning out rolled-down windows — paraded past the Bushes' new home. But the parade will end soon. This little section of Preston Hollow is about to become a gated community, courtesy of the United States Secret Service. "We're certainly annoyed by all the traffic and the ...
Kindergartner Brings Gun to Texas School, 3 Hurt
Post Date: 2011-04-20 10:39:13 by sneakypete
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HOUSTON -- A kindergartner who brought a loaded gun Tuesday to his Houston elementary school was among three students injured by fragments when it fired after falling from his pocket as he sat down for lunch, officials said. One bullet was fired about 10:35 a.m. in the Ross Elementary School cafeteria, spraying fragments at the students, said Houston Independent School District Assistant Police Chief Robert Mock. "Either some type of chips off the floor, or it could be pieces of the round that discharged," Mock said. "They had some cuts and stuff on their legs, they don't appear to be life threatening." Kennedi Glapion, 6, who was being picked up from school by ...
Appeals court backs MacDonald on review of new evidence Subject of best seller, 'Fatal Vision')
Post Date: 2011-04-20 08:08:43 by Ferret Mike
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A federal appeals court has sided with convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald, ordering a second review of his claims of newly discovered evidence. MacDonald, a former Army surgeon at Fort Bragg who is serving three life sentences for killing his pregnant wife and their 5-year-old and 2-year-old daughters in 1970, is seeking relief based on evidence that he says exonerates him. In an opinion filed Tuesday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an earlier opinion by a U.S. District Court and ordered that court to reconsider the evidence. MacDonald's lawyers have argued that their client should receive a new trial based on two pieces of evidence that were not available during his 1979 ...
Umbrella, not gun, caused mall evacuation
Post Date: 2011-04-20 01:12:58 by Wood_Chopper
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U.S. News Umbrella, not gun, caused mall evacuation Published: April 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM BURLINGTON, Mass., April 19 (UPI) -- A young man innocently walking with an umbrella mistaken for a rifle triggered the evacuation of a shopping mall in Burlington, Mass., Tuesday, police said. WHDH-TV, Boston, reported the unidentified man called state police from the Lahey Clinic in the Burlington Mall shortly after the 10 a.m. incident began to report he was the person two people had reported seeing in the shopping center with what looked like a short-barreled rifle. He said it was really just the umbrella he had in his backpack. "A Lahey Clinic employee carrying an umbrella in his backpack ...
New DHS Reality Television Show to Feature Janet Napolitano
Post Date: 2011-04-19 20:20:54 by A K A Stone
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AMC plans real-life Don Draper, homeland security reality shows (Los Angeles Times): Will we get to meet the real-life Don Draper? Cable network AMC, home to critically lauded dramas “Mad Men,” “The Walking Dead” and “Breaking Bad,” plans to launch a pair of reality shows exploring the high-pressure world of advertising and the behind-the-scenes drama at the Department of Homeland Security. “The Pitch,” about the creative process at ad agencies, and “Inside DHS,” an veil-lifting look at the government division that fights terrorism, will be the network’s first two unscripted shows. A third, a docu-series about renowned boxing trainer ...
President Obama Enjoying Golf After 241 Tornadoes Destroy Towns, Killing 45
Post Date: 2011-04-19 15:00:27 by no gnu taxes
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As of the writing of this post, there has been no official statement from the White House regarding the 241 tornadoes that destroyed dozens of towns across the United States over the past three days. North Carolina Democratic Governor Bev Purdue did issue a statement on Sunday saying that she had spoken to Obama about the damages to her state. While the North Carolina governor and others make tours of the wreckage, Obama chose to hit the golf course. According to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, the president has no plans to visit any of the destroyed areas. Around 7pm on Sunday, Mark Knoller of CBS News tweeted out that he and the rest of the White House press corp just spent ...
Payrolls Rise in 38 States, Led by Texas; Unemployment Rate Declines in 34
Post Date: 2011-04-19 14:32:43 by The Blue Cat
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Payrolls rose in 38 U.S. states in March, indicating improvement in the labor market is broadening. Texas, with a 37,200 increase, and Missouri, at 24,300, showed the biggest gains in employment from February, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. The jobless rate fell in 34 states, with the largest decline in New Mexico, where it fell by 0.6 percentage point to 8.1 percent. The report is consistent with government figures released April 1 that showed the nation added 216,000 workers in March, the most since May 2010, and unemployment dropped to a two-year low of 8.8 percent. Improvement in hiring across a wider swath is helping sustain consumer spending, the ...
2012 GOP Presidential Candidates Raised Taxes
Post Date: 2011-04-19 14:30:24 by The Blue Cat
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The GOP's most promising 2012 presidential contenders—Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, and Mike Huckabee—have a lot in common. They are all white. They are all middle-aged. They were all governors at one point. And despite a shared tendency to denounce Democrats as inveterate, immoral tax hikers, they all have the exact same skeleton in their closet: a rather inconvenient history of raising taxes themselves. Surprised? It's no wonder. Until now, Romney & Co. have done a good job of hiding their tax-raising records from the rest of the Republican Party—with good reason. In a perfect world, according to GOP orthodoxy, taxes would always be ...
Pedro Doesn't Like The Kenyan Any More
Post Date: 2011-04-19 14:15:01 by no gnu taxes
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As President Barack Obama was preparing to meet at the White House on Tuesday afternoon with a group of business, religious and law enforcement leaders to talk about immigration reform, the Gallup poll released its latest weekly presidential job approval numbers indicating that Obama’s approval among Hispanic Americans had dropped to an all-time low. In the week of April 11-17, Gallup reported, only 47 percent of Hispanics said they approved of the job Obama was doing as president. This was only the third week during Obama’s presidency that his job approval among his Hispanics has been lower than 50 percent. The previous two occasions were Sept. 20-26, 2010, when Obama’s ...
If the unions have lost Detroit, they've lost. Period
Post Date: 2011-04-19 13:14:17 by CZ82
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If the unions have lost Detroit, they've lost. Period. Jerry Shenk Today's issue of the Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the City of Detroit. In it, Matthew Dolan reports that Robert Bobb, the head of the city's school district, authorized "layoff notices to the district's 5,466 salaried employees, including all of its teachers, a preliminary step in seeking broad work-force cuts to deal with lower enrollment." Bobb also may be allowed to do, unilaterally, most of everything else the unions despise: "...void union contracts, sideline elected school-board members, close schools and authorize charter schools." And last week Democratic ...
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