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Fox Business’ Solution To Financial Crisis: Tax The Poor More
Post Date: 2010-06-27 14:32:00 by Brian S
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A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the gap between the richest one percent of earners in the US and the middle class has more than tripled since 1979.But that didn't stop Fox Business host Cheryl Casone from using the report as the basis of her proposed solution to the US's mushrooming budget deficit: Increase taxes on the poor.In a discussion on the CBO report (PDF), which showed that 40 percent of income tax filers ended up paying no federal income tax in 2007, Casone argued that fixing this "imbalance" would solve the federal debt problem."The fact that most [sic] Americans are not paying any income tax at the end of the day kind of ...
McCain Disagrees With AZ Gov's Drug 'Mule' Comment
Post Date: 2010-06-27 14:29:09 by Brian S
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(06-27) 11:13 PDT PHOENIX (AP) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain says he disagrees with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's statements that most people crossing the U.S. southern border illegally are smuggling drugs, but he thinks she is doing a good job of standing up for her state. Brewer has said the motivation of "a lot" of the illegal immigrants is to enter the United States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug "mules." Her office later said most human smuggling into Arizona is under the direction of drug cartels, which "are by definition smuggling drugs." The Arizona Republican senator told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday ...
Awaiting Standoff, Man Hasn't Left Property Since 2000
Post Date: 2010-06-27 12:39:55 by Brian S
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(06-26) 21:00 PDT GUN BARREL CITY, Texas (AP) -- The past decade has taken a toll on John Joe Gray, holed up on his rural East Texas land while waiting for a siege that's never happened. He's been living on 47 acres behind a fence without running water and electricity but with plenty of guns, daring authorities to arrest him for a 10-year-old, third-degree felony warrant. He says he hasn't left his property since 2000, all the while allowing his distrust of a government he views as evil to fester. The handmade warning signs have faded and the hordes of fellow militia members have long since gone, leaving behind only Gray and some relatives — he won't say how many ...
Joe Biden Once Again Showing What an Asshole He Is
Post Date: 2010-06-27 10:17:43 by no gnu taxes
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t's a Haagen-Diss! Vice President Joe Biden served up a zinger at a Milwaukee, Wis., frozen custard shop Friday, telling the manager to stop "being a smart a- -" after he asked for lower taxes. When Biden went to pay for his vanilla cone with chocolate flakes at Kopp's Frozen Custard, the manager initially said: "Don't worry, it's on us," according to a local television station. After Biden insisted on paying, the manager said: "Lower our taxes and we'll call it even." Biden, who has a long suffered from foot-in-mouth disease, then chided the worker to, "say something nice instead of being a smart a- - all the time."
Louisiana Wants U.S. Help, and Its Own Way
Post Date: 2010-06-27 09:49:58 by go65
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NEW ORLEANS — For weeks, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has attacked BP and the Coast Guard for not having adequate plans and resources to battle the oil spill. But interviews with more than two dozen state and federal officials and experts suggest that Louisiana, from the earliest days of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has often disregarded its own plans and experts in favor of large-scale proposals that many say would probably have had limited effectiveness and could have even hampered the response. The state’s approach has also at times appeared divided: while some state officials work alongside the Coast Guard and BP every day, others, including the governor, have ...
Obama's Internet kill switch SenCom approved, Supreme Leader gets power to turn off Internet
Post Date: 2010-06-27 09:18:34 by Happy Quanzaa
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A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack. Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives the president an Internet "kill switch." Instead, the bill puts limits on the powers the president already has to cause "the closing of any facility or stations for wire communication" in a time of war, as described in the Communications Act of 1934, they said in a breakdown of the bill published on the Senate Homeland Security and ...
Some Oil Spill Events From Saturday, June 26, 2010
Post Date: 2010-06-26 21:19:53 by Brian S
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A summary of events Saturday, June 26, Day 67 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well. TROPICAL WEATHER A tropical storm like the one swirling in the Caribbean could complicate already complex efforts to contain and clean up the spill. Any system with winds over 46 mph could force BP to abandon efforts to contain the flow for up to two weeks and delay the drilling of two relief wells that are the best hope of ...
Ahh–Ha-Ha-Ha-Haa…Wipeout! – WSJ/NBC Poll.
Post Date: 2010-06-26 15:43:20 by Skip MacLure
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DeMarxists in Congress are accelerating their totalitarian lockstep to steal your country away from you before the mid-term elections will sweep them from power in both Houses and put an abrupt end to their dreams of a communist America. I’m getting really tired of reading mush-headed, mealy-mouthed writers who haven’t the courage of their supposed convictions. Liberal-Progressive (the favored term du jour of our little red friends)-Socialist-Leninist-Marxist-Communist. These terms are completely interchangeable. There’s a classic pic of the intrepid duo of Barney (The Banking Queen) Frank and his bud, Chris (Cretin) Dodd coming out of the White House, with Frank looking ...
Arizona Gov. Brewer Slams Obama’s New Border Security Initiative…Obama’s promises aren’t worth shit…
Post Date: 2010-06-26 10:34:05 by no gnu taxes
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PHOENIX – Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is calling a new border security initiative an outrage. In a campaign video posted on YouTube Friday, Brewer stood in front of what she called newly posted signs by President Obama’s administration about the Arizona desert being an active drug and human smuggling area. “Washington says our border is as safe as it has ever been,” Brewer said. “Does this look safe to you? What is our country coming to…we need to stand up and demand action. Washington is broken, Mr. President. Do your job. Secure our borders.” In a separate letter released the day before, Brewer told Obama she’d like specifics on National Guard ...
Jindal Strips Funding For Parishes Impacted By Oil, Says BP Should Pay
Post Date: 2010-06-26 00:04:40 by Brian S
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Gov. Bobby Jindal has nixed funding for coastal parishes struggling with the oil spill, teacher stipends and a list of lawmakers' pet projects from the $26 billion budget bill. Jindal's office released the line-item vetoes Friday night, for the bills to finance state government operations in the new fiscal year that begins July 1. Along with the funding stripped, the governor also removed a series of requirements added by lawmakers to give them more oversight of education contracts and health department privatization efforts. One of the biggest-ticket items cut from the bill was a $24.9 million spending plan to help coastal parishes with their spill response ...
Vatican opposes Louisville lawyer's bid to take testimony from Pope in sex abuse lawsuit
Post Date: 2010-06-25 23:31:24 by WhiteSands
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The Vatican has filed formal opposition to a Louisville lawyer's bid to take sworn testimony from Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican officials over sexual abuse in the United States. Church lawyers said requiring the "unprecedented" testimony from the pope and his top aides would set a dangerous precedent that could inspire foreign courts to subpoena the president of the United States in future cases. "If Pope Benedict XVI or the Secretary of State is ordered to testify by a United States court, foreign courts could feel emboldened to order depositions of the President or Vice President of the United States regarding, for example, such issues as CIA rendition," ...
First Tropical Depression Of The Season Forms In The Caribbean, Aims For Gulf
Post Date: 2010-06-25 20:50:34 by Brian S
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MIAMI (BNO NEWS) — The first tropical depression of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season formed in the western Caribbean on Friday evening, U.S. forecasters said. After passing the Yucatan Peninsula, it will set a course for the Gulf of Mexico. The storm, officially called Tropical Depression One, formed just before 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Friday. “The Air Force reserve hurricane hunter aircraft investigating the disturbance in the western Caribbean Sea has found a well-defined circulation center,” the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. As of 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT Saturday), the center of the tropical depression was located approximately 555 kilometers (345 miles) southeast ...
Obama and Dems heading for electoral disaster
Post Date: 2010-06-25 18:36:10 by no gnu taxes
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All around, there are Democrats telling us their prospects for November are looking up. Things aren't as bad as Republicans say! Health care is becoming more popular! The country wants financial reform! People still like Barack Obama! Isn't Joe Barton awful! They're fooling themselves. The basic indicators of voters' intentions -- their general mood and attitude toward the policies of Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid -- are clear and solid. Unless those indicators change, and most experts believe that would take a huge, unforeseen event that fundamentally alters the political equation, Democrats are in for serious losses this November. The only question is whether those ...
Jewish Clergy Group: Elena Kagan Isn't ‘Kosher’ to Serve on Supreme Court [ she is not fit to serve on the court--according to more than 850 Orthodox members of the Rabbinical Alliance of America.]
Post Date: 2010-06-25 18:05:38 by WhiteSands
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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is “not kosher”--meaning she is not fit to serve on the court--according to more than 850 Orthodox members of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. That's the term the rabbis used about Kagan in a press release issued Thursday, saying "Elena Kagan is not kosher. She is not fit to sit on this Court--or any court." Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the alliance, told CNSNews.com on Thursday that "a great deal has been made about the fact that she would be the second Jewish woman on the court, and we want to signal to people across the country that we take no pride in this.” Levin said most people are happy when "one of ...
Chinese News Animation: Al Gore reeling after sex-crazed poodle allegations
Post Date: 2010-06-25 17:57:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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IRS Wants Taxes From BP Payments For Lost Wages
Post Date: 2010-06-25 15:42:14 by Brian S
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(06-25) 11:17 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service wants its cut from oil spill victims who receive BP payments for lost wages. Under current law, BP payments for lost wages are taxable — just like the wages would have been, the IRS said in tax guidance issued Friday. Payments for physical injuries or property loss, however, are generally tax free. Payments for emotional distress? Taxable, though medical expenses related to the emotional distress are deductible. BP officials have agreed to create a $20 billion fund for spill victims, as well as a $100 million fund to support displaced oil rig workers. The IRS issued the guidance Friday to help spill victims sort ...
No, We Can’t (technical difficulties capping oil leak)
Post Date: 2010-06-25 15:36:59 by Badeye
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No, We Can’t [John Derbyshire] Read this piece. It’s technical, but not intractably so, if you’re willing to concentrate for half an hour and chase down the links. It’s also deeply pessimistic about our chances of doing anything much about the Gulf oil spill. In brief: Ç9; BP drills a hole down through many layers of rock, of different strength and consistency, to the oil. Ç9; The oil will then come up through this bore hole at great pressure. Ç9; You do NOT want that pressure forcing the oil sideways into upper levels of the drilled-through rock. Ç9; So you line the bore hole with steel casing, and cement in the space between casing ...
Labor Secretary Solis Blasts Republicans For Thwarting Bill To Extend Unemployment Benefits
Post Date: 2010-06-25 15:34:33 by Brian S
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DENVER (AP) - Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says Senate Republicans could be extending the recession by opposing a spending bill that would have extended unemployment benefits. Solis said Friday that the Republican opposition "could take us back to a deeper recession." Solis was addressing a national gathering of Latino officials in Denver. Solis said the end of unemployment benefits for more than 200,000 people a week would be "devastating." Republican opposition to the Democratic jobs bill stymied efforts to again extend unemployment benefits. The GOP objects to its cost. President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a much smaller bill that temporarily spares ...
Missing George W. Bush
Post Date: 2010-06-25 15:12:48 by no gnu taxes
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Both Charles Krauthammer and Rich Lowry have columns that argue that what Barack Obama needs is to be more like his predecessor George W. Bush. In Rich’s words, Obama needs to find his inner cowboy. Their argument is that the self-imposed deadline by Obama to begin withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan next summer has caused a great deal of harm. It both encourages the Taliban and discourages the Afghan government, and for the same reasons: we look unreliable. The one thing I’ll add to the excellent commentary by Krauthammer and Lowry is that Bush was under far greater pressure to withdraw troops from Iraq than Obama is facing with Afghanistan. At the time, Iraq was ...
Rubio: I Wouldn't Repeal All Of Health Care Reform
Post Date: 2010-06-25 13:29:26 by go65
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Senate candidate Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has been a darling of conservatives this cycle, may be shifting closer to the center on his opposition to President Obama's recently enacted health care bill. Today he told a group of bloggers that he would not repeal the ban on denying insurance coverage to people based on pre-existing conditions, Jim Geraghty reports. Rubio further told Matt Lewis that he does not considering the pre-existing conditions ban to be a part of "Obamacare." Earlier in the cycle, as the bill was on its way to passage and Rubio was in the midst of a Republican primary with the now-independent Gov. Charlie Crist, Rubio had signed the Club For Growth's ...
Gulf Coast Governors Leaving National Guard Idle
Post Date: 2010-06-25 13:00:32 by go65
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(CBS) All along the Gulf coast, local officials have been demanding more help from the federal government to fight the spill, yet the Gulf states have deployed just a fraction of the National Guard troops the Pentagon has made available, CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian reports. That's a particular problem for the state of Louisiana, where the Republican governor has been the most vocal about using all resources. (Scroll down to watch the report CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian filed) Special Section: Disaster in the Gulf Gov. Bobby Jindal's message has been loud and clear, using language such as "We will only be winning ...
Oil Spill, Foreign Help and the Jones Act
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:57:53 by go65
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Q: Did Obama turn down foreign offers of assistance in cleaning up the Gulf oil spill? Did he refuse to waive Jones Act restrictions on foreign-flag vessels? A: No to both questions. So far, five offers have been accepted and only one offer has been rejected. Fifteen foreign-flag vessels are working on the cleanup, and none required a waiver. FULL QUESTION Is it true that Obama blocked foreign help with cleaning up the Gulf oil spill because he refused to waive the Jones Act, which requires all boats to be American made and crewed by Americans to work in U.S. waters, even though it has been routinely waived for similar events? FULL ANSWER We57;ve received several questions about the federal ...
It was always Obama's plan to use the Gulf oil spill to destroy offshore drilling
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:39:16 by no gnu taxes
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It is now clear that Obama & Co’s plan to completely and irrevocably destroy America’s offshore drilling was the intent from the inception of the current Gulf of Mexico disaster. Whether the disaster was accidental or by design, it is now being used by the Obama regime as a political weapon against the American people. After the ostensible accidental BP oil rig explosion and subsequent continuing massive release of millions of gallons of deep sea oil into the Gulf, Obama issued a fiat that all US offshore drilling was to be suspended for 6 months. Then, although US District Court Judge Martin Feldman disagreed with the Obama regime’s dictate and stated it was “an ...
Democrat Controlled Senate Fails to Pass Extention of Unemployment Benefits
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:32:21 by no gnu taxes
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The Harry Reid Democrat controlled Senate failed to pass legislation that would extend unemployment benefits. By a 57 to 41 margin Democrats fell three short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measure. It would appear the bipartisan vote went the way of the GOP as Democrat Senator Bob Nelson of Nebraska joined Republicans and voted against the legislation. Senate Republicans and a lone Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, joined forces to filibuster the bill in a procedural vote on Thursday. Visibly frustrated, the majority leader,Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said he would move on to other business next week because he saw little chance of winning over any Republican votes. The vote ...
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