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It is currently reported that Obama intends perhaps on Monday, to propose a minimum tax on millionaires, a "Buffet tax," sounding conceptually like a new version of the "alternative minimum tax." It has already been acknowledged that even if enacted into law such proposed minimum tax on the wealthy is not likely to have a significant impact on US tax revenues. It may, however, along with other tax proposals by this administration or as part of current law, have significant economic impacts. Under the often ignored principle that proposed legislation should be entitled according to its most essential impacts if...

Senator Roark: Well, let me tell you a thing or two about power! Power doesn’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes outta lying and lying big and getting the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you got’ em trapped. You’re the boss. You can turn reality on it’ s head and they’ ll cheer you on. You can make a saint out of a gibbering nut case like my high and mighty brother. You can beat your wife to death with...

CAIR-FL: TOUR-BUS DRIVER FIRED FOR MUSLIM JOKES ( Orlando Sentinel) "And now they're telling us we're supposed to be nice to these Muslim terrorists who are trying to kill us all," Hilal Isler recalled him saying. "Here in America, we call them 'rag-heads' or 'towelheads,' but that's not right. What they wear on their heads is more like a sheet. We should be calling them sheetheads."... Sabiha Khan, executive director of the Orlando office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said she receives two to three complaints a month about discrimination against Muslims in Central Florida. Mostly the incidents go...

CAIR ANNOUNCES $10K VIDEO CONTEST TO PROMOTE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING Two $5,000 prizes to be awarded for ‘Let the Conversation Begin’ videos (WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/22/2007) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today announced an online digital video contest designed to help promote mutual understanding between Muslims and people of other faiths in America and worldwide. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it will offer two $5,000 prizes for videos up to one minute long that are the most effective in promoting interfaith understanding and communicating the contest theme of “Let the Conversation Begin.”

Vermont parents upset at schools after 6th graders testify on global warming before state legislature...

Islamic Front Group CAIR has been busy confusing hate crimes (which in US still require underlying crime) with Free Speech, which while not an unlimited right (no direct/imminent threats/incitement of violence; no cry Fire in crowded theatre; no profanity) is otherwise protected by the U.S. Constitution and according to long established U.S. case law. The law of Free Speech is that the government may place content neutral restrictions on speech (parade permits) but that it can not control or criminalize mere opinion no matter how unpopular. Notwithstanding these long established free speech protections the lard bottomed squeeky voiced islamic apologists...

"We must share the benefits of our wealth" beyond the privileged few." - Nancy Pelosi, discussing plans for the first 100 hours of democrat control of the House of Representatives in November 2006. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." -Karl Marx 1875

Within three days of the official broadcast of the fax new Clinton Wallace confrontation, media reports citing such “experts” as Yale associate dean, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, were widely distributed (e.g. AP via Yahoo News,"Expert: Public Anger Can Be Refreshing") pushing the slant that Clinton’s assaultive conduct during the interview was a “good thing” “Is a little tantrum now and then just what's called for?Under the right circumstances, yes, say some analysts of social behavior."It's more important than ever to cut through the clutter," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean at Yale's School of Management. ‘All of us are so over-managed these...

Laurie Mylroie, a noted author and middle east expert as well as 1992 Clinton campaign advisor on Iraq, evaluated the Richard Clarke book which President Clinton repeatedly and heatedly based his defense of his terror record to Chris Wallace on Fox News. Ms. Mylroie, described the Clarke book as "riddled with errors" and statues further that, "Clarke's book, Against All Enemies is, essentially, an attempt to blame the Bush administration for 9/11, while exonerating Clinton (and therefore Clarke). The reality is quite the reverse." Ms. Mylroie contends that Clarke's story "systematically distorts" key information, and she explains the central failing...

U.S. Muslims Call for Dialogue Over Pope's Comments on Islam In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. MUSLIMS CALL FOR DIALOGUE OVER POPE'S COMMENTS ON ISLAM CAIR seeks meeting with Vatican representative in Washington, D.C. (WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/15/2006) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for increased dialogue between Muslims and Catholics over the controversy sparked by remarks perceived as insulting to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad made by Pope Benedict XVI. CAIR is also seeking a meeting with the Vatican's representative in Washington, D.C., to discuss the remarks. In an address...

"But in court Viner admitted that he'd had an affair with a former prostitute who'd worked for Fleiss. Another prostitute, Melinda Hammon, testified that she'd had sex with him three times. The 60ish Viner, married for many years to 48-year-old actress Deborah Raffin, just adopted a baby girl, Taylor Rose, who was born two weeks ago in Beverly Hills." "At Dove, Viner was responsible for publishing trash books on the O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers cases. He's also the close friend and publisher of such celebrities as Larry King and Cindy Adams."

The United States, long the champion of limiting the spread of nuclear weapons, now finds itself in the humiliating and self-wounding position of being unable to put its leadership behind its principles.... ...As of Wednesday, President Clinton rightly was pushing, against all odds, for ratification. While all 45 Democrats appear to favor the treaty, only two of the Senate's 55 Republicans have said they support the accord. Given those numbers, the only responsible course would be to delay a vote on the treaty until its chances for ratification might be brighter.... ...Critics also argue that cheating is possible because existing ...

A Freddie Mac study concluding that far more black people have bad credit than white people, even when both have the same incomes, has come under attack in Congress, and some experts have questioned whether it oversimplifies a complex issue.... The study of 12,000 Americans with incomes up to $75,000 received wide media coverage when it was released last month by Freddie Mac, a federally chartered agency that provides capital for mortgage lending. It is one part of a new program to teach minorities how to improve their credit, in partnership with the NAACP, the National Urban League and five ...

"More than any other individual, Akio Morita, the co-founder of Sony Corp. who died Sunday in Tokyo at age 78, stimulated Japan's ascent to a global economic powerhouse built on technology." The above is the lead sentence in an otherwise praiseworthy article describing the contributions made by the named Sony co-founder. What is objectionable and laughable about this statement is the omission of any mention of W. Edwards Deming, an American whom the Japanese, including Sony, deservedly credit for the revival of their entire post world war II economy. Although it was briefly fashionable in the US to give ...