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Consumer-services marketplace books a loss of $8.3 million Angie’s List Inc. said Wednesday its revenue grew 11%, but it was less than analysts had expected as gross paid membership additions fell 27% for the services marketplace and consumer-review company....

Our good friends at The American Thinker and Israpundit have uncovered a fascinating limitation upon 501c3s like Cindy Sheehan's Gold Star Families For Peace and Medea Benjamin's Code Pink and Global Exchange.To wit, it is a violation of their tax exempt status for such "charities" to plan and engage in illegal activities. From the guidelines of the Internal Revenue Service: J. ACTIVITIES THAT ARE ILLEGAL OR CONTRARY TO PUBLIC POLICY1. IntroductionExempt purposes may generally be equated with the public good, and violations of law are the antithesis of the public good. Therefore, the conduct of such activities may be a...

Once upon a time, when East was East and West was West and two great hegemons snorted at each other over a high ideological fence, there browsed in the international jungle a herd which called itself the Nonaligned Bloc. To join the nonaligned did not signal hostility to the great powers so much as collective determination not to be eaten by a hegemon. But hegemony collapsed, and for some time now there has been no nation in the jungle so fearsome as to scare the rest into a defensive grouping. The nonaligned broke up. The bloc was forgotten. It is...

Are Liberals really Liberal?????? as the word "LIBERAL is defined. We should stop calling them Liberals when Being liberal it seems to me by it's definition of has nothing to do with anything they stand for. Leftist would be more suitable. liberal [lbrl, lbrl] adj. 1. relating to or having social and political views that favour PROGRESS and REFORM. 2. relating to or having policies or views advocating individual freedom. 3. giving and generous in temperament or behaviour. 4. tolerant of other people. 5. abundant; lavish: a liberal helping of cream. 6. not strict; free: a liberal translation. 7. of...

"Lib'rals!!" (To be sung to the Rolling Stones' "Some Girls") Lib'rals steal yer money...Lib'rals steal yer souls!! Lib'rals just crave Power...o'er lives that ain't their own!! Lib'rals love their "Programs"...Lib'rals love to TAX!! Lib'rals, we give most our bread to...We won't ever git it back!! Lib'rals they LOATHE Liberty...DemRATS, They Love POWER!! Lib'rals hide behind children...each time they beg fer MORE!! So give'em all YER money...Do Just What Yer Told!! Left takes more'n half of what I own... But it's Right who's doin' the Chores!! BigGuv'ment takes yer money...Leftists Corrupt Yer Souls!! Lib'rals tax the shirt off yer back...and tell...

DFU REPORT FROM L.A. From the above thread in which I described the anti-war protestors as being smelly, FReeper whoknowswhatevil had a great idea. We need to pass out hygiene products to these people. So here is the idea if anyone is up for it. On Sept. 14 at noon at the Federal Building, the smelly, naive fools are going to be demonstrating. We need to procure small samples of toothpaste, mouthwash, shampoo, and soap to pass out to them. We should come dressed nicely, perhaps the men can be in ties, and work the crowd. Does anyone have...