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Taxes Without Borders

Washington Free Beacon, by C.J. Ciaramella Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/27/2012 5:43:23 AM Post Reply

The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a global excise tax of up to 70 percent on cigarettes at an upcoming November conference, raising concerns among free market tax policy analysts about fiscal sovereignty and bureaucratic mission creep. In draft guidelines published this September, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control indicated it may put a cigarette tax on the table at its November conference in Seoul, Korea. “First we had doctors without borders,” said David Williams, president of the Taxpayer Protection Alliance. “Now you could have taxes without borders. … This is a new frontier in taxes.

There Will Be No Bacon Shortage

Slate, by Matthew Yglesias Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/27/2012 5:39:01 AM Post Reply

It all began, strangely enough, with a press release from an obscure foreign trade association. The National Pig Association of the United Kingdom, you see, wants British customers to feel OK about the idea of paying a higher retail price for pork products. They’d particularly like it if British customers went out of their way to buy locally produced pork. And why wouldn’t they? “Vendors want you to buy more of their product at higher prices” is more or less the ultimate dog bites man (or, as the case may be, pork chop) story. But the press release’s provocative lede—

Why is a genocide-threatening tyrant
allowed to park his plane at
Andrews Air Force Base, 10
miles from the White House?

Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/27/2012 5:37:42 AM Post Reply

I’ve just seen this incredible story at The Washington Post, which reveals that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 747 has been parked this week at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington--the official home of Air Force One, the US president’s plane: Free parking is hard to find in Washington--but not, apparently, for the Boeing 747 that ferried Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to this week’s United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York. That plane, emblazoned with the “Iran Air” logo, was parked Wednesday at Joint Base Andrews--the same air field where Air Force One is stored. In fact, President Obama taxied

‘Quid Pro Quota at Justice’

National Review Online, by Roger Clegg Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/27/2012 5:32:45 AM Post Reply

That’s the title of an editorial today in the Wall Street Journal (behind the firewall here). Here’s the story: Earlier this year, the Supreme Court was poised to hear oral arguments in the fully briefed Magner v. Gallagher, a case presenting the issue of whether a “disparate impact” cause of action may be brought under the Fair Housing Act. Now, the theory in disparate-impact causes of action is that someone can be held liable for racial discrimination if he uses a selection device that leads to a racial imbalance, even if the device is neutral

Democrat Senate Hopeful Warren
Exposed As Complete Fraud

Investors Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/27/2012 5:29:20 AM Post Reply

Democrat Elizabeth Warren has framed her race in Massachusetts against Sen. Scott Brown around integrity and intellect, as if she's a cut above other pols. In fact, she's beneath even the sleaziest. On top of fraudulently claiming minority Indian status without any documented ancestry, the Harvard law professor has now been busted practicing law in Massachusetts without a state license. Worse, her client list includes the type of corporations that Ms. Populist has demonized on the campaign trail as greedy polluters and exploiters of the "little guy." Turns out working-class champion Warren in 1995 hired herself out as a legal gun

The Real Story of the
Scott Brown Indian War

American Spectator, by Patrick Howley Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/27/2012 5:23:05 AM Post Reply

On Monday the online realm of the mainstream media reported that a group of Scott Brown supporters and staffers made vile racist hand gestures and hurled racially-charged epithets at Elizabeth Warren supporters near the Eire Pub in Boston, Massachusetts. "Casual racism and sports collide in Massachusetts," reported the Pulitzer Prize-winning publication the Huffington Post. "Supporters of Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown are seen at a rally doing tomahawk chops and war whoops in an apparent attempt to mock Democrat Elizabeth Warren… The Brown supporters laugh as they mimic Native American war cries" reported Huffington, citing a video disseminated

The President Minces Words

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/27/2012 5:17:23 AM Post Reply

Think of Barack Obama as a one-size-fits-all sort of guy. There’s an impasse in the Middle East? Let’s everybody kick back, put on a pot of coffee and talk things out. The NFL season may be about to go down the tubes because of a labor spat? Ditto. It’s a vision thing, and the president appears to have only one: Don’t get involved, and maybe nobody will notice. Now, in no way did the NFL referee lockout — which was resolved late last night — warrant a presidential intervention. Far from it. But the administration’s comments on the matter were instructive:

How to Make 2012 into 1980

Weekly Standard, by Frank Cannon & Jeffrey Bell Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/27/2012 5:10:42 AM Post Reply

When Republican strategists like Karl Rove cite 1980 as a model for this year’s election, they usually have in mind two main elements: Ronald Reagan’s question in the late October presidential debate about whether voters felt better off than four years earlier, when they elected Jimmy Carter, and Reagan’s ability in that debate to reassure swing voters about his ability to serve successfully if elected, converting a very close race into a ten-point blowout by “closing the deal.” The premise of most GOP analysts is that because of the bad economy,

The Islamization Of The ACLU

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 9/27/2012 5:06:17 AM Post Reply

Islamofascism: Americans might as well be living under Islamic blasphemy laws, yet the nation's champion of free speech — the ACLU — is AWOL. That's because it's now largely run by Muslims. The ACLU usually stands up strong for First Amendment rights. Not in the case of the Muhammad movie. The ACLU's executive director failed to release an official statement condemning the outrageous efforts of the White House to deep-six the film, including pressuring YouTube to remove its trailer from the Web. Amnesty International, in contrast, asserted that any Muslim hurt over the film

Connecticut Absentee
Voters Get Blank Ballots

Mother Jones, by Erika Eichelberger Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/27/2012 4:54:45 AM Post Reply

If you're overseas and voting by mail in Connecticut this November, grab an aspirin and a pen with lots of ink. The state's Supreme Court hadn't resolved a partisan scuffle over who gets to be listed first on the ballot this year before overseas absentee ballots were dropped in the mail, so those voters will have to write in all the candidates' names themselves, according to Deputy Secretary of State James Spallone. The Connecticut Republican Party challenged (PDF) Secretary of State Denise Merrill's decision to list Democratic candidates first on the ballot this year, arguing that it violated a statute

MSM Tipping Point On
Obama in the Middle East?

American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/27/2012 4:47:08 AM Post Reply

The repercussions from 9/11/12—the day the roof fell in on the Obama administration’s Middle East policy—continue to rumble across the diplomatic and political landscapes. Before that day, much of the country’s political and media establishment had been studiously ignoring signs of trouble in the Middle East or, when problems were too serious to ignore, studiously refraining from drawing conclusions about the overall state of US policy in the region. The anti-American riots that have been rocking the Muslim world since 9/11 have shaken the establishment out of its complacency. Increasingly, even those who sympathize

Obama's Electric Car
Future Gets Zapped

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 9/27/2012 4:45:38 AM Post Reply

This week, the world's largest carmaker said electric cars are a joke, and a congressional report said federal subsidies are a waste. You'd think that would shock President Obama out of his electric car fantasy. (Snip)Translation: Electric cars suck. Then, to complete Obama's industrial policy failure trifecta, Tesla Motors, which got a $465 million Energy Department loan, announced it had cut its revenue forecast and is now trying to get a waiver on the terms of that loan if it can't raise enough money from investors. The Energy Department already amended the Tesla loan once. But Tesla actually looks good

No Vetting Needed

American Thinker, by Carol Brown Original Article

Posted By: steveW- 9/27/2012 4:38:43 AM Post Reply

Obama is out in plain sight before Americans and the rest of the world. There is no mystery. Nothing to uncover. He has intentionally taken America down. His most recent proclamation at the United Nations that "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam" says it all, doesn't it? There is nothing vague about that comment. He unequivocally promoted Sharia law and gutted our First Amendment rights. (Of course the two go hand in hand.) Do we really need Obama to unseal his records?

Conan O'Brian Mocks Lone Conservative
On 'The View' For Hitting Obama
With Fair Question

Big Hollywood, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: steveW- 9/27/2012 2:23:37 AM Post Reply

Late-night comedian Conan O'Brien apparently thinks asking the President of the United States a serious question is something to ridicule. Or maybe it wasn't the question, but just the fact that it was a well-known conservative who posed the inoffensive query. As President Obama has allowed only one puffball interview after another, avoiding as many serious questions he can, he was nonetheless asked a mild but probing question by Elisabeth Hasselbeck of ABC's "The View." The gall of someone actually asking a serious question of the President was too much for O'Brien to bear.

It's Always the Economy, Stupid

Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Henninger Original Article

Posted By: Moritz55- 9/27/2012 1:36:40 AM Post Reply

'Stupid," in the famous quotation from 1992's Clinton vs. Bush campaign—"It's the economy, stupid"—is whoever thinks a U.S. presidential election is about something else. All presidential elections are about the economy. Yes, there are other issues, but it's also true that a whale has pilot fish. Still, most politicians would rather talk about anything but the economy, which they see in one of two ways—as a personal piggy bank or a mystery. Neither is discussable in public. This is the sixth presidential election since "stupid" was first identified, and nothing has changed.

Snacks: The USDA's Solution To
Student's Healthy Lunch Complaints

ABC News, by Amy Bingham Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 9/27/2012 1:22:42 AM Post Reply

According to Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the solution to the growing grumbling over re-vamped school lunch menus boils down to a good old fashioned snack. School lunch trays are a bit lighter this year after Congress-approved calorie limits on school lunches went into effect in August. The new regulations, which were championed by First Lady Michelle Obama as part of her "Let's Move" campaign to fight childhood obesity, have inspired protests and even a video parody from students who claim the reduced lunches are making them go hungry.

Mystery virus scare
in Denmark 'just the flu'

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:53:38 AM Post Reply

Five people in isolation in a Danish hospital are suffering from a typical influenza strain and not a new SARS-like respiratory illness as feared. "The five have tested positive for Influenza B and because of their general state we are sure that they do not have the new coronavirus," the hospital's chief physician Svend Stenvang Petersen said. The five, three adults and two children, had been isolated at the hospital since Tuesday amid fears they had contracted a new virus in the same family as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) after they experienced fever, coughing and influenza-like symptoms.

Pennsylvania Senate
race becomes competitive

Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:50:55 AM Post Reply

The Pennsylvania Senate race has flown under the radar for most of the election cycle, but new polling suggests that the race between Republican Tom Smith and Sen. Bob Casey could become competitive. A CBS/New York Times/Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday found political newcomer Smith trialing Casey by a mere six points. It is the third poll in two weeks to show the race moving into single digits. That’s a big improvement for Smith, who trailed Casey by 19 points in two late August polls. The last CBS/New York Times/Quinnipiac poll at the end of July had Casey ahead by 18

Massachusetts to appeal
inmate sex change surgery

Associated Press, by Steve Leblanc Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:46:35 AM Post Reply

Boston - Massachusetts will appeal a federal judge's decision to grant a convicted murderer's request for sex reassignment surgery, prison officials announced Wednesday. The state Department of Correction said that it believes the medical care Michelle Kosilek is receiving is adequate and that the court didn't address what it says are legitimate safety concerns of protecting her in prison. U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled this month that the surgery is the only adequate treatment for Kosilek's gender-identity disorder, a condition Wolf said is a "serious medical need." He said denying surgery violated Kosilek's Eighth Amendment rights. It was the

It’s a whole new brew for
brash tea party hero West

Washington Times, by Sean Lengell Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:41:07 AM Post Reply

Rep. Allen B. West, whose acerbic tongue and unabashed conservative swagger made him a tea party hero nationally two years ago during a successful run for Congress, is finding life on the campaign trail different — and more difficult — this year as he is locked in a battle to save his Florida seat. His rock-star status in conservative circles has helped him raise more than $10 million — an astronomically large sum for a freshman House member. But the Republican lawmaker may need every penny, as Democrats — eager to defeat one of the signature faces of the tea

Senators join suit over
Obama’s constitutional powers

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:35:14 AM Post Reply

Republican senators on Wednesday joined a lawsuit arguing President Obama violated the Constitution when he used his recess appointment powers earlier this year to fill several controversial posts. The move intensifies a simmering separation-of-powers battle over Mr. Obama’s executive powers, which Republicans say he has abused during his term in office. Led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republicans said the Senate was still in session, not in recess, when Mr. Obama made his four appointments in January. They said the picks — to the National Labor Relations Board and to a top consumer-advocacy post — are

Senate GOP: Akin
'preferable' to McCaskill

USA Today, by Catalina Camia Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:32:32 AM Post Reply

Looks like the Senate GOP's campaign committee is giving itself some wiggle room with Todd Akin. A day after the Missouri Republican decided once and for all to go it alone in his Senate race, the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) issued a statement saying Akin is a "more preferable candidate" than incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill. (Snip) Today, Akin picked up the support of former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum and Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina.

NFL, referees end lockout after
reaching new labor deal

USA Today, by Mike Garafolo Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:30:03 AM Post Reply

The NFL and its referees union reached a deal Wednesday night to end a three-month lockout and return its officials to the playing field, a spokesman for the league announced. The agreement ends a chaotic opening three weeks to the NFL season, which saw replacement referees -- recruited from lower-level college divisions -- blow calls, lose control of games, misapply rules, and generally prove that they were in over their heads in the big leagues. (Snip) The NFL insisted the latest round of talks with the NFL Referees Association had been scheduled before the blown call and weren't sparked by

Weather Channel heads to
swing states for election

USA Today, by David Bauder Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:27:01 AM Post Reply

New York - Snowstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes are what usually put The Weather Channel's news team in motion. This November it will mobilize for the election. The network, which commissioned a study on how many people might be dissuaded from going to the polls by bad weather, said Wednesday it plans to send some of its meteorologists out into the field on Election Day to monitor the weather's impact on voting. The study, done in August, found that 25 percent of eligible voters said bad weather would have an impact on their ability or desire to get to the polls

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on
Obama family last year,
perks questioned in new book

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:21:32 AM Post Reply

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks. In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.

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