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The Hollywood Tax Story
They Won´t Tell at the Oscars

Wall Street Journal, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/24/2013 4:49:50 AM Post Reply

At the Democratic National Convention last year, actress Eva Longoria called for higher taxes on America´s rich. Her take: "The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy´s flipping burgers—she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not." Actually, nowadays an Eva Longoria who flipped burgers would probably qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit and get a check from the government rather than pay taxes. It´s the movie set where she works these days that may well be getting the tax break. With campaign season over,

How to Win in 2014

Weekly Standard, by Jay Cost Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/24/2013 4:46:35 AM Post Reply

Nearly four months after the election, most everybody seems to agree that something is amiss with the GOP. This consensus has provoked a stream of free advice for how Republicans can get back on their feet. Some of it is constructive and helpful. For instance, commentators like Jim Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute, Peter Wehner of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Michael Gerson of the Washington Post have persuasively argued in various ways about why and how the Republican party needs to update its policy offerings. But much of the “advice”

One good reason not to trust Fox News

Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell, MT], by Frank Miele Original Article

Posted By: davesenior- 2/24/2013 4:21:08 AM Post Reply

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and the same thing goes for Al Gore and Rupert Murdoch, right?I wrote a column recently excoriating Al Gore for selling his Current TV cable channel to Al Jazeera, the Arabic news broadcast company based in Qatar.It isn’t just that Al Jazeera is Arabic, but rather that it is a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist causes.Turns out that the new Al Jazeera America may not be the only problem, however. An interview with columnist Diana West on the website www.radicalislam.org has pointed to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News

The Bating Game:
Obama Doubles Down

American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 2/24/2013 3:49:57 AM Post Reply

By law, on Friday the executive must begin to cut $85 billion from federal spending. Though, as is his wont, the president is blaming the Republicans for what he claims is a draconian measure. No less a Washington chronicler of events than Bob Woodward of the Washington Post considers that a gross distortion of the truth [T]he automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of [Treasury Secretary nominee Jack] Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors -- probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Manti Te´o was duped because ´I cared´

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/24/2013 12:30:41 AM Post Reply

Manti Te´o walked into a crowded room of reporters Saturday in Indianapolis, took a breath and settled in for one of the most riveting news conferences ever at the NFL scouting combine. Again, the former Notre Dame linebacker explained how he had been duped into an Internet romance with a girlfriend he never met. He answered every question with thoughtful deliberation and tried to provide clarity on a hoax that turned one of the nation´s best college players into the butt of national jokes. "I cared for somebody. That's what I was taught to do ever since I was young.

Brazil seeks to boost Nigeria
energy ties: Rousseff

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/23/2013 9:34:32 PM Post Reply

Brazil´s President Dilma Rousseff said Saturday that her government will seek to boost energy ties with Nigeria, Africa´s top oil producer, after meeting President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja. Nigeria is Brazil´s main commercial partner in Africa, with bilateral trade soaring from $1.5 billion (1.1 billion euros) in 2002 to $9 billion last year. Brazil´s state-owned oil company Petrobras has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Nigeria´s coal, oil, natural gas and alternative energy sectors.(Snip)Experts say that Brazil, an emerging economic powerhouse, is looking to resource-rich countries like Nigeria to help sustain growth. Nigeria is also anxious to develop

Connecticut´s Sen. Blumenthal
Rated Most Liberal Senator

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Dr. Susan Berry Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/23/2013 8:28:45 PM Post Reply

The National Journal’s rankings of the most liberal U.S. representatives reveals that Connecticut’s Sen. Richard Blumenthal is the most liberal Senator, while Connecticut’s all-Democrat congressional delegation is the fourth most liberal in the country. Blumenthal tied with Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) for the top liberal spot in the Senate. Others at that end of the spectrum include Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Al Franken (D-MN), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). According to the rankings, Blumenthal voted for the liberal position on legislation 90.7% of the time.

A Mind of Their Own,
and the Freedom to Speak It

New York Times, by Margaret Sullivan Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/23/2013 8:28:37 PM Post Reply

Several years ago, the columnist Paul Krugman veered from his usual practice of writing about the economy and began writing columns about the war in Iraq. (Snip) Readers ask me about this on a fairly regular basis: How much freedom do The Times’s star columnists have? Are they edited or directed at all? Given their stature, would anyone dare? Robert Manson of Marlborough, Mass., posed the question recently in an e-mail: “I know that Times columnists are free to choose to write what they please, and I certainly consider that to be a good thing. However, I am writing to ask whether there

Fox’s Kirsten Powers To Panel:
Chris Wallace ‘Should Be Proud’
Obama Won’t Go On His Show

Mediaite, by Matt Wilstein Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/23/2013 8:25:33 PM Post Reply

After a week in which a lot of media attention was focused on the White House Press Corps’ lack of access to President Obama‘s golf vacation in Florida, Fox News Watch asked Saturday why the president is shutting out reporters and avoiding “tough questions.” Jim Pinkerton, contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine, said that Ed Henry‘s message that this was “about transparency” and not about golf, was lost on most of the “mainstream media” because of Henry’s affiliation with Fox. He added, “the mainstream media are so ‘Obamaphilic’ that they just clobbered the

Cruz: Harvard Law did have Marxists

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Bernie Becker Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/23/2013 8:24:48 PM Post Reply

Sen. Ted Cruz’s office has chided the New Yorker for calling a three-year-old speech news, but has confirmed that the Texas Republican believed that the Harvard Law faculty had numerous self-described Communists. Cruz, according to the New Yorker, said that there were a dozen Marxists on the law school faculty committed to overthrowing the U.S. government when he attended Harvard during the 1990s. But according to Cruz, there was but a single Republican on the same faculty. Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the senator, told a conservative website that the Texas

Fans injured when car
sails into fence at Daytona

Associated Press, by Jenna Fryer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/23/2013 8:21:39 PM Post Reply

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.- At least 30 NASCAR fans were injured Saturday when a car sailed into the fence at Daytona International Speedway, and large chunks of debris - including a tire - flew into the grandstands. No fatalities were reported from the accident on the last lap of the Nationwide Series race. The crash began as the field closed in on the finish line, and rookie Kyle Larson´s car came upon the wreck and went airborne into the fence that separates the track from the seats. Large chunks of Larson´s car landed in the grandstands,

Will Obama push us over the edge?

Fox News, by John Lott Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/23/2013 8:11:57 PM Post Reply

Obama thinks he has a mandate for change. But this is the man who ran for president in 2008 promising to “cut net spending” and to shrink the federal government; a man who promised that his “stimulus” spending was only temporary. Obama hid regulations from view until after his reelection. The press maintained the fiction that Obama supports the Second Amendment and is no threat to citizens’ keeping guns for self-defense. Yet the day after his reelection, Obama called for the UN Arms Trade Treaty negotiations to be started again, and a few weeks later he promised to put the full force of the federal

Iran says it has brought
down a foreign spy drone

Reuters, by Stephen Powell Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/23/2013 8:00:52 PM Post Reply

London - Iran´s Revolutionary Guards have brought down a foreign surveillance drone during a military exercise, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said on Saturday. "We have managed to bring down a drone of the enemy. This has happened before in our country," the agency quoted war games spokesman General Hamid Sarkheli as saying in Kerman, southeast Iran, where the military exercise is taking place. (Snip) In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said he had seen the reports. He noted that the Iranians did not specifically claim that the drone was American.

Initial Reports Emerge From Daytona
International Speedway Crash

New York Times, by Ravi Somaiya & Michael Schwirtz Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/23/2013 7:49:36 PM Post Reply

As our colleague Viv Bernstein writes, the end of the Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., was marred by a wreck that injured spectators and sheared the front from one of the cars. A report The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported on some of the immediate details: Dozens of safety workers went into the stands and have carried several people out on stretchers to a line of at least eight ambulances waiting below and behind the stands. Safety workers appeared to carry patients from at least two sections of the grandstands, while they worked

How defense spending will
grow under sequester cuts

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/23/2013 7:49:34 PM Post Reply

The major objection most Republicans have to the coming sequestration budget cuts is that the cuts will fall disproportionately on the Department of Defense. That’s true; defense spending is about one-fifth of the federal budget but will take about half of the sequester cuts. But even for the Pentagon, the cuts are only to the rate of growth for the defense budget in coming years. They are not actual cuts that make spending decline. In a February publication, “The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023,” the Congressional Budget Office (summary here, full report here)

Why close airports? FAA’s annual
budget for ‘consultants, travel’
is larger than sequestration cuts

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/23/2013 7:45:32 PM Post Reply

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood threatened to shut down airports if Congress does not undo sequestration, even though the Federal Aviation Administration annual budget for consultants, travel, and supplies is larger than the sequester cut. “At DOT, we will need to cut nearly a billion dollars, which will affect dozens of our programs. Over $600 million of these cuts will need to come from the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency that controls and manages our nation’s skies,” LaHood said during the White House press briefing. “As a result of these cuts, the vast majority of FAA’s

Obama selling White House access
to wealthy donors who support
Organizing for Action

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/23/2013 7:39:21 PM Post Reply

President Obama’s reorganized campaign operation is selling access to the president in return for big donations, according to the New York Times. The group ‘Organizing for Action’ is a reorganized version of President Obama’s ‘Organizing for America’ campaign juggernaut – now a tax-exempt “advocacy” group where federal contribution limits don’t apply. According to the Times, wealthy donors who give $500,000 or more get to join the group’s “national advisory board” which allows them to attend quarterly meetings with the president “along with other meetings at the White House.”

Band injured in crash on I-85

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Mike Morris Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/23/2013 7:39:16 PM Post Reply

A popular event band was involved in a wreck that shut down part of I-85 for approximately eight hours Friday. Tracey Watson, a spokesperson for the Georgia State Patrol, said the driver of a recreational vehicle lost control of the RV about 5:30 a.m. near Mile Marker 133 in Jackson County. “Party on the Moon” was traveling northbound when the driver slumped over the steering wheel and a band member grabbed it, (Snip)Atlanta-based “Party on the Moon” has played events ranging from Eli Manning’s wedding to President Obama’s inauguration, according to its website.

Iran announces uranium finds
and power plant expansion

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/23/2013 7:26:10 PM Post Reply

Iran says it has found major new uranium deposits and is planning to expand its nuclear power programme. It said 16 sites had been identified as suitable for the construction of new power plants over the next 15 years. Iran said the find - which has not been independently confirmed - would treble the size of known uranium deposits. Under UN sanctions, Iran is banned from importing nuclear material. It is due to hold talks with Western powers on Tuesday about its nuclear programme. The US and its allies are widely believed to be planning to offer Iran some relief from sanctions

Is all forgiven? Tiger Woods and
ex-wife Elin Nordegren pictured
together today for first time in
years at children´s sports event

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/23/2013 7:10:47 PM Post Reply

Tiger Woods and his ex-wife Elin Nordegren have been pictured together today for the first time in years, sparking rumors the pair may be rekindling their romance. It´s been more than three years since Nordegren, 33, smashed her former husband´s SUV with a golf club after news of his rampant cheating surfaced. And now the two have both showed up at a youth sports event with their kids in Jupiter, Florida, appearing to be one big happy family at least briefly before leaving together. According to TMZ, Woods, 37, got to the sports day first with his son and

´He´s on another planet´: Obama
finally speaks about secretive
golfing weekend with Tiger Woods

Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye, Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/23/2013 5:34:31 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama has spoken publicly about playing with Tiger Woods having returned to the highest office in the land after spending President’s Day weekend on the golf course. ‘He’s on another planet,’ marveled the president about his experience of teeing off with the 14-times major champion and current world number two. ´He plays a different game than I do,´ Obama told ABC7 on Wednesday. ´I don´t think either party was nervous, he knew that I wasn´t a big threat to his world ranking and I knew that I better keep my day job.´The two met up for their first-ever round together last Sunday at a luxury golf resort

What Will Happen If I
Consume Too Much Calcium?

PJ Media, by Theodore Dalrymple Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 2/23/2013 5:09:52 PM Post Reply

It is tempting for people to suppose that if a little of something is good for them, then a lot of it must be better. (Snip) A study from Sweden, recently published in the British Medical Journal, examines the important question of whether calcium supplements are good for middle-aged and old women. What the Swedish researchers found was that the graph of the relationship between calcium intake and death rates was a U-shaped curve. People with a low consumption of calcium had a higher mortality than those with a moderate consumption, but so did people with a high consumption.

The downfall of Jesse Jackson jnr,
the man who might have beaten
Obama to the White House

Telegraph [UK], by John Avlon Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/23/2013 3:54:30 PM Post Reply

Political scandals generally come in two sizes: standard sleaze and buffoonish corruption. This week, Jesse Jackson jnr — the former congressman and son of the controversial civil rights leader — pleaded guilty to an array of campaign finance crimes that would have made the most hardened Chicago political mover blush. Working in cahoots with his wife, Sandi — until recently a Chicago alderman — the Jackson duo managed to enrich themselves off campaign funds with an evident weakness for luxury items ranging from a $43,000 Rolex watch to a fedora once worn by Michael Jackson. This fall from

Can smugglers still cashing-
in on Michigan refund

Detroit News, by Alanna Durkin Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/23/2013 3:54:05 PM Post Reply

Lansing — Michigan lawmakers want to crack down on can and bottle smugglers they say are scamming Michigan for undeserved recycling refunds, corrupting a generous 10-cent per container payback policy once infamously portrayed in a "Seinfeld" episode and which beverage officials now claim costs the state millions of dollars annually. "Seinfeld" characters Kramer and Newman failed miserably in their comedic attempt to cash in on the refund, when they loaded a mail truck full of cans and bottles in New York and attempted to drive them to Michigan. But lawmakers say it´s a serious problem,

Detroit Public Library fires
exec at center of FBI probe

Detroit News, by Christine Macdonald Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/23/2013 3:42:51 PM Post Reply

Detroit — Three months after an FBI raid, the Detroit Public Library has fired one of its top administrators at the center of the federal investigation over kickbacks. Chief Administrative Officer Tim Cromer had been on paid leave from his $145,323-a-year post since mid-November, when the FBI raided his office at the library´s main branch and his West Bloomfield Township home. (Snip) The November raid came after a series of stories in The News highlighting allegations of mismanagement, nepotism and cost overruns. Cromer first attracted scrutiny in 2011 when library officials considered

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