“I said, I believe in American workers, I believe in this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back,” he said. “Now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/08/obama-lets-repeat-auto-rescue-with-every-manufacturing-131566.html
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Author: ‘Obama would have trouble getting a security clearance for an entry-level government job’
Author Paul Kengor wants you to know just how radical Frank Marshal Davis — a man many consider to have been a mentor to President Barack Obama during his teenage years — was.“Obama’s mentor was considered so radical, and such a potential pro-Soviet threat, that the federal government placed him on the Security Index,” Kengor told The Daily Caller in an interview about his new book on Davis, simply titled “The Communist.”
“That meant that if a war broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union, Frank Marshall Davis could be placed under immediate arrest.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/09/author-obama-would-have-trouble-getting-a-security-clearance-for-an-entry-level-government-job/#ixzz238lj0DE4
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As the editors of the Wall Street Journal explained, after noting that Romney’s proposal actually includes a 20 percent rate reduction for everyone who pays taxes, combined with the elimination of unspecified tax deductions that would primarily affect higher tax brackets: http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/08/the-legend-of-romney-hood/
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*A new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce finds that, when it comes to “threatening or disruptive behavior,” union members have far more rights—or, at least, far more license—than their fellow Americans. The Chamber's study, “Sabotage, Stalking, and Stealth Exemptions: Special State Laws for Labor Unions,” examines little known state laws that favor organized labor, even to the point of exempting union members from laws prohibiting “conduct that would otherwise be considered criminal activity.”
The IRS paid out $7.4 billion in tax refunds to illegal immigrants in 2012, quadruple the $1.7 billion paid out in 2007, according to a new report by Senate Republicans. The report was released as Treasury Department Inspector General J. Russell George revealed that the tax agency has allowed tax breaks for illegal immigrants and other areas of fraud to continue under the Obama administration. http://freebeacon.com/irs-discourages-employees-from-detecting-fraud/
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*A new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce finds that, when it comes to “threatening or disruptive behavior,” union members have far more rights—or, at least, far more license—than their fellow Americans. The Chamber's study, “Sabotage, Stalking, and Stealth Exemptions: Special State Laws for Labor Unions,” examines little known state laws that favor organized labor, even to the point of exempting union members from laws prohibiting “conduct that would otherwise be considered criminal activity.”
Although none of the laws highlighted by the
Chamber’s report condone violence, the report suggests that state laws
facilitate or even encourage the circumstances in which a labor dispute
might become violent—or even deadly. The report highlights exemptions
for violations such as stalking, trespassing, and other kinds of
behavior that can be intimidating or seriously disturbing.
For example, in California, “making a credible
threat to cause serious bodily injury to another, and then within 30
days thereafter entering the residence or workplace of the target”
is punishable with up to a year in jail. But the law also states that
this prohibition "shall not apply to any person who is engaged in labor
union activities." http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/some-laws-favor-labor-unions_649669.html
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Child tax credit payments to illegal immigrants have quadrupled in
the past five years as a result of President Obama’s stimulus package
and the Internal Revenue Service’s refusal to pursue instances of fraud,
a new study shows. The IRS is also failing to inform citizens that
illegal immigrants have stolen their Social Security Numbers.The IRS paid out $7.4 billion in tax refunds to illegal immigrants in 2012, quadruple the $1.7 billion paid out in 2007, according to a new report by Senate Republicans. The report was released as Treasury Department Inspector General J. Russell George revealed that the tax agency has allowed tax breaks for illegal immigrants and other areas of fraud to continue under the Obama administration. http://freebeacon.com/irs-discourages-employees-from-detecting-fraud/
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Most or all of those returns were probably filed by identity thieves, and the Belle Glade case isn't even the worst of it, according to a report issued last month by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. That report notes that in addition to the Belle Glade home, there was an address in Tampa that sent in 518 tax returns and got back almost $1.8 million in refunds, and an address in Lansing, Mich., sent in 2,137 tax returns and got more than $3.3 million back. The returns from these addresses all bore the hallmarks of identity theft, according to TIGTA. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/tax-refund-fraud-florida_n_1752244.html
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What was once considered a basic right and untouchable is now on the chopping block: public pension plans.
I have been writing about the massive budget deficits that municipalities and states have been dealing with, the largest contributor to those budget deficits being the public pension plans.
Many states and municipalities have cut pension plan benefits for new workers, but what were once considered the legal and embedded rights of current retirees and public workers have been torn down.
In both San Diego and San Jose, California, residents have voted overwhelmingly—close to 70% in both cities—to cut the pension benefits of current public workers. (Source: New York Times, June 6, 2012). The residents weighed the budget cuts when factoring public workers retiring after 30 years of service with 90% of their salaries—which is almost unheard of in the private sector—versus having basic services cut and libraries unopened because of the massive budget deficits.
Residents of San Diego and San Jose chose to implement budget cuts on what they perceived as very generous pensions for public workers in order to reduce the budget deficits.
Previous court cases have sided with public workers, but now these measures voted on by the residents themselves will be tested in court. http://us.mc1216.mail.yahoo.com/mc/showMessage?.rand=1507368371&fid=Inbox&mid=2_0_0_1_6466_ANlbimIAAAcKUBwsGAyb9iIPM0M#_pg=showMessage&sMid=1&&filterBy=&.rand=128730561&midIndex=1&mid=2_0_0_1_120730_ALZaimIAAPC6UCKdIwASjU9q3cc&fromId=profitconfidential@lombardipublishing.com&m=2_0_0_1_122166_AMJaimIAAMOPUCKdugjHKk1q2qs,2_0_0_1_120730_ALZaimIAAPC6UCKdIwASjU9q3cc,2_0_0_1_92815_ANlbimIAAAmxUCHqdgkT2FAXSq0,2_0_0_1_57293_ANlbimIAADqIUCEuNAF3XE00GYk,2_0_0_1_46697_AHZaimIAAQ%2FVUCETGA7sJCQKBLk,2_0_0_1_5416_ANlbimIAAI1QUB8Ifg3lAFeD0E8,2_0_0_1_6466_ANlbimIAAAcKUBwsGAyb9iIPM0M,&sort=date&order=down&startMid=0&hash=91d4186715cc8797cfd321f616d140a4&.jsrand=723879
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A federal judge denied the Sierra Club’s request for a temporary injunction to halt construction of the lower half of the Keystone XL Pipeline Sunday. http://freebeacon.com/sayonara-sierra/
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Obama Administration Claim #1: We Didn’t Gut Work Requirements
Ever since the 1996 law passed, Democratic leaders have attempted (unsuccessfully) to repeal welfare’s work standards, blocking reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) and attempting to weaken the requirements. Unable to eliminate “workfare” legislatively, the Obama HHS claimed authority to grant waivers that allow states to get around the work requirements.
Humorously, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius now asserts that the Administration abolished the TANF work requirements to increase work.
HHS now claims that states receiving a waiver must “commit that their proposals will move at least 20 percent more people from welfare to work compared to the state’s prior performance.” But given the normal turnover rate in welfare programs, the easiest way to increase the number of people moving from “welfare to work” is to increase the number entering welfare in the first place. http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/08/morning-bell-obama-denies-gutting-welfare-reform/
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Diacetyl, a flavoring used to produce the buttery flavor and aroma of microwave popcorn and other food, may be linked to Alzheimer's, U.S. researchers say.
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