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- Palin pulls within 5 points of Obama
- GOP leadership faces possible tea party revolt in 2012
- Who Else Pays for the President’s $3.6 Trillion Deficit Cutting Plan?
- Rick Santorum contacted Google, says company spreads ‘filth’
- FBI is on your cell phone. Do you care?
- Al Gore attacks Tea Party’s ‘extremist agenda’
- NYPD teaches nightclubs to look out for possible terrorists with ‘bulging veins in the neck’
- Dozens Test Positive for Exposure to Tuberculosis
- FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?
- IMF sharply downgrades outlook for U.S., Europe
| Palin pulls within 5 points of Obama Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:14 AM PDT BY STEVEN THOMMA, The Miami Herald WASHINGTON — Look out President Barack Obama. Even Sarah Palin’s gaining on you. A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that Obama looks increasingly vulnerable in next year’s election, with a majority of voters believing he’ll lose to any Republican, a solid plurality saying they’ll definitely vote against him and most potential Republican challengers gaining on him. Even in potential matchups where he leads, Obama in most cases has lost ground to the Republican. The biggest gain came for Palin, the former Alaska governor who hasn’t yet announced whether she’ll jump into the fast-changing race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. After trailing Obama by more than 20 percentage points in polls all year, the new national survey, taken Sept. 13-14, found Palin trailing the president by just 5 points, 49-44 percent. The key reason: She now leads Obama among independents, a sharp turnaround. Overall, the gains among Republicans “speak to Obama’s decline among independents generally, and how the middle is not his right now,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the national survey. To read more, visit: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/20/v-fullstory/2417008/poll-finds-obama-losing-ground.html |
| GOP leadership faces possible tea party revolt in 2012 Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:08 AM PDT By John Rossomando, The Daily Caller Tea party activist David Lewis's announcement Friday that he plans to mount a primary challenge to House Speaker John Boehner could indicate a larger problem for the GOP leadership, and point to restlessness among an important segment of the tea party faithful. Republican leaders face a growing perception among some tea party factions that they are not interested in holding the Obama administration's feet to the fire on spending. Some say the Republicans talked a good game going into the 2010 midterms but have failed to deliver since winning control of the House of Representatives. "Everybody knows that the debt ceiling deal was a completely fraudulent deal," Mark Meckler, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, told The Daily Caller. "We were told that if we passed this deal we wouldn't be downgraded, but we were still downgraded." Meckler warns that Republicans and Democrats could both face an electoral bloodbath in the 2012 primaries if they do not do more to hold the line on taxes and spending. "What we have here in Washington, D.C. is, one, people who are just stupid, or two, they are lying," Meckler said. "I think it's both. They don't understand economics, and they're lying." To read more, visit: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/21/gop-leadership-faces-possible-tea-party-revolt-in-2012/ |
| Who Else Pays for the President’s $3.6 Trillion Deficit Cutting Plan? Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:05 AM PDT
Who else has to pay in President Barack Obama’s “shared sacrifice” plan to cut the deficit by $3.6 trillion over ten years? FOX News analyst Jim Farrell found the following: * Increase the “pat down fee”: The government currently charges a pat-down fee of $2.50 per enplanement ($5.00 max on a one-way trip). You read that right–you get charged a fee for someone to pat you down. The President proposes to change it to a flat $5.00 for a one-way trip and raise that fee to $7.50 over the next 4 years. It is expected to raise an additional $25 billion in pat-down fees over the next 10 years. * Charge military retirees for a “Medigap” plan: The plan proposes an annual fee of $200 per year to enroll in TRICARE for Life – essentially the military’s “Medigap” plan ($6.7 billion over 10 years). * Increase prescription drug co-pays for military: Increase military co-pays for prescription drugs by $20.6 billion over 10 years. * Increase federal employee contributions for retirement: Increase federal employee contributions to retirement by 1.2% ($21 billion over 10 years). * Increase Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac mortgage fees: Increase mortgage fees by Fannie and Freddie by $15 per month on a new $220,000 mortgage – raising fees by $28 billion over 10 years. To read more, visit: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/09/19/who-else-pays-for-presidents-36-trillion-deficit-cutting-plan/ |
| Rick Santorum contacted Google, says company spreads ‘filth’ Posted: 21 Sep 2011 05:58 AM PDT By ALEXANDER BURNS | Politico A Google search for Santorum has generated some inappropriate results since gay columnist Dan Savage organized an online campaign to link graphic sexual terms to the socially conservative senator's name. Now, the Republican presidential candidate says he's convinced Google could do something to remedy the issue, if the company wanted to. "I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they'd get rid of it," Santorum said. "If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country." He continued: "To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can’t handle but I suspect that’s not true." Santorum has acknowledged his widely covered "Google problem" in the past, but his contact with the company is a newer development. UPDATE: A Google spokesperson responded to Santorum by advising that users who want “content removed from the Internet should contact the webmaster of the page directly.” To read more, visit: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63952.html |
| FBI is on your cell phone. Do you care? Posted: 21 Sep 2011 05:56 AM PDT By Nat Hentoff, WorldNetDaily John Adams lost the 1800 presidential election to Thomas Jefferson in large part because Adams, in 1798, pushed through Congress the Alien and Sedition Acts that punished any of the new Americans who stirred up “sedition within the United States” by speech or actions that brought the president or Congress into “contempt or disrepute.” The First Amendment had been ratified only seven years before! The American people, no longer threatened by the tyrannical British king and insistently proud of their guaranteed personal liberties, voted for Jefferson, who had strongly opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts (my book, “First Freedom: The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America,” Delacorte Press, 1980). Here we are in 2011, with our federal, state and local governments having the technological ability to track and store in massive databases what we say on the phone, in emails, on Facebook, on Twitter and the myriad other digital means in which we communicate. The Obama administration has the power to punish an American for providing “material support” to our terrorist enemies. Moreover, as I and others have reported, the Department of Justice’s Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative, or NSI, enlists We the People to spy on possible seditious Americans among us and report them to the FBI and local and state police. We are ordered to do this in obedience to the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign. It’s up to you to define “suspicious.” This is what our America has become. Jefferson’s ghost might want to start another revolution. Will this gutting of the First and Fourth Amendments injure President Obama’s prospects for a second term? I’m not aware of any signs of even small-scale angry protests from citizens that will add to his already formidable obstacles to remaining in the White House. To read more, visit: http://wnd.ha-hosting.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=346997 |
| Al Gore attacks Tea Party’s ‘extremist agenda’ Posted: 20 Sep 2011 11:04 AM PDT By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY Former vice president Al Gore is blasting Tea Party supporters as “extremist” in a new fundraising pitch for House Democrats. “Single-minded proponents of a dangerous and extremist agenda are working feverishly to roll back every Democratic gain we’ve ever made,” Gore says in an e-mail on behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). “The Tea Partiers now calling the shots in the Republican Party won’t back away from their radical agenda.” It’s not the first time the former vice president has used such rhetoric. In a July 25 blog post, Gore wrote about the dangers of “ideological extremists” in the GOP and Tea Party who balk at raising the nation’s debt ceiling. He compared them to skeptics of climate change. Gore is asking for donations of $3 or more, so the DCCC can have a good financial showing for the month of September. To read more, visit: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/09/al-gore-tea-party-extremists-/1 |
| NYPD teaches nightclubs to look out for possible terrorists with ‘bulging veins in the neck’ Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:59 AM PDT
The NYPD’s updated guide to bolstering the safety of city nightclubs offers tips on how to spot patrons who are bombed – as well as those carrying bombs. The 27-page booklet, titled “Best Practices for Nightlife Establishments,” advises owners to be cautious about nervous customers who are sweating profusely and with “bulging veins in the neck.” “Counter-terrorism security plans should include training for all staff in the detection of possible suicide bombers,” the guide, released Monday, says. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly insisted the guide, produced in conjunction with the New York Nightlife Association, is not meant to “alarm, but to help owners and operators craft effective strategies for terrorism prevention and preparedness.” On how to spot would-be terrorists, the guide recommends being alert to people with “visible wires and tape” protruding from their clothing and “individuals who are obviously disguised.” Nightclub workers should also be aware of people casing establishments by photographing or videotaping. To read more, visit: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/20/2011-09-20_nypd_teaches_nightclubs_to_look_out_for_possible_terrorists_with_bulging_veins_i.html |
| Dozens Test Positive for Exposure to Tuberculosis Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:56 AM PDT
At least 80 students, teachers and staff at Ennis High School have tested positive for exposure to tuberculosis. The skin tests were ordered because a teacher now on medical leave was diagnosed with the bacterial infection just before the first day of school. Dr. Brian Smith of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said people who a positive skin test normally are not sick and are not infectious. “What a positive skin test means is that a person has been exposed to the disease and they have picked up a tiny bit of the bacteria that has caused their body to react to the skin test, so in those persons you can kill the bacteria by giving a single medication for nine months,” he said. To read more, visit: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Dozens-Test-Positive-for-Exposure-to-Tuberculosis-130159523.html?dr |
| FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries? Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:52 AM PDT By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER – Associated Press | Yahoo News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama makes it sound as if there are millionaires all over America paying taxes at lower rates than their secretaries. “Middle-class families shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires,” Obama said Monday. “That’s pretty straightforward. It’s hard to argue against that.” The data tell a different story. On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to private and government data. They pay at a higher rate, and as a group, they contribute a much larger share of the overall taxes collected by the federal government. There may be individual millionaires who pay taxes at rates lower than middle-income workers. In 2009, 1,470 households filed tax returns with incomes above $1 million yet paid no federal income tax, according to the Internal Revenue Service. That, however, was less than 1 percent of the nearly 237,000 returns with incomes above $1 million. In his White House address Monday, Obama called on Congress to increase taxes by $1.5 trillion as part of a 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. He proposed that Congress overhaul the tax code and impose what he called the “Buffett rule,” named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett. To read more, visit: http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-rich-taxed-less-secretaries-070642868.html |
| IMF sharply downgrades outlook for U.S., Europe Posted: 20 Sep 2011 09:38 AM PDT
WASHINGTON — The world economy has entered a “dangerous new phase,” according to the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. As a result, the international lending organization has sharply downgraded its economic outlook for the United States and Europe through the end of next year. The IMF expects the U.S. economy to grow just 1.5 percent this year and 1.8 percent in 2012. That’s down from its June forecast of 2.5 percent in 2011 and 2.7 percent next year. To achieve even that still-low level of growth, the U.S. economy would need to expand at a much faster rate in the second half of the year than its 0.7 percent annual pace in the first six months. Most economists expect growth of between 1.5 percent and 2 percent in the final two quarters. Though an improvement, it wouldn’t be enough to lower the unemployment rate. The rate has been 9 percent or higher in all but two months since the recession officially ended more than two years ago. “The global economy has entered a dangerous new phase,” said Olivier Blanchard, the IMF’s chief economist. “The recovery has weakened considerably. Strong policies are needed to improve the outlook and reduce the risks.” The IMF has also lowered its outlook for the 17 countries that use the euro. It predicts 1.6 percent growth this year and 1.1 percent next year, down from its June projections of 2 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively. The gloomier forecast for Europe is based on worries that euro nations won’t be able to contain their debt crisis and keep it from destabilizing the region. To read more, visit: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IMF-World-economy-enters-apf-1240337037.html?x=0 |
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