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- Senate Republican jobs bill urges tax reform and cuts
- School cancels Halloween…and maybe Thanksgiving!
- Gov’t cameras in your car? E-toll patent hints at Big Brotherish future
- Pay for abortion, or women ‘die on the floor’
- Texas Tea Party Activists Demand Perry Push Immigration Bills
- Ron Paul touts ‘pro-life’ credentials in new TV commercial
| Senate Republican jobs bill urges tax reform and cuts Posted: 14 Oct 2011 11:16 AM PDT By Thomas Ferraro | Reuters Senate Republicans, having rejected President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, offered a sweeping and largely repackaged plan of their own on Thursday. Their “Jobs Through Growth Act” features a fresh call for tax reform and cuts as well as a number of components previously proposed, but stalled in the Democratic-led Senate. They include steps to: require a balanced budget; repeal Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system; lift prohibitions on offshore energy exploration and promote U.S. trade. “This is a pro-growth proposal to create the environment for jobs that stands in contrast to the short-term sweetener approach of the Obama administration, an approach that simply hasn’t worked,” Senator Rob Portman, a chief sponsor of the measure, told a news conference. Republicans unveiled their measure after complaints by Obama that they haven’t offered a jobs-creation plan. “We just thought it was time to put this all into a package,” said Senator John McCain, another sponsor. “Part of it is in response to the president saying we don’t have a proposal.” To read more, visit: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/us-usa-jobs-idUSTRE79A4D220111013 |
| School cancels Halloween…and maybe Thanksgiving! Posted: 14 Oct 2011 11:13 AM PDT
A Somerville principal has opened fire on cherished American holidays, blasting legendary explorer Christopher Columbus for "atrocities" and saying "we need to be careful" about celebrating Thanksgiving in a scathing email to teachers — who are already under orders not to let the kids dress up for Halloween. "When we were young we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples," wrote Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley. "We can no longer do so. For many of us and our students celebrating this particular person is an insult and a slight to the people he annihilated. On the same lines, we need to be careful around the Thanksgiving Day time as well." Mayor Joseph Curtatone said, "She raises a fair point. History is messy." School Superintendent Tony Pierantozzi said her "intention is to be very, very sensitive to all of the many, many cultures" of Somerville. Foley said she just wanted to "open up a conversation." To read more, visit: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1373223 |
| Gov’t cameras in your car? E-toll patent hints at Big Brotherish future Posted: 14 Oct 2011 11:09 AM PDT
Imagine that you couldn’t drive on major highways without agreeing to put a camera in your car — one that could film either the occupants or the vehicle's surroundings and transmit the images back to a central office for inspection. You don’t have to read George Orwell to conjure up such an ominous surveillance state. You just have to skim through filings at the U.S. Patent Office. It’s hard to imagine Americans would tolerate such a direct, Big-Brotherish intrusion. But they might not notice if the all-seeing cameras were tucked inside another kind of government tracking technology that millions of Americans have already invited into their cars. Kapsch TrafficCom AG, an Austrian company that just signed a 10-year contract to provide in-car transponders such as the E-Z Pass to 22 electronic highway toll collection systems around the U.S., recently filed a patent on technology to add multi-function mini-cameras to their toll gadgets. Today, transponders are in about 22 million cars around the U.S. Adding inward and outward facing cameras to the gadgets would create surveillance capabilities far beyond anything government agencies have tried until now. To read more, visit: http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/13/8308841-govt-cameras-in-your-car-e-toll-patent-hints-at-big-brotherish-future |
| Pay for abortion, or women ‘die on the floor’ Posted: 14 Oct 2011 11:05 AM PDT
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was essentially stripped of any formal input into the legislative process in last November’s election. I heave a sigh of relief over this fact every time I see her say something like this: She’s talking about a bill that simply protects taxpayers from having to subsidize abortions through Obamacare. This is about just how out-of-touch progressives are on social issues. If you fail to show sufficient enthusiasm for paying to kill someone else’s baby, it is a sign that you’re heartless. To read more, visit: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/pay-abortion-or-women-die-floor |
| Texas Tea Party Activists Demand Perry Push Immigration Bills Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:58 AM PDT
Texas Tea Party members want Gov. Rick Perry to push a measure that would give police the power to check the immigration status of people they detain. The members, representing various grass-roots organizations, took their demand Thursday to the state Capitol, where they held a news conference urging Perry to sign an executive order or call a special legislative session to ensure adoption of measures giving police broader powers to act on immigration matters. It’s a sensitive issue since Perry, who is vying for the Republican presidential nomination, has been branded by some conservatives as soft on immigration. The group pointed to other states like Alabama and Arizona — which have used state measures to get tougher on illegal immigration — and asked why Texas can’t do the same, instead of relying on federal enforcement. “Governor Perry’s decided, apparently, that he just needs to keep pointing the finger at Washington D.C., which absolves him of any responsibility,” said JoAnn Fleming, chairwoman of the Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee of the Texas Legislature. Perry supports expanding police power as a means of detecting illegal immigrants, and made the issue a priority at the start of the legislative session in January — seemingly fast-tracking its passage. Republicans hold a super-majority in the House, which passed the measure during the regular session, and a majority in the Senate, which approved another version of it during a special session in June. To read more, visit: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2011/10/14/texas-tea-party-activists-demand-gov-perry-push-tough-immigration-measures/ |
| Ron Paul touts ‘pro-life’ credentials in new TV commercial Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:53 AM PDT
Washington – Rep. Ron Paul is once again doing what the other Republican presidential campaigns apparently are not doing: Spending big bucks to run commercials on broadcast and cable television. This time the longtime congressman from Texas is going up with an ad titled “Life” in which the narrator says “Dr. Ron Paul: More than four thousand babies delivered. A man of faith committed to protecting life.” “This whole notion of life not being valuable, just was something I was never able to accept,” says Paul in the 60 second spot. The campaign says the ad will begin airing Friday on broadcast and cable television in Iowa, and on radio in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, the four states that vote first in the primary and caucus calendar. The campaign says the ad buy is around a million dollars and that the spots will run for weeks. Paul’s campaign recently went up with a sixty second ad that touted Paul’s work supporting military veterans. Paul’s new ad buys stands in contrast with the lack of paid commercials being put up on the airwaves or cable by the other campaigns, including those of Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the fundraising leaders among the GOP candidates. To read more, visit: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/14/ron-paul-touts-pro-life-credentials-in-new-tv-commercial/ |
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