Monday, October 17, 2011

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

D.C. gun laws test tea party’s principles

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:32 AM PDT

By The Washington Times

The House Judiciary Committee's decision last week to leave the District's strict gun laws alone — at least for now — appears consistent with the tea party's resistance to federal "tyranny" but at odds with the GOP-backed movement's strict adherence to language in the Constitution.

The Republican-controlled committee voted 24-3 last week against an amendment by Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, that would allow visitors to carry concealed weapons in the District as long as they have that privilege in their home states.

But in doing so, it had to straddle the line between tea party principles of limited government and deference to local rule and its reading of the Constitution, which provides the Congress with oversight duties of the District as a "federal enclave."

D.C. advocates for budget autonomy, a full vote in Congress or even statehood are often at loggerheads with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, who must reconcile the District’s independent government with their assertion of federal powers on fragile issues such as the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.

"I get that," said Rep. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican and chairman of a House subcommittee on D.C. affairs. "I just think the District is constitutionally significant. It is mentioned by name in the Constitution, which makes it unique. I don't know that my state is mentioned by name in the Constitution."

To read more, visit:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/16/dc-gun-laws-test-tea-partys-principles/

Up to 40% of cancers ‘are caused by viruses’: Discovery offers hope of vaccines and new therapies

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:27 AM PDT

By TAMARA COHEN, Mail Online

Viruses may cause up to 40 per cent of cancers including brain tumours and leukaemia, scientists claim.

If they are proved correct in further tests, it could pave the way for vaccinations against several types of cancer and therapies to cure them.

The claim follows research which has discovered viruses in types of cancer which were never thought to have been linked with infection.

More than 300,000 people a year are diagnosed with cancer in the UK, of whom half will die from the disease.

It has been known for decades that viruses cause some types of cancer but it was thought to be only 10 to 20 per cent of cases.

The best known are the hepatitis B and C bugs, which can cause liver cancer, and the human papilloma virus (HPV) which can cause cervical cancer.

Last week scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found a viral link with medulloblastoma, the most common form of childhood brain tumour.

To read more, visit:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2049775/Cancer-vaccine-step-closer-viral-infections-linked-40-cent-cases.html

Connecticut Ranked First in Tax Burden

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:22 AM PDT

By Cathryn J. Prince, New Canaan Patch

"Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society," said President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

"What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue," said Thomas Paine.

Whether one believes taxes are privilege or plunder, the state's tax burden is on state legislators' minds. That's no surprise since election season arrived and also since the General Assembly will soon meet for a special session on jobs.

State Rep. John Shaban, a Republican representing Easton, Redding and Weston in the 135th House District recently emailed his constituents a Bloomberg report that said Connecticut leads the nation in tax burden.

According to Bloomberg, the state ranks number one in tax burden because of its 5 percent income tax, its 6.35 percent sales tax, its $2,381 property tax per capita and because of the between a 7.2 percent to 16 percent inheritance tax with $2 million exemption.

"The numbers tell the story—Connecticut has the nation’s highest tax burden and among the worst job growth rates in the country. Obviously these measures are related. I will continue to work to reverse this destructive trend," Shaban said.

To read more, visit:  http://newcanaan.patch.com/articles/connecticut-ranked-first-in-tax-burden

Song Adopted by Cain’s Campaign Also Aims to Be a Tea Party Anthem

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:04 AM PDT

By Edward Wyatt, The New York Times

HARRIMAN, Tenn. — If the Tea Party had a theme song, it would be written in the key of common people crying out for accountability. It might rail against the hypocrisy of elites who lecture others about tolerance. It would chastise politicians who stuff their pockets while refusing to listen to those who elected them.

It would, in short, be something like "I Am America," an anti-establishment anthem recorded 18 months ago by Krista Branch and written by her husband, Michael. She has performed the song at Glenn Beck rallies, on Fox News shows and at several Tea Party events, including one on Saturday for Herman Cain, a Republican presidential candidate, who a few months ago adopted the song for a campaign that is now receiving intense attention as he surges in recent polls.

"The first time I heard that song, the message was so right-on I felt goose bumps just listening to it," Mr. Cain said in an interview after the campaign rally on Saturday that drew several hundred supporters to this town in eastern Tennessee. "It captured this whole citizen's movement that a lot of people were — and some still are — in denial of," he said.

The song is gaining additional attention as the spotlight on Mr. Cain intensifies. Like the Tea Party itself, the song was born out of frustration with politics as usual, and out of personal hardship and a burning desire for self-sufficiency that has changed the lives of the people behind it.

To read more, visit:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/us/politics/krista-branchs-i-am-america-aims-to-be-tea-party-anthem.html
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