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- US senators introduce online sales tax bill
- ‘Occupy Atlanta’ Shelter Tests Positive for Tuberculosis
- Free Speech Concerns Ahead of Meeting With Muslim Nations on Religious Tolerance
- Gun Rights vs. States’ Rights
- Tea Party Voters Fleeing Cain For Gingrich?
- Tea Party Groups Seek Ohio ‘Right-to-Work’ Measure
- Ron Paul, the Federal Reserve and economic crashes
- FED JUDGE: CALIF. SCHOOL WAS RIGHT TO FORBID STUDENTS’ AMERICAN FLAG T-SHIRTS ON CINCO DE MAYO
| US senators introduce online sales tax bill Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:16 PM PST By BEN NEARY, BusinessWeek.com A proposal from a bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators to allow state governments to collect sales taxes from out-of-state online retailers is drawing a mixed reaction from some major Internet businesses. The group is led by Sens. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. They announced Wednesday that they’re introducing a bill to allow states that adopt the same administrative procedures to require online sellers to collect taxes. Under the bill dubbed the “Marketplace Fairness Act,” state governments that don’t accept the national standard could still collect sales taxes only if they agree to some minimum streamlining of their tax system. Sellers will less than a half-million dollars in annual sales would be exempt. Internet retailers are currently required to collect sales tax for a state only when they have a physical presence such as a store or office there. When consumers order from out-of-state retailers, they may technically be required to pay the tax to their home state but don’t always do so. Amazon.com Inc., a leading Internet retailer, announced Wednesday that it strongly supports the bill. The company has fought some taxation efforts from several states and said it would prefer a federal solution. Amazon Vice President Paul Misener said the company plans to work with Congress, retailers and states to get the bill passed. “It’s a win-win resolution,” he said. To read more, visit: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9QTUMB80.htm |
| ‘Occupy Atlanta’ Shelter Tests Positive for Tuberculosis Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:12 PM PST From: FOXNews.com A homeless shelter that has been housing more than 100 “Occupy Atlanta” protesters has tested positive for tuberculosis (TB), WGCL-TV reported Thursday. At least two people at the Atlanta shelter have contracted the air-borne disease, a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the lungs and other organs. “One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication,” He said both infected people have begun treatment and are being monitored. It is unclear if the two cases were among the homeless population or the anti-Wall Street protesters. The shelter has become one of the city’s largest bases for “Occupy” protesters since police shut down an encampment at a municipal park last month. The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless indicated that two cases have been made public knowledge to the protesters. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/11/occupy-atlanta-shelter-tests-positive-for-tuberculosis/ |
| Free Speech Concerns Ahead of Meeting With Muslim Nations on Religious Tolerance Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:06 PM PST By Judson Berger, FOXNews.com A looming meeting with Islamic leaders hosted by the State Department has religious scholars and advocacy groups warning that the United States may “play into” the push by some Islamic nations to create new laws to stifle religious criticism and debate. The meeting on religious tolerance, which is scheduled for mid-December, would involve representatives of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — a coalition of 56 nations which more or less represents the Muslim world. Critics describe the get-together — the first in a series — as a Trojan horse for the long-running OIC push for restrictions on speech. They note the track record of nations that want the dialogue, including Egypt, where recent military action against Coptic Christians raised grave concerns about intolerance against religious minorities. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton originally announced the meeting this past July in Turkey, where she co-chaired a talk on religious tolerance with the OIC. The event was billed as a way to foster “respect and empathy and tolerance” among nations. Delegates from up to 30 countries, as well as groups like the European Union, are also invited. A State Department official told FoxNews.com this week that the meeting is meant to combat intolerance while being “fully consistent with freedom of expression.” A key worry is that the meeting could become a platform for Islamic governments to push for hate-speech laws which, in their most virulent and fundamentalist form, criminalize what they perceive as blasphemy. While Clinton has drawn a line in the sand, saying nations should not “criminalize speech,” the upcoming meeting is seen by some as a misstep on a very sensitive issue. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/11/free-speech-concerns-ahead-meeting-with-muslim-nations-on-religious-tolerance/ |
| Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:00 PM PST By Robert VerBruggen, NationalReview.com Evidently, the House is likely to pass a bill that would require states to respect concealed-carry permits issued in other states — even if the traveler's home state has very different criteria for awarding a permit. Concealed carry is a good idea, and so is reciprocity when states enact it voluntarily — but this is a bad idea, as it goes beyond the proper functions of the federal government. The stated constitutional justifications for the law are to protect the Second Amendment (as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment), to protect the right of interstate travel, and to protect interstate commerce, but none is even slightly convincing. As the Supreme Court noted in its Heller decision, bans on concealed carry do not run afoul of the Second Amendment — they have a long history in the U.S., and courts have typically upheld them under the Second Amendment and state analogues. Thus, states have every right to decide the criteria by which they'll grant permits (if they grant them at all), and to decide which other states' permits they'll respect. In fact, the exceptions written into the law itself — states that completely ban concealed carry don't have to respect other states' permits — show that no one takes this argument seriously; if carrying a gun in a state where you're not licensed to carry is a Second Amendment right, why does it stop at the borders of the most anti-gun states? While the Supreme Court has recognized a right of interstate travel, surely it doesn't protect carrying items you're not licensed to carry in the states you're traveling to. And while Congress is notorious for abusing the Commerce Clause, I'm not seeing how concealed-carry permit holders' not being able to carry while traveling "substantially affects" interstate commerce. The only other justification for the law I can even think of is the "full faith and credit" clause, which requires states to respect each others' "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings" — but this case would seem to fall under the "public-policy exception." And the Constitution aside, this is just bad policy from a conservative perspective, as it tramples on states' rights. It's almost an inverse of the Defense of Marriage Act — rather than allowing states to make their own laws and disregard licenses granted by states with different policies, it informs states that out-of-state travelers don't have to play by their rules. To read more, visit: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/282931/gun-rights-vs-states-rights-robert-verbruggen |
| Tea Party Voters Fleeing Cain For Gingrich? Posted: 11 Nov 2011 11:48 AM PST BY: NOAH ROTHMAN, politicology. Two national polls of Republican primary voters released today, one from Marist / McClatchy and the other from CBS News, show former House Speaker Newt Gingrich surging. This confirms what pundits have chronicled for several weeks – that Gingrich's campaign has entirely recovered from mistakes earlier in the year due to his rather stellar debate performances. The question these polls leaves us with, however, is Cain losing support rapidly or weathering the storm? These polls leave us with conflicting results. In the CBS poll, Cain maintains his frontrunner status with 18 percent support. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Gingrich are tied at 15 percent. However, in Marist's poll, Cain drops to third place, behind Romney's 23 percent and Gingrich's 19 percent support among Registered Republicans. Romney's support is static at 23 percent and 15 percent respectively in these polls. This is reflective of a trend that has been a constant through the year; Romney's support has a floor of about 15 percent and, evidently, a ceiling at around 25 percent. Romney's support comes from the country club, anti-populist wing of the GOP and is not going anywhere. This is not a fluid group of voters, and they are locked in to their support for Romney (and probably make up a significant portion of the 30 percent of voters who say they are committed to their candidate in the Marist poll. The Marist poll could foreshadow a Gingrich surge at the expense of Cain's support – 28 percent of voters who identify with the Tea Party support Gingrich over 22 percent for Cain. This is a rather significant reversal of fortunes for Cain who had solid Tea Party support until recently. CBS confirms this trend with 21 percent of Tea Partiers preferring Gingrich to 19 percent for Cain. Last month, CBS measured 32 percent of Tea Party voters supporting Cain with only 15 percent for Gingrich. To read more, visit: http://www.ology.com/politics/gingrich-surging-cain-or-down |
| Tea Party Groups Seek Ohio ‘Right-to-Work’ Measure Posted: 11 Nov 2011 11:46 AM PST By ANN SANNER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio – Just two days after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected a state law curbing collective bargaining rights, a tea party coalition said it will push an amendment to the state’s constitution that would prevent workers covered by union contracts from being required to join unions or pay dues. Chris Littleton, the co-founder of the Ohio Liberty Council, told reporters Thursday the group has submitted an initial 1,000 signatures and the proposed wording for its right-to-work amendment to the state’s attorney general. The group needs state officials’ approval of the phrasing and signatures before it can start collecting the roughly 386,000 valid signatures needed by July to get the question on 2012 ballots. If the group fails to get the question before voters during next year’s presidential election, it would continue its push in 2013, Littleton said. To read more, visit: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tea-party-groups-seek-ohio-work-measure-14928725#.Tr16skOsctM |
| Ron Paul, the Federal Reserve and economic crashes Posted: 11 Nov 2011 11:40 AM PST
With Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and almost the entire Republican Party now imitating Ron Paul on the matter of Federal Reserve policy, let me suggest where I think Dr. Paul is brilliantly right, where I think he is disastrously wrong, and why I believe there is now a substantial danger of a recession that could be more severe than 2007 and 2008. First, America and Europe are now repeating the policy mistakes of 1937 and imposing severe austerity at a time of economic slowdown that could drive Europe and the U.S. into a deep recession. I agree with Dr. Paul that the Fed should disclose far more; that there should be a significant audit of how the Fed has spent money; and that Fed policy has been radically tilted toward banks at the expense of individuals and small business. I also fear that Dr. Paul’s idea of ending the Fed would guarantee a global recession and potentially a great depression. While I agree with Paul that Fed policy has been a disaster that has created huge monetary bubbles on assets ranging from oil and food to stocks and bonds, the solution is not to kill the Fed, or kill Fed assistance to the economy, but to moderate the Fed, and structure the assistance properly. Specifically, I would like to see the Fed finance the proposed infrastructure bank to create jobs in ways that pay for themselves, rather than pump even more money into the 1 percent at the top through various manipulations of bond markets. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-a-budget/193103-ron-paul-the-federal-reserve-and-economic-crashes |
| FED JUDGE: CALIF. SCHOOL WAS RIGHT TO FORBID STUDENTS’ AMERICAN FLAG T-SHIRTS ON CINCO DE MAYO Posted: 11 Nov 2011 11:34 AM PST By Billy Hallowell, The Blaze Should public school officials have the right to prevent students from wearing pro-American garb on Cinco de Mayo? This question has been at the heart of a California court battle between the Morgan Hill Unified School District and students who were told by a principal and assistant principal that they could not wear American flag t-shirts on the Mexican holiday back in 2010. Following the incident, a lawsuit against the district was launched by the students and their families. This week, the case came to a close, with a federal judge ruling against the students — a blow that is likely to infuriate some free speech advocates. According to U. S. District Court Judge James Ware, the district did not violate the students' first amendment rights. The judge also found that officials' concern over the potential violence that could be incited by the students' pro-American outfits justified the school's actions. The Morgan Hill Times has more about the case: [The parents and students] filed the lawsuit against the school district alleging violations against their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights after their children wore American-themed T-shirts to Live Oak and were sent home after refusing to remove the shirts and apparel after Boden and Rodriguez were concerned about the potential for violence on campus… To read more, visit: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fed-judge-calif-school-was-right-to-forbid-students-american-flag-t-shirts-on-cinco-de-mayo/ |
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