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- Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul Bemoan Media Coverage
- Pelosi fires back at ’60 Minutes’ report on ‘soft corruption’
- TSA eyes Christmas present inspections
- Supreme Court will hear health care case this term
- Millionaires to Congress: Raise our taxes
- Chicago bar owners say alcohol tax hike will kill business
- Army Wants an Honest-to-God B.S. Detector
| Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul Bemoan Media Coverage Posted: 15 Nov 2011 06:27 AM PST
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) told supporters gathered to see his new state headquarters that the nation is "in for a great shock" when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney does not win the GOP presidential nomination. "We're going to need your help in a very real way," Gingrich said Friday in the packed room, surrounded by balloons and fans chanting, "Newt! Newt! Newt!" Calling Romney a "smart person," Gingrich said voters are faced not with a "traditional right-left choice, but an attitude choice." The former Speaker said Romney would be "a pretty good manager" but argued he's better equipped for the presidency than Romney. Gingrich said he believes the next president must be able "to profoundly change Washington." Gingrich said that his campaign must "have the courage to knock on every door" and that he thinks he can win over Democrats and independents in a general election. To read more, visit: http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_59/newt_gingrich_ron_paul_bemoan_media_coverage-210319-1.html?ET=rollcall:e11369:80096864a:&st=email&pos=epol |
| Pelosi fires back at ’60 Minutes’ report on ‘soft corruption’ Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:50 PM PST From: CNN.com (CNN) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back Sunday at a CBS News’ “60 Minutes” report that highlighted several instances of what it suggested could be “soft corruption.” The show looked at the investments of various lawmakers — including Pelosi, House Speaker John Boehner and Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama — who reportedly bought stocks around the same time legislation involving those investments was being discussed. Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial public offering of Visa in 2008, according to CBS. They bought 5,000 shares at the initial price of $44; two days later, shares were trading at $64, CBS said. The network reported the investment came at the same time a piece of legislation that was opposed by credit-card companies was making its way through the House. “Congress has never done more for consumers nor has the Congress passed more critical reforms of the credit card industry than under the Speakership of Nancy Pelosi,” Pelosi spokesman, Drew Hammill, said in a statement soon after the report aired Sunday night. “It is very troubling that 60 Minutes would base their reporting off of an already-discredited conservative author who has made a career of out attacking Democrats,” he added. To read more, visit: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/13/politics/60-minutes-pelosi/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 |
| TSA eyes Christmas present inspections Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:46 PM PST By David Gomez, TGDaily.com The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will not be securing any holiday cheer this Christmas. According to CBS Los Angeles, TSA officials recently began looking for individuals who may be trying to smuggle illegal items wrapped up like gifts onto airplanes. The TSA issued an official warning notice after a traveler was caught trying to sneak marijuana wrapped as a gift past their checkpoints. People apparently feel that there are items they can carry on with them if they look like a gift, but in actuality those items cannot be brought onto a passenger aircraft. And if a shiny package happens to catch the TSA's attention – for whatever reason – the agency will most likely invoke its authority to open and inspect those gifts. Some sporting items like bats, bows and arrows and pool cues are not allowed on board unless they are checked with the authorities. To read more, visit: http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-brief/59626-tsa-eyes-christmas-present-inspections |
| Supreme Court will hear health care case this term Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:41 PM PST By JESSE J. HOLLAND and MARK SHERMAN, YahooNews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — a case that could shake the political landscape as voters are deciding if Obama deserves another term. This decision to hear arguments in the spring sets up an election-year showdown over the White House’s main domestic policy achievement. And it allows plenty of time for a decision in late June, just over four months before Election Day. The justices announced they will hear an extraordinary five-and-a-half hours of arguments from lawyers on the constitutionality of a provision at the heart of the law and three other related questions about the act. The central provision in question is the requirement that individuals buy health insurance starting in 2014 or pay a penalty. In the modern era, the last time the court allotted anywhere near this much time for arguments was in 2003 for consideration of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. That case consumed four hours of argument. This argument may spread over two days, as the justices rarely hear more than two or three hours a day. The 2010 health care overhaul law aims to extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans, through an expansion of Medicaid, the requirement that individuals buy health insurance starting in 2014 or pay a penalty and other measures. The court’s ruling could decide the law’s fate, but the justices left themselves an opening to defer a decision if they choose, by requesting arguments on one lower court’s ruling that a decision must wait until 2015, when one of the law’s many deferred provisions takes effect. A White House spokesman said, “We are pleased that the court has agreed to hear this case.” To read more, visit: http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_asia/supreme-court-hear-health-care-case-term-150759881.html?orig_host_hdr=sg.news.yahoo.com&.intl=sg&.lang=en-sg |
| Millionaires to Congress: Raise our taxes Posted: 14 Nov 2011 02:33 PM PST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress’ deficit-reduction supercommittee face daily pressure from groups defending programs like Social Security, veterans benefits and defense spending from cuts. This week will offer something different: Millionaires insisting that their own taxes be raised. A group called Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength is sending about two dozen of its members to the Capitol on Wednesday to ask lawmakers to boost taxes on people earning at least $1 million a year. They say they have planned meetings with seven members of the deficit-cutting panel or their staffs, plus others sessions including with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and even Grover Norquist, the conservative anti-tax activist. The group claims more than 200 members, mostly Democrats and progressives, organizers say. Leaders say their ranks include Ben Cohen, a founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream; fashion figure Susie Buell; the actress Edie Falco and executives from major Internet companies like Google and Ask.com. “Any deal reached by the supercommittee that does not ask millionaires to pay their fair share should be vetoed,” the group said Monday in an email. |
| Chicago bar owners say alcohol tax hike will kill business Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:28 PM PST BY TINA SFONDELES, Chicago Sun Times The usually tipsy pre-Bears game crowd at Butch McGuire's on Division Street looked a bit different Sunday at a roundtable talk of a proposal that could increase Cook County's alcohol tax by 50 percent. A vote by the Cook County Board could come as soon as Monday and would raise the tax on beer from 6 cents per gallon to 9 cents per gallon. Seated with small business owners and tax opponents, Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) said the increase is not a "budget buster," and he hopes commissioners can come up with a different solution. If approved, the proposal would mark the fourth alcohol tax hike since 2005. "It would be my argument that the county may need to look a little closer at those opportunities [cuts] rather than raising those liquor taxes," Reilly said. "I don't know how this will be resolved. I'm not advocating a specific solution, perhaps it's a whittled down tax increase or a blended approach where they find some additional cuts, but I understand this is amounting to about $11 million annually." To read more, visit: http://www.suntimes.com/news/8812752-418/bar-owners-say-alcohol-tax-hike-will-kill-business.html |
| Army Wants an Honest-to-God B.S. Detector Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:22 PM PST
It's the latest edition of the military's eternal quest for "A Thingamajig that Solves All Terrorism." This time, the Army wants a portable gadget that can detect American foes, liars and other delinquent characters with near-perfect accuracy, and do it without ever making physical contact. Yeah, good luck with that, boys. In the Pentagon's latest round of research proposal requests, which offer small businesses cash money in exchange for lofty innovation, the Army is after ideas for a gizmo they've dubbed "The Standoff Counter Human Deception Detection Device." Right now, military interrogators depend largely on the same tools used by law enforcement agencies or Jerry Springer "Is Your Brother Her Lover?" infidelity episodes. They use good old lie-detection machines (even though they're notoriously imperfect), or they turn to well-honed, albeit fallible, human BS radar. That dearth of options has long been a dilemma the military's looked to solve. In the past five years alone, they've considered the merits of myriad options, including biometric-based deception detection, that'd evaluate metrics like a person's gait or body temperature to assess honesty, the improvement of cultural expertise to improve overseas interrogation and even — yikes! — the use of pharmaceuticals as veritable truth elixirs. They've yet to optimize any of the above strategies, but that hasn't stopped the Army from setting their sights even higher. They're asking businesses to offer up a device that can be used at least two meters from a human subject, and can "assess psychophysiological characteristics" — which could include everything from heart rate to eye movement to brain waves — to determine the credibility of subjects undergoing questioning. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/army-lie-detectors/ |
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