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- Tea Party, Occupy Tallahassee Organize for Legislature’s Opening Day
- HHS finalizes over 1,200 waivers under healthcare reform law
- Tea party role uncertain in Colorado GOP this year
- Tenn. Tea Party disbands, 1 of several in state
- Californians Are Asked for $6.9 Billion in New Taxes
- Proposed DNA bank could ensnare NY graffiti artists
- DHS Now Issuing Thousands of New Photo ID’s for ‘Voting Purposes’
- HHS finalizes over 1,200 waivers under healthcare reform law
- Tea party role uncertain in Colorado GOP this year
- Tenn. Tea Party disbands, 1 of several in state
| Tea Party, Occupy Tallahassee Organize for Legislature’s Opening Day Posted: 07 Jan 2012 05:43 AM PST By: KENRIC WARD, Sunshine State News Demonstrating their inside and outside games, a statewide tea party coalition and a host of “progressive” groups will converge on the Capitol on Tuesday as the Legislature begins its 2012 session. Working the outside, Occupy Tallahassee has already set up a base at Gaines Street Commons. Purporting to represent the “99 percent,” the group will be joined by like-minded activists from around the state. To kick things off Tuesday, the left-wing coalition has reserved the Old Capitol Steps from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. for a daylong series of rallies and speeches. A week later, activist academic Cornel West — the self-described “provocative democratic intellectual” — is scheduled to speak at an Occupy protest. Working the inside on Tuesday, the Tea Party Network will host a morning coffee reception for lawmakers in Room 117 of the Knott Building. TPN has also reserved the Old Capitol steps from 7-9 a.m., but doesn’t plan a repeat of the large public tea party rally that was held there last year. To read more, visit: http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/tea-party-occupy-tallahassee-organize-legislatures-opening-day |
| HHS finalizes over 1,200 waivers under healthcare reform law Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST By Sam Baker, The Hill Roughly 1,200 companies received waivers from part of the healthcare reform law, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday. Friday marks the last time HHS will have to update the total number of waivers, putting to rest a recurring political firestorm. The department had been updating its waiver totals every month, prompting monthly attacks from the GOP. Republicans say the need for waivers proves that the healthcare law is unworkable. HHS argues that the waivers show the law provides flexibility. All told, 1,231 companies applied for and received waivers from the law's restrictions on annual benefit caps. The law requires plans to gradually raise their benefit limits, and all annual limits will become illegal in 2014. Companies that received waivers can keep their caps intact until 2014. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/202791-hhs-finalizes-more-than-1200-healthcare-waivers |
| Tea party role uncertain in Colorado GOP this year Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:57 PM PST
WOODLAND PARK, Colo. — A month before Colorado’s Republican presidential caucuses, uncertainty about which candidates will be left in the race is only one big question. The other unknown: What role will tea party groups play? Two years ago, Colorado’s tea party activists packed precinct caucuses and county and state Republican assemblies. They helped oust well-connected candidates for both top-ticket races — governor and U.S. Senate — in favor of less experienced contenders with grassroots appeal and folksy charm. The GOP went on to lose both contests while Republicans in many other states cruised to victory. This year, opinions vary about whether tea party activists will be splinter spoilers or part of the mainstream Republican Party. In Woodland Park, Teller Tea Party Patriots gathered to watch Tuesday’s Iowa caucus returns over beers and burgers. Members debated support for GOP front-runner Mitt Romney or a candidate who is less organized but more to their liking. “If you are going to tell me that Mitt Romney is any different than (President) Barack Obama, you are incorrect,” said 47-year-old carpenter Steven Sandler, who backs Ron Paul. Several folks cheered. To read more, visit: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700212973/Tea-party-role-uncertain-in-Colorado-GOP-this-year.html |
| Tenn. Tea Party disbands, 1 of several in state Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:55 PM PST
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Tennessee Tea Party, one of several tea party groups in the state, is disbanding after three years. In a letter to members, leaders Tami and Robert Kilmarx say they have realized the tea party is not a vehicle that will move the United States to what they call “a healthy relationship with God,” according to WPLN-FM (http://bit.ly/z6EEeu). “The issues confronting our country are only symptoms of our rebellion against God and His will for us,” the letter states, while acknowledging that “some of you may feel that the tea party movement has no place to include God and religion in it.” The letter states that the husband and wife had hoped to turn the leadership of the organization over to someone else, but “God appears to have other plans”. To read more, visit: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/01/06/tenn_tea_party_disbands_1_of_several_in_state/ |
| Californians Are Asked for $6.9 Billion in New Taxes Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:35 AM PST By ADAM NAGOURNEY, The New York Times LOS ANGELES — Gov. Jerry Brown called on California voters Thursday to approve $6.9 billion in temporary new taxes, including a surcharge on big earners, as part of yet another bad-news budget proposal, this one for 2012. He warned that without those tax increases, California would be forced to impose severe cuts in public schools that could reduce the school year by three weeks. Mr. Brown said that California was in significantly better shape than it was a year ago when he took office, pointing both to very gradual improvements in the economy and to cuts put in place in the current budget. The state still faces a shortfall of $9.2 billion next year, compared with a $26.6 billion shortfall last year. But his latest budget proposal made clear that California has not emerged from what has proved to be the most difficult and destructive fiscal storm in its history. Even if voters approve the taxes Mr. Brown proposed as part of the $92 billion budget for 2012 — which is far from certain — this budget still contains a new round of $4.2 billion in cuts, mainly to welfare and home health care. Last year, the state imposed over $5 billion in spending cuts. "We're doing the best we can," Mr. Brown said at a news conference that served as a reminder of the extent to which budget problems have dominated his first year in office. "What I've laid out is going to be very hard to digest." Mr. Brown said he would ask voters in November for a total of $6.9 billion in taxes, in the form of a temporary income tax surcharge on those making over $250,000 a year and a half-percent increase in the sales tax, to 7.75 percent. The taxes would expire at the end of 2016. Polls suggest that after five years of often brutal spending cuts, including $5 billion in this year's budget, voters are inclined to pass those taxes. If not, Mr. Brown's budget includes cuts that would automatically go into effect. They would include $4.8 billion for public schools and community colleges. Higher education, already blistered by cuts over the past five years, would face another $400 million decrease. California courts would be reduced by $125 million, potentially forcing them to close three days a month, and spending would be trimmed for firefighting in public forests. To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/us/jerry-brown-asks-california-voters-to-pay-6-9-billion-in-new-taxes.html?_r=2 |
| Proposed DNA bank could ensnare NY graffiti artists Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:32 AM PST By Dan Wiessner | Reuters ALBANY, New York (Reuters) – Fortune-tellers beware: palm-reading could land you in New York state’s criminal DNA database. Convicted graffiti artists, subway turnstile-jumpers and anybody who writes a bad check could also end up with their genetic information permanently on file under a proposal by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Democrat on Wednesday proposed expanding the database, which was created in 1996 and collects DNA samples from people convicted of felonies and some serious misdemeanors. Cuomo wants it to include anyone convicted of a crime under the state’s Penal Law. If the measure passes, New York would have the most expansive DNA database in the country. For years, supporters have said a larger DNA bank would help lock up criminals and exonerate innocent people. According to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, the database holds more than 445,000 DNA samples and has aided in more than 13,000 investigations. To read more, visit: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/proposed-dna-bank-could-ensnare-ny-graffiti-artists-230257080.html |
| DHS Now Issuing Thousands of New Photo ID’s for ‘Voting Purposes’ Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:28 AM PST By: Patrick Henningsen, Infowars.com "As a nation, we will do everything in our power to protect our country. As Americans, we will never give in to fear or division. We will be guided by our hopes, our unity, and our deeply held values. That's who we are as Americans … And we will continue to do everything that we can to keep America safe in the new year and beyond." - Barrack Obama's opening address for the Department of Homeland Security 2011 Budget Report The Orwellian overtones could not be more ominous. Contrary to Obama's moral decree, America is already ten years into its latest social experiment – making fear and division its premier business. One of the true hallmarks of any successful police state is a compulsory national ID. On this score, Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security has officially taken up challenge of making sure that no American will be left without one. Tennessee provided the launchpad for this new DHS police state project, but like anything with the DHS, it's hard to actually pinpoint whose banner it is actually run under. Originally conceived under the Bush Administration in November 2002, supposedly in response to the attacks of September 11, 2011 and the dubious anthrax attacks (both these events have not been proven to be carried out by foreign agents), the DHS along with its stepchild the TSA, have become a bottomless pit of federal and grant money, who's only achievement to date has been to instigate increased control and monitoring of the US domestic population – bullying its way through the legislative branch at the same time as the USA PATRIOT Act. The new DHS national ID card program was officially rolled out this week in the state of Tennessee. From January 1st, 2012, ID cards are longer optional, they are the law. The new state law requires that all Tennessee citizens must present a federal or state-issued photo ID in order to vote at the polls. The law also requires the DHS to issue photo IDs for voting purposes – at no charge. Residents appear to have given in without any serious fight, giving a new dimension to the state's lofty moniker as a "Volunteer State". To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/dhs-now-issuing-thousands-of-new-photo-ids-for-voting-purposes/ |
| HHS finalizes over 1,200 waivers under healthcare reform law Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:24 AM PST By Sam Baker, TheHill.com Roughly 1,200 companies received waivers from part of the healthcare reform law, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday. Friday marks the last time HHS will have to update the total number of waivers, putting to rest a recurring political firestorm. The department had been updating its waiver totals every month, prompting monthly attacks from the GOP. Republicans say the need for waivers proves that the healthcare law is unworkable. HHS argues that the waivers show the law provides flexibility. All told, 1,231 companies applied for and received waivers from the law's restrictions on annual benefit caps. The law requires plans to gradually raise their benefit limits, and all annual limits will become illegal in 2014. Companies that received waivers can keep their caps intact until 2014. The waivers cover slightly less than 4 million people, or about 3 percent of the population, HHS said. Faced with the monthly cycles of GOP criticism, HHS announced last summer that it would stop accepting applications for one-year waivers and would simply grant or deny waivers all the way through the end of 2013. The total of 1,231 includes all of the waiver requests HHS granted — companies that only applied for a three-year waiver, companies that got a one-year waiver as well as an extension, and companies that got a one-year waiver but did not ask for an extension. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/202791-hhs-finalizes-more-than-1200-healthcare-waivers |
| Tea party role uncertain in Colorado GOP this year Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:21 AM PST By Kristen Wyatt, Deseretnews.com WOODLAND PARK, Colo. — A month before Colorado’s Republican presidential caucuses, uncertainty about which candidates will be left in the race is only one big question. The other unknown: What role will tea party groups play? Two years ago, Colorado’s tea party activists packed precinct caucuses and county and state Republican assemblies. They helped oust well-connected candidates for both top-ticket races — governor and U.S. Senate — in favor of less experienced contenders with grassroots appeal and folksy charm. The GOP went on to lose both contests while Republicans in many other states cruised to victory. This year, opinions vary about whether tea party activists will be splinter spoilers or part of the mainstream Republican Party. In Woodland Park, Teller Tea Party Patriots gathered to watch Tuesday’s Iowa caucus returns over beers and burgers. Members debated support for GOP front-runner Mitt Romney or a candidate who is less organized but more to their liking. “If you are going to tell me that Mitt Romney is any different than (President) Barack Obama, you are incorrect,” said 47-year-old carpenter Steven Sandler, who backs Ron Paul. Several folks cheered. To read more, visit: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700212973/Tea-party-role-uncertain-in-Colorado-GOP-this-year.html |
| Tenn. Tea Party disbands, 1 of several in state Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:07 AM PST From: Boston.com NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Tennessee Tea Party, one of several tea party groups in the state, is disbanding after three years. In a letter to members, leaders Tami and Robert Kilmarx say they have realized the tea party is not a vehicle that will move the United States to what they call “a healthy relationship with God,” according to WPLN-FM (http://bit.ly/z6EEeu). “The issues confronting our country are only symptoms of our rebellion against God and His will for us,” the letter states, while acknowledging that “some of you may feel that the tea party movement has no place to include God and religion in it.” The letter states that the husband and wife had hoped to turn the leadership of the organization over to someone else, but “God appears to have other plans”. The couple says they have founded a new endeavor called the Black Robe Regiment, which, according to its website, is a forum for church leaders and pastors “to discuss the issues of the day in safety and in peace.” The Tennessee Tea Party drew criticism last month after a derogatory comment on Twitter about retiring Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, who is gay. Tami Kilmarx apologized for the post that called Frank a pervert, while saying “inwardly I may agree with the commentary.” To read more, visit: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/01/06/tenn_tea_party_disbands_1_of_several_in_state/ |
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