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- Illinois lawmaker proposes strip club tax
- Gas prices are highest ever for this time of year
- Arrogant doctors refusing to provide health care services to parents who refuse vaccines
- Tea party to unveil ‘Marietta Declaration’
- Department Of Homeland Security Schemed To Spy On Political Opponents
- 2ND N.C. MOTHER SAYS DAUGHTER’S SCHOOL LUNCH REPLACED FOR NOT BEING HEALTHY ENOUGH
- Amid Rivalry, Friendship Blossoms on the Campaign Trail
| Illinois lawmaker proposes strip club tax Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:48 PM PST
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois lawmaker wants to tax admissions to strip clubs to raise money for sexual assault prevention, arguing that a mix of alcohol and nude dancing contribute to violence against women. Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Olympia Fields, is calling for the clubs to pay a $5 tax for every customer. She plans a news conference Friday with Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon and women’s advocates to promote the legislation. Simon said Thursday that she has no problem with the state collecting money from an industry that she considers harmful. “I think it’s fair to lean on those sorts of entertainment to provide money for services intended to reduce violence toward women,” said Simon, a Carbondale Democrat. Strip clubs strongly object to the plan – at least at the $5 level – and disagree with the claim that their clubs contribute to violence. They predict a tax would force smaller clubs to close their doors, putting people out of work. A lobbyist for the Illinois Club Owners Association said there may be ways that strip clubs can contribute without being driven out of business. To read more, visit: http://www.carmitimes.com/topstories/x1353878370/Illinois-lawmaker-proposes-strip-club-tax |
| Gas prices are highest ever for this time of year Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:45 PM PST
NEW YORK – Gasoline prices have never been higher this time of the year. At $3.53 a gallon, prices are already up 25 cents since Jan. 1. And experts say they could reach a record $4.25 a gallon by late April. “You’re going to see a lot more staycations this year,” says Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research. “When the price gets anywhere near $4, you really see people react.” Already, W. Howard Coudle, a retired machinist from Crestwood, Mo., has seen his monthly gasoline bill rise to $80 from about $60 in December. The closest service station is selling regular for $3.39 per gallon, the highest he’s ever seen. “I guess we’re going to have to drive less, consolidate all our errands into one trip,” Coudle says. “It’s just oppressive.” The surge in gas prices follows an increase in the price of oil. To read more, visit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/46439046 |
| Arrogant doctors refusing to provide health care services to parents who refuse vaccines Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:41 PM PST By Ethan A. Huff, Natural News Parents who refuse to allow their children to be forcibly injected with cocktails of toxic adjuvants, chemical preservatives, and live viral materials are increasingly being told by mainstream medical quacks that they are no longer welcome as their patients. Convinced that their own personal opinions on vaccines must apply to everyone, these vaccine-pushers have assumed the role of medical dictators, treating everyone who does not agree with their vaccine dogma as if they are unworthy to receive medical care. According to a study conducted in Connecticut last year, the number of conventional practitioners and pediatricians that say they have dismissed patients because of vaccine refusal appears to be on the rise. While only six percent of physicians said they “routinely” dismissed families over vaccine refusal back in 2001 and 2006, that number appears to at least be in the double-digits today, with one survey of 133 doctors showing that about 30 percent of them have refused patients who resist vaccines. Dr. Scott J. Goldstein and his partners from the Northwestern Children’s Practice in Chicago, for instance, now require all of their patients to comply with the practice’s vaccine requirements (http://www.cbsnews.com). And Dr. Allan LaReau and his 11 colleagues from Bronson Rambling Road Pediatrics in Kalamazoo, Mich., stopped working with all families that refused vaccinations back in 2010 (http://online.wsj.com). To read more, visit: http://www.naturalnews.com/035007_medical_discrimination_vaccines_doctors.html |
| Tea party to unveil ‘Marietta Declaration’ Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:33 PM PST By Geoff Folsom, The Marietta Daily Journal MARIETTA — The Georgia Tea Party is hoping an event in Marietta today will be the start of a national phenomenon. The organization will unveil its "Marietta Declaration" at 3 p.m. today at 900 Roswell St. in Marietta. Due to the chance of rain, the event, which is open to the public, was moved from the Marietta Square. The page-and-a-half declaration is being sent to state and federal lawmakers, including President Barack Obama. Tom Maloy, a board member with the Marietta-based Georgia Tea Party, said all the Republican presidential candidates are being asked to sign the plan. The Georgia Tea Party refers to the declaration as a "seminal document that enumerates governmental abuses of authority that, over the past 100 years, have incrementally diminished the very principles upon which our nation was founded." Georgia Tea Party board member Jim Jess wrote the document after watching a video on the U.S. Constitution, Maloy said. "He realized watching that just how far our government has strayed from the principles of the Constitution," Maloy said. To read more, visit: http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/17575043/article-Tea-party-to-unveil-%E2%80%98Marietta-Declaration%E2%80%99-?instance=secondary_story_left_column |
| Department Of Homeland Security Schemed To Spy On Political Opponents Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:12 PM PST
Documents obtained as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit prove Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security has invented a fantastic cover story for its agenda of spying on Americans who are unwilling to relinquish their rights and liberty to the Obama Regime. In April of 2011, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking from the DHS all records pertaining to the Department's "Media Monitoring Initiative." Started 2 years ago, DHS claimed the purpose of the Initiative was "…to assist DHS and its components involved in the security, safety, and border control associated with the 2010 Winter Olympics as well as the response, recovery, and rebuilding effort resulting from the earthquake and after-effects in Haiti." And how did Homeland Security intend to accomplish this noble, dual purpose of controlling the border and assisting in Haiti? Naturally, by "… [monitoring] publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites, and message boards to collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture." The Homeland Security Act, passed by Congress after the 9/11 attacks, mandates Department action on the bureaucratic jibber-jabber quoted above in order to make certain that "…critical disaster-related information reaches government decision makers." To read more, visit: http://www.westernjournalism.com/department-of-homeland-security-schemed-to-spy-on-political-opponents/ |
| 2ND N.C. MOTHER SAYS DAUGHTER’S SCHOOL LUNCH REPLACED FOR NOT BEING HEALTHY ENOUGH Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:01 PM PST By Madeleine Morgenstern, The Blaze North Carolina officials have said there was a misunderstanding when a preschooler's homemade lunch was sent home for not meeting certain nutritional requirements, but now a second mother from the same school has come forward exclusively to The Blaze to say the same thing happened to her daughter. Diane Zambrano says her 4-year-old daughter, Jazlyn, is in the same West Hoke Elementary School class as the little girl whose lunch gained national attention earlier this week. When Zambrano picked Jazlyn up from school late last month, she was told by Jazlyn's teacher that the lunch she had packed that day did not meet the necessary guidelines and that Jazlyn had been sent to the cafeteria. The lunch Zambrano packed for her daughter? A cheese and salami sandwich on a wheat bun with apple juice. The lunch she got in the cafeteria? Chicken nuggets, a sweet potato, bread and milk. "She never eats breakfast or lunch at the school," Zambrano said of her daughter during an interview with The Blaze. "We always wake up early and make her lunch." To read more, visit: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/exclusive-2nd-n-c-mother-says-daughters-school-lunch-replaced-for-not-being-healthy-enough/ |
| Amid Rivalry, Friendship Blossoms on the Campaign Trail Posted: 18 Feb 2012 01:59 PM PST By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., The New York Times LAKE JACKSON, Tex. — Once there was a challenge of a softball game from the Ron Paul clan to the Mitt Romney clan. "They didn't show up," Mr. Paul says. "We didn't schedule it. We really razz them about that, 'You guys chickened out!' " When Mr. Paul's campaign jet broke down last year in Wolfeboro, N.H., Mr. Romney's wife, Ann, offered to let Mr. Paul, an aide and one of his granddaughters stay the night at their summer home on Lake Winnipesaukee. When Mr. Romney arrived later, he offered his jet to take them home to Texas. Mr. Paul, not wanting to impose, was grateful but declined both offers. In a Republican presidential contest known for its angry rivalries, the Romney-Paul relationship stands out for its behind-the-scenes civility. It is a friendship that, by Mr. Paul's telling, Mr. Romney has worked to cultivate. The question is whether it is also one that could pay dividends for Mr. Romney as he faces yet more setbacks in his struggle to capture the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination. Ideological similarities among supporters of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich suggest that if Mr. Gingrich dropped out, many of his backers would coalesce behind Mr. Santorum. But as Mr. Paul steadily collects delegates, one thing that remains to be seen is whether his affinity — at least on a personal level — for Mr. Romney could help the former Massachusetts governor as the fight drags on. Mr. Paul, a 76-year-old congressman from Texas, sees his three Republican rivals as more or less the same politically. He can be tough on Mr. Romney, whom he describes as a flip-flopper with a dubious political core. To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/us/politics/mitt-romney-and-ron-paul-friendly-amid-the-rivalry.html?_r=2&hp |
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