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- Tea Party sponsors NASCAR team
- To close tax loopholes, Obama would open new ones
- Price Shock: Watch Cost of Gas Jump 10 Cents During ABC’s ‘World News’ Broadcast
- DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Halt Challenge to Warrantless Eavesdropping
- iBattle: Apple May Finally Storm the Pentagon
- Pasteurized milk 150 times more contaminated with blood, pus and feces than fresh milk
- Santorum campaign suggests Mitt Romney may have done deal to make Ron Paul his running mate
| Tea Party sponsors NASCAR team Posted: 24 Feb 2012 07:14 AM PST By DEAN McNULTY, QMI Agency DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. – Who would have thought a kid born and raised in small town Canada would grow up to be a player in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election race? Randy MacDonald grew up in the village of Hampton, near Oshawa, with two goals — to be an NHL hockey player and/or a NASCAR race car driver. He gave up the former after a stellar Tier II junior career with the Bowmanville Eagles, and pursued the latter to become not only a NASCAR driver, but a NASCAR team owner in both the Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide Series. It was as owner of MacDonald Motorsports and his own conservative political philosophy that paved the way for a marriage of American Tea Party politics and stock car racing at Daytona International Speedway. A small team owner — in comparison to the behemoths like Hendrick, Gibbs and Roush — MacDonald said that after 20 years building his business since moving to North Carolina in the early 1990s he came to embrace any political movement that made it easier for an individual to succeed. And his No. 81 Nationwide Dodge team's performance in 2011, with Blake Koch finishing second in the rookie-of-the-year race, brought MacDonald some new opportunities. "Last year was a breakthrough year for our team with Blake running for rookie of the year," MacDonald said Thursday in the Nationwide garage. "That got us some notice from potential sponsors for this season." To read more, visit: http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Sports/othersports/2012/02/24/19418656.html |
| To close tax loopholes, Obama would open new ones Posted: 23 Feb 2012 08:21 AM PST By Paul Wiseman and Christopher S. Rugaber, Boston.com WASHINGTON—Cutting corporate tax rates and deleting loopholes is just what most economists prescribe for the tangled U.S. tax code. So why isn’t everyone cheering the plan President Barack Obama unveiled Tuesday to slash the top corporate tax rate and end breaks that let some companies pay little or nothing in taxes? Economists note that Obama’s plan would upturn the very playing field the administration says it wants to level. It would give manufacturers preferential treatment: Tax breaks would effectively cap their rate at 25 percent. Other companies would pay up to 28 percent. The current top corporate tax rate is 35 percent. Some say such varying rates can distort the economy by diverting investment into some industries and away from others that might pack a bigger economic punch. “The administration is not making sense,” says Martin Sullivan, contributing editor at publisher Tax Analysts. “The whole idea of corporate tax reform is to get rid of loopholes, and this plan is adding loopholes back in.” To read more, visit: http://www.boston.com/business/taxes/articles/2012/02/23/to_close_tax_loopholes_obama_would_open_new_ones/ |
| Price Shock: Watch Cost of Gas Jump 10 Cents During ABC’s ‘World News’ Broadcast Posted: 23 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST
The headlines of major newspapers and TV networks this week have been dominated by rising gas prices. Drivers across the country have shared their stories on the cost – with many already paying more than $4 a gallon at the pump. There have even been reports of gas prices rising at a rate of 10 to 15 cents in a matter of hours. The swiftness at which those gas prices continue to climb was crystal clear Wednesday night during the broadcast of ABC News' "World News with Diane Sawyer." As ABC News' Cecilia Vega introduced her piece on high gas prices, the sign at the downtown Los Angeles gas station behind her showed the price of regular gas at $4.99 a gallon. However when the piece concluded nearly two minutes later the price of regular gas had jumped 10 cents to $5.09 a gallon. Even Vega seemed truly surprised to see such a drastic change in such a short period of time, telling Sawyer that "it is almost too unbelievable to believe." "It went up 10 cents?" asked Sawyer, herself shocked at what just had occurred. "Ten cents during that two minutes while we were on the air," confirmed Vega. To read more, visit: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/02/price-shock-watch-cost-of-gas-jump-10-cents-during-abcs-world-news-broadcast/ |
| DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Halt Challenge to Warrantless Eavesdropping Posted: 23 Feb 2012 08:15 AM PST By David Kravets, Wired.com The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The FISA Amendments Act (.pdf), the subject of the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, allows the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans' phone calls and e-mails without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the communication is outside the United States. The communications may be intercepted "to acquire foreign intelligence information." The administration is asking the Supreme Court to review an appellate decision that said the nearly 4-year-old lawsuit could move forward. The government said the ACLU and a host of other groups don't have the legal standing to bring the case because they have no evidence they or their overseas clients are being targeted. The case arrives at the high court's inbox after having two different outcomes in the lower courts. It marks the first time the Supreme Court has been asked to review the eavesdropping program that was secretly employed in the wake of 9/11 by the George W. Bush administration, and eventually largely codified into law four years ago. A lower court had ruled the ACLU, Amnesty International, Global Fund for Women, Global Rights, Human Rights Watch, International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, The Nation magazine, PEN American Center, Service Employees International Union and other plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the case, because they could not demonstrate that they were subject to the eavesdropping. The groups appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that they often work with overseas dissidents who might be targets of the National Security Agency program. Instead of speaking with those people on the phone or through e-mails, the groups asserted that they have had to make expensive overseas trips in a bid to maintain attorney-client confidentiality. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/scotus-fisa-amendments/ |
| iBattle: Apple May Finally Storm the Pentagon Posted: 23 Feb 2012 08:10 AM PST By Spencer Ackerman, Wired.com The Pentagon is, for all intents and purposes, an Apple-free zone. Its desktop computers have long run on Windows, and now its tablets and smartphones are all Android. But there's a chance that might be about to change. The Air Force's Air Mobility Command is considering a monster purchase of iPads — one that might give Apple inroads into a military market that's eluded it so far. A recent solicitation from Air Mobility Command has the Air Force's cargo and transport division seeking "a maximum of 18,000 iPad 2s" to serve as "Electronic Flight Bags" — essentially, tools to launch apps that digitize the flyboys' weighty manuals. Even that purchase isn't a slam dunk for Cupertino, since the solicitation called for iPads or "equal" devices. (Cue the indignation from Cult of Mac-types.) But if the Air Force even buys half that many iPads, it would still represent the largest tablet or smartphone purchase the military's made thus far. And it also could represent something of a reversal of Apple's military fortunes. Last week, the Air Force's Special Operations Command canceled an order of over 2,000 iPads, apparently prompted by security concerns about Russian software on the devices for reading PDFs of flight charts that double as encryption agents. As if to twist the knife, a spokeswoman told NextGov that the command "continues" to evaluate "the procurement aspect of providing tablets to the field." In other words, they love tablets — just not Apple's tablet. That's a familiar story for Apple. While the military is just getting started playing around with smart devices, it's balked at shelling out for Cupertino's mobile products. In 2010, the military's Special Operations Command wanted a suite of apps to get militarily relevant data out to their dismounted, networked commandos, including a "multi-touch whiteboarding aka John Madden tool." They went with Android phones to host it. The next year, when the app-mad Army started playing around with its first smartphone linked to its new data network, Android powered it. Later in 2011, the Army bought a bunch of commercial smartphones — as in, officers went to Best Buy and purchased 60 phones — to test out how they worked with the new data network. It also debuted a new quasi-smartphone to replace an old, funky plan to make soldiers wear computers. Yet again, in both cases, Droid did. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/air-force-ipads/ |
| Pasteurized milk 150 times more contaminated with blood, pus and feces than fresh milk Posted: 23 Feb 2012 08:06 AM PST BY: Mike Adams, NaturalNews.com The vaccine-pushing, disease scare-mongering agency known as the CDC has put out a stunning piece of propaganda attacking fresh milk (raw dairy), claiming it is “150 times more dangerous” than pasteurized milk. This is all part of their anti-American agenda to crush food freedom and criminalize fundamental farming practices upon which this very nation was founded. (Yes, George Washington and the founding fathers drank raw milk, grew hemp and even smoked a little weed as medicine.) But what the CDC won’t dare reveal to the public is the far more horrifying truth: Pasteurized dairy is produced in the dirtiest milk factories imaginable, where blood, pus, e.coli and other truly dangerous pathogens are routinely bottled into milk containers and fed to consumers. That’s the whole point of pasteurization, you see: To kill everything that might be alive in their ultra-dirty milk. The real purpose of pasteurization is not to simply “make milk safe” as is claimed by the CDC, but rather to allow the dairy industry to operate DIRTY. It’s so much easier to just cook the crap out of the milk (yes, there’s fecal matter in it) than to clean up their operations, get it? Thanks to pasteurization, conventional (non-organic, non-raw) dairy operators have no need to thoroughly wash their milking machines, no need to sterilize any milk containers, no need to wash their hands, and no need to maintain a clean milking environment whatsoever. It’s just total filth with festering diseased animals dying on the floor and being physically abused by the corporate dairy operators (see video links, below). Dairy cows are routinely abused and left to suffer in total filth Want to know how conventional (pasteurized) dairy cows are really treated? Here’s something the CDC won’t show you. To read more, visit: http://www.naturalnews.com/035039_raw_milk_pasteurized_CDC.html |
| Santorum campaign suggests Mitt Romney may have done deal to make Ron Paul his running mate Posted: 23 Feb 2012 07:58 AM PST By: Toby Harnden, Daily Mail After tonight’s debate, in which Ron Paul and Mitt Romney repeatedly attacked Rick Santorum over his 16-year record in Congress, the former US Senator for Pennsylvania hinted that something nefarious was going on. “You have to ask Congressman Paul and Governor Romney what they’ve got going together,” Santorum told reporters in the spin room in Mesa, Arizona. “Their commercials look a lot alike and so do their attacks.” Santorum’s top strategist John Brabender went even further, charging that the two men had “joined forces” and were coordinating attacks against his man “Clearly there’s a tag team strategy between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. For all I know, Mitt Romney might be considering Ron Paul as his running mate. Clearly there is now an alliance between those two and you saw that certainly in the debate.” The was also coordination in their attack ads, he charged. “Ron Paul for all practical purposes has pulled out of Michigan. Correct? Where’s he running negative ads against Rick Santorum? Michigan. “It was interesting to me that if you watch Ron Paul when he came into the debate, he wrote negative things about Rick Santorum down because when he started to get questions he would immediately pick up his paper and start mentioning Santorum stuff.” To read more, visit: http://harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/02/santorum-campaign-suggests-romney-may-have-done-deal-to-make-ron-paul-his-running-mate.html |
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