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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Anti-bullying speaker curses at Christian teens in audience
Todd Starnes reporting:
As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.”
The speaker was Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets Better” project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more than 40 million viewers with contributors ranging from President Obama to Hollywood stars.
Savage also writes a sex advice column called “Savage Love.”
LINK: Anti-Christian Bully
As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.”
The speaker was Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets Better” project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more than 40 million viewers with contributors ranging from President Obama to Hollywood stars.
Savage also writes a sex advice column called “Savage Love.”
LINK: Anti-Christian Bully
Illegal aliens received $4.2 billion in tax credits last year
Lisa Rein reporting at the WashPost:
The Internal Revenue Service allowed undocumented workers to collect $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year, a new audit says, almost quadruple the sum five years ago.
Although undocumented workers are not eligible for federal benefits, the report released Thursday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration concludes that federal law is ambiguous on whether these workers qualify for a tax break based on earned income called the additional child tax credit. Taxpayers can claim this credit to reduce what they owe in taxes, often getting refunds from the government.
The vagueness of federal law may have contributed to the $4.2 billion in credits, the report said. The IRS said it lacks the authority to disallow the claims.
Wage earners who do not have Social Security numbers and are not authorized to work in the United States can use what the IRS calls individual taxpayer identification numbers. Often these result in fraudulent claims on tax returns, auditors found.
Their data showed that 72 percent of returns filed with taxpayer identification numbers claimed the child tax credit.
LINK: close the border
The Internal Revenue Service allowed undocumented workers to collect $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year, a new audit says, almost quadruple the sum five years ago.
Although undocumented workers are not eligible for federal benefits, the report released Thursday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration concludes that federal law is ambiguous on whether these workers qualify for a tax break based on earned income called the additional child tax credit. Taxpayers can claim this credit to reduce what they owe in taxes, often getting refunds from the government.
The vagueness of federal law may have contributed to the $4.2 billion in credits, the report said. The IRS said it lacks the authority to disallow the claims.
Wage earners who do not have Social Security numbers and are not authorized to work in the United States can use what the IRS calls individual taxpayer identification numbers. Often these result in fraudulent claims on tax returns, auditors found.
Their data showed that 72 percent of returns filed with taxpayer identification numbers claimed the child tax credit.
LINK: close the border
Legend in his own mind
Like so many others, the final decision to pull the trigger on the world’s most-wanted man was delegated to an admiral who undoubtedly would have been thrown under the bus had the mission failed.
It’s been almost a year since President Obama’s leadership and foreign policy
bona fides were allegedly established by the operation that killed Osama bin
Laden. A campaign film narrated by Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks tells of the
president’s alleged solitary, agonizing decision.
With apologies to Vice President Biden, maybe President Obama doesn’t carry quite as big a stick as Joe would lead us to believe.
As reported by Big Peace, Time magazine has obtained a memo written by Leon
Panetta, then-director of the Central Intelligence Agency and now-Secretary of
Defense, that says “operational decision-making and control” was really in the
hands of William McRaven, a three-star admiral and former Navy
SEAL.
The Investor's Business Daily op-ed here: Not so big stick.
Having it both ways is a habit of this President
The President who tried to prosecute the men who waterboarded KSM to find Bin Laden now spiking the football over killing Bin Laden.~~Jim Treacher at TheDailyCaller.com
WSJ's take on the so-called recovery
The weakest recovery on record continued in 2012's first quarter, with the
Commerce Department's Friday report of 2.2% growth. That's down from 3% at the
end of last year, but closer to the 1.7% for all of 2011. It's enough to give
the word recovery a bad name.
The economy has been growing for 11 quarters since the recession officially ended in mid-2009, and quarterly growth has averaged 2.4%. That's slower growth than in every modern expansion, and about half the growth rate of all recoveries since World War II, according to Congress's Joint Economic Committee. The first 11 quarters of the Reagan expansion in the 1980s, by notable contrast, grew an average of 6.1%.
The details in the first quarter report help explain the growth deficit. Consumers have been spending (up 2.9%), but businesses weren't investing (down 2.1%). Car and truck sales riding pent-up demand from the recession accounted for half of the increase in GDP.
This suggests more consumer confidence, but an upside-down recovery with questionable durability. Business capital investment in big ticket items such as plants, equipment and computers is one of the best forward-looking economic indicators. Consumers can't keep up this spending pace if businesses aren't investing to create new technologies or improve productivity.
LINK: Obamanomics is a joke.
The economy has been growing for 11 quarters since the recession officially ended in mid-2009, and quarterly growth has averaged 2.4%. That's slower growth than in every modern expansion, and about half the growth rate of all recoveries since World War II, according to Congress's Joint Economic Committee. The first 11 quarters of the Reagan expansion in the 1980s, by notable contrast, grew an average of 6.1%.
The details in the first quarter report help explain the growth deficit. Consumers have been spending (up 2.9%), but businesses weren't investing (down 2.1%). Car and truck sales riding pent-up demand from the recession accounted for half of the increase in GDP.
This suggests more consumer confidence, but an upside-down recovery with questionable durability. Business capital investment in big ticket items such as plants, equipment and computers is one of the best forward-looking economic indicators. Consumers can't keep up this spending pace if businesses aren't investing to create new technologies or improve productivity.
LINK: Obamanomics is a joke.
Obama is adopting California's failed energy policies
Joel Kotkin:
But California’s politicians, living in what’s become essentially a one-party state, have doubled down on green orthodoxy. As the president at least tries to cover his flank by claiming to support an “all-in” energy policy, California has simply refused to exploit much of its massive oil and gas resources.
Does this matter? Well, Texas has created 200,000 oil and gas jobs over the past decade; California has barely added 20,000. The state’s remaining energy producers have been slowing down as the regulatory environment becomes ever more hostile even as producers elsewhere, including in rustbelt states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, ramp up. The oil and gas jobs the Golden State political class shuns pay around $100,000 a year on average.
“ When Governor Jerry Brown predicted a half-million green jobs by the end of the decade, even The New York Times deemed it “a pipe dream.”
” Instead, California has forged ahead with ever-more extreme renewable energy mandates that have resulted in energy costs roughly 50 percent above the national average and expected to rise substantially from there. This tends to drive out manufacturing and other largely blue-collar energy users.
Link to Kotkin's article: California Dreamin' ain't workin'
But California’s politicians, living in what’s become essentially a one-party state, have doubled down on green orthodoxy. As the president at least tries to cover his flank by claiming to support an “all-in” energy policy, California has simply refused to exploit much of its massive oil and gas resources.
Does this matter? Well, Texas has created 200,000 oil and gas jobs over the past decade; California has barely added 20,000. The state’s remaining energy producers have been slowing down as the regulatory environment becomes ever more hostile even as producers elsewhere, including in rustbelt states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, ramp up. The oil and gas jobs the Golden State political class shuns pay around $100,000 a year on average.
“ When Governor Jerry Brown predicted a half-million green jobs by the end of the decade, even The New York Times deemed it “a pipe dream.”
” Instead, California has forged ahead with ever-more extreme renewable energy mandates that have resulted in energy costs roughly 50 percent above the national average and expected to rise substantially from there. This tends to drive out manufacturing and other largely blue-collar energy users.
Link to Kotkin's article: California Dreamin' ain't workin'
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