Protestors at the Cobo Center in Detroit confronted GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt by shouting “pay your fair share.” They should be protesting against the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay a penny in federal taxes. In addition, they should be asking Immelt why he’s supporting President Obama. We know the answer: GE is involved [...]
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A feminist group has identified the enemy, and it is … LEGOs? The Danish company behind the interlocking plastic building blocks loved by children since 1949 has a meeting set for Friday with a Brooklyn group ticked off with LEGOs product line designed to appeal to girls. The new “LEGO Friends” rolled out in December [...]
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The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to extend new tax cuts to businesses with fewer than 500 employees, a move designed to contrast with a Democratic push this week to impose higher taxes on those making more than $1 million a year. The measure was approved on a largely party-line vote of 235 to 173, with both sides [...]
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This year, Americans had to work from Jan. 1 until today just to earn enough to pay their total annual tax bill. Starting tomorrow, you can start working for yourself. That we must work 107 days out of the year just to finance government spending is not right. But adding insult to injury is the [...]
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A prayer campaign launched by a California Planned Parenthood affiliate has angered pro-life groups who claim the counter-campaign mocks their own “40 Days for Life” effort. Officials at Six Rivers Planned Parenthood (SRPP) in Eureka, Calif., launched “40 Days of Prayer” last month and has offered up daily prayers for pregnant women and clinicians who [...]
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President Obama, eager to promote his administration’s efforts to revive the job market on the eve of another politically significant employment report, signed a bill on Thursday that will roll back restrictions on the way start-up companies can raise money from individual investors. Mr. Obama, surrounded by a bipartisan tableau of lawmakers and entrepreneurs, said [...]
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We’ve just begun coming to grips with the wimpy recovery. Are we actually in for another recession? That was the implication of a couple of economic reports I read this week, including one by ITG Investment Research, which tracked how the pace of this recovery (which was never great to begin with) has by some [...]
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While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years. BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to [...]
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A homosexual group in Lexington, Kentucky, has filed a discrimination complaint against a T-shirt printer after the company refused to honor a bid to produce apparel for an event. The Gay and Lesbian Services Organization filed the complaint Monday with the city’s Human Rights Commission. Group president Aaron Baker told the Lexington Herald-Leader that the [...]
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Republican presidential front- runner Mitt Romney reached out to party lawmakers in Washington yesterday, telling them at one gathering he is seeking the White House “to save the country,” said U.S. Senator Jim DeMint. DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who helped anti-tax, Tea Party-backed candidates win Senate seats in 2010, said Romney provided the assurance he wanted that the former [...]
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Starbucks officials see no impact of the company’s decision to endorse a same-gender “marriage” bill passed by lawmakers in Washington state. Starbucks’ annual meeting of shareholders took place Wednesday in Seattle, home base of the popular coffee retailer. At the end of that meeting, shareholder Tom Strohbar, founder of The Corporate Morality Action Center, took [...]
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PepsiCo is denying the fact that is uses aborted baby cells to test flavor enhancers by rejecting claims that it has a contract with any company that does such research. PepsiCo is telling concerned customers and pro-life advocates that it does not use cells from fetal kidney tissue for artificial flavor enhancers. Children of God [...]
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Apparently it’s all sweetness and light, unicorns and fuzzy bunnies in the YouTube comments section of Obama’s new hagiographic, hack-u-mentary short film directed by Academy Award-winning director David “star-struck” Guggenheim. Barely a cross word is seen there about the Obammessiah since most negative comments seem likely to have been deleted from the YouTube page leaving [...]
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Apple made an aggressive pitch for a corporate tax holiday Monday, stressing that it plans to keep more than $60 billion parked offshore until Congress makes it easier for companies to bring those profits home. The warning from the nation’s most valuable company came as Apple announced it would pay a dividend to shareholders and [...]
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The Chevrolet Volt is everything that is wrong with Washington on four wheels, and investors (that’s you and me) should be furious. Wrong #1: The Volt should be re-named the Vote. Who can forget that Super Bowl ad, with the pseudo-assembly line of Volts rolling through Hamtramck, Michigan, and the voice overlay that “this isn’t [...]
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