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Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration: American Taxpayers Taken to the Cleaners
Frosty WooldridgeHow would you like your money stolen out of your wallet at a sporting event? How would you like to pay for somone else having five babies? How would you like to pay for other parents' kids' schooling, breakfasts and lunches? How would you
Torture approval signed by Bush
• Daily KosWhat ABC didn't mention is that Bush is the head of the National Security Counsel and the 2002 NSC decision memo in question, shown at the bottom of this post, signed by George W. Bush, establishes that Bush was in 2002 indeed doing his
Athletes who take pro-Tibet stand 'face Olympic cut'
• London TimesAthletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer’s Games in Beijing under anti-propaganda rules.
What Power Looks Like
• NewsweekThey ride on Gulfstreams, set the global agenda, and manage the credit crunch in their spare time. They have more in common with each other than their countrymen. Meet the Superclass. To get a sense of how the world's elite acts in a moment of
Fed is Not King Midas
• Michael Shedlock / MishLogically speaking, this proposal would have the Fed guarantee all bank and broker dealer debt simply by touching it. And this is not a "cool idea", it's insanity. The Fed is not King Midas.
IRS rolls out the "National Tax Defier Initiative"
• The Picket LineThe purpose of this initiative is to reaffirm and reinvigorate the Tax Division’s commitment to investigate, pursue and, where appropriate, prosecute those who take concrete action to defy and deny the fundamental validity of the tax laws.
Federal Budget Deficit: May hit $623 billion
• Associated Press.comThe Treasury Department reported Thursday that the deficit through the first six months of the budget year totaled $311.4 billion, up 20.5 percent from the same period a year ago. That was the largest deficit for the first half of a budget year on re
Bush Administration: Team Torture
• Afterdowningstreet.orgWhat a shock, that a teenager who blew up small animals would sign off on a directive blessing the crushing of a 10 year old boys testicles.
Senate Majority Leader on "Voluntary" Taxes
• The Picket LineHarry Reid is the U.S. Senate Majority Leader. You can see a clip from an interview with Reid in which the topic turns to taxes. You really should see it, because you won’t believe it from the transcript alone:
A lesson for America: Icelanders obsess over currency's plunge
• Bloomberg.com``In the U.S. or the eurozone, people couldn't tell you what the exchange rate is,'' Frosti Olafsson, an economist at the Iceland Chamber of Commerce, said over Viking beer. ``Here, it's a hot topic, something people talk about over c
Petraeus Points to War With Iran - by Patrick J. Buchanan
• Antiwar.comThis is Bush's last chance to strike and, when Iran responds, to effect its nuclear castration. Are Bush and Cheney likely to pass up this last chance to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and effect the election of John McCain?
House passes Chinese crackdown resolution
• CNNThe House overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned for "nonviolent" demonstrations. The vote was 413-1. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who has not dropped out of the presiden
"We'll make you see death"
• SalonA harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan -- smuggled from prison on tiny paper -- exposes U.S. complicity in torture.
U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11
• NY SunA new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Cheney and Co. planned the torture of detainees down to last detail
• ABC News (Crooks & Liars)Bush’s most senior officials not only knew about the torture they were inflicting on suspected terrorists, but decided down to the last detail exactly how much torture to inflict.
Iraq panel orders release of US-held AP photographer
• ReutersAn Iraqi judicial committee has ordered the release of an Associated Press photographer held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two years and dismissed terrorism-related accusations against him, the news agency said.
'Consent to search' (& seize) programs spreading like epidemic across country
• Inside Bay AreaThe consent-to-search program is based on a similar effort in St. Louis in 1994 and ongoing programs in Boston and Washington, D.C. The idea is simple: Ask parents for permission to search their homes for weapons their children may be hiding.
Surge Protectors
• E&PIn the five years since the war started, the single greatest mistake made by the media was hardly raising a single voice of protest against the 2007 escalation in Iraq -- until it was much too late. As Petraeus Testifies: How Press Helped Bring Him t
Afghans hold secret trials for men that U.S. detained
• APDozens of Afghan men who were previously held by the United States at Bagram Air Base and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are now being tried here in secretive Afghan criminal proceedings based mainly on allegations forwarded by the American military.
Veterans Affairs refuses to provide voter registration for wounded vets
• Rawstory"VA remains opposed to becoming a voter registration agency pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act, as this designation would divert substantial resources from our primary mission," Veterans Affairs James Peake told two Democratic
Bush: Americans should agree that Iraq burden is worth bearing
• RawstoryThe war in Iraq has been more expensive than every other US military conflict except World War II, but President Bush says we haven't spent enough there yet, nor does he think the war is all that costly in relative terms.
Judge, aide face inquiry over delay in freeing inmate
• Indystar.comThe mistakes that left an Indianapolis man languishing in prison for almost two years after he was cleared have sparked a rare step: A state board wants to punish a Marion County judge and his commissioner.
A handout for Tax Day, April 15<sup>th</sup>
Powell GammillHappy Tax Day everyone. In honor of this exciting festive occasion, I created a little handout that you should feel free to give your neighbors, friends, family and complete strangers depositing their hard earned wages in a post office box. (PDF)
Patrick Cockburn on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Mark Jokel
Phoenix Foreclosures: If not a crisis, pretty close to it
• HousingDoom.comARMLS has not officially reported March home sales yet, but based on an early preview, it is likely that sales will be in the 4,400 range, so foreclosures are running near the level of sales.
Veterans Affairs refuses to provide voter registration for wounded vets
• Rawstory.comA new report Thursday reveals that Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake told two Democratic senators his department will not help injured veterans register to vote before the 2008 election.
Ron Paul questions General Patraeus
• YoutubePaul knows the General can dance for 5 minutes. So he uses his 5 minutes to lay question after question at the General's feet. He will never get an answer, but he sure does frame the debate.
The LP's Turkish Delight
• Lew RockwellThe Libertarian Platform – the best thing about the party – has been replaced with a new one, which is tiny, vague, rhetorically slippery, accommodating, friendlier to the state, and non-threatening to mainstream opinion.
Mississippi Justice: Bush US Attorney targeted my wife, supporters and friends
• RawstoryRepublican effort jails largest Democratic donor in Mississippi, helps put ex-RNC chairman in governor's chair.
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