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Liberal Democrats: Higher rates
for wealthy ´just the beginning´

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:37:15 AM Post Reply

A group of House Democrats has formed its own “Gang of Six” to push for progressive tax reform — in which the expiration of the Bush-era tax rates for the wealthiest Americans is “just the beginning.” “In response to the call for progressives to draw a red line in the fiscal cliff sand, here is our big picture stance on corporate and individual tax reform,” Rep. Michael Honda (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “Six progressive tax principles from a new Gang of Six. The expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest

Port Authority boosts
tolls again on Sunday

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 11/30/2012 11:34:44 AM Post Reply

Fort Lee, N.J. — Motorists will pay more as the next phase of toll increases kick in at Port Authority bridges and tunnels on Sunday. Cash tolls on the George Washington Bridge, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Goethals Bridge, Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing will increase $1 to $13. Tolls for E-ZPass users will go from $9.50 to $10.25 during peak commuting hours and from $7.50 to $8.25 during off-peak hours. The Port Authority last raised tolls in September 2011. The bistate agency said it needed to offset security-related projects following the 9/11 attacks, a drop in revenue

No, Switching To Dollar
Coins Would Not Save
The Government Money

National Public Radio, by Jacob Goldstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:27:35 AM Post Reply

I have a bowlful of coins sitting on my bedside table. I do not have a bowlful of dollar bills sitting on my bedside table. Obviously. Weirdly, this profoundly boring fact is significant. It is the reason — the only reason — that getting rid of the one-dollar bill and forcing everybody to use dollar coins would provide a financial benefit to the federal government. Here´s why. It costs less than $1 to create a dollar coin or a dollar bill. As a result, the government makes a profit when it puts coins and bills into circulation.
Intro corrected by staff

Chelsea Clinton Collecting
Thank-You Notes for ‘My Dad’—
And Email Addresses for Mom?

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:16:02 AM Post Reply

Despite her denials, it’s widely speculated that Hillary Clinton may run for president in 2016, and if she does, she´ll need as many email addresses as possible to send out fund-raising solicitations and spread her political message. Therefore it may be noteworthy that Chelsea Clinton is suddenly helping the family´s Clinton Foundation collect email addresses. In a "Dear Friend" message sent Thursday to people on Democratic lists, Chelsea says she´s gathering "thank-you" notes for “my dad,” Bill Clinton. Chelsea says her father "deserves a big ´thank you´ for everything he´s done in the past year -- especially the

O’Hare Janitors Descend On Mayor’s
House To Protest Looming Job Cuts

CBS [Chicago], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 11/30/2012 11:13:08 AM Post Reply

Dozens of union airport workers were holding a prayer vigil outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house on Thursday, asking him to reconsider a decision to hand custodial work at O’Hare International Airport to a new company that doesn’t use union labor. CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov reports the O’hare janitors and window washers will lose their jobs in just over two weeks, when a new contractor takes over custodial work at the airport. The workers wanted to send a message to the mayor, on his birthday: Walk a day in our shoes.

Free Internet Under Fire

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:08:36 AM Post Reply

The United States will seek to block an “alarming” Russian proposal to give a United Nations telecommunications group control over the Internet, a senior State Department official said on Thursday. “We will actively oppose the Russian proposal,” Terry Kramer, head of the U.S. delegation to a U.N. conference in Dubai, told reporters. “I have to say, out of all the proposals that have come in, the Russian one candidly is the most shocking and most disappointing in terms of achieving the success that we are seeking globally,” he said. A Russian government proposal to amend a U.N. treaty at

Video: Staten Island Hurricane
Recovery Meeting Erupts in Rage

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:01:37 AM Post Reply

“No one is doing what’s right for us!” “We go from one to another,” one homeowner said. “We go from FEMA to our homeowners. My homeowners’ insurance offered me $150. What can I do with that?” Borough President James Molinaro almost accidentally riffed the old Reagan line about the most terrifying words in the English language during Thursday night’s meeting: “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.” “We are friends, we’re here to help,” he said. “There’s a lot of confusion. There’s a lot of statements and mis-statements being made by individuals.”

White House: Obama ´Will
Not Sign´ a Deal Unless
It Increases Taxes

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:46:28 AM Post Reply

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today that no matter what else happens President Barack Obama--who is the only modern president other than Franklin Roosevelt to serve in four years when federal spending topped 24 percent of GDP--will not sign a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that will arrive at the end of this year unless that deal increases taxes. "So the President made clear that he is not wedded to every detail of his plan," said Carney. "The President has also made categorically and abundantly clear that he will not sign an extension of the

French Socialist in Mittal Row:
We´re Just Doing What Obama Does

CNBC, by Stephane & Catherine Boyle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:37:45 AM Post Reply

The French politician who said Indian steel company ArcelorMittal should leave the country has told CNBC that his government is only acting like U.S. President Barack Obama. Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, a member of the governing Socialist party, caused controversy last week when he said that the Indian company, which employs close to 20,000 people in France, should leave after it said it would have to close down a factory. The French government announced on Thursday that it could nationalize the factory in question, with backing from an unnamed businessman.

If GOP continues to ignore
health care, U.S. will end
up with single payer

Washington Examiner, by Philip Klein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:29:56 AM Post Reply

One of the main consequences of President Obama’s reelection is that his national health care law will be implemented. Though there are various measures that Republicans can take to gum up the works in the coming years and though there will be a number of logistical hurdles facing the administration, the reality is that any future Republican proposals for reforming the health care system will have to wrestle with the existing Obamacare framework. Even if premiums spike, wait times at doctors’ offices swell, exchanges are a mess and some people lose coverage they like as a

Hillary Clinton: ‘President
Obama and I’ restored America’s
relationship with Europe

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:22:09 AM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a major foreign policy speech to the Brookings Institution yesterday, highlighting her record of diplomacy with Europe. “I must begin by being very frank,” Clinton said. “When President Obama and I came into office, this relationship was frayed.” She added, “From day one, President Obama and I made clear that if we were going to make progress, we had to do the hard work of renewing and reinvigorating our partnerships around the world, and that began with Europe.” Clinton praised America’s record of partnership with Europe rising to meet foreign policy challenges

Harvard approves student club
dedicated to ‘kinky sex’

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:13:50 AM Post Reply

A Harvard student group that relishes in conversations about erotic sex has been officially recognized by the prestigious university based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group, which goes by ‘Harvard College Munch,’ first began its meetings in one of the university’s dining halls to discuss personal stories and broader issues related to BDSM and other forms of ‘kinky sex’, the Harvard Crimson reports. Munch’s membership has grown to about 30 members from seven when it began more than a year ago and is one of 15 student organization that will be approved by Harvard’s Committee on Student

How Two Presidents Helped Me Deal
With Love, Guilt, and Fatherhood

National Journal, by Ron Fornier Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/30/2012 10:13:36 AM Post Reply

Our noses were practically touching the wall. Tall, white, and seamless, it was the only thing standing between us and the president of the United States. “Stay right there,” a White House aide told me, my wife, and three children. “The president will be with you in a minute.” Suddenly, the wall opened; it was a hidden door to the Oval Office. “Come on in, Fournier!” shouted George W. Bush. “Who ya’ dragging in?” It was my last day covering the White House for the Associated Press, and this 2003 visit was a courtesy that presidents traditionally afford departing correspondents.

Report: Obamas to spend
holidays in Hawaii at $4
million cost to taxpayers

Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:08:36 AM Post Reply

The first family will be vacationing in Hawaii for the Christmas holidays at a cost of at least $4 million to taxpayers, according to a report from the Hawaii Reporter. The Hawaiian paper reports that residents living near the beachfront homes at Kailuana Place, where the President Obama and first family have visited annually since 2008, were notified Monday that there will be restrictions on their movements in place for 20 days, from Dec. 17 through Jan. 6. The Hawaii Reporter calculated the $4 million cost to taxpayers based in part on the price of a

Obama demands $1.6 trillion tax
boost, and an unlimited credit card

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:00:04 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama has dramatically upped his demands in the fiscal crisis negotiations: He wants Congress to levy twice as much in extra taxes from Americans as he urged during the election campaign, give up its control over the nation’s debt limit, and fund an immediate $50 billion stimulus for his political priorities. In exchange, Obama offered to consider — but not necessarily accept — GOP proposals for cutting $400 billion from Medicare and other programs strongly favored by off-year voters. That listening session would take place sometime in 2013, giving the president plenty of time

Leno: ´Very Dangerous to White
House If Journalists Suddenly
Start Asking Real Questions´

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 9:56:07 AM Post Reply

Jay Leno continued pressuring Barack Obama Thursday night. During his opening monologue on NBC´s Tonight Show, the host said, "This is very dangerous to the White House if journalists should suddenly start asking real questions” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary): “This week, CBS News became the first news organization besides Fox to ask President Obama ‘Who changed the Benghazi talking points?’” Leno teased. “See, this is very dangerous to the White House if journalists should suddenly start asking real questions.” Indeed it is, Jay. Indeed it is. Just imagine how dangerous it would have been to Obama

Rick Santelli Explodes At CNBC
Guest, Walks Off Camera: ‘I Can’t
Even Talk About It Anymore’

Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 9:50:08 AM Post Reply

Rick Santelli got fired up this morning while he and and guest Steve Liesman were discussing the fiscal cliff. Santelli grew increasingly frustrated… eventually throwing his papers and walking off camera. “Why does he need to pump up his base and go on the road?” Santelli argued, referring to the president’s fiscal cliff campaigning. “He won!” Liesman argued that he has the ability to “extract” something from the base, that he “doesn’t owe them anything.” What should matter to the president, he said, “is his economic legacy.” “You want to get rid of the fiscal cliff uncertainty,” Liesman said.

Will Republicans go back
to the future with Jeb Bush?

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 9:42:13 AM Post Reply

In January 2008, at a John McCain rally in Columbia, S.C., I asked a number of local politicos to look back to the brutal 2000 Republican primary in their state, the one between McCain and George W. Bush. They had all supported Bush back then, and I asked whether, given the inconclusive wars, runaway federal spending and economic catastrophe of the next eight years, they felt they made the right choice. The answer was yes. They explained that they had strongly supported Ronald Reagan, and then they supported George H.W. Bush because

McDonald´s Striker: ´They´re
Not Paying Us Enough To Survive

Business Insider, by Kim Bhasin Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/30/2012 9:37:19 AM Post Reply

New York City fast food workers are expected to walk off the job this morning in a one-day strike, Josh Eidelson at Salon reports. The chains involved are McDonald´s, Wendy´s, Burger King, KFC, Domino´s, Taco Bell and Papa John´s. Why are the workers walking out? "They´re not paying us enough to survive," 21-year-old McDonald´s worker Raymond Lopez tells Salon. "This company has enough money to pay us a reasonable amount for all that we do … they’re just not going to give it to us as long as they can get away with it."

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Calls On GOP To Stop Waging
‘War On Working People’

Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 9:36:55 AM Post Reply

As “War On [Anything/Everything]” continues to be a fill-in-the-blank game of sorts, a new installment is added to the list. Appearing on CNN’s Early Start on Friday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) called on the GOP to stop its “war on the working people of America.” In the segment, which was about the fiscal cliff negotiations, Jackson Lee said, “First of all I’d like our Republican friends to stop a war on the working people of America. That is what the ultimate non-action will impact. Those are the people who will be impacted.” President Barack Obama

Obama’s challenge to the three amigos

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 11/30/2012 9:32:18 AM Post Reply

President Obama is still playing Sir Walter Raleigh, standing between himself and Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations and the designated scapegoat in the Benghazi cover-up. “Susan Rice is extraordinary,” the president told his Cabinet as he convened its first session since he was re-elected. “Couldn’t be prouder of the job she’s done.” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, no doubt grateful that she had not been elected to scapegoathood, led the round of applause for Mrs. Rice.

Americans´ expectations for
Obama 2.0 plunge

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 11/30/2012 9:25:22 AM Post Reply

Rather than bother with the messy business of face-to-face negotiations with Republicans over the looming fiscal cliff, Barack Obama has chosen to take Air Force One up to the Philadelphia area today to talk at another adoring crowd. Because no one´s had enough campaigning yet? [Snip] However, buried deep in a new CNN/ORC International poll this week sits a hopeful statistical inkling that more Americans are now figuring this machine pol out.

Obama fiscal cliff plan
DOA with GOP on the Hill

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/30/2012 9:00:40 AM Post Reply

Well, that didn´t take long. Mitch McConnell told Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard that he "burst out laughing" when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner outlined the president´s wickedly clever plan to avert the fiscal cliff. Why? New York Times: Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner presented the House speaker, John A. Boehner, a detailed proposal on Thursday to avert the year-end fiscal crisis with $1.6 trillion in tax increases over 10 years, $50 billion in immediate stimulus spending, home mortgage refinancing and a permanent end to Congressional

What the President Said
About Benghazi

Real Clear Politics, by Tom Bevan Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/30/2012 9:00:14 AM Post Reply

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice is under fire for going on several Sunday talk shows five days after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and providing apparently erroneous information to the public. But President Obama’s own public statements about Benghazi, made in three separate nationally televised interviews in the days after Rice’s appearances, were equally misleading and have received scarcely any attention. In defending Rice from criticism from an array of Republicans, including Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Obama said at a November 15 press conference,

Americans are already seceding
from one another

Creators Syndicate, by Patrick J. Buchanan Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 11/30/2012 8:54:11 AM Post Reply

“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another …” So begins the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies from the king and country to which they had given allegiance since the settlers first came to Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. The declaration was signed by 56 angry old white guys who had had enough of what the Cousins were doing to them. In seceding from the mother country, these patriots put their lives, fortunes and honor on the line

Fox News wins November, bests
MSNBC, CNN with 9 of 10 top shows

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/30/2012 8:52:48 AM Post Reply

The Fox News Channel showed its muscle to finish out the 2012 election cycle. For the month of November, the cable news channel topped its competition, with its daytime programming having record months. According to data from Nielsen Media Research, all three major cable news channels were up significantly from this time a year ago.

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