Former Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer, under indictment for skimming from party coffers, promised to reimburse the party for some of his improper expenses — but an audit shows Greer’s check bounced.
The city of Gainesville is considering billing Pastor Terry Jones upwards of $200,000 for the security costs the city incurred thanks to Jones’ ultimately canceled Koran-burning stunt.
As this chart demonstrates, only 1.9 percent of tax filers with small business income in 2009 fell in the top 2 income brackets, those affected by the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
Let’s say that again. Of all the small business income filers in 2009, only 1.9 percent were in the top two tiers which would be hit by the Obama tax plan.
Shorter Obama: If you think we can cut taxes for the rich, then you can’t add. Watch.
DOJ knocks the FBI for putting people from Greenpeace on the terrorist watch list without sufficient cause.
Second annual Tea Party convention, slated to be held in Vegas, is cancelled.
With the House in a muddle, it’s looking like the Senate may have plan to force a vote on the Obama Plan middle class tax cuts before the election.
Congressional Republicans know that the worst thing that can happen to them over the next six weeks is that Democrats in the House hold a vote separating the extension of the middle income and upper income tax cuts. Either just one vote on extending the middle income tax cuts. Or even two votes — but separate votes on each. Now House Republicans are in the field pressing the Dems to hold one, single vote — thus combining all the tax cuts together and blurring the difference.
And the Dems aren’t even on the field.
With Pakistan’s battle with social disintegration and extremism now met with historic natural disaster, ousted military ruler Pervez Musharraf is planning a return to the country and a return to politics.
From Hong Kong last week, Musharraf made the case that he speaks for a silent majority of modernizing, young and economically mobile Pakistanis.
He says he has a strong following among Pakistan’s silent majority: the progressive-minded, economically mobile, urban, and urbane younger sections of society. As proof, he points to his 300,000 Facebook followers mainly aged between 18 and 34. “Therefore, I know that it is the youth who are yearning for change,” he said Wednesday.