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Posted 5/30/2013
California Senate votes to revoke Boy Scouts tax exempt status (From Raw Story) The Boy Scouts of America would lose tax exempt privileges in California under a bill approved Thursday by the state’s Senate. “While the Boy Scouts of America took a step in the right direction to include LGBT youth, the standing ban on LGBT adults is premised on absurd assumptions and stereotypes that perpetuate homophobia and ignorance,” California Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach), who authored the Youth Equality Act of 2013, said in a statement. “Equality doesn’t come with an expiration date and we shouldn’t allow discrimination to be subsidized; not in our state, not on our dime." There's more - Go to Raw Story ------------ Image from Google Images filtered "free to use, share or modify" |
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Posted 5/22/2013 Senator Levin in the News: Apple CEO tells Senate: Tiny tax bill isn't our fault
(From IOL - Indepentent On-Line News) New York - Apple “avoided” more than $1m in US taxes every hour last year, a senior Washington lawmaker said on Tuesday as the tech giant found itself the centre of the debate over loopholes in international tax laws.
Known worldwide for its innovative gadgets, the business was criticised for employing a fiendish corporate structure that, according to Carl Levin, the Democratic head of the US Senate's Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations, included three “ghost companies” that “exist nowhere” for tax purposes - “not in Ireland, where they are incorporated, and not in the United States, where the Apple executives who run them are located.” Apple was also accused of using other methods to cut its tax bill, and criticised for keeping billions of dollars worth of profits outside the US. Tim Cook, who succeeded the late Steve Jobs as Apple's CEO in 2011 and who is more accustomed to being celebrated for the success of the products, was forced to defend the business at a hearing before Senator Levin's Sub-Committee, saying: “We pay all the taxes we owe - every single dollar. We not only comply with the laws, but we comply with the spirit of the laws.” There's more - go to IOL |
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Posted 5/21/2013 RNC FL Hispanic Director Leaves GOP Citing "Culture of Intolerance"
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Posted 5/18/2013
Race and Beyond: 2012 Election Was a Historic First for Black Voters (From: Center for American Progress) Sherrilyn A. Ifill opined in a column posted on CNN’s website in early October of last year that she was unsure whether black voters would turn out and vote in overwhelming numbers to re-elect President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, but was dead certain they wouldn’t vote for his opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R). At that time, Ifill was a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and chairwoman of the U.S. Programs Board of the Open Society Foundations. She was tracking the GOP nominee’s campaign, noting that his standing with black voters hit rock bottom even as a late summer NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll revealed Gov. Romney was rebounding nationally after a strong debate performance against the president. “But Romney’s reinvigorated campaign is unlikely to move black voters,” she wrote. Ifill’s prognostication was correct, even if she didn’t realize at the time how right she was. Definitive proof came last week in the form of a Census Bureau report that showed black voters turned out in enormous numbers, casting a higher percentage of votes than white voters for the first time on record. There is much more at the Center for American Progress ------------ Picture from Google Images - Filtered Free to Share |
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Posted 5/17/2013 Neat -- time-lapse film of Earth seen from space station:
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Posted 5/17/2013 Heritage letter to Republicans on Capitol Hill: don't legislate, just scandalize Obama (From NBC News Grio) Finally, we have something out of the Heritage Foundation that is entirely accurate. In a letter to members of Congress, which was obtained by NBC News, Heritage Action for America, the lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation (which recently found itself in hot water over the racial IQ theories of the co-author of their widely panned immigration reform study, Jason Richwine, who resigned from the think tank last Friday), urged Republicans on Capitol Hill not to govern, and instead, to focus on the would-be “scandals” plaguing the Obama administration. The letter, which is addressed to House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, trumpets the negative media buzz surrounding the White House, saying that, “for the first time, the activities of the Obama administration are receiving a sustained public vetting. Americans’ outrage over Benghazi is amplified by the Internal Revenue Service’s intimidation of conservative grassroots organizations and a cascade of negative headlines. There is the real sense the Obama administration has been less than forthright with the American people, the press and lawmakers.” There's more, please visit NBC News Grio |
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Posted 5/17/2013 Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims (From the Huffington Post) One day after The White House released 100 pages of Benghazi emails, a report has surfaced alleging that Republicans released a set with altered text. CBS News reported Thursday that leaked versions sent out by the GOP last Friday had visible differences than Wednesday's official batch. Two correspondences that were singled out in the report came from National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. The GOP version of Rhodes' comment, according to CBS News: "We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don't want to undermine the FBI investigation." |
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