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A Tax Cut That Bleeds Revenue and Penalizes Work

The fact is that the current system -- which doesn't penalize work by favoring capital gains -- is no impediment to investment and growth in our state.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - In eras past, doctors routinely bled patients in an effort to cure them. Fortunately, the medical profession eventually recognized that bloodletting actually made patients worse.

In the field of economic policy, however, an idea akin to bloodletting retains faithful adherents.

Corn Belt Senators Push Back Against Eliminating Ethanol Subsidies

Monsanto, ADM, ... Contribs to corn belt Senators pushing back against eliminating ethanol subsidies...

(BERKLEY, Calif.) - As Reuters reports, Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently attempted to drastically reduce subsidies for ethanol production.

Feinstein's plan was to amend HR 4853 - the Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010 to reduce the import tariff on ethanol from $0.45 to $0.36, and the $0.10/gallon tax credit for small ethanol producers to $0.08.

Slave to Shame, Whipped by Deceit

“I was broken in body, soul, and spirit…my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed…the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!” - Frederick Douglass

(LAVERNE, Calif.) - On the 4th of June in 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama stood strong before the world in the Levant and declared:

“Israel must live up to its obligations to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society…we should choose the right path, not just the easy path… we must do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This truth transcends nations and peoples…”

Orange County Great Park Update: Don`t Test Don`t Tell

Our OC beat reporter bangs the drum slowly... "Don't Test Don't Tell, Don't Test Don't Tell..."

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Nothing but one broken promise, one bald-faced lie after another. Can the taxpayers now file for a divorce from Irvine? Haven't we had enough Agran-vation (aggravation), why not refuse to help find the funds for this LENNAR/Agran scam anymore?

As we've tried to point out, these two hangars (296 & 297) and those runways sit on some of what we believe to be the most contaminated soil on the base.

Celebrating Christmas in Bethlehem, Palestine

The people of Palestine also celebrate. They need to, as any other people would need to celebrate.

(BETHLEHEM) - In this time of year, people around the world celebrate. They celebrate the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem Palestine.

They celebrate a birth that was meant to propagate a set of ideals to make the world a better place. 2010 years later, that same birthplace is plagued by a regime that practices the exact opposite of those ideals.

Gaza Under Illegal Attack Again

Israel continually, immorally and illegally, attacks and kills the oppressed Palestinians of Gaza. They are firing again right now.

(GAZA STRIP) - Huge explosions here in Gaza, in the North and South. Ambulances are going to the scenes.

F-16 jets can be clearly heard flying overhead. Imagine the terror of the children in these areas.

Bittersweet Season for the Obese: Holidays Bring Mixed Blessings

Those who endlessly ingest sweets in the name of festivity are indulging in first-class folly.

(SALEM, Ore.) - There an old maxim that states, "One man's bread is another man's poison". Regardless of your gender, this aptly applies to the Holiday Season which definitely proves a very mixed bundle of blessings.

Ingesting sweets can be bittersweet to good health. It can be the nutritional equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot, only the consequences are not quite as immediate. Self-inflicted wounds to oneself will surface.

The Mystery and Love of Christ at a Convent in Spain

The mystery that fills the convent at Lerma is simply Christ himself.

(MADRID) - The day has long passed since Marijosé Berzosa entered the cloister without batting an eyelash. She was just 18 years old, and the town of Lerma was celebrating a feast day. Behind her, she abandoned the study of medicine and its possibilities so as to heed the call of Christ.

Her new home, a convent, housed some twenty nuns. The youngest of these was already 40 years old, and it had been more than 23 years since a postulant had crossed the threshold.

Life and Death of Rachel Corrie in Video

Rachel Corrie personified everything that is right and decent about the United States of America.

(RAFAH, Gaza Strip) - Gilad Atzmon: This video is one of the strongest and clearest messages I have ever come across. If Israel won't stop itself. Humanity will eventually unite against this disgraceful state!!

Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli military forces Caterpillar bulldozer on 16 March in 2003 while trying to halt the illegal destruction of a Palestinian doctor's home.

SOTT Report - Fake Terror

FBI recruits terrorists, plans attacks...

(CINCINNATI ) - Joe Quinn of www.sott.net sticks to the facts. His video report on FBI complicity in terrorism is dead on.