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- This Week In Crazy — May 24th Edition
- Separate But Unequal: Apple Defers Its Taxes, You Foot The Bill
- McCain Responds To ‘Nuclear Threat,’ Criticizes Tea Party Senators
- If The Election Were Held Today, The GOP Could Lose The House
- Tea Party Group Protesting IRS Has History of Questionable Political Involvement
- Obama Defends Drones, Condemns Guantánamo In National Security Speech
Separate But Unequal: Apple Defers Its Taxes, You Foot The Bill
David Cay JohnstonThe richest of the rich are different from you and me because instead of paying taxes, Congress lets them pay interest.
This little-known difference was on full display before the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee this week, though you would hardly know that from the news reports of testimony by Apple CEO Tim Cook and his top finance and tax executives.
How Obama’s ‘Scandals’ Will Hurt The GOP
Jason SattlerMore astute Republicans are well aware that their so-called “scandals” can end up damaging them more than President Obama — just as the impeachment of President Clinton wounded the GOP in 1998.
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She Thanked God, And The Debate Rages On
Connie SchultzIt was a flash of joy against a relentless backdrop of despair. So, of course, the video of Barbara Garcia’s happy news went viral.
Just as predictably, her breathless moment of gratitude sparked debate on virtually every site I could find that posted the video.
Garcia mentioned God. That’s all it takes.
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How Obama’s ‘Scandals’ Will Hurt The GOP
More astute Republicans are well aware that their so-called “scandals” can end up damaging them more than President Obama — just as the impeachment of President Clinton wounded the GOP in 1998.
Read more...You Can’t Really Get So Upset About Obama If You’ve Written The Book Fifty Shades Of Greygan
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Former Reagan speechwriter/fan-fictionist Peggy Noonan is deeply, deeply pained by the “scandals” surrounding President Obama.
“This IRS thing is something I’ve never seen in my lifetime,” she achingly whimpered on Meet the Press Sunday.
She Thanked God, And The Debate Rages On
It was a flash of joy against a relentless backdrop of despair. So, of course, the video of Barbara Garcia’s happy news went viral.
Just as predictably, her breathless moment of gratitude sparked debate on virtually every site I could find that posted the video.
Garcia mentioned God. That’s all it takes.
Oklahoma Needs Help, Not Ideology
WASHINGTON — While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, OK, this week, I was genuinely shocked. Not by the scale of the devastation or the tenacity of people who have grown stoically accustomed to the damage tornadoes can do, but by a political sentiment that, in almost any other era, would not have been surprising at all.
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5 Worst Ideas From Louisiana’s Tea Party Government
In the state whose governor warned Republicans to “stop being the stupid party,” Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and his colleagues repeatedly ignore that very advice — proposing one ridiculous law after another.
Read more...Congressional Republicans Hope To Avoid Another Disaster Relief Debacle
Republican leaders in Congress are insisting that they will provide immediate aid to the victims of the tornado that devastated Oklahoma on Monday, while hoping to avoid another heated battle such as the one that fractured the GOP caucus after House Speaker John Boehner failed to pass a Hurricane Sandy relief bill before the end of the 112th Congress in January.
Read more...Six Facts Lost In The IRS Scandal
by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica
In the furious fallout from the revelation that the IRS flagged applications from conservative non-profits for extra review because of their political activity, some points about the big picture – and big donors — have fallen through the cracks.
Fed Chair To Congress: It’s All Your Fault
The stock market is testing new highs, the unemployment rate is declining and consumer confidence is at a six-year peak, but the Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke wants Congress to know that things could be a lot better.
Read more...WATCH: Anthony Weiner Launches Campaign For New York City Mayor
Former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has officially joined the race for New York City mayor, launching his campaign with a YouTube video designed to position the Queens/Brooklyn Democrat as the candidate of the middle class.
Read more...Cantor’s Con Would Steal Workers’ Overtime Pay
My state of Texas seems to have an inordinate share of nincompoops in public office. But it’s only fair that officeholders from other place be considered before deciding which state is the nincompoopiest of all.
Give credit to Pennsylvania, for example, whose GOP governor, Tom Corbett, recently scored big nincompoop points by explaining why his state ranks 49th in job creation.
Why Mark Carson Matters
Mark Carson was shot in the face because he’s gay.
His alleged killer, 33-year-old Elliot Morales, is said to have confronted Carson, 32, and a companion, in New York’s Greenwich Village last Friday night, yelling anti-gay slurs. When Carson walked away, Morales reportedly followed and shot him. Morales was arrested by police after a foot chase.
