A renewed legislative effort to raise the national minimum wage and give a boost to the millions of Americans mired in working poverty was a featured promise made by President Obama in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. But political reality is likely to intrude on the president’s vision as familiar foes of wage hikes [...]
TRAGEDY TIME IN AMERICA: WHEN THE COUNTRY’S ASSASSIN-IN-CHIEF BECOMES THE COUNTRY’S COMFORTER-IN-CHIEF. President Obama does the “moral multi-tasking” which seems to go with his office of leader of his nation which has become the bully of the world. The Aurora CO shootings follow the endlessly repeated pattern in which horrific situations, both “man made” [...]
YOU CAN’T TRUST THOSE SNEAKY IRANIANS: THEY MAY BE CONDUCTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS ON THE SLY. (McClatchy) Director of International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amana adds something to the pile of suspicions about Iranian nuclear weapons development, reporting that in 2003 Iran “may” have cleaned-up a site of such testing before submitting to an IAEA [...]
IT’S AIPAC-BLOSSOM TIME IN WASHINGTON, D.C. (New York Times) Candidates for President—the incumbent and his GOP rivals—stand in line to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. While the Republicans pander the jingo votes with a tough stands against the possibility of Iran gaining nuclear weapons and becoming a more ominous “existential” threat to Israel, Obama condemns [...]
OBAMA’S NEW TAX PLAN WOULD SLASH CORPORATE RATES BY UP TO 10 PERCENT. (New York Times) Seeking to beat potential Republican vials to the fore of the “tax debate,” President Obama on Wednesday announced sweeping proposals for overhauling the nation’s corporate tax code. Currently sitting at a listed rate of 35 percent, the White House [...]
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