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Clergy group demands IRS investigate ALEC’s tax-exempt status
The former head of the IRS’ Exempt Organizations division is calling for an investigation into a conservative nonprofit group of lawmakers and corporate officials on the grounds that they are abusing their tax-exempt status. Former IRS official Marcus Owens recently filed a complaint against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)…
Trump: Roberts upheld health law because he ‘wanted to be loved’
Real estate mogul Donald Trump says Chief Justice John Roberts became the swing vote and upheld Barack Obama’s health care reform law because he “wanted to be loved” by liberals and the Washington establishment. “It’s a disaster,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News on Monday. “Obviously it would…
Coburn: Obama creating a ‘Soviet-style’ health care system
President Barack Obama may not be a communist, but he is attempting a “Soviet-style” takeover of the health care system, according to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). On Sunday, CBS host Norah O’Donnell asked Coburn what he meant when he told the Eagle Daily Investor that the president was trying to…
Olbermann: Romney now running against Chief Justice John Roberts
Keith Olbermann says that by upholding President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, the Supreme Court has presented presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney with two “insurmountable problems.” “Gov. Romney is now not only running against a program very similar — and everybody would have to admit, at least, very…
Boehner: Health reform law must be ‘ripped out by its roots’
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Sunday admitted that some parts of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms were beneficial, but insisted that the entire law must be “ripped out by its roots.” “There’s always going to be parts of it that are good,” Boehner told CBS Chief White House…
Paul Ryan: Repeal health law because rights come from God
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is arguing that President Barack Obama’s health care reform law should be repealed because rights come from “nature and God,” not the government. During an interview on ABC, former Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy’s widow, Victoria Kennedy, told host George Stephanopoulos that the Supreme Court had made…
McConnell: Uninsured people are ‘not the issue’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Sunday pledged to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care reforms and said that the 30 million Americans that the law is likely to cover were “not the issue” for Republicans. During an interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace asked McConnell how Republicans…
Governors: No Obamacare for Florida and Louisiana
In separate interviews, the governors of Florida and Louisiana said they would defy this week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act. “We’re not going to implement Obamacare in Florida,” Florida Governor Rick Scott said Friday, according to The Tampa Bay Times. “We’re not going to expand Medicaid because…
Networked moms are the new soccer moms – and they’re not on the sidelines
Networked moms are the new soccer moms – and they're not on the sidelines I love watching both my son and my daughter run like the wind as they dribble the soccer ball down the field. I love cheering on the sidelines, clothes layered against the rain. This doesn’t, however,…
Republican mega-donor’s firm accused of ‘directing’ prostitution at its casinos
A former executive at the Las Vegas Sands Corp. Steve Jacobs, has filed a wrongful termination suit in which he accuse the company of “controlling and directing” prostitution at its Macau casinos. The charges are politically significant because the company’s chairman, billionaire Sheldon Adelson, has been perhaps the most generous…
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