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The Senate fiscal-cliff bill still means higher taxes on every working American. So much for just going after ‘the rich.’
Whatever ultimately emerges from the fiscal-cliff negotiations over the past 48 hours, the country will survive. But the damage can’t be undone. Taxes are going up for all working Americans. And so is the size of government.

Businesses have been waiting to see whether a second Obama administration will encourage the economy. During the fiscal-cliff negotiations, however, the president made clear that his goal isn’t to get business going again but instead to expand government and redistribute income. He offered no real spending cuts and instead used the year-end deadline to divide America into classes—to the point of campaigning on New Year’s Eve against higher earners. Though the president talks about fairness, his policies penalize profit and investment. This hurts aspiring Americans more than it hurts those who have already made it.

The deal that emerged from the Senate early Tuesday morning is being sold as a tax cut for the middle class, but the expiration of the two-percentage-point payroll tax holiday means that working Americans’ take-home pay will drop. The bill reduces the value of tax deductions for upper incomes and, with the new open-ended 3.8% Medicare tax that was enacted under ObamaCare, income-tax rates on families and small business owners earning over $450,000 have been pushed above 44%.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/death-and-taxes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-and-taxes On November 13, 1789, Benjamin Franklin sat down to write a letter to a French scholar and physicist by the name of Jean-Baptiste Leroy, famous for his experiments with electricity. The French Revolution was gathering steam, Versailles and the Bastille had been stormed and Parisians were becoming used to Madame Mob marching through her […]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ As the edge of the fiscal cliff approaches and then recedes, like an imagined desert isle appearing and disappearing admit the waves, the process that has brought America into the tyranny of debt goes on. The national debt, like our annual deficits, is a symptom of the true problem. Irresponsible behavior is a symptom […]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/french-youths-torch-1193-cars-in-new-years-eve-tradition/ A New Year’s Eve tradition for some in France of torching empty, parked cars has continued into 2013. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday that 1,193 vehicles were burned overnight around the country, where the stunt began in the 1990s. “In France’s rundown suburbs, it has become as much of a New Year tradition […]

My ultra erudite friend Jed Babbin put this word in his New year greeting…..

It means fear of the number 13

It is just a superstition

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2342/british_textbook_erases_israel
British textbook erases Israel
A book commended by the Duke of Edinburgh and the British Council has been shown to have an anti-Israel bias

A popular textbook used by institutions and teachers to teach English as a second language has been found to have a disturbing anti-Israel undertone.

The textbook contains a map of the Middle East, labelling and identifying the countries displayed and presenting it as part of an exercise for a ‘Jordanian student at Greenhill College’. The map however, leaves off the label of ‘Israel’, instead replacing it with the words “Occupied Palestine”.

The book, “Skills in English: Writing Level 1” is utilised by teachers across the United Kingdom and further afield. The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Award judges called the book, “Extremely well-planned and constructed and very impressive.”

“I teach English as a foreign language in a further education college in Nottingham, England. I came across the attached map and couldn’t believe my eyes!” Liz Wiseman told the Israel Today website.

The textbook is written by husband and wife authors Terry and Anna Phillips, who between them have over 65 years of teaching English. Anna’s biography states: “Anna began writing materials for special courses as a senior teacher working for the British Council in Oman. Later, as Director of Studies and Owner-Manager of the International House school in Oman, she spent much of her time adapting and developing materials…”

Liz Wiseman, who made the discovery, acknowledged that she was not obliged to use the textbook, however it is regarded as one of the more popular English Language Teaching (ELT) books published by the mainstream, ‘Garnet Education’ organisation.

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2013.01.01 (Swabi, Pakistan) – Six women are among seven humanitarian workers brutally machine-gunned by Mujahideen.
2012.12.31 (Bakarabad, Pakistan) – One civilian is killed when religious hardliners blow a girls’ school.
2012.12.31 (Musayyib, Iraq) – Four women and children are among seven innocents slain in their homes by the Islamic Army of Iraq.
2012.12.31 (Karrada, Iraq) – Sunnis set off a bomb next to a group of Shi pilgrims, killing five.
2012.12.31 (Ras al-Ayn, Syria) – A pregnant Christian woman is left widowed after her husband is beheaded Islamic radicals and fed to dogs.

2012.12.30 (Ittehad Chowk, Pakistan) – Gunmen fire at two Christian brothers in a targeted attack. One later dies of injuries.

To no one’s surprise, the Religion of Peace racked up 11,267
dead bodies in 2,459 barbaric terror attacks during 2012.
The Nigerian child pictured above was in the wrong
place at the wrong time… church on a Sunday morning.

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British pro-Israel activist Jonathan Hoffman, long a stawart of the Zionist Federation and a man who often goes where others fear to tread, has selected his list of (mainly British) deserving individuals in a variety of categories for their performances in the year just ended:

Person of the Year: Ronnie Fraser for enduring hours of hostile cross-examination in order to establish that his trade union UCU is institutionally antisemitic (the verdict of the industrial tribunal is not expected until April). All who deplore racism – and that is the vast majority of humanity – owe Ronnie an enormous debt of gratitude.

Human Rights Award: The IDF for achieving – in Operation Pillar of Defence – a ratio of civilian:combatant casualties of around 1:1, unprecedentedly low in the history of asymmetric warfare

Inhuman Rights Award: Jacques Rogge for failing to agree a memorial in the Olympics Stadium for the Israeli Athletes murdered 40 years ago in Munich

Most Enjoyable Cultural Performances of the Year: Habima’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ and the Batsheva ballet – both were unforgettable – please come back soon!

Gift Horse Awards (“Never look a gift horse in the mouth”): Lord [Andrew] Phillips (‘huge admirer of the Jewish people’ who thinks Jews are ‘on the suicide path’) and Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles (‘deep affection for the Jewish people’ who are committing ‘assisted suicide’).

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/hunting_the_unicorn_of_moderate_islam.html In hunting the unicorn of moderate Islam, the West has occupied itself by passing through a mental gauntlet of Herculean moral contortions in separating the proverbial sheep from the goats. As I see it, those “moderate” voices of Islam, which have been protesting the violence of their brethren by thundering at the volume of […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/doomsday-et-cetera?f=puball America and the rest of the world are in a confluence of events that are causing widespread anxiety and fear. The Connecticut massacre is just one, isolated example. It is being reported that the killer’s mother was as mentally unstable as her son. A report in the British daily, the Mail, said “Friends and […]