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Flogging the Flat Tax
Tax fairness means everyone has to share equally in the burden of tax complexity.

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry must be onto something with his flat tax. Liberals wasted no time on Tuesday shooting arrows at the Texas governor’s proposal, labeling it a giant-sized tax cut for millionaires and billionaires that’s paid for with higher taxes on the middle class.

Obama administration spokesman Ben LaBolt said the flat tax “would shift a greater share of taxes away from large corporations and the wealthiest onto the backs of the middle class.” Mr. Obama’s team just can’t get away from the class warfare theme.

The Democratic National Committee was also on the warpath. It sent out an email claiming to “fact check” the Perry flat tax, which would offer taxpayers the choice of filing under the current system or paying a 20% rate. The DNC cites former Obama administration economist Jared Bernstein, who says “not only would [the plan] shift the tax burden from the rich to middle-class and poorer taxpayers, but it would also shift the burden of tax preparation away from the rich.” Apparently, tax fairness means everyone has to share equally in the burden of tax complexity. Now, there’s an argument that only a tax accountant could love……READ AT SITE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/27/iran-already-has-nuclear-weapons/print/

Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA spy who is a fellow with EMPact America and the author of “A Time to Betray,” about his double life in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, 2010).

The pressure the United States and the West is bringing to bear on Iran to keep it from acquiring nuclear weapons is all for naught. Not only does the Islamic Republic already have nuclear weapons from the old Soviet Union, but it has enough enriched uranium for more. What’s worse, it has a delivery system.

The West for nearly a decade has worried about Iran’s uranium enhancement, believing Iran is working on a nuclear bomb, though the government maintains its uranium is only for peaceful purposes.

When Iran began its nuclear program in the mid-1980s, I was working as a spy for the CIA within the Revolutionary Guards. The Guards’ intelligence at that time had learned of Saddam Hussein’s attempt to buy a nuclear bomb for Iraq. Guard commanders concluded that they needed a nuclear bomb because if Saddam were to get his own, he would use it against Iran. At that time, the two countries were at war.

Mohsen Rezaei, then-chief commander of the Guards, received permission from the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to start a covert program to obtain nuclear weapons, so the Guards contacted Pakistani generals and Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist……READ AT SITE

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4139954,00.html http://bigpeace.com/nmachiavelli/2011/10/27/report-obama-administration-traded-f-16s-in-order-to-gain-release-of-israeli-american-held-in-egypt/ Report: Grapel deal includes US F-16 sale to Egypt Cairo military source says deal brokered to ensure release of Israeli-American Ilan Grapel includes pledge by Washington to sell Egypt fighter jets The Palestinian Maan news agency reported Thursday that the United States has agreed to sell Egypt several F-16 fighter jets in order […]

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I ALMOST ALWAYS AGREE WITH DAVID SINGER….BUT USING POLLARD TO GET THE ISRAEL/ARAB TALKS GOING AGAIN IS THE MOST GRIEVOUS USE OF A “PRISONER EXCHANGE”…. I AM APPALLED BY SINGER’S SUGGESTIONS

The Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer has chosen an alliterative title for his latest article: “Palestine – Peace, Petulance, Posturing, and Pollard”.
It comes as usual via the antipodean J-Wire service.

Writes David Singer:

‘Two significant – yet seemingly unrelated – events have occurred during the past week within the ongoing Jewish-Arab conflict.

1. Israel’s release of 1027 terrorists for one of its soldiers – Gilad Shalit – with 80% of Israelis reportedly supporting the deal.
2. The PLO’s continuing refusal to resume negotiations with Israel until Israel ceases all building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem – despite strenuous efforts by the Quartet to get PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table.

The confluence of these two events, however, now presents an opportunity for the Quartet to get Israel and the PLO talking to each other again.

The Quartet represents probably the strongest diplomatic negotiating team ever assembled in history. Yet it has been made to look impotent in its inability to get the conflicting parties to sit across a table to try and peacefully resolve their differences.

Comprised of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations – the Quartet is obviously concerned at the fallout that can occur should Abbas continue to unilaterally forge ahead with his request for UN recognition of Palestinian statehood in breach of UN Security Council Resolution 242, the Oslo Accords and the Bush Road Map.

Yet the Quartet has within its grasp a powerful negotiating card – the ability to pressure America to release and repatriate to Israel the convicted civilian American Naval Intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard in return for

* Israel implementing a total building freeze in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for an agreed specified time period and
* The PLO immediately resuming direct negotiations with Israel

http://news.investors.com/Article/589662/201110271855/Occupy-EPA-Not-Wall-Street.htm

We are not in good shape. Economic growth has stagnated. Unemployment is at an unacceptable rate. Debt is wreaking havoc on economic stability.

Although every possible scapegoat has been indicted for our current economic catastrophe — China, “the rich,” corporations in general, the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, the list could go on — there are clear, tangible reasons to focus on one regulatory body alone: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

What the president and his administration do not seem to understand is that the last thing we need is more hands-on; we need some hands-off…….READ THE REST AT SITE

“Wife-sharing” haunts Indian villages as girls decline
http://news.yahoo.com/wife-sharing-haunts-indian-villages-girls-decline-083401584.html

BAGHPAT, India (TrustLaw) – When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband’s two brothers who had failed to find wives.

“My husband and his parents said I had to share myself with his brothers,” said the woman in her mid-40s, dressed in a yellow sari, sitting in a village community center in Baghpat district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

“They took me whenever they wanted — day or night. When I resisted, they beat me with anything at hand,” said Munni, who had managed to leave her home after three months only on the pretext of visiting a doctor.

“Sometimes they threw me out and made me sleep outside or they poured kerosene over me and burned me.”

Such cases are rarely reported to police because women in these communities are seldom allowed outside the home unaccompanied, and the crimes carry deep stigma for the victims. So there may be many more women like Munni in the mud-hut villages of the area.

http://news.yahoo.com/death-toll-baghdads-twin-bombings-rises-32-092142300.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi police and health officials say the death toll of a twin bombing in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad has risen to 32. The two blasts, which took place Thursday evening at a music store, wounded 71 other people, the officials said. A second bomb exploded minutes after the first, targeting […]

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/26/new-palestinian-precondition/#more-772157

WHAT IS REALLY SHAMELESS IS ISRAEL’S WILLINGNESS TO “RETURN TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE” WITH GENOCIDAL BARBARIANS…..ARABS CONTINUALLY MOVE THEIR GOALPOSTS… SPINELESS APPEASEMENT….RSK

Yesterday, Seth covered the substance of the newest entry on the Palestinian list of preconditions. They’ve now added “freeing mass murderers” to their two other demands that Israel halt settlement construction and start talks from the 1967 armistice lines. Those issues used to be topics for negotiation rather than preconditions, but the Obama administration’s Smart Power forced Abbas’s hand, and so they became pretexts for rejecting talks despite Netanyahu’s readiness to engage.

Now the Palestinians have found a new poison pill, although this time – in a poignant metaphor – they freelanced rather than follow America’s lead. The imprisoned Marwan Barghouti is a remorseless mass murderer and Ahmad Sa’adat is a sociopathic killer, even if international media outlets and foreign policy magazines label the former a “dissident” and coo over the latter as a gray-haired grandfather. There’s no appetite in Israel for letting them out.

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/the_awful_sin_of_herman_cain Things have gone from bad to badder for the self-righteous artsy-fartsy elites, who for all their book-learning and self-regard just can’t figure out America. The Herman Cain phenomenon is the latest puzzlement of those who only think they’re wise enough and entitled enough to tell the rest of us which fork to use. Mr. […]

http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/10/28/shredding_kathleen_sebelius/print

If a private health insurer had engaged in the kind of criminal obstruction that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been tied to in her home state of Kansas, it would be a federal case. Instead, it’s a non-story in the Washington press. Nothing to see here. Move along.

On Monday, a district judge in the Sunflower State suspended court proceedings in a high-profile criminal case against the abortion racketeers of Planned Parenthood. World Magazine, a Christian news publication, reported on new bombshell court filings showing that Kansas health officials “shredded documents related to felony charges the abortion giant faces.” World Magazine reported: “The health department failed to disclose that fact for six years, until it was forced to do so in the current felony case over whether it manufactured client records.”