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Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’ A Florida state employee has been reprimanded and told not to come to work after Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration banned the use of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” Earlier this month, reports said that officials in the Scott administration ordered Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administrators not to use the terms in documents or meetings because they asserted that the climate science behind global warming was not a “true fact.” More
Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
2024 Candidate Roundtable Discussions On March 16, 2024, at 1 p.m. at Kathmandu restaurant, five candidates on the ballot for the Town of Nederland’s April 2 election sat and engaged in the first of two Roundtable Discussions hosted by ... 03/23/2024 - 11:09 am | View Link
Assessing Claims That U.S. Billionaires Get a Free Ride on Taxes Billionaires are subject to the same income and capital gains taxes as all Americans, and their payments to the IRS make up a significant portion of the country’s tax proceeds. How much do American ... 03/22/2024 - 8:33 am | View Link
Lawmakers question Biden budget as tax experts plan ahead The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to discuss the Biden administration's recently unveiled budget and tax proposals, as tax experts try to predict what will happen after the election. 03/21/2024 - 1:39 pm | View Link
Congress Should Revisit 2017 Tax Law’s Trillion-Dollar Corporate Rate Cut in 2025 A growing body of research shows that the corporate rate cut has delivered large gains to top earners but done little for everyone else. 03/21/2024 - 1:59 am | View Link
IRS chief zeroes in on wealthy tax cheats in AP interview WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has a message for high-wealth tax cheats who are wrongly deducting private jet travel and otherwise shorting the government on their taxes: Pay your ... 03/20/2024 - 1:31 am | View Link
Former President Donald Trump criticized the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Trump's criminal trial relating to hush money payments, on social media. Federal judge Reggie Walton gave a rare interview to CNN's Kaitlan Collins and explained why he's concerned about these attacks.
tPresident Joe Biden's campaign released a video from his star-studded fundraiser event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, highlighting a light-hearted moment between the president and TV host Stephen Colbert.
A Texas appeals court threw out a five-year prison sentence for Crystal Mason, the Texas woman who was sentenced for trying to cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election. Via the Guardian:
Mason, now 49, attempted to vote in Fort Worth in the 2016 even though she was ineligible because she was still on supervised release – which is like probation – for a tax felony.
Donald Trump was invited to the wake of slain New York City Police Officer Jonathan Diller and, in typical Trump fashion, is milking it for all the dishonest posturing he can muster.
Even if you think Trump is innocent of every one of the 88 felony charges against him, including inciting the violence wrought against police officers on Jan.
Press Watch: It's not just our democracy at stake, it's our freedom.
Mock Paper Scissors: Remembering Joe Lieberman.
Pharyngula: Does anyone care that the Republican presidential candidate is obviously ill?
Reading the Pictures: Bringing later stage abortions into the light (video).
Darwinfish2: How to win the November elections.
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Stochastic terrorist Donald Trump can't seem to stop himself from lashing out at the judge in his upcoming hush-money criminal case and his daughter even though he was put under a gag order. The knuckle-dragging disgraced former President unleashed posts to attack Judge Juan Merchan and his daughter Wednesday on Truth Social, and he's at it again today.