Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services by small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a calendar year. Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this category and coin dealers have been among those most rankled by the change.This provision, intended to mine what the IRS deems a vast reservoir of uncollected income tax, was included in the health care legislation ostensibly as a way to pay for it. The tax code tweak is expected to raise $17 billion over the next 10 years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
via Gold Coin Dealers Decry New Tax Law – ABC News.
Attorney General Eric Holder is blaming “politics” for delaying Team Obama’s decision on where to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his terrorist pals.
He’s right — but it’s Holder and the Obama folks who are playing politics. And, in fairness to voters, that needs to stop: It’s time for a decision.
On Sunday, Holder called congressional objections to civilian trials “regrettable,” insisting they’ve “resulted . . . in the delays that we have seen.”
But, recall, it was he who first suggested trying the thugs in a civilian court in Manhattan — a plan pushed by the Left — rather than a military tribunal.
And it was Holder who later backed down, after his decision sparked a furor.
via Holder needs to decide on Gitmo detainees–Editorial – NYPOST.com.
YouTube – Not Natural Born — TRUTH MATTERS.
Obama has said, “Well, first of all, it’s true I am not an American. I was not born in Hawaii. I wasn’t born in the United States of America. I come from Kenya. And, so I think some people saw my election as proof as testimony that..”
Michelle Obama: “Barach has lead by example. When we took our trip to African and visited his home country in Kenya. We took a public HIV test.”
Question: President Elect Obama’s birthplace over in Kenya is that going to be a national spot to go visit where he was born. A: It is already and attraction. His paternal grandmoter is still alive.
Q: His birthplace, they’ll put up a marker there. A: In front of the government ah, it is already well known, yeah.
In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.
via Governors Voice Grave Concerns on Immigration – NYTimes.com.
According to a study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) the annual bill to U.S. taxpayers for illegal immigration is $100 billion and about 75 percent of the total is borne by state and local taxpayers. In Kansas that bill is estimated to be $442 million a year.
via Study: Illegal Immigrants Cost Kansas Taxpayers $442 million.
New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the Christie administration today.
State parks, psychiatric hospitals and even turnpike toll booths could also be run by private operators, according to the 57-page report on privatization obtained by The Star-Ledger. Preschool classrooms would no longer be built at public expense, state employees would pay for parking and private vendors would dish out food, deliver health care and run education programs behind prison walls.
All told, the report says, New Jersey could save at least $210 million a year by delivering an array of services through private hands.
via NorthJersey.com: Christie looks to privatize motor vehicle inspections, other services.
Earlier this week, we highlighted the above clip featuring King Samir Shabazz, the New Black Panther videotaped in that clip both in front of a Philadelphia polling place on election day 2008 brandishing a night stick, and then caught by National Geographic TV literally shouting for murder into a bullhorn on Philadelphia’s South Street. Since then, several new clips have surfaced, two of which feature his brother Malik Shabazz, president of the New Black Panther Party.
Perhaps the most damning is this first one, spotted by Larry O’Connor of Big Journalism, who writes,“New Black Panther Party President Admits to Philadelphia Voter Intimidation; Holder’s Justice Department Still Silent:”
“You know we don’t carry batons…. PSYCHE! Heh heh heh… I’m just playin’” – Malik Zulu Shabazz, President of The New Black Panther Party.
via Ed Driscoll » Video: New Black Panther Party President Admits Voter Intimidation.
The New York National Guard is working with local law enforcement authorities to perform sophisticated scans of vehicles entering the New York area looking for guns and drugs in the latest alarming example of how America is under a state of de facto martial law.
via New York National Guard Units Scan Vehicles For Gun Confiscations.
President Obama intends to bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid, the White House announced Tuesday — filling the job while Congress is in recess to get around Republican opposition that threatened to derail Berwick’s confirmation.
Berwick’s supporters say he is the right man in the right place at the right time. But his opponents have lined up against him. They say that while he may be a the highly respected doctor, he is also an outspoken proponent of the British health care system, which they say is all wrong for Americans.
via FOXNews.com – Obama to Fill Medicare and Medicaid Post Without Senate Approval.
Time to call for Eric Holder’s resignation.
Warning, this video is not for children.
The Department of Justice went after these guys when someone under Eric Holder had them drop the case against these guys.
“I hate white people. All of them.”
YouTube – The Obama Administration Protected Black Panther Who Advocates Killing White Babies.
