China’s premier calls for efforts to spur growth

Premier Wen Jiabao called for more priority to be given to boosting China's slowing economic growth, a state news agency reported Sunday, after unusually weak industrial activity in April prompted alarm about the world's second-largest economy.

Tax Reform That Is Simple, Transparent, Fair

Most discussions of the personal tax code quickly deteriorate into disagreements over the relative size of tax rates or brackets. But it is the definition of taxable income -- the tax base -- that drives the tax train.

Why Wright Matters: Obama’s on a Mission from God

Is Mitt Romney right? Should we dismiss Jeremiah Wright as just another phony street agitator?

Jews, Jewish Leftists, and the Anti-Semitic Left

Last week, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research held an extraordinary conference in New York, in which leftist Jew actually took an honest look at leftism's true opinion of Jews.

Putin’s economic plan: ‘great leap’ into the unknown

Newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin has set hugely ambitious targets to catapult the Russian economy into the modern era but their realism remains in doubt despite a benign short-term outlook.

They’ve seen the future, all right

“Report: Every Potential 2040 President Already Unelectable Due To Facebook“. (From The Onion.)

Politico Tars Marco Rubio With Conspiracy Theories of ‘Bilderberg Obsessives’

The "mainstream media" claim that they finely sift information to offer their customers only the most trustworthy information. That obviously does not apply to Politico or their reporter Ken Vogel.

A Glimpse of What Privatized Roads Could Look Like

The government refused to fix a road in Hawaii, so the citizens did it themselves...for free. Is there something to this?

Serbians vote for president under threat of protest

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic and rightist Tomislav Nikolic went head to head on Sunday in a tense run-off election for Serbian president and the right to lead the struggling nation into talks on joining the European Union. Despite economic stagnation and rising unemployment, Tadic is tipped to defeat Nikolic for the third time since 2004 as Serbia slowly sheds the legacy of a decade of war and isolation under late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

#NATO3 Protesters Allegedly Targeting Obama HQ, Bond Set at $1.5M

The bond for the three Occupy protesters Bryan Church, Jarred Chase and Brent Betterly, who were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism as well as other felonies , has been set for $1.5 million each. From the Chicago Sun-Times : The NATO Summit protesters charged with plotting terrorist acts in Chicago planned to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home — and firebomb police stations and squad cars to divert attention, according to sources and prosecutors. The National Lawyers Guild released a statement about the charges on their facebook early this morning saying, "The National Lawyers Guild deplores the charges against Occupy activists in the strongest degree," said Sarah Gelsomino with the NLG and the People's Law Office. "It's outrageous for the city to apply terrorism charges when it's the police who have been terrorizing activists and threatening their right to protest." The Chicago Police Superintendent, Garry McCarthy made it very clear in his press conference about the arrests and the raid that this was "not protest behavior" but "criminal behavior." It is now being reported that the "NATO3," as protesters have labeled them, have had a long history of run-ins with the law including burglary to an unoccupied structure, grand theft and criminal mischief

FTC vs. Skechers: Overhyped Meets Overkill

The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that Skechers USA Inc. will pay $40 million to settle charges that the shoe company made “unfounded claims” about its Shape-ups. “Shape up while you walk,” one ad proclaimed.

Another Obama Record!… Number of Americans Working Past 65 at All-Time High

It’s an Obama world. Work til you drop. ( Guardian ) The New York Times reported: THE retirement dream seems further away for a lot of baby boomers, and they appear to be responding to that by holding on to their jobs if they can. But that may have worsened the employment prospects for younger workers

Pollsters Offer Insiders’ Advice on Appraising the Races

ORLANDO, Fla. — With the two major-party presidential nominees this year all but certain, pollsters gathered in a hotel conference room here on the third day of the American Association for Public Opinion Research's annual symposium with a colorful yet pointed message for their peers, the news media, and consumers of political news: Don't pay so much attention to the horse-race polls that dominate coverage of the campaign. "They give you the score of the game," said Gary Langer, who produces polls for ABC News, "but they don't predict the outcome." A USA Today /Gallup poll released earlier this week showed Romney largely closing that gap -- and sporting a better net favorability-to-unfavorability rating.

What We Learned: Fisch-ing for Lessons

What we at The Hotline learned this week: -- 2012 is becoming the classic example of a mobilization, rather than a persuasion, electorate. Half of America loves President Obama , and the other half hates him.

Obama and Dimon, Romney and Bain: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

The inconvenient but embarrassing fact that undercut the Obama camp's ad assault on Romney's time at Bain Capital--the GOP candidate was no longer at Bain when it shuttered the steel plant featured in the ad, but an Obama fundraiser was --only pointed up how futile a line of attack this line probably is. In this election, no one's really going to win the game of who's tougher on Wall Street. No, as I write in an article in this week's National Journal ( magazine subscribers can see the article here ), "The Humbling," the only good that may come out of all this back-and-forth is that it will remind politicians and policy-makers in Washington that, while they weren't watching, the Wall Street lobby has been relentless in poking ripping giant loopholes in financial reform

What the obama Administration Has Taught America

Facebook Inc.’s $16 billion initial public offering has made Mark Zuckerberg the 29th richest carbon based life form on Earth. Facebook provides entertainment and a fun way to spend your leisure time. America should love Zuckerberg.

House Passes Republican Amendment Backing Indefinite Detention For Terror Suspects On U.S. Soil

Protesters in Minneapolis oppose the current NDAA The House of Representatives this morning took a hard line against efforts by Democrats and libertarian Republicans to limit the president’s power to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects captured in the U.S. An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by Reps.

Messina dismisses doubts about Obama chances in North Carolina

President Obama’s campaign manager dismissed suggestions it was a mistake for Democrats to hold their national convention in North Carolina. Read more...

House Panel Presses Clinton to Designate Nigerian Jihadist Group as Terrorists

The U.S. Department of State must explain to Congress if it fails to designate Boko Haram, an Islamic jihadist group, as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization," or FTO, according to amended legislation a House panel approved Thursday.

House Passes Republican Amendment Backing Indefinite Detention For Terror Suspects On U.S. Soil

House Panel Tackling State Dept., Foreign Ops Bill This Morning

The House Appropriations Committee this morning is marking up the FY2013 State, Foreign Operations, and Other Programs bill. Some cuts are proposed, and yet much stays the same. The so-called Drug War, to cite one example, will continue unabated.

China’s premier calls for efforts to spur growth

Serbians vote for president under threat of protest

Putin’s economic plan: ‘great leap’ into the unknown

Newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin has set hugely ambitious targets to catapult the Russian economy into the modern era but their realism remains in doubt despite a benign short-term outlook.

Battle to save the euro moves to Camp David…

(Guardian) - Barack Obama was caught between two competing European visions of how to solve the financial crisis at the G8 summit when David Cameron rejected outright a French proposal to raise €57b...

OBAMA TO EU: EASE UP ON AUSTERITY

(Yahoo) - U.S. President Barack Obama will press European leaders to ease up on fiscal austerity and focus on economic growth at a summit on Saturday that will discuss ways to stem turmoil in the euro...

Debt Up $12,984 Per Household Since 2011 Spending Deal…

(CNS News) - The White House and the congressional leaders of both parties in Congress have begun maneuvering this week over the issue of the federal debt and what to do when the government hits the l...

Mississippi Law: Police Must Get Tissue From Abortion to Help Raped Girls

A new state law in Mississippi helps young girls who are victimized by rape or incest who are victimized again by abortions. As undercover investigations have found Planned Parenthood an abortion facilities not always reporting cases of suspected abuse to authorities, pro-life advocates have pushed for a new law. The new law compels abortion practitioners

Millions View Story of Mom Rejecting Abortion of Disabled Baby

The video of the courageous mom who shares her account of rejecting suggestions that she have an abortion following the prediction from doctors that her unborn child would be born with disabilities has been seen now by millions of people. “The Right Choice-Inspirational Video” has been seen by more than 1.5 million people on YouTube

Your Boycott Could Cost Abortion Industry Hundreds, Maybe Thousands

As the proliferation of companies and organization that support abortion and fetal cell research has increased, my spending habits have changed intensely. So important is it to me to not actively and deliberately fund abortion that I have found new eating habits and diligently searched for new favorite jeans. My hotel selections have changed, and

Dems Disenfranchise Voters After Polls Show Obama in Close Primary Race

After a poll released this week showed President Barack Obama only beating his Democratic primary opponent John Wolfe Jr. by seven points, 45 percent to 38 percent, in Arkansas's Fourth Congressional District, state Democrats moved to practically disenfranchise Arkansas voters. "[D]elegates Wolfe might claim won't be recognized at the national convention," national party officials are telling state Democrats. Wolfe is being accused of not following the party rules.

Major CISPA opponent steps down, jeopardizing White House’s veto promise

The House-approved legislation that would erode Internet privacy for Americans might have just bypassed a major hurdle. The White House official who publically condemned CISPA has suddenly stepped down as Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator. Howard A

Europe rocked by Spanish banking crisis

The flames of the eurozone crisis leapt higher yesterday, as fears spread about the state of the Continent's most vulnerable banks. Shares in the Spanish lender, Bankia, plummeted 30 per cent at one stage in trading, following a report that customers had withdrawn €1bn in deposits since the Madrid government was forced to part-nationalise the bank last week. Bankia released a statement in the afternoon saying that the deposit fall was simply a seasonal effect rather than a bank run. This served to stabilise the share price, but the lender still ended up losing 14 per cent of its value.

Immigrant Agricultural Workers Victims of Sexual Abuse

A Human Rights Watch report recently brought some alarming numbers to the public's attention. The 95-page report, "Cultivating Fear," revealed that almost all of the 52 women interviewed were victims of sexual violence or knew someone who had been. The women say that their abusers are usually "supervisors, employers and others in positions of authority over women and girls working in fields, packing houses and other agricultural workplaces across the country," according to the report. Cultivating Fear contains over 160 interviews in total, including interviews of farmworkers, police officers, attorneys and members of the agricultural industry that list sexual violence as a primary concern for women, according to Reuters

Alabama Immigration Law Now More Strict

New changes were made on May 16 to Alabama's already controversial immigration law. Alabama's legislation, which gives law enforcement officers permission to request proof of citizenship from anyone they suspect to be in the country illegally. The provisions kept most of the original law in tact – however, it added a mandate for the Department of Homeland Security to post a regular list of the names of undocumented immigrants who have appeared in court for violating a law, even if they weren't convicted.

New Report Claims Mistreatment of Detained Undocumented Immigrants

A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union claims illegal immigrants held in several Georgia detention centers are being mistreated. The report, "Prisoners of Profit: Immigrants and Detention in Georgia," alleges the undocumented immigrants, many of whom are allegedly being held on minor immigration violations, are being mistreated while they are detained. The 182-page report's information on the detention facilities was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act as well as interviews and tours of Georgia's four privately-run immigration detention facilities, according to the Los Angeles Times

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