AP- " Heisman winner Tim Tebow and his mother talk about her difficult pregnancy with him and how she was advised to end the pregnancy—implying an antiabortion message—but ended with Tebow tackling his mom and saying the family must be "tough."
Uhhhh no. Pam Tebow never mentions that she was advised to end her pregnancy. Tebow never says “the family must be tough." And there really is no implied antiabortion message.
AP preaches pro-abortion groups' disdain for the "hard hitting" commercial. AP fainlly admits in this article that there is no antiabortion message. But that's the problem! According to AP:
"... this probably does a good job of driving them to the Web site and getting them to check it out. I think it's much more effective than something more explicit would have been," he said."
AP quotes the Women's Media Center as calling the ad "benign," and "the tackle showed an undercurrent of violence against women."
That's the story spreading like a wildfire all over the internet. But it is false. The British media is always eager to demean American soldiers, using firecracker stories about abuse and torture. But dailymail.co.uk has hit a new low.
Daily Mail reports Tabor "used the CIA torture technique" because "he was so angry." A photo showing the graphic technique is shown below. But what actually happened is this: Tabor was drunk, beat the little girl, and dunked her head in water. As the Daily Mail's photo shows, waterboarding is NOT dunking someone's head under water, it is pouring water up someone's nose while they are upside down.
The English media falsely attributes the abuse to interrogation techniques "used by the CIA to break Al Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay." The incindiary tabloid also fails to report the other physical abuse, including scratching, locking in closets, and forcing the girl to sit in urine-filled clothes.
Iran arrested 7 people at a US-funded Radio station for being spies.
Clashes already reported as thousands of Hezbollah and Iranian secret police attacked student protesters, throwing some out of windows and kidnapping at least 20 in vans. Cell phones are jammed and universities are surrounded. Gunfire can be heard in these videos, and beatings of old women can be witnessed.
By Terri Cullen – Mon Feb 1, 4:09 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters.com) –The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a tax hike by stealth.
While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases.
The targeted tax provisions were enacted under the Bush administration’s Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Among other things, the law lowered individual tax rates, slashed taxes on capital gains and dividends, and steadily scaled back the estate tax to zero in 2010.
If the provisions are allowed to expire on December 31, the top-tier personal income tax rate will rise to 39.6 percent from 35 percent. But lower-income families will pay more as well: the 25 percent tax bracket will revert back to 28 percent; the 28 percent bracket will increase to 31 percent; and the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36 percent. The special 10 percent bracket is eliminated.
Investors will pay more on their earnings next year as well, with the tax on dividends jumping to 39.6 percent from 15 percent and the capital-gains tax increasing to 20 percent from 15 percent. The estate tax is eliminated this year, but it will return in 2011 — though there has been talk about reinstating the death tax sooner.
Millions of middle-class households already may be facing higher taxes in 2010 because Congress has failed to extend tax breaks that expired on January 1, most notably a “patch” that limited the impact of the alternative minimum tax. The AMT, initially designed to prevent the very rich from avoiding income taxes, was never indexed for inflation. Now the tax is affecting millions of middle-income households, but lawmakers have been reluctant to repeal it because it has become a key source of revenue.
Without annual legislation to renew the patch this year, the AMT could affect an estimated 25 million taxpayers with incomes as low as $33,750 (or $45,000 for joint filers). Even if the patch is extended to last year’s levels, the tax will hit American families that can hardly be considered wealthy — the AMT exemption for 2009 was $46,700 for singles and $70,950 for married couples filing jointly.
Middle-class families also will find fewer tax breaks available to them in 2010 if other popular tax provisions are allowed to expire. Among them:
* Taxpayers who itemize will lose the option to deduct state sales-tax payments instead of state and local income taxes;
* The $250 teacher tax credit for classroom supplies;
* The tax deduction for up to $4,000 of college tuition and expenses;
* Individuals who don’t itemize will no longer be able to increase their standard deduction by up to $1,000 for property taxes paid;
* The first $2,400 of unemployment benefits are taxable, in 2009 that amount was tax-free.
Now we see "The story Backdoor taxes to hit middle class has been withdrawn. A replacement story will run later in the week." Reuters says they pulled the story because: "due to significant errors of fact... The story was wrong on multiple points and should not have gone out."
Look no farther than the November special election in New York's 23rd congressional district for evidence of how a divided GOP will fail... And there's a fine line with swing voters between being perceived as saving America from Obama's supposedly socialist agenda and blocking job-saving and - in the case of health care - life-saving legislation for the sake of pure politics.
Which is partly why Republicans are doing their best to keep a civil tone. No one yelled "You lie!" at Obama during his speech Wednesday night, though there was much rolling of eyes and shaking of heads from the GOP side of the aisle. Republicans realize they have to look like they are at least trying to get something achieved this year, even as they benefit politically from continued gridlock on Capitol Hill.
You may recall the climategate emails were compiled by the university itself after a FIO request. The request was blocked and someone inside leaked it. Anyone who read the original website on which it was leaked knows this. The media has falsely labeled this a hack.
Now the embarrassed British liberals are taking it to the next level:
"The emails date back to 1996, so someone was collecting the data over many years. It looks like possibly the work of an intelligence service. What it was was a very well co-ordinated part of a campaign. It was a difficult piece of work to get that done.
"I've no inside knowledge except for the fact that I did work with our [intelligence] agencies, and the American agencies, that I have some experience...
"If it was a maverick group then I suppose it could be the Americans, but I am hazarding a guess as much as anyone else. The only thing is, I've worked within government and I've seen this in operation. It was a sophisticated and expensive operation. In terms of the expense, there is the American lobby system which is a very likely source of finance. Right now, the American lobbyists are a very likely source of finance for this, so the finger must point to them."
The emails were friggin assembled by the University itself!! It was a LEAK! LEAK!!!!
The Associated Press headline claims Bush administration lawyers OK'd torture of detainees. AP claims the lawyers wrote "so-called torture memos," but fails to report anywhere in their report how the lawyers' conduct led to torture, or what torture was performed.
AP reports matter-of-factly that the lawyers made "legal theories that led to waterboarding and other harsh treatment of terrorism suspects." Apparently water boarding is inherantly torture, no debate needed on this point.
Actually, only three detainees were ever waterboarded, all before 2003. They were Osama bin Laden’s chief of operations; the mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole; and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
AP leaves that little fact out.
AP leaves us with this propaganda: "The finding is likely to unsettle interest groups [aka Associated Press] who contended there should be sanctions for Bush administration lawyers who paved the way for tough interrogations, warrantless wiretapping and other coercive tactics."
Only Fox News and Times reports the United Nations Climate Chief knew the glacier data at the crock Copenhagen Summit was false.
Asked whether he had deliberately kept silent about the error to avoid embarrassment at Copenhagen, he said: “That’s ridiculous. It never came to my attention before the Copenhagen summit. It wasn’t in the public sphere.”
However, a prominent science journalist said that he had asked Dr Pachauri about the 2035 error last November. Pallava Bagla, who writes for Science journal, said he had asked Dr Pachauri about the error. He said that Dr Pachauri had replied: “I don’t have anything to add on glaciers.”
But it has now been revealed that the claim was based on a WWF study titled "Global Review of Forest Fires," a paper barely related to the Amazon rainforest that was written "to secure essential policy reform at national and international level to provide a legislative and economic base for controlling harmful anthropogenic forest fires."
16 others are on trial and soon to be executed for "waging war against God," according to state media. Proceedings began for 37 others.
Obama said in his state of the union address that he has supported Iran's protesters, yet has hardly said a word. He only cut funding for organizations that help the protesters.
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