Obama Deceives America Again: Fiscal Cliff Deal – Workers Making $30,000 Take Bigger Tax Hit Than Those Earning $500,000

Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under the new fiscal cliff deal, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Earners in the latter group will pay an average 1.3 percent more – or an additional $2,711 – in taxes this year, while workers […]

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Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s Islamist Turn, 10 Years Later

by Daniel Pipes The Wall Street Journal November 13, 2012 Is Turkey—due to its size, location, economy and sophisticated Islamist ideology—set to become the West’s greatest problem in the Middle East? A tumultuous decade has passed since the Justice and Development Party was first elected to office on Nov. 3, 2002. Almost unnoticed, the country […]

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Talking Turkey

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online December 26, 2012 The menu for meals on my Turkish Airlines flight earlier this month assured passengers that food selections “do not contain pork.” The menu also offered a serious selection of alcoholic drinks, including champagne, whiskey, gin, vodka, rak?, wine, beer, liqueur, and cognac. This oddity of simultaneously […]

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Fiscal Cliff Deal Undoes Part of Obamacare

Though the government’s entitlement spending is still spiraling out of control, taxpayers have finally caught a break: The recently passed “fiscal cliff” deal included the repeal of one of Obamacare’s worst provisions, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act. The CLASS Act was a new entitlement program included in Obamacare. CLASS was created […]

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Illinois is attempting to ban and confiscate all firearms

Illinois Senate President John Cullerton will reportedly introduce a draconian bill today in the Illinois legislature that will effectively ban all modern firearms, criminalize their owners, and subject their guns to confiscation by the Illinois State Police. The proposed outlawing of firearms was confirmed by the NRA’s Illinois rep, according to Robert Farago, writing for The […]

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BENGHAZI SCANDAL CONTINUES: On Payroll After ‘Resignation’, Another ‘Lie in Web of Lies’

The chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee slammed the State Department on Thursday over a report that officials who were said to have resigned over the attacks in Benghazi are still on the payroll. “This is unbelievable, the American people should be outraged at this, because it is pathetic, it is disgraceful, it is purposely […]

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