A Connecticut gun manufacturer is moving to South Carolina after
Connecticut lawmakers passed stricter gun-control laws in the aftermath
of the fatal Sandy Hook School shootings.
PTR Industries will make the formal announcement next week at a
ribbon-cutting to be attended by South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki
Haley, according to The Sun News of Myrtle Beach.
The company is going to Horry County, which includes Myrtle Beach,
and has already approved a resolution setting out the terms of the
company's move.
Surprisingly, some people had a problem with this...
CONCORD — A man was arrested and two people,
including a Concord police officer, were allegedly assaulted during a
rally Tuesday in a clash between a gun control group and gun rights
supporters.
The event had people supporting the Mayors Against
Illegal Guns movement, founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
reading the names of those "killed with guns" since the Dec. 14
shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary outside their "No More Names" bus.[...]
The presence of the national
gun control group in front of the state Capitol Tuesday night prompted
numerous shouts from gun rights supporters. While there were about 40 No
More Names supporters, there were at least 60 gun rights supporters at
the rally. "I
think this is a joke," said Tony Mayfield of Hillsborough, who brought
his AR-15 rifle and Sig Sauer T39 handgun to the rally. "We have, for
all intents and purposes, a corporation from out of state doing this
little publicity stunt here." Rally
organizers, whose bus had Texas license plates, refused to speak to a
New Hampshire Union Leader reporter and referred him to the
organization's national headquarters.
Some of the loudest shouts
came when a reader spoke the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the
Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was killed by police during a
gunfight. "He's a terrorist," several protesters shouted.Read more here...
Here is a quick way to determine if you lean Democrat or lean Republican. Democrats want to get more people on food stamps and increase government dependance. Republicans want to get people off food stamps and increase self-sufficiency.
The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill.
The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to the five-year,
half-trillion-dollar farm legislation that would have maintained
current spending on food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, or SNAP. The overall bill cuts the $80
billion-a-year program by about 3 percent and makes it harder for some
people to qualify.
The food stamp cuts have complicated passage of the bill and its
farm-state supporters were working to secure votes Wednesday. Many
conservatives have said the food stamp cuts do not go far enough since
the program has doubled in cost in the last five years and now feeds 1
in 7 Americans. Liberals have argued against any reductions, contending
the House plan could take as many as 2 million needy recipients off the
rolls. The White House has threatened a veto over the food stamp cuts.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the
economic impact of the Gang of Eight’s immigration-reform proposal.
Proponents are likely to emphasize the report’s findings that the bill
would reduce the federal deficit by $197 billion over the next decade
(although Republicans will likely be asked to explain why this estimate
is any more reliable than the CBO’s predictionsregarding Obamacare).
However, the bill’s supporters are certain to downplay other aspects
of the CBO report, particularly the section on “Future Unauthorized
Residents.” The CBO predicts that some of the bill’s enforcement
measures, such as the establishment of an employment-verification
system, are likely to reduce the future flow of illegal immigrants, but
they’re less optimistic about the bill’s ability to stop individuals
from overstaying their temporary work visas, a problem that accounts for
at least 40 percent of the existing population of illegal immigrants.
“Other aspects of the bill would probably increase the number of
unauthorized residents — in particular, people overstaying their visas
issued under the new programs for temporary workers,” CBO writes. And as
a result, “the net annual flow of unauthorized residents would decrease
by about 25 percent relative to what would occur under current law.”
IRS employees have been naughty. They shouldn't be rewarded with bonuses...
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service
is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in
employee bonuses.
The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary
bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, but the IRS says it’s
merely following legal obligations under a union contract.
The agency is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, said Sen.
Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance
Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS.
Grassley says his office has learned that the IRS was to execute an
agreement with the employees’ union Wednesday to pay the bonuses.
Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive
from the White House budget office.
The director of the National Security Agency was overheard offering a round of beer to the FBI's second-in-command following Tuesday's congressional hearing on the NSA's controversial surveillance programs.
The three-hour hearing had just wrapped up around 1 p.m. when NSA Director Keith Alexander turned to FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce and praised him for his testimony.
'Thank you, Sean,' Alexander said, according to a clip of the exchange that was first reported by Ben Doernberg.
'Tell your boss I owe him another friggin' beer,' he added.
That 25% is mostly liberals because the rest of us can see the bias. Only 15% of Conservatives have confidence in newspapers. The number is 36% for liberals and 25% for Independents...
Continuing a decades-long downward trend, fewer than one-fourth of
Americans have confidence in newspapers, according to a recent Gallup
poll.
The percentage of Americans saying they have "a great deal" or "quite
a lot" of confidence in newspapers dropped to 23 percent this year from
25 percent last year, according to a report on the poll, which was released Monday.
American confidence in newspapers reached its peak at 51 percent in 1979, and a low of 22 percent in 2008.
But newspapers don't stand alone. Confidence in television news has
also been slipping — it's tied with newspapers this year at 23 percent,
which is slightly up from last year's all-time low of 21 percent.
Newspapers and television news rank near the bottom of a list of 16 "societal institutions,"
according to the report. The only institutions television news and
newspapers beat out this year are big business, organized labor, health
maintenance organizations and Congress. Americans expressed the most
confidence in the military, at 76 percent, and small businesses, at 65
percent.
Conservative activists are planning to storm Capitol Hill on Wednesday for what they are predicting will be “the largest Tea Party protest since 2010.”
The protest — drawing tea partiers like TV host Glenn Beck and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul — is in response to the Internal Revenue Service’s recent admission that it has been specifically targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
The gathering on the West Lawn of the Capitol is being called the “Audit the IRS” Rally.
“At noon tomorrow, we are going to tell the world about how the IRS tried to crush the Tea Party movement,” organizers with the Tea Party Patriots organization said in an email to supporters.
“Thousands of volunteers will rally in the largest demonstration of Tea Party support since 2010.”
