Month: October 2010

The Golden Hookah Award: 37 ‘Arts’ Organizations in San Francisco Got $1.4 Million in Federal ‘Stimulus’ Money | CNSnews.com

CNSNews.com presents this week’s “Golden Hookah” to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for distributing $1.4 million in special economic “stimulus” grants to 37 “arts” organizations located in the City of San Francisco.

Money for the grants was slipped into the $787-billion economic "stimulus" law that President Barack Obama signed in February 2009.

via The Golden Hookah Award: 37 ‘Arts’ Organizations in San Francisco Got $1.4 Million in Federal ‘Stimulus’ Money | CNSnews.com.

Illegal Aliens Canvass for Votes in Wash. State – FoxNews.com

SEATTLE (surprise, surprise)– When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters’ doors, she’s not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it’s a risk to advertise to strangers that she’s here illegally — but one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election.

The 42-year-old is one of dozens of volunteers — many of them illegal immigrants — canvassing neighborhoods in the Seattle area trying to get naturalized citizens to cast a ballot for candidates like Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who is in a neck-to-neck race with Republican Dino Rossi.

via Illegal Aliens Canvass for Votes in Wash. State – FoxNews.com.

Google’s Hypocritical Capitalism (while preaching liberalism): Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes – Bloomberg

Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.

Google’s income shifting — involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” — helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries.

via Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes – Bloomberg.

ObamaCare, for Some – The Wall Street Journal.

ObamaCare, for Some

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