The rape of a woman near Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando was much worse than police first reported. Eyewitness News has learned the victim was savagely beaten, but Orlando police didn't say anything to anybody to get the word out and warn people for more than 12 hours and then it was only after Eyewitness News was tipped off about the horrific crime and started asking questions.
Under the Obama administration's proposal, Chrysler would, in essence, be given to Fiat, an Italian company, to operate.
So, how is an Italian car manufacturer operating in Michigan any more "American" than a Japanese manufacturer operating in Kentucky?
And why should the federal government give a market preference - through taxpayer financing and warrantee guarantees - to Italian cars produced by American workers in Michigan over Japanese cars produced by American workers in Kentucky?
The Obama administration's proposed restructuring is more than just unjustified, however. It dangerously undermines the rule of law, as explicated so beneficially by Friedrich Hayek in his classic, "The Road to Serfdom."
Here's a tip for President Obama: Next time you excoriate tax cheats, try to keep Rep. Charles Rangel's name out of the discussion.
Somehow, it doesn't further your case.
Yet that's precisely what Obama did Monday, singling out the powerful Harlem congressman for praise as he announced legislation meant to close what he calls tax "loopholes" for corporations that expand their operations abroad.
Rangel, of course, knows a thing or two about offshore tax shelters: He'd been operating one for years.
The congressman had to fork over nearly $11,000 in back taxes last year after The Post reported that he failed to disclose more than $75,000 in rental income on his Dominican Republic villa.
Plus, he's under investigation by a House committee for allegedly helping a company preserve its offshore tax loophole -- in exchange for a million-dollar gift to a school named in his honor.
Rangel wasn't the only tax dodger lauded by Obama. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, too, won praise for "taking far-reaching steps to catch overseas tax cheats."
Takes one to know one, we guess.
Geithner, after all, was confirmed despite failing to pay, until nominated, some $43,000 in self-employment taxes.
Obama would be wise to tuck those two safely out of sight when he starts talking, as he did Monday, about paying taxes as "an obligation of citizenship."
Still, one problem lingers: Rangel, despite multiple ongoing ethics probes, is chairman of the House committee charged with writing tax law.
And Geithner oversees the IRS.
Maybe the hypocrisy isn't so easy to ignore.
The full Senate voted Tuesday to strip Specter of his seniority, dropping him to the bottom of the pile on every committee he sits on.
Ocoee's City Manager insists they're not anticipating any legal action, because condo and timeshare owners will still own the air space for their units, after the building comes down on Saturday.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson also noticed something odd about Obama's apology tour. "Despite this fresh climate of atonement, there was a complete absence of a single apology from any other foreign leader...not a word came from Britain about colonialism…nothing from Germany on the Holocaust...not a peep from France about Algeria or Vietnam. Turkey was mum on the Armenian killings...Russia said nothing about the 30 million murdered by Stalin…Nothing came from China about the 70 million who perished under Mao...Mr. Medvedev said nothing about Putin's brutish rule...We saw no concrete evidence of any help — or hope and change — from any foreign leader. Zilch."
In addition, Hanson continues, "We hear nothing about our Gettysburg, or our entry into World War I. Iwo Jima and the Bulge are never alluded to. Drawing the line in Korea and forcing the end of the Soviet monstrosity are taboo subjects. That we pledged the life of New York for Berlin in the Cold War is unknown. Liberating Afghanistan and Iraq from the diabolical Taliban and Saddam Hussein is left unsaid. The Civil Rights movement, the Great Society, affirmative action, and present billion-dollar foreign-aid programs apparently never existed. Millions of Africans have been saved by George Bush's efforts at extending life-saving medicines to AIDS patients — but again, this is never referenced."
Blogger James Lewis says that Obama's "obsessive need to put down his own country shows a stunningly ignorant man who has evidently never spoken to a concentration camp survivor, a Cuban refugee, a boat person from Vietnam, a Soviet dissident, or a survivor of Mao's purges."
Up to 16 weeks of pregnancy, a procedure called vacuum aspiration is used to kill babies. After 16 weeks, abortionists kill babies using a procedure called dilation and evacuation. After 20 weeks, the killing of an unborn baby is euphemistically called partial-birth abortion. To avoid murder charges, the abortionist partially delivers the baby, leaving the head inside. A probe is inserted into the baby’s skull to kill him.
(Between the 16th and 24th weeks, "doctors" sometime perform saline abortions. A solution is injected into the uterus to produce contractions to expel the baby. Dead on arrival.)
OFFICIALS in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reports.
"The regulation will boost the local economy via the cigarette tax,"
THE Rudd Government has acknowledged that the supremacy of the US has begun to fade and Australia is preparing for an uncertain future in which it can no longer rely on the protection of its main ally.
Instead of grim warnings about global warming, the firm advises, talk about "our deteriorating atmosphere." Drop discussions of carbon dioxide and bring up "moving away from the dirty fuels of the past." Don't confuse people with cap and trade; use terms like "cap and cash back" or "pollution reduction refund."
"There is no cash back with cap-and-trade. The correct way to describe cap-and-trade is, 'cap-and-tax-your-ass-off'." --Rush Limbaugh
This is such classic left-wing thinking. They genuinely believe the majority of people will cheerfully engage in Holocaust 2.0 so long as "kill the Jews" is properly marketed as "an innovative solution to the very serious problem of global overpopulation." The sad thing is that they believe it because so many of them are capable of falling for it themselves.
House Democrats are refusing to pay for President Barack Obama's plan to relocate prisoners from the Guantanamo detention facility where enemy combatants are being held.
No lawmaker wants the accused terrorists in their backyard.
In recent weeks, Canadians caught Somali pirates who had attacked a Norwegian tanker, but released them because they were unable to prosecute them under Canadian law. In another case, Dutch commandos captured and then released Somali pirates who had attacked a Portuguese ship. It seems to me that until the day comes that these Somali punks command battleships or destroyers, the most logical way to deal with them is to blow them and their little speedboats to Kingdom Come.
