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Talks on Payroll Fraud Crackdown Called "Healthy" and "Productive"

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Efforts to pass a worker misclassification bill are moving forward after what was called "the big stakeholders meeting" on Monday. Sen. John Carona, Chairman of the Senate Business and Commerce Committee, brought groups like the Texas Construction Association, AGC Texas Building Branch, some individual companies and others to hash out the best way to deal with the growing problem that has often been referred to as "payroll fraud." One longtime observer of the legislature said that this kind of meeting of the minds is part and parcel of the way Sen. Carona operates when he's on board with something and thinks he can win on an issue. Read more about Talks on Payroll Fraud Crackdown Called "Healthy" and "Productive"

Civil Rights Industry on Transforming White People

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Former welfare recipient John H. Johnson, president and founder of Johnson Publications (Ebony and Jet Magazine) wrote in the 1975 September issue of Ebony referring to Mr. S.B. Fuller. He declared, "We are here to say to a prophet in his own time and in his own community" and that we "have been touched and transformed by [his] life, and we are profoundly grateful." In the same Ebony

Cornyn Questions Holder Over Death of Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz

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Today I questioned Attorney General Eric Holder on the conduct of the Justice Department over their involvement in the prosecution of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz:

Following is a partial transcript and video of the conversation:

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Pay Your Taxes! Or Else...

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This video, from the Swedish version of the IRS, shows what the world would supposedly look like without taxes. All soccer fields would be left to deteriorate. Filth would come out of your shower head. We’d all be driving in the mud, because we’re too stupid to figure out a way to build roads cooperatively, without threats of violence. And so on. Read more about Pay Your Taxes! Or Else...

Delphi Pension Task Force Requests Pension Plan Details

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Congressman Mike Turner, Co-Chair of the Auto Industry Pension Task Force, was joined by fellow Task Force members in writing to request that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) provide them with an update on the status of final benefit determinations for the Delphi Salaried pension plan:

Mr. Joshua Gotbaum Director
Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation
1200 K St., NW Washington, D.C. 20005

Dear Mr. Gotbaum: Read more about Delphi Pension Task Force Requests Pension Plan Details

Congressman Smith to Hold Hearing on Asteroid Threats to Earth

As House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman, I have called a hearing for tomorrow afternoon titled Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1 at 2:00 p.m. in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building.

The meteor that struck Russia was estimated to be 17 meters, and wasn’t tracked at all. The smaller they are, the harder they are to spot, and yet they

Is the Tea Party Really Extreme?

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A few years ago, a Democrat friend of my children told me that he would be more willing to vote Republican if they would just simply forget about those social issues. In 2009, the Tea Party movement arrived from the grassroots doing just that. All those Democrats who complained that Republicans should just talk economics and forget the social issues, how did they treat this grassroots movement? With the disdain they often reserveded for social conservatives Even today, the Tea Party is equated with extremism. Any opposition to the leftist hegemony will not be tolerated and must be destroyed. Read more about Is the Tea Party Really Extreme?

CSCOPE – A rogue program hidden within the Texas Education Agency that should be shut down

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If you have not heard, a rogue group hidden within one-and-then-more regional service centers (RSC) of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) called CSCOPE (no particular acronym meaning, except that software possibly started from a progressive leaning company with similar initials). It has been hidden from public view due in part to some questionable 501c3 filings that seem to have only one purpose—to keep their operations as secretive as possible. Read more about CSCOPE – A rogue program hidden within the Texas Education Agency that should be shut down

Pete Sessions Opens Mobile Office Hours

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In order to provide my constituents with the opportunity to meet with my staff in an area most convenient for them, I am pleased to hold preset office hours in four areas throughout the District. During mobile office hours, my staff can assist you with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Affairs (VA), U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Internal Revenue Service, and other federal programs and agencies.

You can also learn about federal policies and how they impact your family and local businesses during these office hours.

Expert at West Point Think Tank Warns of the “Violent Far-Right”

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West Point has a fine and storied tradition: President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation establishing the military academy in 1802.

The same Thomas Jefferson who often repeated the John Bradshaw quote:

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

And the same Thomas Jefferson who wrote:

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

West Point created the Combating Terrorism Center after the events of 9/11, in an effort to prepare cadets for the new and dangerous environment

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