Great video: In 1976 LA Dodgers Rick Monday stops flag burners during a baseball game:
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Bush May Meet Vow To Halve The Deficit Three Years Early
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
6/12/2006- Aided by surging tax receipts, President Bush may make good on his pledge to cut the deficit in half in 2006 — three years early.
Tax revenues are running $176 billion, or 12.9%, over last year, the Treasury Department said Monday. The Congressional Budget Office said receipts have risen faster over the first eight months of fiscal '06 than in any other such period over the past 25 years — except for last year's 15.5% jump.
…With the economy topping $13 trillion this year, a $270 billion deficit would equal less than 2.1% of GDP, easily beating the president's 2.25% goal…
A CBO analysis last week noted that withheld individual income and payroll taxes are up 7.6% from a year ago, with the gains picking up in recent months.
"Those gains suggest solid growth in wages and salaries in the national economy," CBO said.
While gains are broad, those at higher-income levels are enjoying bigger salary hikes. Because they pay higher rates, federal tax revenues soar when they do well.
Those making over $200,000 now pay 46.6% of total income taxes, presidential adviser Karl Rove recently said. That's up from 40.5% — despite Bush's tax cuts.
…Corporate income taxes are up about 30% from last year's pace.
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=5&issue=20060612&view=1
Jersey girl widow's book
Two elected New Jersey Democrats, angry about Ann Coulter’s characterizations of the Jersey Girls, are asking the booksellers in the Garden State not to stock Ann Coulter’s new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. Are they aware that one of the Jersey Girls widows, described at Amazon.com as “one of the country’s most outspoken activists and critics of the current administration,” has her own book coming out soon? It’s called Wake-Up Call : The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow. The author is Kristin Breitwesier…In order to take full advantage of the occasion, Breitwesier’s book is scheduled for release in September; the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks….
More at: http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5380
Report from Iraq
...I just received a newsletter report from LTC Craig Osborne, commanding officer, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, in Iraq. Here is what he has to say:
More at: http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5379
Post-al-Zarqawi Raids Kill 104 Insurgents
Jun 15, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- American and Iraqi forces have carried out 452 raids since last week's killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and 104 insurgents were killed during those actions, the U.S. military said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said the raids were carried out nationwide and led to the discovery of 28 significant arms caches.
He said 255 of the raids were joint operations, while 143 were carried out by Iraqi forces alone. The raids also resulted in the captures of 759 "anti-Iraqi elements."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_RAIDS?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-06-15-08-25-20
Supreme Court upholds police evidence in searches without knocking
6/15/2006 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police can use evidence collected with a warrant even if officers fail to knock before rushing into a home.
Justice Samuel Alito broke a 4-4 tie in siding with Detroit police, who called out their presence at a man’s door then went inside three to five seconds later.
The case had tested previous court rulings that police armed with warrants generally must knock and announce themselves or they run afoul of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said “whether that preliminary misstep had occurred or not, the police would have executed the warrant they had obtained, and would have discovered the gun and drugs inside the house.”
The court did not say how long police officers must wait after knocking before they enter a home to execute a search warrant.
Suppressing evidence is too high of a penalty, Scalia said, for errors in police searches.
…Hudson’s lawyers argued that evidence against him was connected to the improper search and could not be used against him.
Scalia said that a victory for Hudson would have given “a get-out-of-jail-free card” to him and others.
“It weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution’s knock-and-announce protection,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for himself and the three other liberal justices...
"It weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution’s knock-and-announce protection,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote... Hmmm...I looked and just can't seem to find the phrase "knock and announce" in the Fourth Amendment. Mr. Breyer, the ban is on “unreasonable” search and seizure. If the police have a warrant and time is of the essence then it is reasonable. Why give the scum a chance to destroy or hide the evidence? DB
Papers show 'gloomy' state of insurgency
6/15/2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blueprint for trying to start a war between the United States and Iran was among a "huge treasure" of documents found in the hideout of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraqi officials said Thursday. The document, purporting to reflect al-Qaida policy and its cooperation with groups loyal to ousted President Saddam Hussein, also appear to show that the insurgency in Iraq was weakening.
...While the coalition was continuing to suffer human losses, "time is now beginning to be of service to the American forces and harmful to the resistance," the document said.
The document said the insurgency was being hurt by, among other things, the U.S. military's program to train Iraqi security forces, by massive arrests and seizures of weapons, by tightening the militants' financial outlets, and by creating divisions within its ranks.
"Generally speaking and despite the gloomy present situation, we find that the best solution in order to get out of this crisis is to involve the U.S. forces in waging a war against another country or any hostile groups," the document said, as quoted by al-Maliki's office.
According to the summary, insurgents were being weakened by operations against them and by their failure to attract recruits. To give new impetus to the insurgency, they would have to change tactics, it added.
"We mean specifically attempting to escalate the tension between America and Iran, and American and the Shiite in Iraq," it quoted the documents as saying, especially among moderate followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq.
...Al-Maliki's office said the document provides "the broad guidelines of the program of the Saddamists and the takfiris inside al-Zarqawi's group."
"Takfiri" is a reference to an extremist ideology that urges Muslims to kill anyone they consider an infidel, even fellow Muslims. It is the ideology that many Iraqis, especially in the Shiite community, use to describe al-Zarqawi and his followers...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060615/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_terror_blueprint_4;_ylt=As8I2tDd083qvKHOaTcUCp5X6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Joe Wilson: US Should Negotiate With Iraqi Terrorists
Washington (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife was at the center of a CIA leak case argued Wednesday that the U.S. needs to bring Iraqi insurgents and their "foreign patrons" to the conference table for negotiations... (why not? After all they have only one demand, Islamation of the entire globe)
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200606/NAT20060615a.html
David Bennett<><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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Bush May Meet Vow To Halve The Deficit Three Years Early
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
6/12/2006- Aided by surging tax receipts, President Bush may make good on his pledge to cut the deficit in half in 2006 — three years early.
Tax revenues are running $176 billion, or 12.9%, over last year, the Treasury Department said Monday. The Congressional Budget Office said receipts have risen faster over the first eight months of fiscal '06 than in any other such period over the past 25 years — except for last year's 15.5% jump.
…With the economy topping $13 trillion this year, a $270 billion deficit would equal less than 2.1% of GDP, easily beating the president's 2.25% goal…
A CBO analysis last week noted that withheld individual income and payroll taxes are up 7.6% from a year ago, with the gains picking up in recent months.
"Those gains suggest solid growth in wages and salaries in the national economy," CBO said.
While gains are broad, those at higher-income levels are enjoying bigger salary hikes. Because they pay higher rates, federal tax revenues soar when they do well.
Those making over $200,000 now pay 46.6% of total income taxes, presidential adviser Karl Rove recently said. That's up from 40.5% — despite Bush's tax cuts.
…Corporate income taxes are up about 30% from last year's pace.
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=5&issue=20060612&view=1
Jersey girl widow's book
Two elected New Jersey Democrats, angry about Ann Coulter’s characterizations of the Jersey Girls, are asking the booksellers in the Garden State not to stock Ann Coulter’s new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. Are they aware that one of the Jersey Girls widows, described at Amazon.com as “one of the country’s most outspoken activists and critics of the current administration,” has her own book coming out soon? It’s called Wake-Up Call : The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow. The author is Kristin Breitwesier…In order to take full advantage of the occasion, Breitwesier’s book is scheduled for release in September; the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks….
More at: http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5380
Report from Iraq
...I just received a newsletter report from LTC Craig Osborne, commanding officer, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, in Iraq. Here is what he has to say:
More at: http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5379
Post-al-Zarqawi Raids Kill 104 Insurgents
Jun 15, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- American and Iraqi forces have carried out 452 raids since last week's killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and 104 insurgents were killed during those actions, the U.S. military said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said the raids were carried out nationwide and led to the discovery of 28 significant arms caches.
He said 255 of the raids were joint operations, while 143 were carried out by Iraqi forces alone. The raids also resulted in the captures of 759 "anti-Iraqi elements."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_RAIDS?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-06-15-08-25-20
Supreme Court upholds police evidence in searches without knocking
6/15/2006 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police can use evidence collected with a warrant even if officers fail to knock before rushing into a home.
Justice Samuel Alito broke a 4-4 tie in siding with Detroit police, who called out their presence at a man’s door then went inside three to five seconds later.
The case had tested previous court rulings that police armed with warrants generally must knock and announce themselves or they run afoul of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said “whether that preliminary misstep had occurred or not, the police would have executed the warrant they had obtained, and would have discovered the gun and drugs inside the house.”
The court did not say how long police officers must wait after knocking before they enter a home to execute a search warrant.
Suppressing evidence is too high of a penalty, Scalia said, for errors in police searches.
…Hudson’s lawyers argued that evidence against him was connected to the improper search and could not be used against him.
Scalia said that a victory for Hudson would have given “a get-out-of-jail-free card” to him and others.
“It weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution’s knock-and-announce protection,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for himself and the three other liberal justices...
"It weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution’s knock-and-announce protection,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote... Hmmm...I looked and just can't seem to find the phrase "knock and announce" in the Fourth Amendment. Mr. Breyer, the ban is on “unreasonable” search and seizure. If the police have a warrant and time is of the essence then it is reasonable. Why give the scum a chance to destroy or hide the evidence? DB
Papers show 'gloomy' state of insurgency
6/15/2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blueprint for trying to start a war between the United States and Iran was among a "huge treasure" of documents found in the hideout of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraqi officials said Thursday. The document, purporting to reflect al-Qaida policy and its cooperation with groups loyal to ousted President Saddam Hussein, also appear to show that the insurgency in Iraq was weakening.
...While the coalition was continuing to suffer human losses, "time is now beginning to be of service to the American forces and harmful to the resistance," the document said.
The document said the insurgency was being hurt by, among other things, the U.S. military's program to train Iraqi security forces, by massive arrests and seizures of weapons, by tightening the militants' financial outlets, and by creating divisions within its ranks.
"Generally speaking and despite the gloomy present situation, we find that the best solution in order to get out of this crisis is to involve the U.S. forces in waging a war against another country or any hostile groups," the document said, as quoted by al-Maliki's office.
According to the summary, insurgents were being weakened by operations against them and by their failure to attract recruits. To give new impetus to the insurgency, they would have to change tactics, it added.
"We mean specifically attempting to escalate the tension between America and Iran, and American and the Shiite in Iraq," it quoted the documents as saying, especially among moderate followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq.
...Al-Maliki's office said the document provides "the broad guidelines of the program of the Saddamists and the takfiris inside al-Zarqawi's group."
"Takfiri" is a reference to an extremist ideology that urges Muslims to kill anyone they consider an infidel, even fellow Muslims. It is the ideology that many Iraqis, especially in the Shiite community, use to describe al-Zarqawi and his followers...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060615/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_terror_blueprint_4;_ylt=As8I2tDd083qvKHOaTcUCp5X6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Joe Wilson: US Should Negotiate With Iraqi Terrorists
Washington (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife was at the center of a CIA leak case argued Wednesday that the U.S. needs to bring Iraqi insurgents and their "foreign patrons" to the conference table for negotiations... (why not? After all they have only one demand, Islamation of the entire globe)
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200606/NAT20060615a.html
David Bennett<><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
posted by David Bennett | 5:39 PM
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