The GOP vice-presidential vetting process. Come for the vetting, stay for the tacos. Now with experience check included. From the Public Service Administration.

"Batman: The Dark Knight" meets Presidential Politics. www.britethorn.com Voices by Chip Bradley, Sam Locke and John T. Kramer. Written and Directed by John T. Kramer

Watertown, SD
May 16, 2008

Exposing the California Republican Party's priorities: While thousands of teachers are getting pink slips, the Republicans are supporting an appalling tax loophole for yacht purchases. That's why the Courage Campaign is calling the Republicans the "Yacht Party."

For more information, go to: www.couragecampaign.org

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Yesterday, 10 members of the Working Families Party were joined by 5 SEIU 1199 members and 25 members of SEIU Local 32BJ outside the Waldorf Astoria, where Billionaire tax-avoider Henry Kravis of the private equity firm KKR hosted a Columbia Business School award dinner.  We had an award for Henry too, the Loophole of the Year Award, for the man who single-handedly dodged his way out of $96 million in taxes in one year alone.

Holding the award plaque and a giant banner, we protested and passed out leaflets to passersby asking why Kravis gets to pay a lower tax rate than nurses and hotel doormen.  As tuxedo-clad guests streamed in to the event, we got some great reactions.  No one was willing to give Kravis our award for us though, and the Hotel claimed to have lost our tickets.  Guess we’ll have to keep looking for Kravis at his next gala event.

Sign our petition and tell our presidential nominees to close the Kravis tax loophole.

http://StopBigMedia.com

Hard-hitting journalism is nearing extinction on television, and the Federal Communications Commission just threw another shovel-full of dirt on its grave when it recently ruled that Rupert Murdoch's TMZ and Pat Robertson's 700 Club meet the test for "a bona fide newscast." Media companies get their broadcast licenses for free. In return, the FCC says that if a TV show is not a bona fide newscast, and it airs a story about a political candidate, "it must afford equal opportunities to other such candidates for that office." This is supposed to keep ideologues like Pat Robertson and Rupert Murdoch in check. But instead the FCC let them off the hook by adding TMZ and 700 Club to the list of bona fide newscasts; even though Congress defined bona fide as newscasts as those that hold "genuine news value" and are not intended to boost or aid any particular political candidate.

Free Press Exec Director Josh Silver has more at HuffPo. 

Crumbling barracks with chipped lead paint, mold, rust, backed up sewage, and broken toilet seats.

Buyout industry executives with multimillion dollar incomes have been amassing fortunes by exploiting a major tax loophole. Their tax privileges have robbed the public purse and placed the burden on working- and middle-class taxpayers. Sign the petition demanding the Presidential candidates close the buy-out industry's tax loopholes at warongreed.org

How do you get to 100 years in Iraq? Six months at a time.

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