Liberal Values (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan has suggested a tax on upper-income earners to pay for more troops for the war in Afghanistan. I suspect he did not note how the Democrats lost many independent voters in this year’s elections. Certainly there are many reasons why the elections are not predictive of future results, but taking [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. An "additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000" a year, could fund more troops, Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said in an interview for Bloomberg Television's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Major Nidal Hasan in pain and not a flight risk, hearing told Major Nidal Hasan, who has been charged with 13 murders over the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, is paralysed from the neck down, incontinent and in severe pain, according to his lawyer. The lawyer, John Galligan, told a hearing by a military magistrate yesterday that the army psychiatrist, who is accused of killing 12 soldiers and a civilian...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
WASHINGTON - A massacre at a Texas army base that left 13 people dead is increasingly looking like part of a terror conspiracy rather than an act of a lone gunman. The growing suspicious are related, among other things, to shooter Nidal Malik Hasan 's connection to September 11 terrorists, the funds he is suspected of transferring to Pakistan, and his ties with radical Yemenite cleric Anwar al-Awlaki...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Dear rich people: Here's another burden you'll be expected to shoulder. Bloomberg : Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000” a year, could...
P/Oed Patriot (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A New kind of War has come to the Debate on Afghanistan, Class Warfare. Normally the Democrats have limited their tactic of Class Warfare to the debate on Health care, but according to an Article in Bloomberg, all of that has changed. Democratic Senator Carl Levin, has suggested that a New Higher income tax be levied on the "Upper Class" in order to pay for the War: "An “additional...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000” a year, could fund more troops, Levin, a Michigan [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
WASHINGTON – The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials. Federal investigators say they intercepted the messages between the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born...
This Ain't Hell (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Washington Post reports that the lights might be coming on in the Capitol Building finally as Democrat Senator Carl Levin admits that the Fort hood massacre might have been terrorism; Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) said Friday that he would investigate the handling of the e-mails — 18 or 19 in [...]
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Dallas Morning News: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan faces a pretrial confinement hearing today at the San Antonio Army post where he lies paralyzed in a heavily guarded intensive-care unit. Meanwhile, there are growing questions about the FBI's explanation for why it didn't investigate the psychiatrist months ago after discovering that he was corresponding with an extremist cleric in Yemen. Hasan's e-mails...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Once again the only solution a Democrat can come up with is " tax the rich ": Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers. An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000,”...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
WASHINGTON -- There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin said after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other e-mails involving the alleged...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Sen. Carl Levin says there may be additional e-mails that oculd have tipped off officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage.
Black Listed News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin , chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee .
Ken Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Carl Levin (Idiot-MI) wants to tax “rich folks” to pay for the Afghanistan surge. That cost, Levin said, should be paid by wealthier taxpayers. “They have done incredibly well, and I think that it’s important that we pay for it if we possibly can” instead of increasing the federal debt load, the senator said. Uhmm… Carl… [...]
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