Dude, where's my deduction?----Tax Day is source of unhappiness for marijuana industry

WASHINGTON: Tax Day is source of unhappiness for marijuana industry | Economy | McClatchy DC:
"WASHINGTON — For owners of marijuana businesses, April 15 is one big downer.
While most business owners rush to meet the federal tax deadline and cash in on a plethora of deductions, pot store owners and growers complain that they can’t write off a single expense, even if they have state licenses.
They want the law changed, saying it’s discriminatory and outdated as more states move to legalize marijuana.
...The ban on deductions by the Internal Revenue Service is in place for one reason: Congress has declared every pot transaction a felony crime.
Getting the law changed will be difficult, with legalization opponents arguing that it would be a mistake to give the pot industry any tax breaks."

City leaders chase Muskegon Bike Time out of town!

Muskegon Bike Time - News and Updates:

"...8 years of planning, organizing and funding Steel Horse Alley, the City of Muskegon has chosen to re-classify the 2015 Muskegon Bike Time as a different event, subject to new rules and policies.  
Two years ago, the Muskegon City Commission had concerns about the growth of Bike Time and strongly suggested that we develop plans for the event beyond the downtown location.
The Commission predicted that downtown space would diminish as the properties were sold and developed.
In response to their desires, this year we announced a plan that permits growth, by expanding the event to the former Great Lakes Downs property just outside of Muskegon and owned by the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.
Under this new ruling by the City of Muskegon, which allows for “others to hold events and supply the vendors,” it seems the City wants to define programming for Bike Time. 
The new ruling creates an untenable liability risk, where Muskegon Bike Time would be responsible for creating the space for other events and vendors to operate, but we could be held liable for safety issues that remain beyond our control.
Under these circumstances we cannot, in good conscience as a nonprofit, responsibly accept this liability.
Therefore, unfortunately Muskegon Bike Time will not be creating Steel Horse Alley on Western Avenue in 2015...
In the interest of complete transparency please see our letter to the City of Muskegon in the link below."

Fox News Producer Asks People on the Street to Name an Obama Accomplishment, Gets These Answers Back | Video | TheBlaze.com

Fox News Producer Asks People on the Street to Name an Obama Accomplishment, Gets These Answers Back | Video | TheBlaze.com: "

The bizarre answers didn’t stop there.

“Bringing our troops home, I’d have to say,” one man told Watters, adding, “I think the terrorists are pretty happy about that.”

“Are you asking me this because I have blonde hair?” one woman asked."

No, they will never be satisfied until there are zero workers------Low-wage workers plan walkouts, protests to gain $15 hourly pay

WASHINGTON: Low-wage workers plan walkouts, protests to gain $15 hourly pay | Economy | McClatchy DC:
"WASHINGTON — Heartened by growing support for their cause and recent pay hikes by large corporate employers, America’s low-wage workers will continue their fight for higher pay Wednesday with protests, rallies and one-day walkouts scheduled in more than 200 cities.
...Fast food cooks and cashiers are expected to strike in 230 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., and Raleigh, N.C.....calling for $15 hourly wages and the right to unionize.
Since then, strong financial support from the Service Employees International Union has helped the “ Fight for 15” movement expand to home care workers, retail employees, child care workers, airport service workers and even adjunct college professors seeking $15,000 per course."

Feminist group breaks urinals as a symbol of male chauvinism

Feminist group breaks urinals as a symbol of male chauvinism
Big Red, an outspoken member of the feminist organization, left a letter at one of the scenes:

"We the women of America will no longer tolerate male bigotry, especially through the method of genderizing restrooms, just like they had colorized restrooms during the first half of the twentieth century. 

Men need to know that their reign in this world is OVER and we will show no mercy towards our enemy. 

These private rooms with urinals, which we call 'oppression rooms,' are nothing more than a pedestal that men have created to worship their phallic tools of hate and destruction. 

These shrines to men's egos must be destroyed if we are going to move beyond Stone Age male chauvinism!"

The group has also taken to the social media, urging women around the globe to pick up a sledgehammer and "Swing for Justice" in their own hometowns and cities.
Shortly after the announcement on their Twitter feed, videos of raids taking place as far as San Francisco, California were being uploaded onto their account..."

Look at how many pages are in the federal tax code

Look at how many pages are in the federal tax code | WashingtonExaminer.com

BREAKING: Shocking 1995 Video Surfaces of Barack Obama Revealing Who He REALLY Is [VIDEO]

BREAKING: Shocking 1995 Video Surfaces of Barack Obama Revealing Who He REALLY Is [VIDEO]:

"However, thanks to the Internet, things are seldom buried forever. In this clip from 1995, the future president is on his book tour at the Cambridge Public Library. He’s not only open about just who “Frank” is, he talks about how the man “schooled” him on how racist white people were.

The clip below shows Obama’s stunning admission."

Next Time a Liberal Asks You to Fork Over More Money for Public Education, Show Them This Graphic

Next Time a Liberal Asks You to Fork Over More Money for Public Education, Show Them This Graphic:

History for April 16

History for April 16 - On-This-Day.com
Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers, Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor 


Henri Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) 1924 - Composer (themes for "The Pink Panther", "Peter Gunn"), Bobby Vinton 1935 - Singer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) 1947 - Basketball player 


1746 - The Duke of Cumberland defeated Bonnie Prince Charlie (and his Jacobites) at the battle of Culloden. 


1818 - The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border. 


1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. 


1917 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile. 


1943 - In Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hoffman accidently discovered the the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 while working on the medicinal value of lysergic acid. 


1947 - In Texas City, TX, the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up. The explosions and resulting fires killed 576 people. 


1962 - Walter Cronkite began anchoring "The CBS Evening News". 


1972 - Two giants pandas arrived in the U.S. from China. 


1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years. 


1987 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sternly warned U.S. radio stations to watch the use of indecent language on the airwaves. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/04/another-notch-by-tammy-derouin-this.html

Another Notch

By Tammy Derouin

Many road blocks are put in place for American citizens.  Detours around our founding principles, including our system of government and our basic freedoms, have become routine.  Paved roads with an endless supply of amenities and funding (taken from the American taxpayer) are given to those who call for our destruction.

The executive scolds, bad mouths and apologizes for the very people who elected him to represent them.  He pacifies and coddles our enemies.  A person’s actions do indeed speak louder than words.  Actions give a more transparent concept of someone’s ideals and beliefs.  When words back up actions, true colors and ideology come to light.

Objecting to the agenda has led to a barrage of attacks perfected by the progressive movement.  Many have been mocked, ridiculed and belittled.  Of course, abusing power by employing government agencies, such as the IRS, takes it up yet another notch.

Thankfully, there are a few news outlets which dare to tell the truth.  

102 Years of Income Tax

Meme: 102 Years of Income Tax — The Patriot Post

Why Jeffrey Sachs sees a grim future for Starbucks baristas

Why Jeffrey Sachs sees a grim future for Starbucks baristas - The Washington Post:
Baristas everywhere — plus the entire service economy — be worried about your job security.
That’s the message economist Jeffrey Sachs is delivering.
...“You don’t need baristas in Starbucks,” Sachs told professor Tyler Cowen.
“We will walk in soon to a Starbucks, and our iris will be scanned, and your default mode of mocha latte venti will come out, automatically, of a machine, and you’ll take it out the other door.”
“They’ll predict which days you’re going to come?” Cowen asked.
“Yeah, they’ll have a very good idea,” Sachs said.
“They’ll welcome you by name, of course, as you arrive.
‘We were expecting you, but you’re 10 minutes late.
Is everything okay, Mr. Sachs?’
Because Google will know where you are at any moment anyway. 
So that’s coming, and it will transform fundamentally the labor market....”

Freakin' weird!---Valerie Jarrett Kisses Reporters Before Interview

Valerie Jarrett Kisses Reporters Before Interview | The Weekly Standard
President Barack Obama's top adviser, Valerie Jarrett, went around the table and kissed reporters before an interview this morning on MNSBC's Morning Joe. 
The moment was briefly captured on live television before the network cut away to a commercial break.
Watch here:

Bombshell Report: New Islamic State ‘Camp’ Discovered — but Its Reported Location Is the Real Story | TheBlaze.com

Bombshell Report: New Islamic State ‘Camp’ Discovered — but Its Reported Location Is the Real Story | TheBlaze.com:

"The U.S. cities referenced above were intentionally selected because of the depleted municipal and county police forces and existing drug smuggling routes.

Even more terrifying, “Mexican intelligence sources” told Judicial Watch that Islamic State terrorists are scouting area universities, government facilities and electrical power facilities near Anapra and Chaparral, New Mexico."

‘Uber For Weed’ Startup Eaze Raises $10 Million In Funding Led By DCM Ventures

‘Uber For Weed’ Startup Eaze Raises $10 Million In Funding Led By DCM Ventures | TechCrunch: "There’s an Uber for everything nowadays, so why not an Uber for weed?
Eaze, a startup that enables medical marijuana patients to order cannabis products online and have those goodies delivered to their homes, today is announcing $10 million in Series A round funding led by DCM Ventures with participation from Fresh VC, 500 Startups, Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Ventures, and other strategic investors.
The new funds come on top of $1.5 million in seed funding the company had raised last year. 
The cash will be used to help the company expand availability of its platform into new markets beyond just the San Francisco Bay Area, where it was founded.
Launched last summer, Eaze is looking to take advantage of a few different trends.
The first is just an acceptance that marijuana use — whether for recreational of medicinal purposes — is here to stay, and is likely to become more pervasive as more states legalize and/or decriminalize cannabis use."

PC is nothing more than a tool to stop people from being heard-----Duke University’s Muslim Students Association blackballed Islamic feminist’s campus speech

Duke University’s Muslim Students Association blackballed Islamic feminist’s campus speech
An Islamic feminist was recently shunned at Duke University by the very people she is working to defend and educate: Muslim-Americans.

In a gripping and eye-0pening piece in Time, Asra Nomani – author of “Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam” – tells of how she was disinvited to speak at Duke after its Muslim Students Association complained she was an Islamophobic sympathizer. 

She was eventually re-invited in what Duke campus officials have called a “misunderstanding.”

A former Wall Street Journal reporter, the focus of her talk was “the paradox of women in Islam.”

Nomani explains:

Tuesday night, while Islamic State fighters gained new ground in Syria, I walked onto a stage at Duke University to argue for a progressive, feminist interpretation of Islam in the world. Staring into stage lights, I counted the number of people looking back at me: nine, not including my parents and son.

“I would have come here to speak to just one person. To me, it is simply a victory to stand before you,” I said.

Five days earlier, the Duke University Center Activities and Events had cancelled my talk after the president of the Duke chapter of the Muslim Students Association sent an email to Muslim students about my “views” and me, alleging that I have a nefarious “alliance” with “Islamophobic speakers” and noting that a Duke professor of Islam, Omid Safi, had “condemned” me. After I asked for evidence against me, the Center for Activities and Events re-invited me. A spokesman for Duke said the university regrets the misunderstanding.

This experience goes beyond feminism to a broader debate over how too many Muslims are responding to critical conversations on Islam with snubs, boycotts, and calls for censorship, exploiting feelings of conflict avoidance and political correctness to stifle debate. As a journalist for 30 years, I believe we must stand up for America’s principles of free speech and have critical conversations, especially if they make people feel uncomfortable.

By standing on stage, I was standing up to the forces in our Muslim communities that are increasingly using tactics of intimidation and smears such as “Islamophobe,” “House Muslim,” “Uncle Tom,” “native informant,” “racist” and “bigot” to cancel events with which they disagree.

Read the full piece. It is very, very powerful – and highlights how radical Islam manifests itself in more ways than one.

As Tax Day approaches, let's thank top 20% for shouldering 84% of the income tax burden with only 51% of US income

As Tax Day approaches, let's thank top 20% for shouldering 84% of the income tax burden with only 51% of US income - AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas

Here’s the line from 2008 that Rand Paul says spells big trouble for Hillary Clinton | TheBlaze.com

Here’s the line from 2008 that Rand Paul says spells big trouble for Hillary Clinton | TheBlaze.com:

"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) predicted on Sunday that one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest hurdles to winning the White House in 2016 will be one of her most famous lines from her 2008 campaign — the one about being ready to handle an international crisis in the middle of the night."

Students Revolt Against Debt. Finally

Students Revolt Against Debt. Finally » David Icke:
"Much of higher education is a fraud, and much of the reason higher education is such a huge fraud is the structure of the student loan scam. 
It’s a three step process. First, students take out loans for educations, not knowing the educations are bogus.
Next, the students spend years in bogus schools, getting “educated”.
Finally, the students leave the schools…only once they’re many thousands of dollars in debt do they know how they’ve been scammed, and they’re in no position to do anything about it.
Meanwhile, the schools, and the people running those schools, both for-profit and state, rake in a fortune in student loan money…
…So the scam has been interrupted: the students are finding out they’re getting indebted for a bogus education sooner than usual. The students are revolting:’"

'Free-Range' Parents Will Sue CPS for Grabbing Their Kids

'Free-Range' Parents Will Sue CPS for Grabbing Their Kids - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
The Meitivs are lawyering up, and will file some kind of lawsuit against Montgomery County, Maryland, officials who took their children while the youngsters were walking outside by themselves.

Matthew Dowd, a partner at Wiley Rein LLP, will represent the Meitivs free of charge, according to this statement on Danielle Meitiv's Facebook wall:

Matthew Dowd, a partner with Wiley Rein, states: “The Meitivs are rightfully outraged by the irresponsible actions of Maryland CPS and Montgomery County Police. We must ask ourselves how we reached the point where a parent’s biggest fear is that government officials will literally seize our children off the streets as they walk in our neighborhoods. The Meitivs intend to fully vindicate their rights as parents and their children’s rights, and to prevent this from happening to their children again. The CPS investigations and actions here are premised on a fundamental misapplication of the law and are contrary to the constitutional rights of these parents to raise their children as they see best.”

The actions of Maryland CPS and Montgomery County Police violate the fundamental rights parents have in raising their children. In Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 75 (2000), the Court explained that “the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.” This fundamental, constitutional right of parents cannot be infringed simply because certain governmental employees disagree with a parent’s reasoned decision on how to raise his or her children.

The Meitivs are troubled by the county’s discretionary use of power to subject this happy, healthy and independent family to invasive, frightening and unnecessary government oversight, when there are other pressing challenges for county families in need.

Read the rest here.

The police report on Sunday night’s seizure of the Meitiv kids is also available here. Quick question: Aren’t prisoners allowed one phone call, or is that just on TV? Because the Meitiv kids weren't able to contact their parents in the six hours they were held by the authorities.

Budget Cut to the Bone? It's Increased by $5 Billion the Last Three Years [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Budget Cut to the Bone? It's Increased by $5 Billion the Last Three Years [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The head of the state’s largest teachers union wants voters to approve a May 5 ballot measure authorizing a $2 billion tax hike for roads, city bus departments, public schools and local governments, because he contends that basic services have been cut “to the bone.”

Michigan Education Association President Steve Cook writes in the Detroit News: “New revenue is needed for two reasons: First, Michigan is still recovering from a deep recession that severely reduced state revenue. Second, policymakers in Lansing have made corporate tax cuts the No. 1 priority in the state budget. Those corporate tax cuts have eaten away at revenue to the point of cutting basic services to the bone.”

ForTheRecord says: The trajectory of state spending tells a different story. Here is the Michigan state budget by year, according to the Senate Fiscal Agency:

2011-12: $47.6 billion

2012-13: $47.8 billion

2013-14: $50.4 billion

2014-15: $52.3 billion"

Tax Freedom Day 2015 is April 24th

Tax Freedom Day 2015 is April 24th - 
ChrisInMaryville's Blog
This year, Tax Freedom Day falls on April 24, or 114 days into the year.
Americans will pay $3.3 trillion in federal taxes and $1.5 trillion in state and local taxes, for a total bill of more than $4.8 trillion, or 31 percent of the nation’s income.

Tax Freedom Day is one day later than last year due mainly to the country’s continued steady economic growth, which is expected to boost tax revenue especially from the corporate, payroll, and individual income tax.

Americans will collectively spend more on taxes in 2015 than they will on food, clothing, and housing combined.

If you include annual federal borrowing, which represents future taxes owed, Tax Freedom Day would occur 14 days later on May 8.

Tax Freedom Day is a significant date for taxpayers and lawmakers because it represents how long Americans as a whole have to work in order to pay the nation’s tax burden.