Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
While Ron Paul may have a national following of supporters, apparently he’s not so popular in his home state, Texas. The Hill reports, “Paul finished third in a straw poll of 1,300 Texas Republican activists who had been delegates to recent Republican conventions.”
The congressman corralled just 17 percent of the votes cast, trailing California’s Duncan [...]
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Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The Hill had a quip about Bruce Springsteen’s show in Washington, D.C. on Monday night that included a shout-out to John Kerry as the band queued up to play “Last to Die.” “Last to Die” from Springsteen’s latest, Magic, was inspired by John Kerry’s Senate Committee on Foreign Relations testimony on April 22, 1971.
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman asserted today that Blackwater USA “may have engaged in significant tax evasion.”
In a letter to Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince, panel Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) noted that the IRS earlier this year ruled that the company “violated federal tax laws by treating an armed guard as an [...]
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