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I have been searching for the origin of the IRS 1099 reporting requirement in the Obamacare bill. Can anyone shed some light on who specifically is to blame?

Health care law's massive, hidden tax change By Neil deMause, contributing writerMay 5, 2010: 11:00 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- An all-but-overlooked provision of the health reform law is threatening to swamp U.S. businesses with a flood of new tax paperwork. Section 9006 of the health care bill -- just a few lines buried in the 2,409-page document -- mandates that beginning in 2012 all companies will have to issue 1099 tax forms not just to contract workers but to any individual or corporation from which they buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year.

Another sign of the incessant creeping in of eurosocialist attitudes here in the United States thanks to Obama, Pelosi & Reid.

Pataki Takes Third Vacation Since the November Elections By MICHAEL COOPER Published: February 19, 2005 LBANY, Feb. 18 - Gov. George E. Pataki and his wife, Libby, are taking their third vacation since the November elections, spending an extended holiday weekend in the Dominican Republic, aides to the governor said on Friday. The governor left Thursday night, they said, and plans to be back in New York City on Tuesday morning. Over the Christmas holidays, the Patakis and their children spent more than a week traveling through central Europe, including Hungary, the home of Mr. Pataki's ancestors. And in November...

Is it just me, or do some folks in here drop a thread cold when certain people post to it?

Ann Coulter was a guest on Fox News Hannity & Colmes tonight. The annoying ultra lib twit Ellis Henican kept intterupting her, and she put him in his place. Why is it that Liberals never let anyone with an opposing view finish a sentence before they babble incoherently about how right they are??

Gimme smiles after the President takes his oath of office

January 13, 2005 THE ELECTORATE Many Iraqis to Cast Votes in U.S. By STEVEN R. WEISMAN WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 - Bush administration officials said Wednesday that an estimated 240,000 people living in the United States will be eligible to cast ballots in the coming election in Iraq, by voting in five American cities later this month. Citing figures compiled by the International Organization for Migration, an independent body that works closely with the United Nations, administration officials said that perhaps a million Iraqis over the age of 18 living in a total of 14 countries outside Iraq will be able...

A few articles from a New York City Newspaper on the Clinton Fundraiser scandal. It's nice to see somebody besides the A.P. actually writing a story that doesn't fawn over this slimeball.

2008: Gingrich at the Gate Newsweek Jan. 17 issue - George W. Bush has four years to go, but Republicans are already jockeying to succeed him. The first officially unofficial GOP hopeful for 2008? Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker has been plotting a comeback; now comes the obligatory political manifesto. In "Winning the Future," he lays out his top five priorities for the country. (No. 1: defeat terrorists.) He sets down easy-on-the-details plans to save Social Security, overhaul health care, promote English for immigrants and bring God back into public life. It's a campaign book if there ever was...

I anxiously awaited information about the indictment of my neighbor Hillary Clinton's Campaign finance director David Rosen. To my surprise, there was no mention of it in the local or national pages. I suggest to folks like me who want to hear the story, that they call or fax the Journal news here in Westchester County & ask them why they missed this huge story! Contact them at: Reader Services Editor The Journal News One Gannett Drive White Plains, NY 10604 Phone: (914) 694-3514 Fax: (914) 694-5018

Women's Health and Rights JAN. 11 - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will be honored, for her leadership, at a dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street to raise money for the health and women's rights programs and advocacy work of the International Women's Health Coalition. Kathleen Turner will be the host. The evening begins at 6:30 with dinner at 7:30. Tickets, $500, from (212) 979-8500, ext. 332.

These folks are organizing to dampen the mood in D.C. on the 20th. There is even a professor from an ohio college asking for help with filming protests. another democrat group in their posting states their mission as obstructing or hampering this administration in any way possible.

GIs Can Be Ordered To Wear U.N. Beret BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun December 24, 2004 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/6763 A federal judge in Washington has upheld the right of the American military to place its personnel under United Nations command and force those soldiers to wear insignia designed by the world body. The ruling from Judge Paul Friedman came in the case of a former Army specialist, Michael New, who resisted orders that he serve in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Macedonia nearly a decade ago. He also refused, during unit muster in 1995, to wear the...

KERRY KNEW ABOUT 9/11 BOSTON HIJACKING PLAN YET DID NOTHING Speaking of Kerry’s apathy concerning the war on terror, according to Washington investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Kerry often boasts how he “sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11,” referring to his 1997 book, The New War. But Kerry didn’t blast it when it really counted, Sperry wrote – four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them: "Former FAA security officials say the Massachusetts senator had the power to prevent at...