Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Today’s Blogmarks
Grabbed from my blogmarks.
Telecom tax imposed in 1898 finally ends
The Spanish-American War has been over for more than 100 years, and now so is the tax imposed in 1898 to help fund it.
As of Tuesday, all phone companies selling long-distance phone service are legally required to eliminate the 3 percent federal excise tax on long-distance service, which had been established in 1898 as a luxury tax on wealthy Americans who owned telephones.
Verizon Communications said Tuesday that it has stopped collecting the 3 percent federal excise tax on monthly consumer telephone bills for long-distance and bundled services.
()() This just shows how hard it is for a pork addicted government to repeal any taxes.
The movie ratings board run by Hollywood’s six top studios is back-pedaling from a process that reportedly used to target movies for PG ratings if they carried an evangelical Christian message, WorldNetDaily has learned.
The move by the Motion Picture Association of America followed controversy over a rating for Sony Provident Films’ “Facing the Giants,” which was given the PG tag after officials told the movie’s makers it was because it was so Christian.
“The scene that caught the association’s attention was an exchange between a coach and a player,” said Ted Baehr, chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission in an op-ed piece published this week. “The coach assures the player that following Jesus Christ is a decision everyone makes for himself, but, if he accepts Christ, it will change his life.”
SC Medicaid will pay for cancer screenings
More than 50,000 South Carolina Medicaid recipients are eligible for colorectal cancer screenings through a program administered by the Health and Human Services Department.
()() This is a waste of taxpayer money. The state medicaid program will only pay $300 — $400 dollars for this procedure. Who’s going to pay the rest of the cost? People with private insurance will get charged even more for the same procedure.
Speak Out or Give In?
The Church and the Culture Wars
There they go again. The liberal media, it seems, likes nothing better than to play up what they see (or create) as divisions in the evangelical ranks. This Sunday’s New York Times featured a front-page story about Gregory Boyd, an evangelical pastor in Minnesota who is highly critical of the religious right and refuses to talk about abortion or other cultural war issues from his pulpit.
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