Hey folks, this is hot off the Press Secrectary Jay Carney who said that Obama believes that the circumstances of one’s birth should not determine a person’s destiny.

He said this today during a press conference.  Can anyone dig up a video or a transcript?

UPDATE:  Here is something that WhatamI found from last February:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/president-barack-obamas-state-union-address

Tonight, let’s also recognize that there are communities in this country where no matter how hard you work, it’s virtually impossible to get ahead. Factory towns decimated from years of plants packing up. Inescapable pockets of poverty, urban and rural, where young adults are still fighting for their first job. America is not a place where chance of birth or circumstance should decide our destiny. And that is why we need to build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class for all who are willing to climb them.

US Tax By Default

Galloway interviews a certain Gwen (no last name to protect the innocent).

When it rains it pours.

This post first appeared on May 22, 2012.

N.B.: I am bringing this post back to the front page as it is relevant in our 145 comment thread (so far), IRS insider explains why the United States has never enforced the Reed Amendment’s banishment provision, and he thinks its funny.  In particular, J.E. Gutierrez has questioned many of my positions regarding the constitutionality of the Ex Patriot Act and the Reed Amendment–and I hereby reproduce the arguments I made in 2012.

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What follows is a commentary on Virginia La Torre Jeker’s interview of ex-IRS Willard (Bill) Yates, recently retired from the Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International), If You Go, You Can’t Come Back. The Reed/Schumer Follies-Past And Proposed Anti-Expat Legislation: Interview With Bill Yates, Former IRS Attorney (International).  Yates explains why US has never enforced the exile provision of the Reed Amendment.

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The Isaac Brock Society broke the news of Santa’s arrest on Christmas Eve, 2011.

See also: Nicolas Santa still in federal custody (May 12, 2012).  Isaac Brock will provide a follow up and press release from Santa presently.

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U.S. Federal agents arrested Santa Claus earlier today at the North Pole. Special Christmas Edition (Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!)

The United States Department of Fish and Wildlife has arrested Santa Claus, an elusive figure with many aliases (e.g., St. Nicholas). On the morning of 24 December, 150 heavily armed Fish and Wildlife special agents raided Claus’ North Pole compound, seized several tons of exotic woods forbidden by the Lacey Act, arrested Santa Claus and a female accomplice identified only as Mrs. Claus, and liberated thousands of diminutive slave labourers known only as “Elves”. Claus has been charged with multiple counts of money laundering, illegal exportation of currency, illegally importing into the United States toys made of contraband–rare woods, ivory and other banned substances. He has also been charged with violations of slave labor and child labor laws, hundreds of patent and trademark violations, and illegally entering and exiting the United States. Indeed, Fish and Wildlife agents also seized an unidentified aircraft called a “sleigh” which had numerous secret compartments holding the contraband. Fish and Wildlife agents charged Mr. Claus with animal cruelty with regard to the caribou that he used to launch this “sleigh”. Continue reading →