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...eighth day, the Lord said, “Let there be 501(c)(3) forms and tax deductions and another religious reason for violent polemics.” In an age when the line between God and government has blurred, the federal injection of old-time religion into charity seems to have been a doubtful dogma after all. Over the past week, David Kuo, a former White House staffer, has published a book and traveled the talk show circuit to reveal that the Bush administration has been using “faith-based initiatives” for anything...
...politics, fueling the Republican revolution? The simple answer is that there are just too many contenders this go-around. The more complicated answer lies inside the Republican Party of Texas, where Perry has nurtured issues dear to social conservatives but alienated the older wing by pushing a new business tax and a privatized toll road plan. Republican voters, as a result, will split their vote this year between Perry and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the 67-year-old Republican state comptroller who is running as an independent...
...both men, according to SurveyUSA in October. "This suggests Texas is not impervious to national trends," says Bruce Buchanan, government professor at the University of Texas. And the loudest complaining comes from within Perry's own party. Some moderate Republicans remain angry about a new gross receipts tax on business that Perry pushed so the state could cut property taxes - a cut that, in turn, has failed to register with homeowners yet. "It's unimaginable that a Republican in Texas would pass the biggest tax increase in history," says Steven Hotze, a long-time Republican fundraiser and Perry supporter...
...billion Estimated annual cost of corruption in Africa--25% of the continent's GDP--including lost tax revenue and deterred investment...
...Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, created by a Sudanese-born tycoon to honor African leaders for corruption-free rule. The prize eclipses the Nobel ($1.4 million) as the world's richest $148 billion Estimated annual cost of corruption in Africa-25% of the continent's GDP-including lost tax revenue and deterred investment