The 2013 Virgin London Marathon due to be run this Sunday has been cancelled at short notice. The event which raises millions of pounds for charity as well as being a showcase for top international athletes has fallen victim to a lack of available po...
Critics of the ban on super-sized soda drinks have panned Mayor Bloomburg for taxing the poor people of New York who drink the most soda drinks.
It is predominently those people on a low income who consume the most fizzy beverages. Poor people pu...
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland - In a move that caught many residents of Maryland by surprise, state delegate Curtis "The Wow Dude" Anderson has introduced a bill into the Maryland legislature that would make marijuana legal for anyone over the age of 21.
An...
Author David Gilkes says he can not express how grateful he is to the IRS who he claims reviewed two pieces of his writing and wrote to him congratulating him on his efforts.
David, who writes speculative science fiction aimed at the YA market, en...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that the states of Colorado and Washington have voted to legalize marijuana, word coming out of Congress is that they will be considering a bill that will place a tax on pot.
Senator Shelia P. Fluckaminski [R-Arizona] will b...
President Obama recently reassured the nation that taxes would indeed go up, but only for other people.
"If you're afraid of taxes going up, they will, but not for you. For others, maybe, but not you." the President stated in a speech to the...
Baltimore Maryland: Negotiations over a new contract between the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), the union representing East Coast dockworkers and the US Maritime Alliance (shippers and port operators) are deadlocked. The union could...
Former Turner Prize nominee and artistic turncoat Tracy Emin has been commissioned to produce a new piece of work by Royal hanger on and professional shopper Pippa Middleton.
The work will another neon piece in the style of Bruce Nauman and will...
The fabulous Lord Mayor of London, circus artist, aristocrat and TV quiz show host, Boris Johnson, has come out of his closet to support Starbucks Coffee in their bid to pay 20 million quid corporation tax!
He has requested that the UK public shou...
In a move that represents a surprising although logical extension of the current demand by the 99% for a more progressive tax system, the Obama administration has proposed a beauty tax that will be built into the new health care system. In the searc...
Not wanting to come in second place to Hurricane Sandy in terms of financial ruination and victimization of the down-trodden, tax-hiccup H&R Block begins its two-pronged ritualized cozening of its clients with Emerald Advance AND their latest edu...
The Government have, this morning, unveiled plans to raise billions of pounds to support the fragile economy. It was widely expected that they were to introduce an increase in VAT, but in a shock, and massively controversial, move, Government spokesp...
President Obama, exercising his new mandate, declared a new national holiday honoring his election to a second term in a press release titled Up Yours! The President kicked off the new day of reflection and celebration in Washington by continuing hi...
Washington, DC -- In an historic first, the Devil has declined to throw his support behind either candidate for US President, declaring that both contenders "are hell-bent on creating chaos without any help from me."
"That makes it impossible to c...
The Office of Square Trading, the government body overseeing the sale of all rectangular shapes, has been investigating the illegal sale of squares.
"There is a massive black-market trade in squares, oblongs and rectangles," said Rex Tangle, chair...
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has faced pressure from Democrats to make public his federal tax returns from the past ten years, finally revealed that the reason for his refusal to release any returns from prior to 2010 is that he n...
Over brunch today with Katie Couric, Ann Romney assured tax return skeptics "there is absolutely mostly nothing of interest most years" in Mitt's tax returns. I say 'Mitt's returns' because we always file separately. Mitt says every good husband files separately for the wives' protection," Ann told Couric.
"Other than lines 38 and 44 of most years' 1040 forms and the interest and dividends sche...
Dear Constituents
I have had such a hectic week and am now well behind with my newsletters.
You might have thought I had already forgotten about you what with the summer recess and the sun shining but this is far from the truth. The sun will continue to shine ever brightly through my regular Newsletter.
I'm off to Greece in a week or so, on a fact-finding visit. It's also so that I can...