Think Progress Gives You Facts to Mull Over

[AnnInLa]

ThinkFast: March 29, 2006

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Halliburton actually did “a worse job under its second Iraq oil contract than it did under the original no-bid contract,” repeatedly overcharging the government and exhibiting “profound systemic problems.”

30 out of more than 180,000 millionaires were audited by the IRS last year. Poor taxpayers were almost twice as likely to be audited as the wealthy.

At the “War on Christians” conference yesterday, Texas Baptist minister Rick Scarborough said, “I believe the most damaging thing that Tom DeLay has done in his life is take his faith seriously into public office.” Mr. Scarborough, here are thirteen real candidates for the most damaging thing DeLay has done while serving in public office.

Also: After the conference, DeLay said Justices O’Connor and Ginsburg “don’t get” the right-wing attacks on the judiciary, and that society “all but treats Christianity like some second-rate superstition.”

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$335,000: The cost of a 200-page government report on the impacts of outsourcing on “knowledge-based industries” that the Commerce Department is refusing to release. Instead, it has handed out a 12-page summary that lawmakers “suspect whitewashes the worst news about job migration to India and other countries.”

snip about Wolfowitz

snip about Abramoff,,,,interesting

more facts at:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/29/thinkfast-march-29-2006/

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. "...treats Christianity like some second-rate superstition.”

Not true at all. With some 2 billion adherants world wide, it is definitely a first-rate superstition.