Andre Pearson has a drawer full of Father’s day cards from his three daughters tucked away at home in Omaha, but nothing can compare with the Father’s day gift he received this year - being able to walk his youngest daughter, Alexandra, down the.
then you got a second letter from the school principal, right? i think we have a full screen of what he said. he said this is andre pearson. its focus, he says, for and designed for children of color, but certainly if we have space for other kids who have needs, we can definitely meet those needs. right? how did you react that was a voice mail. that was a voice mail you got? yes. so that ended the situation right then and there? no. we actually talked to there was a report done on it. and followed that by going to the cherry creek school district and talked to them and they said it was a mistake. so they changed it and opened it to to make it available to all students. so your daughter is now enrolled in the program? not yet. let me play devil s advocate here a little bit. this program, as i understand it, was designed specifically for minority children because
it s tax season and while many of us may have to pay up this year, the social media site, facebook, is reportedly getting a ton of cash back from the government. peter doocy live with the details now. peter? doug, folks all around the world use facebook for free. but that company still manages to make a lot of money, about $1.1 billion in profit just last year, just here in the united states. they didn t pay any federal income tax or state income tax in 2012. in fact, they ll get a refund of $429 million because of one tax deduction. for executive stock options. employees cashed in the stock options and at that point, there was a tax deduction for the company. because even though it didn t cost facebook a nickel, the government treats as wages and they get a deduction for it. just this week, president obama said congress should get rid of tax breaks like this one. save hundreds of billions of dollars by getting rid of tax loopholes and deductions for the well off and
0 so libertarians like the idea of chuck hagel, who wants to be part of cuts and who wants to be less interventionist. remember, libertarians want to bring the troops home just as much as many liberals used to when george w. bush was president. so it s complicated for rand paul. he says he s fighting hagel on these principle grounds as it relates to benghazi, as it relates to the disclosure of documents and other things. but if libertarians had their way, they would prefer him to the guy who was just in there, leon panetta. rand paul is an intriguing character, if for no other reason than he always maintainses a very, very calm demeanor, but fires some heavy broadsides at the same time, one of which he fired at secretary of state hillary clinton during the benghazi hearing. let s take listen to what he said. and had i been president at the time and i found that you did not read the cables from benghazi, you did not read the cables from ambassador stevens, i would have relieved you